About Cheryl
Cheryl B. Anderson is an associate professor of the Old Testament at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary in Evanston, Illinois. She joined the faculty there after completing her doctoral work at Vanderbilt University in 2000. Earlier in her career, Prof. Anderson was a practicing attorney with the federal government in Washington, D.C. Prof. Anderson is also an ordained elder in The United Methodist Church.
Her research interests focus on women and biblical laws as well as liberationist readings of biblical texts. Her first book, Women, Ideology, and Violence was published by Continuum Press in 2004. The manuscript for her second book, Ancient Laws and Contemporary Controversies: The Need for Inclusive Biblical Interpretation has just been completed and will be published by Oxford University Press in the fall of 2009.
She was on sabbatical during the last academic year and she studied the Church’s response to the AIDS pandemic in the African American community and in South Africa. She received two major grants for her work—one was from the Louisville Institute and the other one was a Fulbright award. As a result, she was able to spend the first seven months of 2008 in South Africa, which has the highest number of persons living with AIDS in the world.