Title

Profile: Melanie Harris

Description

Dr. Melanie L. Harris is Associate Professor of Religion at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, TX . There, she teaches and conducts research in the areas of Religious Social Ethics, African American Religion and Environmental Justice. She is a GreenFaith Fellow and co-director of Earth Honoring Faith with Ghost Ranch Education and Conference Center. Dr. Harris is currently a member of the Board of Directors of KERATV/Radio in Dallas and facilitates contemplative retreats as a licensed Spiritual Director. She is the author of Gifts of Virtue: Alice Walker and Womanist Ethics (Palgrave), as well as coeditor of the volume Faith, Feminism, and Scholarship: The Next Generation (Palgrave) and editor of Ecowomanism: Earth Honoring Faiths (Brill).

Along with Dr. Jennifer Harvey, Dr. Harris conducts workshops about racial justice, womanist ethics and environmental justice. She has presented to audiences in the AME, United Church of Christ, and Baptist church traditions.

Profile: Melanie Harris

Denomination

Christian

Audience

All audiences/General public

Rights

The original pdf version of this resource was accessed at https://www.ohipl.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Harris_bio_website.pdf on October 7, 2019

Issues

english Eco-Justice

english Poverty

english Racism

Relation

OSU Prepares to Host Earthkeeping Summit on Sept. 24, 2016