Rosetta E. Ross is a professor of religion. She pioneered scholarly work on religion and Black women’s activism in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement and was an early proponent of womanist theology. Her research explores religion and women’s social action; the meaning of Black religion; religions in the lives of Africana women, and Christian ethics and society. She is author of Witnessing and Testifying: Black Women, Religion, and Civil Rights, co-author of The Status of Racial and Ethnic Clergywomen in the United Methodist Church (with Jung Ha Kim), and co-editor of Unraveling and Reweaving Sacred Canon in Africana Womanhood (with Rose Mary Amenga-Etego). In addition to the topics identified above, her more than 40 journal articles, book chapters, and encyclopedia entries explore issues of religions and society, including womanist and feminist theologies, race and identity, gender, and health care access. Rosetta is the organizer and was founding board chair of The Daughters of the African Atlantic, which facilitates international, intergenerational, interfaith interrogations of religions’ functions among African-descended women. Through the United Methodist Church, she is a mentor for women of color entering the academy. At Spelman College, Rosetta led development of a diverse religious studies curriculum, including hiring the first fulltime faculty to teach Islam and Eastern religious traditions. Her current research situates Black Methodist laywoman Ruby Hurley’s civil rights activism within the tradition of rigorous intellectual discourse and radical practice that characterize much Black religion in the United States.