Rev. Teresa L. Fry Brown, PhD, is the associate dean of Academic Affairs and Bandy Professor of Preaching at Candler School of Theology at Emory University. She is the 14th historiographer, editor of the A.M.E. Review, executive director of Research and Scholarship, and president of the General Officers’ Council of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. She was director of Black Church Studies at Candler from 2007-2015. Dr. Fry Brown holds a PhD in Religious and Theological Studies from the Iliff School of Theology and the University of Denver, a Master of Divinity from Iliff, and MS and BS degrees in Speech Pathology and Audiology from the University of Central Missouri. She is an ordained itinerant elder and associate minister at New Bethel A.M.E. Church in Lithonia, Georgia.