Phillis Isabella Sheppard

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Associate Professor of Religion, Psychology and Culture, Vanderbilt University Divinity School and Graduate Department of Religion
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Dr. Sheppard is the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Associate Professor of Religion, Psychology, and Culture and Director of the James Lawson Institute for the Research and Study of Nonviolent Movements at Vanderbilt University. She is a psychoanalyst and maintains a private practice of psychoanalysis and is the founder of The Psychoanalysis and Culture Institute for clinicians' who seek acquire a better understanding of the relationship between self and culture, and psychoanalytic practices and society. She is a graduate of the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis (2005) as well as of the program in Pastoral Psychotherapy, Self Psychology and Religion, at the Center for Religion and Psychotherapy in Chicago, IL She is the author of two books: Tilling Sacred Ground: Interiority, Black Women, and Religious Experience; Self, Culture, and Others in Womanist Practical Theology (Palgrave Macmillan). She began the annual Womanist Ethnography Conference in 2018. The conference in 2022 will focus on Womanist Ethnography and Activism.
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