Gayraud S. Wilmore

Gayraud S. Wilmore is emeritus professor of church history at the Interdenominational Theological Center in Atlanta and a past-president of the Society for the Study of Black Religion. Before retirement from the ITC in 1990 he taught African American religious history at Pittsburgh Seminary, Boston University, Colgate Rochester Divinity School, and New York Theological Seminary. He has written or edited twelve books and lectured widely in the U.S., England, Africa, and southeast Asia.