Dean's Lecture: Stephanie Crumpton

Dean's Lecture - Stephanie Crumpton

Welcome to our online event featuring a conversation with Stephanie Crumpton about her new book, We Gon' Be Alright: Resistance and Healing in Black Movement Spaces, 2012--2021.

About the Dean's Lectures:

From drawing on the wisdom of Howard Thurman, healing from the Indian Boarding School system, or recovering practices like joy, play, and the art and music of Prince, 2025’s theme of healing centered leadership gathers scholars, writers, and religious leaders who are leading a healing revolution. All lectures will be virtual.

2024 lectures included Friends of Roots, a youth-focused organization seeking healing between Israelis and Palestinians; Freddy Mutanguha, CEO of Aegis Trust, whose work focused on healing following genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda; and Phillis Webstad, founder of Orange Shirt Society, which seeks reconciliation in the aftermath of Indian Boarding Schools.

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About Stephanie Crumpton:

A scholar, teacher and ordained minister in the United Church of Christ, Rev. Dr. Stephanie M. Crumpton is the Associate Professor of Practical Theology at McCormick Theological Seminary where she is also the director of the Trauma Healing Initiative. She leads THI's mission to cultivate a prepared community of learners and educators who take their knowledge, experience and practical skills for trauma informed and healing centered restoration into communities dealing with the impact of trauma. Her work on trauma began in 2006 with doctoral research on Black women’s experiences of intimate and cultural violence, which culminated in her first book, A Womanist Pastoral Theology Against Intimate and Cultural Violence (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015). Her current book, We Gon’ Be Alright: Black Healing and Resistance, 2012-2021 (University of Arizona Press) invites readers to learn from African American social justice activists and organizers about how to heal while resisting injustice. A third book is in process about the gift of thriving in the face of trauma. Rev. Dr. Crumpton is an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ, a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., and a burgeoning golf enthusiast.