Rate My Professor Stephanie Crumpton

Rev. Dr. Stephanie M. Crumpton is Associate Professor of Practical Theology at McCormick Theological Seminary, joining the faculty in 2017 as Assistant Professor and receiving promotion to Associate Professor with tenure in 2019. She currently serves as Director of the Trauma Healing Initiative. Before McCormick, Crumpton held the position of Assistant Professor of Practical Theology at Lancaster Theological Seminary. Her prior appointments include Professor of Pastoral Care and Counseling at Hood Theological Seminary, adjunct professor at Chicago Theological Seminary, lecturer at Candler School of Theology at Emory University, and teaching fellow at Atlanta’s Interdenominational Theological Center. Additionally, she worked as a state court advocate and consultant on the Georgia Commission on Family Violence. Ordained with ministerial standing in the United Church of Christ in 2013, she earned a Doctor of Theology in Pastoral Care and Counseling from Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, Georgia, in 2012; a Master of Divinity from Johnson C. Smith Presbyterian Seminary at the Interdenominational Theological Center in Atlanta in 2005; and a Bachelor of Arts in Broadcast Journalism from Langston University in Oklahoma in 1997.

Crumpton’s academic interests encompass pastoral theological methodology, theories of personality development, historical and social dimensions of pastoral counseling, pastoral counseling as a specialized form of the church's ministries, family systems theory, and womanist and feminist approaches to pastoral counseling. Her key publications include A Womanist Pastoral Theology Against Intimate and Cultural Violence (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014) and “After the 911 Call: A Pastoral Theologian Reflects on Family Violence Advocacy” in Cross Currents Magazine (Spring 2013). She has been awarded several honors and fellowships, including the Baldwin Fellowship from the Lancaster County Community Foundation in 2016 to develop synergies between African ethnic heritage and healing modalities for trauma recovery; the Wabash Center graduate student fellowship in 2010; dissertation and North American Doctoral Fellowships in 2009-2010; Expanding Horizons Doctoral Fellowship from 2006-2008; Partnership for Excellence Ministry Fellowship in 2002; and the United Church of Christ Adrienne M. & Charles Shelby Rooks Fellowship for Racial & Ethnic Theological Students from 2006-2009. Crumpton teaches courses in pastoral care, education, social justice, and rituals through womanist and feminist lenses, and her scholarship earned recognition as one of Six Black Women at the Center of Gravity in Theological Education by NBC News in 2017.