DEANNA FERREE WOMACK
P.O. Box 821, Princeton, NJ 08542  [email protected]
EDUCATION
Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton, New Jersey
 Doctoral Candidate in Mission, Ecumenics, and History of Religions: Expected 2015
 Master of Theology: 2008
 Master of Divinity: 2007
o Seminar in Christian-Muslim Relations, Al-Amana Centre in Muscat, Oman: May-June 2007
Macalester College, Saint Paul, Minnesota: Summa Cum Laude, 2004
 Bachelor of Arts in Religious Studies and in International Studies
 International study at the American University of Cairo, Egypt: Fall 2003
DISSERTATION
Title: “Conversion, Controversy, and Cultural Production: Syrian Protestants, American
Missionaries, and the Arabic Press, 1870-1915”
Dissertation Committee: Richard Fox Young (chair), Darrell L. Guder, and James Moorhead
COMPREHENSIVE EXAMINATIONS
Defended January 2013
• History of Mission in the Middle East
• Theory & Methodology for the History of Religions/Islamic Studies
• Social Science Theory & Methodology for the Study of World Christianity
• Theology of Mission & Ecumenics
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Teaching Apprenticeship Program at Princeton Theological Seminary
• Foundations for Teaching I & II (four-semester seminar): 2012-2014
Teaching Transcript Program, McGraw Center for Teaching at Princeton University: 2013-2014
Kaleidoscope Institute Certificate in Intercultural Competency for Teaching: April 23, 2014
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Princeton Theological Seminary
 Christianity, Islam, and Missions in the Middle East: Instructor, Spring 2015
 Islam in America: Co-Instructor with Richard Fox Young, Spring 2014
 Palestinian Contextual Theology: Teaching Assistant (TA) for Fr. Jamal Khader, Spring 2013
 Islam in America: TA for Richard Fox Young, Fall 2012
 The Missional and Ecumenical Theology of Lesslie Newbigin: TA for Darrell Guder, Spring 2012
Princeton University, Near East Studies Department
• Introduction to the Middle East: Assistant Instructor for Michael Cook & Cyrus Schayegh, Fall 2013
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Princeton Seminary Center for Continuing Education
• Islam and Wisdom: Institute for Theology Instructor, July 2013
• Christian Caregiving: Instructor, March-April 2008
Near East School of Theology in Beirut
• Introduction to Homiletics: Instructor, Spring 2009
AFFILIATIONS
Presbyterian Church (USA) Minister of Word and Sacrament
American Society of Church History
Middle East Studies Association
International Association for Mission Studies
American Academy of Religion
MINISTRY & GLOBAL SERVICE
Sunday Worship Leader at Manor Care nursing facility in Yardley, PA: 2011 to present
Children’s Ministry Leader at Woodside Presbyterian Church in Yardley, PA: 2012 to 2014
Christian Educator at Lebanon Evangelical School, Louaize, Lebanon: 2009-2010
Pastoral Associate at International Community Church of Beirut, Lebanon: 2009-2010
Christian Educator at Secondary Evangelical School, Zahle, Lebanon: 2008-2009
Coordinator of Volunteers at Interfaith Caregivers Trenton, NJ: 2007-2008
Assistant Chaplain at Presbyterian Homes at Meadow Lakes, Hightstown, NJ: 2006-2007
Mission Team Coordinator for PC(USA) Border Ministry, Reynosa, Mexico: May-August 2005
English Instructor at Bethlehem Bible College, Palestinian West Bank: July-August, 2007
Leader of Adult Education at Woodside Presbyterian Church, Yardley, PA: 2005-2006
Global Intern for Presbyterian Church (USA), Reynosa, Mexico: June-August 2002
AWARDS & HONORS
American Academy of Religion International Dissertation Research Grant: 2014
American Academy of Religion Status of Women in the Profession Mentoring Program: 2014-2015
David M. Stowe Fellowship for Mission Research at Yale University Divinity School: June 2013
The Fund for Theological Education Ministry Fellowship: 2004-2005
Phi Beta Kappa, Macalester College: 2004
Robert A. Caine Memorial Prize in Religion, Macalester College: 2004
The Fund for Theological Education Undergraduate Fellowship: 2003
George W. Davis Memorial Prize in Religion, Macalester College: 2003
Samuel Robinson Award, Presbyterian Church (USA): 2003
PUBLICATIONS
“Pan-Arabism” and “European Colonialism in the Middle East and North Africa.” In Islamic World
Encyclopedia, ed. James Ciment and Gordon Newby. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe (forthcoming).
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“Henry Harris Jessup” in Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History 1500-1900. Birmingham,
UK: University of Birmingham/Brill (forthcoming)
“Transnational Christianity and Converging Identities: A Study of Arabic American Churches.”
Mission Studies: Journal of the International Association for Mission Studies (forthcoming 2015).
“The Authenticity and Authority of Islam: Rashid Rida’s Response to Twentieth-Century Missionary
Publications.” Social Sciences & Missions 28 (forthcoming 2015): 1-27.
“‘Pick up the pearls of knowledge and adorn ourselves with the jewelry of literature’: An analysis of
three Arab women writers in al-Nashra al-Usbu‘iyya.” Living Stones Yearbook: Christianity engages with
Islam (July 2014): 125-157. With Christine B. Lindner.
“Syrian Protestants & the Case of the Beirut Church: Re-imagining the American Missionary
Encounter in Ottoman Syria.” Syrian Studies Bulletin 19:1 (2014), online:
[https://ojcs.siue.edu/ojs/index.php/ssa/article/view/3021/980].
“Imperial Politics and Theological Practices: Comparative Transformations in Anglo-American and
Russian Orthodox Missions to Syria-Palestine.” ARAM Periodical 25 (2013): 1-18.
“Lubnani, Libanais, Lebanese: Missionary Education, Language Policy, and Identity Formation in
Modern Lebanon.” Studies in World Christianity 18:1(2012): 4-20.
“Edward Said and the Orientalized Body: A Call for Missiological Engagement.” Swedish Missiological
Themes/Svensk Missionstidskrift 99:4 (2011): 441-461.
“Mission: Friendship, Christian-Muslim Dialogue in Oman.” inSpire 12:2 (spring/summer 2008).
BOOK REVIEWS
Conflict, Conquest, and Conversion: Two Thousand Years of Christian Missions in the Middle East. By Eleanor
H. Tejirian and Reeva Spector Simon. New York: Columbia University Press (2012). In Islam and
Christian-Muslim Relations 25:3 (July 2014): 409-411.
Protestant Missionaries in the Levant: Ungodly Puritans, 1820-60. By Samir Khalaf. London: Routledge
(2012). In Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations 25:3 (July 2014): 392-394.
Missional God, Missional Church: Hope for Re-evangelizing the West. By Ross Hastings. Downers Grove,
IL: InterVarsity Press (2012). In International Bulletin of Missionary Research (October 2013): 243.
A Light to the Nations: The Missional Church and the Biblical Story. By Michael W. Goheen. Grand
Rapids: Baker Academic, 2011. In Koinonia XXIII (2012): 121-122.
The Witness of God: The Trinity, Missio Dei, Karl Barth, and the Nature of Christian Community. By John
Flett. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2010. The Center for Barth Studies, Princeton Theological Seminary
(March 14, 2011), online:
[http://www.ptsem.edu/library/barth/default.aspx?menu1_id=8457&id=10781].
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The British Missionary Enterprise since 1700. By Jeffrey Cox. New York: Routledge, 2008. In Missiology:
An International Review XXXIX:1 (January 2011): 118-119.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
American Society of Church History conference, New York City: January 3, 2015
• “Reading Church History in Arabic: Syrian Christian & Muslim Representations of
Evangelicalism in Ottoman Syria.”
American Academy of Religion Meeting, San Diego, CA: November 23, 2014
• “The Syrian Protestant Nahda: Women and Evangelical Faith in the Springtime of Arabic
Literary Production, 1860-1915.”
World Congress of Middle East Studies, Ankara, Turkey: August 20, 2014
• “Gospel Preachers, Gospel Printers: Syrian Protestants and the Nahda”
Yale-Edinburgh Conference on Missions and Gender, University of Edinburgh: June 28, 2014
• “Arab Women & Protestant Missions: Gendered Practices of Reading, Writing, and Preaching in
Ottoman Syria, 1870-1914”
American Society of Church History Annual Conference, Washington, DC: January 2-5, 2014
• “‘We preach the Gospel to High and Low’: Syrian Protestant Expressions of Identity, Equality,
and Missionary Calling”
Yale-Edinburgh Conference on Missions and World Christianity, Yale University: June 27-29, 2013
• “Medical Arts & the Healing of Souls: American Missionaries & Tuberculosis Care in Syria”
American Society of Missiology, Wheaton College: June 21-23, 2013
• “Toward Missiological Interdisciplinarity: Anthropology, Historiography, and Conversion in the
Middle East”
International Association of Mission Studies Conference. University of Toronto: August 15-20, 2012
 “Transnational Christianity and Converging Identities: A Study of Arabic American Churches”
American Academy of Religions Regional Meeting. New Brunswick, NJ: March 15, 2012
 “Indian Christian Readings of Religious Pluralism: A Lesson for Western Theology?”
Koinonia Graduate Forum. Princeton Theological Seminary: March 22, 2012
 “Theological Education, Western Missions, and Arab Nationalism: The Emergence of Nation
Consciousness in the Modern Middle East”
ARAM Society Conference on Western Missions in the Levant. Oxford University: July 18-19, 2011
 “Imperial Politics & Theological Practices: Comparative Transformations in Anglo-American
and Russian Orthodox Missions to Syria-Palestine”
Yale-Edinburgh Conference on Missions and Education. Yale University: June 30-July 2, 2011
 “Language Instruction in Catholic and Protestant Missionary Education: A Study of SocioLinguistic Identity Formation in Lebanon”
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Nordic Institute for Missiology and Ecumenism. University of Lund, Sweden: May 24-27, 2011
 “Edward Said & the Orientalized Body: A Call for Missiological Engagement”
“Engaging Particularities” Conference. Boston College: March 30-April 1, 2007
 “Lesslie Newbigin’s Missional Theology of Religions”
ACADEMIC SERVICE
American Academy of Religion World Christianity Group Steering Committee: 2015-2016
World Christianity Faculty Search Committee, Princeton Theological Seminary: 2013-2014
Seminary Council on Institutional Diversity, Princeton Theological Seminary: 2012-2014
• Women in Church and Ministry concerns group
• Diversity Action Blueprint drafting team
Editorial Board for Princeton Theological Seminary’s Graduate Journal Koinonia: 2010-2012
LANGUAGE TRAINING
Arabic, Hebrew, Greek, Spanish, French, German