Mary McClintock Fulkerson (born 1950) is a Protestant theologian and scholar whose work explores feminist theologies and gender issues. She is currently a Professor Emerita of Theology at Duke Divinity School and an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Early Life and Education McClintock Fulkerson earned her Bachelor of Music from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1972. During her undergraduate years, she played the piano and the cello, and was active in UNC's chapter of Campus Crusade for Christ. She then enrolled at Union Theological Seminary in Richmond, Virginia, but decided to matriculate at Duke Divinity School instead given her marriage to William Fulkerson, who was a student at the UNC School of Medicine at the time. She earned her Master of Divinity from Duke University in 1977, followed by her Doctor of Philosophy in Theology from Vanderbilt University in 1986. Her doctoral dissertation was entitled, "Ecclesial Tradition and Social Praxis: A Study in Theological Method." At Vanderbilt, she studied with theologians Ed Farley and Peter Hodgson. During her doctoral program, she also explored liberation and feminist theologies. Career McClintock Fulkerson was ordained in the Concord Presbytery of the PC(U.S.A.) in 1978, after which she moved to the New Hope Presbytery in 1984. She began her career as a Parish Associate Minister of Second Presbyterian Church in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1981. Her husband was a medical fellow at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. McClintock Fulkerson began her teaching career as an instructor at Duke Divinity School in 1983, making her the only woman on the faculty at the time. Her instructor position at Duke was followed by assistant and associate professorships at Duke and as the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Visiting Associate Professor at Vanderbilt from 2001 to 2003. In 1994, McClintock Fulkerson became the third woman in Duke Divinity School history to be granted tenure. In 2019, as the longest-serving member of the Duke Divinity School faculty, McClintock Fulkerson became a professor emerita. McClintock Fulkerson has published a number of books and articles. Her 1994 book Changing the Subject: Women's Discourses and Feminist Theology examines the practices of Pentecostal women, white Presbyterian women, and academic feminists as sites of liberation. Her 2007 book Places of Redemption: Theology for a Worldly Church examines ecclesial practices in conversation with racism, ableism, and other forms of systemic injustice. McClintock Fulkerson's most recent book publication is A