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FACULTY

Dr. Beverly Carroll is the founding Director of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops Secretariat for African American Catholics and has served in this capacity since 1988. She is a nationally known speaker on the Church's responsibility in affirming diversity. This Baltimore native earned a Bachelor's degree from the University of Maryland and a Master's from Towson State University. She received the 1998 Woman of the Year Award from Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc., and the Martin Luther King Award for work in civil rights. She received an Honorary Doctorate of Human Letters from Sienna College in 1999.

Reverend Gregory Chisholm, S.J., Ph.D. serves as pastor of St. Patrick Church in Oakland, CA, and teaches pastoral theology at the Jesuit School. His interests include theologies of liberation and the history of black Catholics.  After his ordination in 1993, Fr. Chisholm was an assistant professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Detroit Mercy. He specialized in Engineering Vibration and Dynamics and did consulting work with General Motors Corporation.  From April of 1998 until June of 2005, Fr. Chisholm was in full time parish ministry in Los Angeles, CA, at Holy Name of Jesus Church, a strong and diverse Roman Catholic community. Since 2002, he has also ministered to married couples in California as a priest of the Worldwide Marriage Encounter program.Currently, Fr. Chisholm serves on the governing board of Holy Cross College in Worcester, MA, and the University of San Francisco in San Francisco, CA. He is also the Chaplain of the Western States District of the Knights of Peter Claver and their Ladies Auxiliary.

Rev. Giles Conwill, PhD, a native of Louisville, KY, was ordained a priest of the Diocese of San Diego, California in 1973. He holds a B.A. Degree in Philosophy from the University of San Diego, a Master of Divinity Degree from the Athenaeum of Ohio, and a Ph.D. Degree from Emory University in Cultural Anthropology and History. He has taught at Morehouse College for the last 20 years, and presently serves as Chair of the History Department. He worked as Director of the Department of Church Vocations for the National Office for Black Catholics in Washington, D.C. from 1976-1980. He has also served on the faculties as adjunct or visiting professor at Xavier University’s Institute for Black Catholic Studies, Spalding University’s Ministerial Training Program, Clayton State University, and Clark Atlanta University. Fr. Conwill was also a winner in a nationwide sermon-writing contest of hundreds of entrants, and he is often called upon to preach revivals and retreats. His scholarly works and publications have been in the areas of Black Catholic Catechesis, History, Evangelization, and Preaching.

Nicholas M. Creary, Ph.D. received his B.A. in history and African Studies from Georgetown University in 1988, his M.A. in American history from the Catholic University of America in 1994, and his Ph.D. in African history from Michigan State University in 2004. He has taught at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. and Marquette University in Milwaukee. His dissertation focused on the history of religion in Africa and adaptations of Christianity to African cultures. His research interests include the means by which Africans and peoples of African descent forged elements of their pre-colonial past and/or transformed European or hybrid (creole) institutions into cultural tools for their struggles to liberate themselves from colonial domination.  Professor Creary's current research project compares cultural nationalist literary movements among Africans and peoples of African descent in the Atlantic world during the first half of the 20th century. He received a Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad Fellowship from the U.S. Department of Education and spent the 2004-2005 academic year in South Africa conducting research on Black South African writers for this project.

Therese Wilson Favors, MA is Director of the Office of African American Catholic Ministries for the Archdiocesan of Baltimore. Favors is the author of several books, including Rise Up and Re-Build and her latest What We Have Seen & Heard: Essays and Stories of Black Catholics of Baltimore.  Ms. Favors has extensive experience as an educator in both Catholic and parish religious educational programs, and holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Coppin State University and a Master’s Degree in Religious Education from St. Mary’s Seminary, both of Baltimore.

Sister Eva Lumas, S.S.S., D.Min. is Assistant Professor of Faith and Culture at the Franciscan School of Theology in Berkeley, CA. She is also an adjunct professor at the Institute for Black Catholic Studies and a well-known speaker at the national level in areas of inculturation, multiculturalism, liturgy, catechesis and pastoral ministry.

Darnise Martin, Ph.D. is an author, lecturer, and educator, and visiting Assistant Professor of African American Studies at Loyola Marymount University.

Mutombo Nkulu-N'Sengha, Ph.D. was born and raised in the Democratic Republic of Congo in the Luba-Bantu cultural tradition. He has studied African Traditional Religions, Philosophy, Theology, and Religious Studies in Central Africa (Lubumbashi and Kinshasa), Rome and Philadelphia. He holds a Ph.D. in Religious Studies from Temple University (Philadelphia).

LeRoy Titus is a current member of the Holy Name of Jesus Parish Finance Council and immediate past Chairman of the Parish Council. He serves on the Archdiocesan Synod Implementation Commission and is Chairman of Bishop Edward Clark's African American Advisory Council. Mr. Titus is active with the Knights of Peter Claver, holding offices at the Council and District levels.

Reverend Freddy Washington, C.S.Sp., D.Min. is pastor of St. Ambrose and St. Mary Magdalene Parishes in Chicago, Illinois. He has worked extensively in creating community among diverse populations in parishes across the country. He is an Assistant Professor of Pastoral Theology at the Institute for Black Catholic Studies at Xavier University of Louisiana in New Orleans. He is often called to speak on Cross-cultural issues in Ministry, Mission Theology, Inculturation, and Pastoring in the African-American community.

Horace Williams, Ph.D. is a Past President of the Los Angeles Black Lay Catholic Ministry and of the Catholic Human Relations Council of Los Angeles. In 1973 he was made a Knight Commander of St. Gregory the Great by Pope Paul VI, and in 1997 he received the Individual Achievement Award from the California Black Health Network. He earned his doctorate in Public Administration (Health Services Administration and Epidemiology) from the University of Southern California and he currently serves as Director of Pharmacy at East Valley Hospital Medical Center in Glendora, California.