Area Listing of Faculty

GDR Administration

VICTOR ANDERSON, Professor of Ethics and Society; Professor of African American Studies
A.B. (Trinity Christian 1982); M.Div., Th.M. (Calvin Theological Seminary 1986, 1990); M.A., Ph.D. (Princeton 1991, 1992)

ELLEN T. ARMOUR, E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Chair in Feminist Theology; Director of the Carpenter Program in Religion, Gender, and Sexuality; B.A., Stetson University (1980);
M.A., Ph.D. Vanderbilt University (1989, 1993)

ANNALISA AZZONI, Assistant Professor of Hebrew Bible
Laurea (Instituto di Glottologia, Universita degli Studi di Milan 1989); Ph.D. (Johns Hopkins 2001)

LEWIS BALDWIN, Professor of Religious Studies; Director of African American Studies
B.A. (Talladega 1971); M.A., M.Div. (Rochester 1973, 1975); Ph.D. (Northwestern 1980)

GREGORY BARZ, Associate Professor of Musicology
B.A. (North Carolina School of the Arts); M.A. (Chicago); Ph.D. (Brown)

JAMES PATOUT BURNS, Edward A. Malloy Professor of Catholic Studies
B.A., M.A. (Spring Hill 1963, 1964); M.Div. (Regis [Canada] 1970); M.TH. (University of St. Michael's College [Canada] 1971); Ph.D. (Yale 1974)

JAMES P. BYRD, Associate Dean of the Graduate Department of Religion; Assistant Professor of American Religious History
B.A. (Gardner-Webb); M.Div. (Duke); M.A. (Vanderbilt 1997); Ph.D. (Vanderbilt 1999)

LARRY CHURCHILL, Ann Geddes Stahlman Professor of Medical Ethics
B.A. (Rhodes 1967); M.Div. (Duke 1970); Ph.D.(Duke 1973)

BETH ANN CONKLIN, Associate Professor of Anthropology; Associate Professor of Religious Studies
A.B. (Colorado College 1976); Ph.D. (California, San Francisco 1980)

PAUL DEHART, Associate Professor of Theology
A.B. (Chicago 1987); M.A.R. (Yale 1990); Ph.D. (Chicago 1997)

DENNIS C. DICKERSON, James M. Lawson, Jr. Professor of History
B.A. (Lincoln 1971); M.A., Ph.D. (Washington University, 1974, 1978); M.Div., Vanderbilt (2007)

IDIT DOBBS-WEINSTEIN, Associate Professor of Philosophy
B.A., M.A. (York [Canada] 1981, 1982); M.A., Ph.D. (Toronto 1983, 1987)

PAUL R. DOKECKI, Profesor of Psychology
B.A. (Manhattan 1962); M.A., Ph.D. (Peabody 1963, 1968)

KATHLEEN FLAKE, Associate Professor of American Religious History
B.A. (Brigham Young 1974); J.D. (Utah 1980); M.A. (Catholic 1995); Ph.D. (Chicago 2000)

WILLIAM FRANKE, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Italian; Associate Professor of Religious Studies
B.A. (Williams 1978); M.A. (Oxford 1980); M.A. (California, Berkeley 1988); Ph.D. (Stanford 1991)

KATHY GACA, Associate Professor of Classics
B.A., M.A.(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign); Ph.D. (University of Toronto)

VOLNEY P. GAY, Professor of Religious Studies and Chair of the Department of Religious Studies; Professor of Psychiatry; Professor of Anthropology (GDR)
B.A. (Reed 1970); M.A., Ph.D. (Chicago 1973, 1976)

JAY GELLER, Associate Professor of Modern Jewish Culture and Religious Studies
B.A. (Wesleyan 1975): A.M., Ph.D. (Duke, 1980, 1985)

LENN GOODMAN, Professor of Philosophy; Professor of Religious Studies
A.B. (Harvard 1965); D.Phil. (Oxford 1968)

THOMAS A. GREGOR, Professor of Anthropology and Chair of the Department of Anthropology; Professor of Religious Studies
B.A. (Chicago 1962); Ph.D. (Columbia 1969)

JOEL HARRINGTON, Associate Professor of History
B.A. (Notre Dame 1981); M.A., Ph.D. (Michigan 1983, 1989)

WILLIAM J. HOOK, Professor of the Practice of Theological Librarianship; Director, Divinity Library
B.Sc. (Florida Institute of Technology 1974); M.Div. (Emory 1977); M.A., Ph.D. (Vanderbilt 1985, 1992)

JAMES HUDNUT-BEUMLER, Dean of Divinity School; Anne Potter Wilson Distinguished Professor of American Religious History
B.A. (The College of Wooster, 1980); M.Div. (Church History, Union Theological Seminary 1983); M.A., Ph.D. (Princeton 1986, 1989)

SUSAN HYLEN, Assistant Professor of New Testament
B.A. (California, San Diego 1990); M.Div. Princeton Theological Seminary 1995); Ph.D. (Emory 2004)

ROBIN M. JENSEN, Luce Chancellor's Professor of the History of Christian Art and Worship
B.A. (Concordia College 1973); M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D. (Columbia University/Union Theological Seminary 1977, 1986, 1991)

RICHARD KING, Associate Professor of Religious Studies
B.A. (Hull University, UK, 1987); Ph.D. (Lancaster University, UK, 1993)

DOUGLAS A. KNIGHT, Drucilla Moore Buffington Professor of Hebrew Bible B.A. (Ottawa [Kansas] 1965); M.Div. (California Baptist Theological Seminary 1968); Dr.theol. (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen 1973)

AMY-JILL LEVINE, E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Professor of New Testament Studies
B.A., (Smith 1978); M.A., Ph.D. (Duke 1981, 1984)

PAUL CHANG-HA LIM, Assistant Professor of the History of Christianity
B.A. (Yale 1990); M.Div. (Biblical Theological Seminary 1995); Th.M. (Princeton Theological Seminary 1997); Ph.D. (Cambridge 2001)

HERBERT MARBURY, Assistant Professor of Hebrew Bible
B.A. (Emory 1991); M.Div. (Interdenominational Theological Center 1994); M.A. (Vanderbilt 1999); Ph.D. (Vanderbilt 2003)

LEAH MARCUS,  Edwin Mims Professor of English
Ph.D., (Columbia 1971); M.A. (Columbia 1968); B.A. (Carleton College 1967)

BARBARA J. MCCLURE, Assistant Professor of Pastoral Theology
B.A. (Houghton 1989); M.Div. (Princeton Theological Seminary 1996); Ph.D. (Emory 2003)

JOHN S. MCCLURE, Charles G. Finney Professor of Homiletics and Chair of the Graduate Department of Religion
B.A. (University of the South 1974); M.Phil (Glasgow 1976); M.Div. (Fuller Theological Seminary 1979); Ph.D. (Princeton Theological Seminary 1983)

THOMAS A. J. MCGINN, Associate Professor of Classics
A.B. (Harvard 1978); M.A. (Cambridge 1980); Ph.D. (Michigan 1986) [1986]

RICHARD MCGREGOR, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies
B.A. (Toronto 1990); M.A., Ph.D. (McGill 1993, 2001) [2003]

M. DOUGLAS MEEKS, The Cal Turner Chancellor's Professor of Theology and Wesleyan Studies
B.A. (Rhodes 1963); B.D., Ph.D. (Duke 1966, 1971)

BONNIE J. MILLER-McLEMORE, E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Professor of Pastoral Theology and Counseling
B.A. (Kalamazoo 1977); M.A., Ph.D. (Chicago 1980, 1986)

DANIEL M. PATTE, Professor of Religious Studies; Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity
B.A. (Grenoble 1958); B.D. (Montpellier 1960); Th.M. (Geneva 1964); Th.D. (Chicago Theological Seminary 1971)

GRAHAM RESIDE, Executive Director, Cal Turner Program in Moral Leadership for the Professions;
Assistant Professor, Vanderbilt University Divinity School
B.A., (University of Toronto 1988); B. Ed., (York University 1989); M.Div., (Princeton 1994); Ph.D., (Emory 2003)

JACK M. SASSON, Mary Jane Werthan Professor of Jewish Studies and Hebrew Bible
B.A. (Brooklyn 1962); Ph.D. (Brandeis 1966)

FERNANDO F. SEGOVIA, Oberlin Graduate Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity
B.A. (Pontifical College Josephinum 1970); M.A., Ph.D. (Notre Dame 1976, 1978)

TED A. SMITH, Assistant Professor of Ethics and Society;
Director, The Program in Theology and Practice
B.A. (Duke 1990); M.A. (Oxford 1992); M.Div. (Princeton Theological Seminary 1995); Ph.D. (Emory 2004)

C. MELISSA SNARR, Assistant Professor of Ethics and Society
B.A. (Furman 1992); M.Div., Ph.D. (Emory 1995, 2004)

JOHN J. THATAMANIL, Assistant Professor of Theology
B.A. (Washington University 1988); M.A., Ph.D. (Boston University 1991, 2000)

MARTINA URBAN, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and Jewish Studies
M.A. (Freir Universität Berlin 1993); Ph.D. (Hebrew University of Jerusalem 2003)

D. DON WELCH, JR., Professor of Law, Professor of Religion, Associate
Dean of the Law School
B.A. (Baylor 1969); M.A., Ph.D. (Vanderbilt 1975, 1976)

GAY HOUSE WELCH, University Chaplain; Assistant Professor of Religious Studies; Ecology and Spirituality research group
B.A. (Southwestern at Memphis 1970); M.A., Ph.D. (Vanderbilt 1976, 1980)

EMERITI/AE
James Barr, David Buttrick, Edward Farley, H. Jackson Forstman, Frank Gulley, Charles H. Hambrick, Walter Harrelson, Peter C. Hodgson, Joseph C. Hough, Jr., Dale A. Johnson, Sallie McFague, Lou Silberman, Eugene TeSelle, Richard M. Zaner