• WOMANIST BIBLICAL INTERPRETATION,

• AFRICANA BIBLICAL INTERPRETATION,

• ANCIENT ENSLAVEMENT AND NT,

• BIBLE TRANSLATION

• Biblical Studies,
• New Testament

a.       BOOKS

·       Smith, Mitzi J. and Michael W. Newheart, co-authors. We are All Witnesses: Toward Disruptive and Creative Biblical Interpretation. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2023 (forthcoming).

·       Smith, Mitzi J., General Editor. Angela N. Parker and Ericka Dunbar Hill, co-editors. “Bitter the Chastening Rod”: African American Interpretation in the Age of #BLM, #SayherName, and #Metoo. Lexington/Fortress Academic, 2022.

·       Smith, Mitzi J. and Jin Young Choi, editors/contributors. Minoritized Women Reading Race-Ethnicity: Intersectional Approaches and Early Christian (Con)Texts. Lexington/Fortress Academic, 2020.

·       Smith, Mitzi J. and Yung Suk Kim. Decentering the New Testament: A Reintroduction. Eugene, OR: Cascade, 2018.

·       Womanist Sass and Back Talk: Social (In)Justice, Intersectionality and Biblical Interpretation. Eugene, OR: Cascade, 2018. 

·       Reading the Bible in the 21^st Century: Insights from an African American Interpretation. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2017. 

·       Smith, Mitzi J., editor. I Found God in Me. A Womanist Biblical Hermeneutics Reader. Eugene, OR:

·       Cascade, 2015. Received CHOICE Magazine book of the year award.

·       Smith J. Mitzi and Lalitha Jayachitra, editors. Teaching All Nations: Interrogating the Great Commission. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2014. 

·       The Construction of the Other in the Acts of the Apostles: Charismatics, the Jews, and Women. Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock/Pickwick, 2011. (Revision of dissertation)

b.      CHAPTERS IN BOOKS

·       “Letter to a ‘Young’ Biblical Scholar.” Letters to a Young Theologian, edited by Henco van der Westhuizen, 170-77. Minneapolis: Fortress, February 2022.

·       Mitzi J. Smith, et al. “‘The Hill We Climb’: Introduction.” Bitter the Chastening Rod: African American Interpretation in the Age of #BLM, #SayherName, and #Metoo, edited by Mitzi J. Smith, Angela Parker, and Ericka Dunbar, 3–12. Fortress Academic, 2022.

·       “A Slave Named Jesus (Christ): Abolitionist Messiah Born of a Doule.” Bitter the Chastening Rod: African American Interpretation in the Age of #BLM, #SayherName, and #Metoo, edited by Mitzi J. Smith, Angela Parker, and Ericka Dunbar, 51–68. Fortress Academic, 2022.

·       “‘He Never Said a Mumbalin Word’: A Womanist Perspective of Crucifixion, Sexual Violence, and Sacralized Silence.” When Did We See You Naked? Jesus as a Victim of Sexual Violence, edited by Jayme Reaves and David Tombs, 46–66. London: SCM, 2021.

·       “Hagar’s Children Still Ain’t Free: Paul’s Counterterror Rhetoric, Constructed Identity, Enslavement, and Gal 3:28.” In Minoritized Women Reading Race/Ethnicity and Early Christianity, edited by Mitzi Smith and Jin Young Choi, 45–70. Lexington/Fortress Academic, 2020.

·       “Philemon.” Wesley One Volume Commentary, edited by Kenneth Collins and Robert W. Wall.  United Methodist Publishing House. Nashville: Abingdon, 2020.

·       “Acts of the Apostles.” Lexham Context Commentary: New Testament (LCCNT). Released in Logos Bible Software February 2020.

·       “‛Love Never Fails’: Re-Reading 1 Cor 13 and Constructing a Womanist Hermeneutic of Love’s Struggle.” Theologies of Failure, edited by Roberto D. Sirvent and Duncan Reyburn, 230–46. Eugene, OR: Cascade, 2019.

·       “Resisting the Great Co-mission.” Unsettling the Word: Biblical Experiments in Decolonization, edited by Steve Heinrichs, 184–89. Winnipeg, Canada: CommonWord, 2018.

·       “The Politics of Sass, Race, Gender, and the Syrophoenician Woman. A Womanist Reading of

·       Intersectionality and Inter(con)textuality.” Womanist Biblical Interpretation: Expanding the Discourse. Semeia, edited by Gay L. Byron and Vanessa Lovelace, 95–112. Atlanta: SBL, 2016.

·       “Give Me Jesus: Salvation History in the African American Spirituals.” African American Voices, edited by Thomas Slater. Vols II and I; Lewiston, NY: Mellen, 2015. 

·       "‘This Little Light of Mine’: The Womanist Biblical Scholar as Prophetess, Iconoclast and Activist.” I Found God in Me, edited by Mitzi J. Smith, 109–29. Eugene, OR: Cascade, 2015. 

·       “Fashioning our Own Souls: A Womanist Reading of the Virgin-Whore Binary in Matthew and Revelation.” I Found God in Me, edited by Mitzi J. Smith, 158–82. Eugene, OR: Cascade, 2015. 

·       “US Colonial Missions to African Slaves: Catechizing Black Souls, Traumatizing the Black Psyche.” Teaching All Nations: Interrogating the Great Commission, edited by Mitzi J. Smith and Lalitha Jayachitra, 57–87. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2014. 

·       “Knowing More Than is Good for One: A Womanist Interrogation of the Matthean Great Commission.” Teaching All Nations: Interrogating the Great Commission, edited by Mitzi J. Smith and Lalitha Jayachitra, 127–57. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2014. 

·        “Minjung, the Black Masses, and the Global Imperative: A Womanist Reading of Luke’s Soteriological Hermeneutical Circle.” Reading Minjung Theology in the Twenty-first Century, edited by Yung Suk Kim, 101–119.  Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock, 2013. 

·       “Matthew 13:47–53; Matthew 13:54–58.” Feasting on the Gospels. A Feasting on the Word Project, edited by Cynthia A. Jarvis and E. Elizabeth Johnson, 398–410. Louisville: Westminster/John Knox, 2013. 

·       “Feminist/Womanist Criticisms” and “African American Biblical Criticism.” Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels, edited by Joel Green, et al. Downers Grove: Intervarsity, 2013. 

·       “Zilpha Elaw.”  Biographical History of Women Biblical Interpreters, edited by Marion Taylor. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2012. 

·       “Philemon.” Women’s Bible Commentary. Third Revised Edition, edited by Sharon Ringe, Carol Newsom and Jacqueline Lapsley, 605–07.  Louisville: Westminster/John Knox, 2012. 

·       “Utility, Fraternity and Reconciliation: Ancient Slavery as a Context for Onesimus.” Onesimus Our Brother: Reading Religion, Race, and Slavery in Philemon. Edited by Demetrius Williams, James Noel, and Matthew Johnson. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2012.  

·       “Slavery and the Early Church.” True to Our Native Land. An African American New Testament Commentary, edited by Brian K. Blount, Cain Hope Felder, Clarice J. Martin, Emerson B. Powery, 11–22.  Minneapolis: Fortress, 2007.  

·       “Ephesians.” True to Our Native Land.  An African American New Testament Commentary, edited by   Brian K. Blount, Cain Hope Felder, Clarice J. Martin, Emerson B. Powery, 348–62.  Minneapolis: Fortress, 2007

·       "Roman Slavery in Antiquity." The African American Jubilee Bible, front matter edited by Cain Hope Felder, 157–85. New York: American Bible Society, 1999. 

·       “If Rachel Does Not Weep, Who Will?: A Pro-Choice Quality of Life Womanist Reading of Matthew 2.” Currents in Theology and Mission 49.4  (2022). http://currentsjournal.org/index.php/currents/article/view/376

·       “A Womanist Activist Approach to Biblical Interpretation and Justice.” Touchstone Journal, February 2022.

·       “Howard Thurman and the Religion of Jesus: Survival of the Disinherited and Womanist Wisdom.” Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus 17.3 (2019): 271–92.   

·       “Paul, Timothy and the Respectability Politics of Race: A Womanist Reading of Acts 16:1–5.”   Religions / Special Issue – Current Trends in New Testament Study 10.3 (2019). Open access: https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/10/3/190  

·       “Womanism, Intersectionality, and Biblical Justice.” Mutuality Magazine 23.2 (2016):8–11.

·       “Give Them What You Have”: A Womanist Reading of the Matthean Feeding Miracle (Matt 14:13–21). The Journal of the Bible and Human Transformation 3.1 (2013). [An online peer reviewed journal], http://www.bibleandtransformation.com/JBHT/Volume_3_%282013%29.html   

·       “1 Corinthians 15:12–20” for “Between Text and Sermon.” Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology 67.3 (2013). 

·       “‘Unbossed and Unbought’: Zilpha Elaw and Old Elizabeth and a Political Discourse of Origins.”  Black Theology: An International Journal 9.3 (2011): 287–311.  

·       "Understand Ye a Parable! The Acts of Peter and the Twelve Apostles as Parable Narrative." Apocrypha: International Journal of Apocryphal Literatures 13 (2002): 29–52. 

a.       AWARDS

·       Wabash Small Project Grant Awards 2022 and 2020

·       Wabash Peer Mentoring Cluster Grant 2019–20 and 2016

·       CHOICE Book Award for I Found God in Me: A Womanist Biblical Interpretation Reader (Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2015)

·       ATS Lilly Foundation Faculty Fellowship ($30,000), 2009–2010 

·       High Academic Achievement Award, Howard University School of Divinity (HUSD), May 1998 

·       American Bible Society Biblical Scholarship Award, HUSD, May 1998 

·       Student Government Excellence Award, HUSD, February 1998 

·       Ford Foundation Field-Based Fellowship, HUSD, 1997–98    

 b.      POSITONS

·       July 2019 to Present: J. Davison Philips Professor of New Testament, Columbia Theological Seminary, Decatur, GA

·       May 2021—present: Editorial Board, OUP’s The Journal of Theological Studies

·       Jan 2020—present: Editorial Board, Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus

·       June 26, 2018–present: Co-editor with Gay Byron, Rowman & Littlefield academic monograph publication series “Womanist Readings of Scripture”

·        February 2006-June 2019: professor of New Testament, Ashland Theological Seminary, Detroit, MI campus

c.       FELLOWSHIPS  

·       Dissertation Fellow, Fund for Theological Education, 2004–05 

·       Doctoral Fellow, Fund for Theological Education, 2001–02 

·       Reading the Bible article for World & Word, 2022

·       Chloe and Her People: A Womanist Reading of 1 Corinthians. Cascade, 2023. Under contract; work in progress

·       Historical Jesus and Enslavement essay for Next Quest Historical Jesus Conference in England (July 2022) and then published chapter 2023

·       Chapter entitled “Biblical Challenges to Gender-Based Poverty” for the Cascade Companion on Bible and Economics

·       “The Impact of Womanist, Africana, and Anti-racist Perspectives on the Study of the Bible and Women” in Bible and Women Volume 9.2. The Contemporary Period. Current Trends, co-edited by Lidia Rodríguez Fernández, Ilse Müllner, Arianna Rotondo, and Mary Ann Bevis. Paper will also be presented at Conference in Spain, April 2023.

·       Re-Reading the Lukan Jesus for Liberation: Anointed Abolitionist Born of a Doule Called Mary. Cascade, 2023. Under contract; work in progress

·       “Acts of the Apostles.” New Oxford Annotated Bible, Sixth Edition, edited by Michael Coogan, Marc Brettler, Julia O’Brien, and Emma Wasserman. New York: Oxford Univ Press, contracted.

·       “The Enslaved and the New Testament.” Routledge Handbook of Marginalization in the Bible, edited by Joel S. Baden, ____. London/New York: Routledge, forthcoming.

·        co-edited with Raj Nadella and Luis Menéndez Antuña, Oxford Handbook of the Bible, Race, and Diaspora. Under contract

·       "Womanist Criticism of Historical Jesus Scholarship" to be included in an Oxford Handbook series on the Historical Jesus, 2023-24

·       Black English translation of the Gospel of Luke with Womanist/Africana commentary, 2024-25 

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