Diana Lynn Hayes (born 1947^[1]) is anAfrican-American Catholic theologian specializing inwomanism andBlack theology. The first African-American woman to earn apontifical doctorate in theology, she is professor emerita ofsystematic theology atGeorgetown University.^[2]

Hayes did undergraduate study at theUniversity at Buffalo before gaining aJuris Doctor degree atGeorge Washington University National Law Center. She gained a baccalaureate degree and alicentiate in sacred theology from theCatholic University of America,^[2] writing a dissertation on the theology ofJames H. Cone.^[3] She went on to gain a doctoral degree in religious studies, and a pontifical doctorate atKU Leuven,^[2] where she wrote a dissertation onliberation theology.^[4]

In addition to teaching atGeorgetown University, Hayes has also served on the faculty of theOblate School of Theology andXavier University of Louisiana's Institute for Black Catholic Studies. Hayes is a member of theBlack Catholic Theological Symposium, and has contributed toNational Catholic Reporter.

• Hagar's Daughters: Womanist Ways of Being in the World. New York: Paulist Press, 1995.
• Trouble Don't Last Always: Soul Prayers. Liturgical Press, 1995.
• And Still We Rise: An Introduction to Black Liberation Theology. New York: Paulist Press, 1996.
• Taking Down Our Harps: Black Catholics in the United States. Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books, 1998.
• Were You There?: Stations of the Cross. Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books, 2000.
• Many Faces, One Church: Cultural diversity and the Catholic Experience in the US, Sheed and Ward, 2004.
• (ed. with Peter C. Phan)Many faces, one church: cultural diversity and the American Catholic experience. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2005.
• Standing in the Shoes my Mother Made: a Womanist Theology. Lanham: Fortress Press, 2010.
• Forged in the Fiery Furnace; African American Spirituality. Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books, 2012.
• No Crystal Stair: Womanist Spirituality. Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books, 2016.

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• George Washington University Law School alumni
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• KU Leuven alumni
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• African-American theologians
• Women Christian theologians
• 21st-century African-American women writers
• 21st-century American women writers
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• African-American Catholics
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