BAACW Oral History Project :

Given the thirty-year relationship that Medgar Evers College has had with the Brooklyn community, and the College's commitment to continue serving the community in even more creative ways, this project will make an enormous contribution to this community in the collection of ethnographic information about a population that has been underrepresented and little researched in prior decades: black clergywomen.

As already articulated, no study has been done on Brooklyn clergywomen; nor an oral history. The most recent quantitative data collected on black clergywomen by Dr. Delores Carpenter in A Time to Honor—surveyed only clergywomen who had received a Master of Divinity degree nationally. The Brooklyn's African American Clergywomen's Oral History Project is limited geographically but it proposes to go beyond the narrow population of Carpenter's study to include women who have been ordained, whether academically trained or not.

In the African American community, clergywomen's contribution has never been limited to an academically trained clergy. Capenter's research, however, indicates the gap is closing but professionalization remains an occupational goal yet unachieved, commensurate with the gender gap that still exists in society among non-traditional occupations.

The Brooklyn African American Clergywomen Oral History Project

Address:

Medgar Evers College/CUNY
Dept. of Philosophy and Religious Studies - Room 1015
1650 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11225
Telephone: (718) 270-4984 Fax: 718-270-4828
Email: scuffee@mec.cuny.edu

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