Rate My Professor Stephanie Crumpton

Crumpton’s academic interests encompass pastoral theological methodology, theories of personality development, historical and social dimensions of pastoral counseling, pastoral counseling as a specialized form of the church's ministries, family systems theory, and womanist and feminist approaches to pastoral counseling. Her key publications include A Womanist Pastoral Theology Against Intimate and Cultural Violence (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014) and “After the 911 Call: A Pastoral Theologian Reflects on Family Violence Advocacy” in Cross Currents Magazine (Spring 2013). She has been awarded several honors and fellowships, including the Baldwin Fellowship from the Lancaster County Community Foundation in 2016 to develop synergies between African ethnic heritage and healing modalities for trauma recovery; the Wabash Center graduate student fellowship in 2010; dissertation and North American Doctoral Fellowships in 2009-2010; Expanding Horizons Doctoral Fellowship from 2006-2008; Partnership for Excellence Ministry Fellowship in 2002; and the United Church of Christ Adrienne M. & Charles Shelby Rooks Fellowship for Racial & Ethnic Theological Students from 2006-2009. Crumpton teaches courses in pastoral care, education, social justice, and rituals through womanist and feminist lenses, and her scholarship earned recognition as one of Six Black Women at the Center of Gravity in Theological Education by NBC News in 2017.