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1 DEANNA FERREE WOMACK P.O. Box 821, Princeton, NJ EDUCATION Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton, New Jersey Doctoral Candidate in Mission, Ecumenics, and History of Religions: Expected 2015 Master of Theology: 2008 Master of Divinity: 2007 o Seminar in Christian-Muslim Relations, Al-Amana Centre in Muscat, Oman: May-June 2007 Macalester College, Saint Paul, Minnesota: Summa Cum Laude, 2004 Bachelor of Arts in Religious Studies and in International Studies International study at the American University of Cairo, Egypt: Fall 2003 DISSERTATION Title: Conversion, Controversy, and Cultural Production: Syrian Protestants, American Missionaries, and the Arabic Press, Dissertation Committee: Richard Fox Young (chair), Darrell L. Guder, and James Moorhead COMPREHENSIVE EXAMINATIONS Defended January 2013 History of Mission in the Middle East Theory & Methodology for the History of Religions/Islamic Studies Social Science Theory & Methodology for the Study of World Christianity Theology of Mission & Ecumenics PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT Teaching Apprenticeship Program at Princeton Theological Seminary Foundations for Teaching I & II (four-semester seminar): Teaching Transcript Program, McGraw Center for Teaching at Princeton University: Kaleidoscope Institute Certificate in Intercultural Competency for Teaching: April 23, 2014 TEACHING EXPERIENCE Princeton Theological Seminary Christianity, Islam, and Missions in the Middle East: Instructor, Spring 2015 Islam in America: Co-Instructor with Richard Fox Young, Spring 2014 Palestinian Contextual Theology: Teaching Assistant (TA) for Fr. Jamal Khader, Spring 2013 Islam in America: TA for Richard Fox Young, Fall 2012 The Missional and Ecumenical Theology of Lesslie Newbigin: TA for Darrell Guder, Spring 2012 Princeton University, Near East Studies Department Introduction to the Middle East: Assistant Instructor for Michael Cook & Cyrus Schayegh, Fall 2013

o Seminar in Christian-Muslim Relations, Al-Amana Centre in Muscat, Oman: May-June 2007 Macalester College, Saint Paul, Minnesota: Summa Cum Laude, 2004 Bachelor of Arts in Religious Studies and in

2 Deanna Womack 2 Princeton Seminary Center for Continuing Education Islam and Wisdom: Institute for Theology Instructor, July 2013 Christian Caregiving: Instructor, March-April 2008 Near East School of Theology in Beirut Introduction to Homiletics: Instructor, Spring 2009 AFFILIATIONS Presbyterian Church (USA) Minister of Word and Sacrament American Society of Church History Middle East Studies Association International Association for Mission Studies American Academy of Religion MINISTRY & GLOBAL SERVICE Sunday Worship Leader at Manor Care nursing facility in Yardley, PA: 2011 to present Children s Ministry Leader at Woodside Presbyterian Church in Yardley, PA: 2012 to 2014 Christian Educator at Lebanon Evangelical School, Louaize, Lebanon: Pastoral Associate at International Community Church of Beirut, Lebanon: Christian Educator at Secondary Evangelical School, Zahle, Lebanon: Coordinator of Volunteers at Interfaith Caregivers Trenton, NJ: Assistant Chaplain at Presbyterian Homes at Meadow Lakes, Hightstown, NJ: Mission Team Coordinator for PC(USA) Border Ministry, Reynosa, Mexico: May-August 2005 English Instructor at Bethlehem Bible College, Palestinian West Bank: July-August, 2007 Leader of Adult Education at Woodside Presbyterian Church, Yardley, PA: Global Intern for Presbyterian Church (USA), Reynosa, Mexico: June-August 2002 AWARDS & HONORS American Academy of Religion International Dissertation Research Grant: 2014 American Academy of Religion Status of Women in the Profession Mentoring Program: David M. Stowe Fellowship for Mission Research at Yale University Divinity School: June 2013 The Fund for Theological Education Ministry Fellowship: Phi Beta Kappa, Macalester College: 2004 Robert A. Caine Memorial Prize in Religion, Macalester College: 2004 The Fund for Theological Education Undergraduate Fellowship: 2003 George W. Davis Memorial Prize in Religion, Macalester College: 2003 Samuel Robinson Award, Presbyterian Church (USA): 2003 PUBLICATIONS Pan-Arabism and European Colonialism in the Middle East and North Africa. In Islamic World Encyclopedia, ed. James Ciment and Gordon Newby. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe (forthcoming).

Association International Association for Mission Studies American Academy of Religion MINISTRY & GLOBAL SERVICE Sunday Worship Leader at Manor Care nursing facility in Yardley, PA: 2011 to present

3 Deanna Womack 3 Henry Harris Jessup in Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History Birmingham, UK: University of Birmingham/Brill (forthcoming) Transnational Christianity and Converging Identities: A Study of Arabic American Churches. Mission Studies: Journal of the International Association for Mission Studies (forthcoming 2015). The Authenticity and Authority of Islam: Rashid Rida s Response to Twentieth-Century Missionary Publications. Social Sciences & Missions 28 (forthcoming 2015): Pick up the pearls of knowledge and adorn ourselves with the jewelry of literature : An analysis of three Arab women writers in al-nashra al-usbu iyya. Living Stones Yearbook: Christianity engages with Islam (July 2014): With Christine B. Lindner. Syrian Protestants & the Case of the Beirut Church: Re-imagining the American Missionary Encounter in Ottoman Syria. Syrian Studies Bulletin 19:1 (2014), online: [ Imperial Politics and Theological Practices: Comparative Transformations in Anglo-American and Russian Orthodox Missions to Syria-Palestine. ARAM Periodical 25 (2013): Lubnani, Libanais, Lebanese: Missionary Education, Language Policy, and Identity Formation in Modern Lebanon. Studies in World Christianity 18:1(2012): Edward Said and the Orientalized Body: A Call for Missiological Engagement. Swedish Missiological Themes/Svensk Missionstidskrift 99:4 (2011): Mission: Friendship, Christian-Muslim Dialogue in Oman. inspire 12:2 (spring/summer 2008). BOOK REVIEWS Conflict, Conquest, and Conversion: Two Thousand Years of Christian Missions in the Middle East. By Eleanor H. Tejirian and Reeva Spector Simon. New York: Columbia University Press (2012). In Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations 25:3 (July 2014): Protestant Missionaries in the Levant: Ungodly Puritans, By Samir Khalaf. London: Routledge (2012). In Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations 25:3 (July 2014): Missional God, Missional Church: Hope for Re-evangelizing the West. By Ross Hastings. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press (2012). In International Bulletin of Missionary Research (October 2013): 243. A Light to the Nations: The Missional Church and the Biblical Story. By Michael W. Goheen. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, In Koinonia XXIII (2012): The Witness of God: The Trinity, Missio Dei, Karl Barth, and the Nature of Christian Community. By John Flett. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, The Center for Barth Studies, Princeton Theological Seminary (March 14, 2011), online: [

Mission Studies: Journal of the International Association for Mission Studies (forthcoming 2015).

4 Deanna Womack 4 The British Missionary Enterprise since By Jeffrey Cox. New York: Routledge, In Missiology: An International Review XXXIX:1 (January 2011): CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS American Society of Church History conference, New York City: January 3, 2015 Reading Church History in Arabic: Syrian Christian & Muslim Representations of Evangelicalism in Ottoman Syria. American Academy of Religion Meeting, San Diego, CA: November 23, 2014 The Syrian Protestant Nahda: Women and Evangelical Faith in the Springtime of Arabic Literary Production, World Congress of Middle East Studies, Ankara, Turkey: August 20, 2014 Gospel Preachers, Gospel Printers: Syrian Protestants and the Nahda Yale-Edinburgh Conference on Missions and Gender, University of Edinburgh: June 28, 2014 Arab Women & Protestant Missions: Gendered Practices of Reading, Writing, and Preaching in Ottoman Syria, American Society of Church History Annual Conference, Washington, DC: January 2-5, 2014 We preach the Gospel to High and Low : Syrian Protestant Expressions of Identity, Equality, and Missionary Calling Yale-Edinburgh Conference on Missions and World Christianity, Yale University: June 27-29, 2013 Medical Arts & the Healing of Souls: American Missionaries & Tuberculosis Care in Syria American Society of Missiology, Wheaton College: June 21-23, 2013 Toward Missiological Interdisciplinarity: Anthropology, Historiography, and Conversion in the Middle East International Association of Mission Studies Conference. University of Toronto: August 15-20, 2012 Transnational Christianity and Converging Identities: A Study of Arabic American Churches American Academy of Religions Regional Meeting. New Brunswick, NJ: March 15, 2012 Indian Christian Readings of Religious Pluralism: A Lesson for Western Theology? Koinonia Graduate Forum. Princeton Theological Seminary: March 22, 2012 Theological Education, Western Missions, and Arab Nationalism: The Emergence of Nation Consciousness in the Modern Middle East ARAM Society Conference on Western Missions in the Levant. Oxford University: July 18-19, 2011 Imperial Politics & Theological Practices: Comparative Transformations in Anglo-American and Russian Orthodox Missions to Syria-Palestine Yale-Edinburgh Conference on Missions and Education. Yale University: June 30-July 2, 2011 Language Instruction in Catholic and Protestant Missionary Education: A Study of Socio- Linguistic Identity Formation in Lebanon

5 Nordic Institute for Missiology and Ecumenism. University of Lund, Sweden: May 24-27, 2011 Edward Said & the Orientalized Body: A Call for Missiological Engagement Engaging Particularities Conference. Boston College: March 30-April 1, 2007 Lesslie Newbigin s Missional Theology of Religions ACADEMIC SERVICE American Academy of Religion World Christianity Group Steering Committee: World Christianity Faculty Search Committee, Princeton Theological Seminary: Seminary Council on Institutional Diversity, Princeton Theological Seminary: Women in Church and Ministry concerns group Diversity Action Blueprint drafting team Editorial Board for Princeton Theological Seminary s Graduate Journal Koinonia: LANGUAGE TRAINING Arabic, Hebrew, Greek, Spanish, French, German Deanna Womack 5

Christianity Faculty Search Committee, Princeton Theological Seminary: 2013-2014 Seminary Council on Institutional Diversity, Princeton Theological Seminary: 2012-2014 Women in Church and Ministry

DR. DEANNA FERREE WOMACK 1531 Dickey Drive, Atlanta, GA 30322 (404) 727-2974 deanna.f.womack@emory.edu

DR. DEANNA FERREE WOMACK 1531 Dickey Drive, Atlanta, GA 30322 (404) 727-2974 deanna.f.womack@emory.edu EDUCATION Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton, New Jersey PhD in Mission, Ecumenics, and History