This collection contains professional and personal materials of Reverend Alison Cheek (1927 - 2019), an Australian-born American religious leader. One of the first women ordained into the Episcopal priesthood on July 29, 1974 beside ten other women, Cheek and her collaborators became known as The Philadelphia Eleven. Materials contained in this collection detail women's roles in the priesthood during Cheek's lifetime and document Cheek's involvement in feminist and liberation theology.
Personal and professional papers, including research materials for "Ministry After Freud" and for writings on Helen Flanders Dunbar, as well as other projects.
This collection contains the papers of Gay Byron, including coursework, teaching materials, conference materials, committee work, research files, correspondence, grant materials, manuscript drafts, and other materials. Included in subject and author and colleague files is correspondence; material related to Byron's PhD dissertation and research, including articles, essays, and source materials; and materials related to Byron's teaching at Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School.
Personal and professional papers including class materials; publications in draft; unpublished presentations; 48 diaries/journals from age of 12 onwards; photo albums; awards and diplomas.
Church Women United records, NCC ecumenism records (including local and regional ecumenism documents, and a complete set of CORLETTERs), Evangelical Lutheran Church of America Commission on Church and Society documents.
Katie Geneva Cannon, the first African-American woman ordained in the United Presbyterian Church, was a minister, professor, and foundational voice of womanist theology. The collection contains professional and personal materials including coursework, biographical material, artwork, teaching resources including syllabi, writing and research materials including drafts and notes, sermons, lectures and documentation of speaking engagements, correspondence, and publicity materials.
Mary Ely Lyman was the Jesup Professor of English Bible and Dean of Women Students at UTS, the first woman to hold a full professorship and endowed chair and first woman dean at UTS, as well as an author and wife of UTS professor Eugene W. Lyman. The collection contains correspondence, lectures, news clippings, UTS publicity releases, UTS alumna records, photographs, and other materials.