18 Facts About Katie Cannon

Katie Geneva Cannon was an American Christian theologian and ethicist associated with womanist theology and black theology.

Katie Cannon was the daughter of the late Esau Cannon and Emanuelette Corine Lytle Cannon, the first woman to work at the Cannon Mills in Kannapolis.

Katie Cannon graduated from George Washington Carver High School in 1967 as her class's salutatorian.

Katie Cannon was ordained on April 24,1974, in Shelby, North Carolina, by the Catawba Presbytery, in the Synod of Catawba.

Katie Cannon worked at Ascension Presbyterian Church in East Harlem, New York.

Katie Cannon began teaching at Union Presbyterian Seminary in Richmond in 2001.

Katie Cannon held the position of the Annie Scales Rogers Professor of Christian Social Ethics.

Katie Cannon was the Lilly Distinguished Visiting Professor of Religion at Davidson College and the Sterling Brown Visiting Professor in Religion and African American Studies at Williams College.

Katie Cannon was one of few African American women present at the founding meeting of the Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians.

In 2012, Katie Cannon began serving as executive director of the Squaring the Womanist Circle Project at Union Presbyterian Seminary.

Katie Cannon received the distinguished professor award from Spelman College, the Lucy Craft Laney Award at the Black Presbyterian Bicentennial Celebration, and was a professor-scholar honoree at the National Black Church Summit at Emory University.

Katie Cannon received the Beautiful Are The Feet Award from the Samuel DeWitt Proctor Conference.

Katie Cannon is widely regarded as one of the founders of womanist theology and ethics.

Katie Cannon's scholarship reveals the ugliness of white racism and how it preys on black women's human vulnerabilities.

Katie Cannon's work provides us with historically rooted, geopolitically situated, and intimate examples of black women's epistemological strength.

Katie Cannon depicts black women's embodied knowledge as a creative force.

Katie Cannon's first full-length book, Black Womanist Ethics, published in 1988, was a groundbreaking text, and is considered to have launched the field of womanist ethics.

Katie Cannon died from acute leukemia in Richmond, Virginia on August 8,2018.