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)
BRAD R. BRAXTON, Associate
Professor of Homiletics and New Testament
B.A. (University of Virginia, 1991); M.Phil. (Oxford, 1993); Ph.D. (Emory,
1999)
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 for Graduate Education and Research; 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)
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, Assistant 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)
ALICE W. HUNT, Assistant
Professor of Hebrew Bible; Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, the Divinity
School
B.S. (University of Montevallo 1978); M.T.S., M.A., Ph.D. (Vanderbilt
1996, 1999, 2003)
SUSAN HYLEN,
Mellon Assistant Professor of Religious Studies
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)
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 (On leave spring
2004)
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)
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) [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)
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