Underrepresented Racial and Ethnic Minorities in the Profession Committee
Activities

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2007 Annual Meeting Activity
TBA

CUREMP Bios
Kah-Jin Jeffrey Kuan is Associate Professor of Old Testament at Pacific School of Religion, Graduate Theological Union. He is associate editor of the New Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible and editorial board member of the Journal of Biblical Literature. He authored Neo-Assyrian Historical Inscriptions and Syria-Palestine and co-edited History and Interpretation: Essays in Honor of John H. Hayes. He has served on CUREMP since 2003 and is now serving as committee chair.

Mary F. Foskett is Zachary T. Smith Associate Professor of Religion at Wake Forest University. She is the author of A Virgin Conceived: Mary and Classical Representations of Virginity and Moral Teachings of Jesus. Her interests include canonical and extracanonical gospels and Asian American hermeneutics.

Gay L. Byron is Associate Professor of New Testament and Black Church Studies in the Baptist Missionary Training School Chair of Biblical Interpretation, Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School. She is the author of Symbolic Blackness and Ethnic Difference in Early Christian Literature. Her teaching and research interests include: Paul and the Pauline Traditions, African American Biblical Hermeneutics, New Testament Ethics, and Ascetic Dimensions of the Black Church Tradition.

Leticia Guardiola-Saenz is Assistant Professor of New Testament in the Caspersen School of Graduate Studies, Drew University. Her teaching and research interests include: contextual interpretations of the Gospels using approaches such as feminist, ideological, postcolonial and cultural hermeneutics; the politics of contemporary representations of Jesus; and Two-Thirds World perspectives on the New Testament.

Cheryl B. Anderson is Associate Professor of Old Testament at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary, Evanston, Illinois. She is the author of Women, Ideology and Violence: Critical Theory and the Construction of Gender in the Book of the Covenant and the Deuteronomic Code. Her teaching and research interests include: ideological criticism, feminist criticism, critical legal theory and biblical interpretation and African American Biblical Hermeneutics.

Joseph F. Scrivner is Instructor of Religion at Samford University and Ph.D. Candidate in Old Testament at Princeton Theological Seminary. He is completing his dissertation on Proverbs 1-9 under the supervision of C. L. Seow. He is co-author of Handbook to A Grammar for Biblical Hebrew. He has served on CUREMP since 2002.