The Rev. Dr. Teresa L. Fry Brown is the Bandy Professor of Preaching, a chaired professorship created in 1986 with a gift from B. Jackson Bandy, considered by many to be the country’s premier chair in homiletics. Brown’s research interests include homiletics, womanism, womanist ethics, socio-cultural transformation, and African diaspora history, focusing on African American spiritual values. Fry Brown is ordained in the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church and serves as the denomination’s historiographer, executive director of research and scholarship, and editor of the AME Review. She is the vice chair of the AME General Officer’s Council. She is a member of several scholarly guilds, including the Society for the Study of Black Religion, the Academy of Homiletics, where she currently serves as second vice president, and the American Academy of Religion.