DUKE FLAGS LOWERED: ELIZABETH CLARK, TRAILBLAZER FOR WOMEN'S STUDIES AT DUKE, DIES AT AGE 82

"Her efforts increased the presence of women in leadership positions and contributed to making Duke a trailblazer in Women’s Studies."

Elizabeth A. Clark, 82, the John Carlisle Kilgo Professor Emerita of Religion and Professor of History at Duke University, passed away Sept 7, at Duke Hospital.  Liz was an eminent scholar of Late Antiquity and early Christian history. Her work has been crucial to transforming the field formerly known as “patristics” — the study of the church fathers — into “early Christian studies,” an approach that applies cultural, social and feminist theory to the study of early Christianity.

Her scholarship and service to the academy made significant contributions to our understanding of the roles of women in antiquity and early Christianity, east and west; the study of gender and sexuality; and the history of Religious Studies in American higher education.  Liz had worked at Duke for 40 years. 

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