President Evelyn L. Parker is Professor Emerita of Practical Theology at Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University in Dallas, TX, the Visiting Distinguished Professor of Practical Theology at Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary in Evanston, IL, and the Extraordinary Professor at the Desmond Tutu Centre for Religion and Social Justice, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa.
Prior to her retirement from Perkins, she held the Susanna Wesley Centennial Chair in Practical Theology and served for six years as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs.
Parker is a Fulbright Fellow 2019-2020 to Cape Town, South Africa.
Her research focuses on adolescents – fifteen to thirty years old – who are marginalized because of race, class, gender, age, sexuality, and/or ability in church and society. Her publications include Between Sisters: Emancipatory Hope Out of Tragic Relationships, The Sacred Selves of Adolescent Girls: Hard Stories of Race, Class, and Gender and Trouble Don’t Last Always: Emancipatory Hope Among African American Adolescents.
As a laywoman in the Christian Methodist Episcopal (CME) Church, Parker represents the CME Church in ecumenical settings including the World Council of Churches (WCC). She was a delegate to the Ninth, Tenth, and Eleventh Assemblies of the WCC in 2006, 2013, and 2022. During the Ninth Assembly she was elected to a seven-year term on the Central Committee of the WCC. Following the Tenth Assembly the Central Committee of the WCC elected Parker to serve as a commissioner on the Commission of the Churches on International Affairs. She was recently elected to serve an eight-year term on the Central Committee of the WCC at the Eleventh Assembly September 2022 during the Assembly in Karlsruhe, Germany.
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