Dr. Cynthia Grant Tucker is Professor of English, University of Memphis, Member of Editorial Board, Journal of Unitarian Universalist History and the author of Prophetic Sisterhood.

Dr. Tucker has often said that her “real education began” only after she earned a doctorate in comparative literature and started to teach in the urban Midsouth during an era of social upheaval. As the Vietnam War and the human rights movements expanded her frames of reference, her academic focus shifted and settled in women’s studies, planting a personal interest in writing biography as a way to rectify history’s sins of omission and give silenced stories a voice.