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Sherie Gayle
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Sherie Gayle is a Ph.D. candidate in theology and religious studies at Georgetown University and has served as a residential minister at Georgetown since 2020. Her dissertation examines the portrayal of Bilqīs, the Queen of Sheba, in Abū Isḥāq al-Thaʿlabī's ʿArāʾis al-Majālis fī Qiṣaṣ al-Anbiyāʾ , an eleventh-century collection of stories of the prophets. As one of four 2024–2025 Georgetown University in Qatar Dissertation and Teaching Fellows, she taught courses including the Problem of God: Bodies on the Margins of Religious Texts and Contexts and Women, Gender, and Power in the Abrahamic Religious Traditions. With more than two decades in women’s ministry, including six years as an ordained women’s pastor at the predominantly Black Greater Baltimore Church, she is a dedicated advocate for the empowerment of women, particularly Black women.