Emilie M. Townes

Emilie M. Townes is Dean and the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Professor of Womanist Ethics and Society at Vanderbilt Divinity School. Townes’s teaching and research interests include health care; the cultural production of evil; and analyzing the linkages among race, gender, class, sex, and sexuality. Among her many publications are Womanist Ethics and the Cultural Production of Evil (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006). She served as president of the American Academy of Religion in 2008 and of the Society for the Study of Black Religion, 2013-2016.