Eboni Marshall Turman

Eboni Marshall Turman, Ph.D., is associate professor of theology and African American religion at Yale University Divinity School. A first-career concert dancer and an ordained National Baptist, USA, preacher, her research interests span the varieties of twentieth-century US theological liberalisms, most especially Black and womanist theological, social ethical, and theo-aesthetic traditions.

She co-chairs the Black Theology unit of the American Academy of Religion; is the chair of personnel on the executive committee of the Society of Christian Ethics; and is a founding member of the Black Church Collective, for which she served as lead author of the recent “On Black Lives Matter: A Theological Statement from the Black Churches.”

In addition to numerous journal articles and book chapters, Dr. Turman is the author of Toward a Womanist Ethic of Incarnation: Black Bodies, the Black Church, and the Council of Chalcedon (Palgrave Macmillan). She is currently completing her second monograph, tentatively titled Black Women’s Burden: Male Power, Gender Violence, and the Scandal of African American Social Christianity, and she has recently begun preliminary research for her third monograph. Through her research and scholarship, Dr. Turman is transforming the way we frame the Black experience, the contemporary movement for Black lives, and the moral significance of the Black community, specifically the ­twenty-first-century Black churches.