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Professor Gilkes is a member of the American Sociological Association, the Society for the Study of Social Problems, the American Academy of Religion, the Association of Black Sociologists and several other national and regional professional/learned societies. She has served on the Council of the American Sociological Association, on the Executive Council of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, and on the Executive Committee of the Eastern Sociological Society. She has also served as vice-president of the Eastern Sociological Society and of the Society for the Study of Social Problems. She was the organizer and first convenor of the Womanist Approaches to Religion and Society consultation which became a group within the American Academy of Religion.
Professor Gilkes is also an ordained Baptist minister and serves as an Assistant Pastor (for Special Projects) of the Union Baptist Church (Cambridge, Massachusetts). In addition to her congregational work, she is active with the United Baptist Convention of Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and New Hampshire and its Congress of Christian Education, serving as the parliamentarian for that Convention. She has also served as a volunteer chaplain at the Suffolk County House of Correction in Boston, Massachusetts, conducting Bible Study in the Women's Units. Her published sermons have appeared in The African American Pulpit. To the radio audience of Colby College and central Maine, Professor Gilkes is "Dr. Cheryl," the host of a weekly gospel music program titled, "The Uncloudy Day" on WMHB, Waterville, Colby CollegeÕs station.
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