Candidate for Historiographer and Executive Director for Research and Scholarship, The Reverend Sharon Grant is proud to announce the completion of the requirements for the Ph.D. in Church History from Southern Methodist University, (SMU) in Dallas, Texas. Dr. Grant's research project was centered on the history of African Methodism on the island of Jamaica, her father’s birthplace. In addition to the completion of the Ph.D. Dr. Grant accomplished the task with Honors on the dissertation and Honors on the oral defense on December 12, 2011. She is the first African-American woman to matriculate and complete the Ph.D. program from the Graduate Program of Religious Studies (GPRS) at SMU. For this and other mercies, Dr. Grant says, “To God Be the Glory, Great things He Has Done!” She remains on a quest to serve the connectional AME church as the next Historiographer and Executive Director of Research and Scholarship. History is not just her academic discipline, it is her ministry, and she is “Today’s Historian for Tomorrow’s Church.”
