14 Facts About Larycia Hawkins

Larycia Alaine Hawkins was born on August 22,1972 and is an American scholar, author, and speaker, who in 2013, became the first female African-American tenured professor at Wheaton College, a Christian Protestant liberal arts college.

Larycia Hawkins now teaches and researches at Lincoln university, where she is jointly appointed as assistant professor in the departments of politics and religious studies.

In December 2015, Hawkins became the center of a controversy when she made a post on her personal Facebook account for Advent affirming solidarity between Christians and Muslims.

Larycia Hawkins was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and was raised in Shawnee, Oklahoma.

Larycia Hawkins's research is about black theology and its relationship to political rhetoric and black political agendas, like those of the Congressional Black Caucus and the NAACP.

Larycia Hawkins joined the faculty at Wheaton College in 2007, where she served as assistant professor in the Department of Politics and International Relations from 2007 to 2014.

Larycia Hawkins is the first African American female to have been tenured at Wheaton College since its founding in 1860.

On December 10,2015, Larycia Hawkins wrote a Facebook post saying:.

Commentators such as Sharmeen Farooq remarked that Larycia Hawkins' practice was consistent with the ordinance of Christian women wearing a headcovering that is enjoined in the Bible.

Larycia Hawkins has made repeated statements to the press asserting her affirmation of the Wheaton College Statement of Faith.

Larycia Hawkins insists that her actions were motivated by Christian faith and that she is an orthodox Protestant.

On Saturday, February 6,2016, in an e-mail released by Wheaton College's president, Philip Ryken, it was mutually agreed that, to help bring closure to the situation, while Wheaton would not fire Professor Larycia Hawkins, they had decided to part ways, and that she would voluntarily resign.

On March 3,2016, the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia announced that Larycia Hawkins would be appointed as the school's Abd el-Kader Visiting Faculty Fellow, where she would participate in two of the institute's projects, the Pluralism Project and the Race, Faith and Culture Project.

Larycia Hawkins was quoted as saying that the institute was "the perfect place for me to pursue my scholarship," which will focus on relationships between race and religion.