A psychoanalyst and licensed clinical professional counselor, Phillis Sheppard joined the Seminary faculty in 2000 after serving for five years on the faculty and clinical staff, including the last two years as director of education, for the Center for Religion and Psychotherapy of Chicago. She earned her B.A. from Edinboro University of Pennsylvania in 1981, and her M.A. in theology from Colgate Rochester Divinity School. She received her doctorate of philosophy from Chicago Theological Seminary in 1997. Her dissertation was titled "A Critical Analysis of Theories of Embodiment in Light of African-American Women's Experiences." She completed her psychotherapy training at the Center for Religion and Psychotherapy of Chicago (1993) and her psychoanalytic training at the Institute for Psychoanalysis (2005).

Sheppard has served as director of the Augustus Tolton Scholars program, as lecturer at Catholic Theological Union, and as an adjunct faculty member at Chicago Theological Seminary and Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary. She has served as a project consultant for projects sponsored by the Lilly Endowment and the Wabash Center for Learning and Teaching Theology. Sheppard published "No Rose-Colored Glasses: A Womanist Response to Sexual Abuse" in Phillip J. Anderson and Michelle Clifton-Soderstrom's In Spirit and in Truth: Essays on Theology, Spirituality, and Embodiment (Covenant Press, 2006), "A Dark Goodness Created in the Image of God: Womanist Notes Toward A Practical Theology of Black Women's Embodiment" (Covenant Quarterly, Vol. 61, August 2003), co-authored "The Grace of Difference: A Dialogue Between Sisters," in The Register: A Professional Journal for Ministers (1997), and "From Domestic Violence to Domestic Care" in Bridges: A Cross Cultural Quarterly (1996).

psheppard@northpark.edu

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