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Biography
M. Shawn Copeland is a professor of Theology at Boston College. Professor Copeland received her BA at Madonna College and her PhD from Boston College. She has previously taught at Yale Divinity School, the Institute for Black Catholic Studies, Xavier University of Louisiana, New Orleans and at Marquette University. M. Shawn Copeland is also the former President of the Catholic Theological Society of America. Her area of research focuses on philosophical and theological anthropology, political theology, African religion and culture, and African intellectual history.

Research Focus
M. Shawn Copeland has completed research on a number of theological, philosophical anthropology, and political theology issues. She has demonstrated specific interest towards African American Christian experience as well as African American theological history. Being an author of over 80 articles, reviews, and book chapters, Copeland’s interests can be narrowed to about three fields of research. Her first interest focuses on the theological understanding of the human body, gender, and race as well as suffering, solidarity, and the cross of Jesus of Nazareth Her second interest consists of the African American Catholic understanding and her attempt to formulate a theological method and history of Africanism. Finally, Copeland is interested in the religious, cultural, and social states in which humans encounter their humanity. In terms of her most recent research, Copeland has focused on the misuse and abuse of black women and the lessons they have learned from their experiences for discipleship in today’s society.

List of Most Recent Works
Enfleshing Freedom: Body, Race, and Being (Fortress Press, 2010).

The Subversive Power of Love: The Vision of Henriette Delille: The Madeleva Lecture in Spirituality (Paulist Press, 2009).

Uncommon Faithfulness: The Black Catholic Experience. With LaReine-Marie Mosely and Albert Raboteau (Orbis Books, 2009).

"The Black Subject and Postmodernism: ‘What Did I Do to Be so Black and Blue.’" Bulletin of Ecumenical Theology 18 (2006): 93-110.

“A Thinking Margin: The Womanist Movement as Critical Cognitive Praxis,” 226-235, in Deeper Shades of Purple: Womanism in Religion and Society. Ed. Stacy Floyd-Thomas. New York University Press, 2006.

“The Church Is Marked by Suffering,” 212-216, in The Many Marks of the Church. Eds. William Madges and Michael J. Daley. New London, CT: Twenty-Third Publications, 2006.

“The Power of Difference: Understanding, Appreciating, Critiquing Difference.” The Ecumenist, 43, 2 (Spring 2006): 1-10.

“Disturbing Aesthetics of Race.” Journal of Catholic Social Thought 3, 1 (Winter 2006): 17-27.

“Body, Race, and Being: Theological Anthropology in the Context of Performing and Subverting Eucharist,” 97-101, 103-113, 115-116, in Constructive Theology: A Contemporary Approach to Classical Themes. Eds. Serene Jones and Paul Lakeland. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress, 2005.

“Political Theology as Interruptive.” CTSA Proceedings, 59 (November 2004): 71-82.

“A Theologian in the Factory: Toward a Theology of Social Transformation in the United States,” 20-46, 126-131, in Spirit in the Cities: Searching for Soul in the Urban Landscape. Ed. Kathryn Tanner. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress, 2004.

Timeline
1989 honorary degree Emmanuel College

1989 to 1994, she taught at Yale University Divinity School

1994-2003 associate professor at Marquette University

1994 through 2005, she taught systematic theology regularly in the degree program at the Institute for Black Catholic Studies, Xavier University of Louisiana, New Orleans.

2000 recipient of Barry University’s Yves Congar Award for Excellence in Theology

2002 honorary degree Holy Names College

(2003–2004) president of the Catholic Theological Society of America (CTSA)

2007 honorary degree Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley

2009 honorary degrees form Catholic Theological Union

2009, she received the Distinguished Scholar Award from the Black Religious Scholars Group

2009 published The Subversive Power of Love: The Vision of Henriette Delille: The Madeleva Lecture in Spirituality

2009 published Uncommon Faithfulness: The Black Catholic Experience. With LaReine-Marie Mosely and Albert Raboteau

2010 published Enfleshing Freedom: Body, Race, and Being