Women's and Gender Studies Pamela Hedrick

Dr. Hedrick’s areas of specialization are Early Judaism, Biblical Studies, Religions of the Roman Empire, and Feminist Hermeneutics. Before coming to HPU, she served for five years as an Assistant Professor of Theology at Wheeling Jesuit University in Wheeling, WV, where she initiated the first Minor in Classical Studies in the history of the college. At High Point University Dr. Hedrick teaches courses in Religion and Women’s and Gender Studies including “Women in the Bible” and the popular first year seminar “Jesus and Gender.”

“I am proud to have been part of the founding committee of the Minor in Women’s and Gender Studies at High Point University,” Dr. Hedrick states. “My favorite times in my own education were summer studies abroad at Hebrew University in Jerusalem and at the American Academy in Rome.  My dissertation, entitled The Christ is Jesus: Metamorphosis, Possession, and Johannine Christology was published by the Society of Biblical Literature Academia Biblica Series in 2005, and I am under contract with Wipf and Stock for a forthcoming manuscript entitled Faith and Reason in the First Century. I have various articles and presentations on such topics ranging from the prophet Ezekiel, the Book of Acts, Gnosticism, St. Gregory of Nazianzus, and Graham Greene. I hug trees, brake for bunnies, and would always rather be camping. Teaching Women’s and Gender Studies, I see students’ perspectives on the world change before my very eyes, sometimes in a day. For a teacher, that’s as good as it gets.”