Dr. Wylin D. Wilson is currently Associate Professor of Theological Ethics at Duke Divinity School, where she also teaches within the Theology, Medicine and Culture Initiative. Her teaching and research are at the intersection of Bioethics, Gender, and Theology. She is former Teaching Faculty at Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics, and she served as a Senior Fellow at the Harvard Divinity School Center for the Study of World Religions and Visiting Lecturer in Harvard Divinity School Women’s Studies in Religion Program. She is also former Associate Director of Education for the Tuskegee University National Center for Bioethics in Research and Health Care and former faculty member of the Tuskegee University College of Agriculture, Environment and Nutrition Sciences. Her latest book is Womanist Bioethics: Social Justice, Spirituality and Black Women’s Health (New York: New York University Press, 2025). Her other publications include: Economic Ethics and the Black Church (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017); and “‘This is My Body’: Faith Communities as Sites of Transfiguring Vulnerability” in Bioenhancement and the Vulnerable Body: A Theological Engagement (Baylor University Press, 2023).
Dr. Wilson earned her Ph.D. in Religious Social Ethics from Emory University; her M.S. in Agricultural, Resource, and Managerial Economics from Cornell University; and her M.Div. from the Interdenominational Theological Center. She is a member of the Society for the Study of Black Religion, the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, the American Academy of Religion, and the Center for Reconciliation Advisory Board at Duke Divinity School.