Anne Clifford was the first woman appointed to the Msgr. James A. Supple Chair in Catholic Studies at Iowa State University. Her academic interests including feminist theology, creation theology, and natural sciences.
Dr. Bellis currently serves as a professor of Hebrew Bible in the School of Divinity at Howard University in Washington, D.C. Before joining the Howard faculty, she served first as an assistant, then associate, and twice acting head of staff at Providence Presbyterian Church in Fairfax, Virginia.