Alumni
GDR Alumni News
April, 2012
Matthew Rindge received Gonzaga University's Exemplary Faculty Award (2011-12) which recognizes excellence in publishing, service, and teaching. The award is given to five tenure-track faculty each year.
March, 2012
Jawanza Eric Clark has accepted an offer to become the Assistant Professor of Global Christianity (with a focus on Africa) at Manhattan College, NY, NY.
Jennifer Thompson (PhD 2010, Ethics and Society) accepted a position as the Maurice Amado Professor in Applied Jewish Ethics and Civic Engagement at California State University at Northridge. Jennifer wrote on the cultural politics and ethnography of gender and interfaith marriage, focusing on families in which non-Jewish women are raising children as Jews.
November 2011
Kent Brintnall became the North American editor for the journal, Theology and Sexuality in January 2011; was selected to participate in the Wabash Center's Teaching and Learning Workshop for Pre-Tenure Religion Faculty, 2011-12; and in December 2011, his first book is set to be released: Ecce Homo: The Male-Body-in-Pain as Redemptive Figure (Chicago).
Michael DeJonge’s new book Bonhoeffer’s Theological Formation, Berlin, Barth, and Protestant Theology will be released April 2012 by Oxford University Press.
Courtney Goto has been selected for the “School of Theology Student Association Teaching Excellence Award” by the Boston University School of Theology graduating class of 2011.
Emily Holmes and Wendy Farley’s new book Women, Writing, Theology: Transforming a Tradition of Exclusion, has been published (November, 2011) by Baylor University Press. All of the contributors to this collection are women graduates of the GDR.
Amy Levad’s first book was published at the end of October. Restorative Justice: Theories and Practices of Moral Imagination, October 2011, LFB Scholarly Press.
David Mellott was appointed by Lancaster Theological Seminary to the position of Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Seminary on October 28, 2011.
Matthew Rindge has received the 2011 Paul J. Achtemeier Award for New Testament Scholarship from the Society of Biblical Literature for his paper “Reconfiguring the Akedah and Lamenting God: Mark’s Theological Narrative of Divine Abandonment.”
Matthew's Jesus' Parable of the Rich Fool: Luke 12:13-34 among Ancient Conversations on Death and Possessions was published last month by the Society of Biblical Literature.
Marcia Mount Shoop with Wendy Farley released Let the Bones Dance: Embodiment and the Body of Christ a year ago by Westminster John Knox Press. She is one of three Emory graduates to have first books published by WJKP for the beginning of their "Emerging Theologies" initiative. Shelly Rambo's Spirit and Trauma and Michelle Voss Roberts' Dualities are the other two Emory grads published under this program.
Marcia’s chapter entitled “More Than Skin Deep” is included in a collection of essays entitled Wide Open Spaces: Women Exploring Call through Stories and Reflection, edited by Carol Henderson and released by Circle Books this past August. Marcia’s blog may be found at http://marciamountshoop.com/
David Vishanoff has published The Formation of Islamic Hermeneutics: How Sunni Legal Theorists Imagined a Revealed Law (American Oriental Society, 2011).
Wylin Dassie Wilson has been hired as the Associate Director for Education and Associate Professor in Tuskegee University's National Center for Bioethics in Research and Healthcare, Tuskegee, Alabama.
