Dear GDR Graduates, Students, Faculty, and Friends, It was wonderful to see many of you at the AAR/SBL in Chicago last November and to share in the celebration of Otto Maduro’s presidency of the AAR!  In the meantime, a new year has arrived and indeed is well under way.  I hope that 2013 has begun [...]

The Graduate Division of Religion (GDR) at Drew University welcomed 13 new students to campus this fall, selected from an extraordinarily competitive pool of applicants. Our incoming students are diverse in culture, language and area of study.  They hail from colleges and universities across the United States and around the globe.  A little over half [...]

The CCGC entered its 6th year working to build and expand on the tremendous work of the previous years. The focus for this expansion was twofold: First, to integrate more explicitly and fully the center’s interests in global Christianities with the curricular goals of the Theological school defined and pursued in its Cross Cultural education. [...]

Drew has much to celebrate at AAR and SBL this year!  Kicking off the excitement, the November meeting of the American Academy of Religion marks the close of Otto Maduro’s term as president of the Academy.  Among his presidential duties, Professor Maduro chose the theme of the annual meeting.  While Dr. Maduro describes the theme [...]

On September 11 and 12, in celebration of the work and legacy of Professor Ada-Maria Isasi-Diaz, Father Roy Bourgeois delivered a series of lectures on topics that were at the center of Dr. Isasi-Diaz’s concerns, research, writing, and teaching–“The Contemporary Struggle for Women’s Ordination in the Roman Catholic Church,” “Marielitos: Cuban Exiles in U.S. Prisons,” [...]

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Drew’s Transdisciplinary Theological Colloquium began in 2001. The formula was simple but effective: settle on a topic that pushes the envelope of contemporary theological discourse; invite a dozen or so scholars associated with that topic to Drew; seat them around a table with Drew faculty who pursue related research; and discuss pre-circulated papers in a [...]

My first year of doctoral work ended in fairly typical fashion.  A deluge of papers and readings made the last month of courses exciting, nail-biting, and very rewarding. As May gave way to June, I celebrated with friends and family of those graduating from Drew while beginning work as a research assistant for Professor Terry [...]

Each year incoming students to Drew University’s Graduate Division of Religion (GDR) conclude orientation week with a walking tour of New York City. Now in its third year, this tour is an annual reminder that scholars attend not only to scholarly methodology—but to simple, human truth. A poignant moment toward the end of the tour [...]

In early August, the two of us along with Dr. Virginia Burrus traveled to Oxford University, where we joined other scholars in conversation about late ancient Christianity.  Since its inception in 1951, the International Patristics Conference, which meets every four years, has provided opportunities for scholars to present their work to a critical, but sympathetic [...]