Tamura A. Lomax Honored With Ida B. Wells Award

Brenda Bennefiled (Candler Staff Member and Black Church Studies Associate), Tamura A. Lomax, Teresa Fry Brown (Professor of Homiletics and Director of Black Church Studies), Patrick Clyborn (Reverdy Ransom Award recipient)

The Feminist Wire’s co-founder and co-managing editor Dr. Tamura A. Lomax has been recognized with the Ida B. Wells Award from the Black Church Studies Program at the Candler School of Theology at Emory University.

Dr. Lomax received the M.Div in 2004 with a minor in Black Church Studies and the Th.M. in 2005 in Theology, with a thesis entitled “Sistahs: Creating Space for Other Theological Methods in Womanist Theo-Ethical Discourse.”

She subsequently earned a Ph.D. in Religion from Vanderbilt University where she specialized in African American Religion, Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies, African American and Diaspora Studies, and Black British and U.S. Black Cultural Studies.

She recently published, Womanist and Black Feminist Responses to Tyler Perry’s Cultural Productions (Palgrave Macmillan, June 2014), a co-authored edited volume with Rhon S. Manigault-Bryant and Carol B. Duncan,

Dr. Lomax is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at Virginia Commonwealth University. She is also completing her first single authored monograph, Loosing the Yoke: Black Feminist Readings on Black Religion and Black Popular Culture.