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Noel L. Erskine
Ph.D., Professor of Theology and Ethics

Noel Erskine received his Master of Theology from Duke University (1971) and his Ph.D. from Union Theological Seminary (1978). He joined the Emory faculty in 1977 as an Assistant Professor, earning tenure in 1980. A scholar of black theology and pedagogy, Dr. Erskine studies the Black church, including comparative studies of theological method in the work of James Cone, Karl Barth, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and Martin Luther King, Jr. His authored and edited works include From Garvey to Marley; Rastafari Theology (University of Florida Press, 2005), King Among the Theologians (Pilgrim Press, 2004), Decolonizing Theology: A Caribbean Perspective (African World Press, 1981, 1988) and Black People and the Reformed Church in America (Reformed Church Press, 1978).

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Ellen Ott Marshall
Ph.D., Associate Professor of Christian Ethics and Conflict Transformation

Ellen Ott Marshall holds a Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University in religion, ethics and society and was Associate Professor of Ethics at Claremont School of Theology before joining the Emory faculty in 2009. She is interested in violence and peacemaking, ethical questions in literature and film, and the relationship between faith, history and ethics. Dr. Marshall is the contributing editor of Choosing Peace through Daily Practices (Pilgrim Press, 2005), and author of Though the Fig Tree Does Not Blossom (Abingdon, 2006) and Christians in the Public Square: Faith that Transforms Politics (Abingdon, 2008). She also writes on welfare reform and the United Methodist response to war.

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