Wylin D. Wilson

Assistant Professor of Theological Ethics at Duke Divinity School

Wylin D. Wilson is an assistant professor of theological ethics at Duke Divinity School. Her academic interests include the intersection of religion, gender and bioethics; rural bioethics; and Black church studies. Before joining Duke, she was a teaching faculty member at the Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics and a senior fellow at the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard Divinity School.

She formerly served in positions at Tuskegee University, including as associate director of education at the Tuskegee University National Center for Bioethics in Research and Health Care. She is a member of the American Academy of Religion’s Bioethics and Religion program unit steering committee and is the author of “Economic Ethics and the Black Church.”

In addition, she has served as a volunteer spiritual care giver for Somerville-Cambridge Elder Services in Somerville, Massachusetts.