Kevin G. O’Connell, S.J., Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Humanities at Le Moyne College in Syracuse, NY.
[1] Glancy completed in 1982 a BA Honors degree in Philosophy and English Literature at Swarthmore College.
For her doctoral studies, she moved on to Columbia University where she in obtained an MA degree in 1986 and a PhD in Religion in 1990.
During a period of leave from 2008 to 2010, Glancy served as the George and Sallie Cutchin Camp Professor of Bible at the University of Richmond, Virginia.
Glancy is also the recipient of a 2017 Summer Stipend from the National Endowment for the Humanities for current research, “The Ancient Christian Understanding of Slavery and Contemporary Discourse on the Meaning of Being Human.”[1] Much of Glancy's career has revolved around slavery as conceived in the biblical texts as well as in early Christian history, with a focus on the sexual exploitation that slaves were subject and vulnerable to and the use of their bodies in antiquity.