Deanna Ferree Womack is Associate Professor of History of Religions and Interfaith Studies and director of the Master of Art in Religion and Leadership (MARL) program at Emory University’s Candler School of Theology in Atlanta. Her work focuses on Middle Eastern Christianity, Protestant missions, and Christian-Muslim relations, with particular attention to gender. Womack is the author of Protestants, Gender and the Arab Renaissance in Late Ottoman Syria (Edinburgh University Press, 2019), Neighbors: Christians and Muslims Building Community (Westminster John Knox, 2020), and Re-inventing Islam: Gender and the Protestant Roots of American Islamophobia (Oxford University Press, 2025). She is co-editor with Raimundo Barreto of Alterity and the Evasion of Justice: Explorations of the “Other” in World Christianity (Fortress Press, 2023) and co-editor with Philip Forness of the Edinburgh Studies in Middle Eastern Christianity Series. Her current research focuses on the history and contemporary practices of Middle Eastern Christian immigrants in North and South America from Orthodox, Catholic, and Protestant traditions. Womack completed her MDiv, ThM, and PhD at Princeton Theological Seminary and is the recipient of a Louisville Institute Sabbatical Grant (2021) and a Research Grant from the Gerda Henkel Foundation in Düsseldorf Germany (2018).
Dr. Deanna Womack
