Established in 2019, the Prathia Hall lectureship is named in honor of Dr. Prathia Wynn Hall. Hall earned three degrees from Princeton Seminary: a Master of Divinity in 1982, a Master of Theology in 1984, and a Doctor of Philosophy in 1997 in which she graduated magna cum laude. An activist in the Civil Rights Movement and a leader in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Hall was a womanist theologian, a social ethics professor, and one of the first women ordained in the American Baptist Association.