The Rev. Dr. Wil Gafney, Associate Professor of Hebrew Bible at Brite Divinity School, is the recipient of the 2016 Catherine Saylor Hill Faculty Excellence Award for excellence in teaching, scholarship, and service.
Gafney has a Bachelor of Arts degree from Earlham College, a M.Div. with Special Recognition in Homiletics and Hebrew Bible, Howard University School of Divinity; a Graduate Certificate in Women’s Studies, Duke University; and a Ph.D. in Hebrew Bible, Duke University.
She is the author of Daughters of Miriam: Women Prophets in Ancient Israel and editor of (Prophets and the Deuterocanonical Writings/Apocrypha) in The Peoples’ Bible and The Peoples’ Commentary on the Bible, Fortress Press. Her most recent essays include: “A Womanist Midrash on Zipporah” (I Found God in Me: A Womanist Biblical Hermeneutics Reader, Cascade Press), “It Does Matter If You’re Black or White, Too Black or Too White, but Mestizo is Just Right” (Re-Presenting Texts: Jewish and Black Biblical Interpretation, Society of Biblical Literature) and “A Queer Womanist Midrashic Reading of Numbers 25:1-18” (Leviticus and Numbers: Texts @ Contexts, Fortress).
Gafney remains a member of the historic African Episcopal Church of St. Thomas in Philadelphia, PA. She is canonically resident in the Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania. She also is licensed in the diocese of Fort Worth and worships at Trinity Episcopal Church, Fort Worth.