Academic Career
Heyward holds the degree of Bachelor of Arts from Randolph-Macon Woman's College (now Randolph College) in Virginia, the degree of Master of Arts in the Comparative Study of Religion from Columbia University, and that of Master of Divinity in Religion and Psychiatry from Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York. She was awarded a PhD in 1980 for her work on redemption in the thought of two early Christian thinkers. She taught at Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts from 1975, and was Howard Chandler Robbins Professor of Theology there until she retired in 2006. The inaugural Carter Heyward Scholars Lecture was given at the college in her honour in October 2006. She received the Distinguished Alumni/ae Award from Union Theological Seminary in 1998.
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