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Carolyn Sharp ’85

Carolyn Sharp ’85, associate professor of Hebrew scriptures at Yale Divinity School, is the first woman ever to be tenured in that field at the school. At Wesleyan, she chose the religious studies major after taking Stephen Crites’s Christian Thought from Paul to Luther, and Jeremy Zwelling’s introductory class on the Hebrew Bible. She also has vivid memories of the dynamic pedagogy of Ron Cameron, and considers formative his insistence that students grapple with feminist analysis of the Bible. “It’s been an ongoing passion of mine to understand how relationality (Buber) and fierce critique (Mary Daly) can be in dialogue,” she says. “I am grateful to Ron for teaching me how to frame that question.” She earned her doctorate from Yale and last year was named Fortress Press Teacher of the Year.
Carolyn Sharp ’85, associate professor of Hebrew scriptures at Yale Divinity School, is the first woman ever to be tenured in that field at the school. At Wesleyan, she chose the religious studies major after taking Stephen Crites’s Christian Thought from Paul to Luther, and Jeremy Zwelling’s introductory class on the Hebrew Bible. She also has vivid memories of the dynamic pedagogy of Ron Cameron, and considers formative his insistence that students grapple with feminist analysis of the Bible. “It’s been an ongoing passion of mine to understand how relationality (Buber) and fierce critique (Mary Daly) can be in dialogue,” she says. “I am grateful to Ron for teaching me how to frame that question.” She earned her doctorate from Yale and last year was named Fortress Press Teacher of the Year.