Contributors to this Issue

Grace Sintim Adasi holds a PhD in the Study of Religions and an MPhil in African Studies from the University of Ghana. She doubles as the Principal for Agogo Presbyterian Women’s College of Education and a part-time senior lecturer at the University of Education, Winneba (UEW), Ghana. She is research coordinator for the Ghana chapter of the Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians (The Circle). Her research interests include Women and Religion, Women and Education and Women’s Empowerment. She also is an ordained minister of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana.

Jean Derricotte-Murphy is Associate Minister, Director of Christian Education, and Director of the Worship and Arts Ministry of the Historic New Mount Zion Missionary Baptist Church in Detroit, Michigan. Derricotte-Murphy’s research connects womanist theology, womanist anthropology, and black performance theory. By tracing the racist history of the United States from the development of minstrel shows to the acceptance of opera as a genre of cultural entertainment, she situates African Americans – and other marginalized minorities forcibly consigned to the balconies of theaters and American society, culture, and institutions – into positions of agency as they peer over metaphoric balcony railings to locate, excavate, and correct the historical underpinnings of Western philosophical and theological thought which seeded racist ideologies that continue to disparage indigenous, black, and brown people in the names of God and Christianity.