Our Faculty. Inspiring Leaders.
Our Faculty – Inspiring Leaders
Engaging Teachers
Our faculty shine for being spiritually, intellectually, theologically and experientially diverse—while united in a deep commitment to innovative scholarship, social progress and the pursuit of wisdom.
Inspiring Leaders
Innovative and provocative, they challenge you and each other. Alums say working with faculty mentors was among the most valuable experiences of their Drew education.
Committed to Courageous Christianity
Accepting no easy answers or empty pieties, our faculty are actively involved in church communities and activist work. More than half of our faculty are ordained leaders in the United Methodist church and other Christian denominations.
As I developed my DMin project, a trauma-informed ministry model, Dr. Samuel helped me work through my initial ideas and refine them to be user-friendly. She guided me in transitioning my project from an academic endeavor to a practical model that I now use successfully in the church setting. She was extremely available and always made every effort to assist in any way she could. ”
Faculty Profiles
Tanya Linn Bennett
Associate Dean for Vocation and Formation
Associate Professor in the Practice of Public Theology and Vocation
MDiv, MPhil, PhD, Drew University
BA, Allegheny College
Seminary Hall 107
tbennett@drew.edu
973-408-3718
Chris Boesel
Associate Professor of Christian Theology
MTS, PhD, Emory University
BA, Westmont College
Seminary Hall 107
cboesel@drew.edu
973-408-3789
Katherine Brown
Associate Professor of Language and Culture in the Practice of Ministry
Director, English for Speakers of Other Languages
Seminary Hall B011
kgbrown@drew.edu
973-408-3397
Robert S. Corrington
Henry Anson Buttz Professor of Philosophical Theology
MPhil, PhD, Drew University
BA, Temple University
Seminary Hall 13
rcorring@drew.edu
973-408-3682
Morris L. Davis
Associate Professor of the History of Christianity and Wesleyan/Methodist Studies
Director of Wesleyan/Methodist Studies
MPhil, PhD, Drew University
BA, Houghton College
Seminary Hall 104
mdavis@drew.edu
973-408-3419
Heather Murray Elkins
Frederick Watson Hannan Professor of Worship, Preaching and the Arts
PhD, Drew University
MDiv, Duke University
MA, University of Arizona
BA, Prescott College
Seminary Hall 103
helkins@drew.edu
973-408-3273
Danna Nolan Fewell
John Fletcher Hurst Professor of Hebrew Bible
MTS, PhD, Emory University
BA, Louisiana College
Seminary Hall 105
dfewell@drew.edu
973-408-3543
Melanie Johnson-DeBaufre
Associate Dean for the Theological School and Graduate Curriculum
Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity
MDiv, ThD, Harvard University
BA, Eastern College
Seminary Hall 102
mjjohnso@drew.edu
973-408-3823
Meredith E. Hoxie Schol
Director of Doctoral Studies
Assistant Professor in the Practice of Education & Leadership
PhD, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary
MDiv, Boston University
BA, University of North Carolina Wilmington
Seminary Hall 21
mhoxieschol@drew.edu
973-408-3452
Kimberleigh Jordan
Assistant Professor of Religion and the Arts and Black Studies
PhD, New York University
MDiv, Union Theological Seminary
BA, University of North Carolina
Seminary Hall 207
pkjordan@drew.edu
973-408-3000
Laurel Kearns
Professor of Ecology, Religion and Society
MA, PhD, Emory University
BA, Florida State University
Seminary Hall 108
lkearns@drew.edu
973-408-3009
Catherine Keller
George T. Cobb Professor of Constructive Theology
PhD, Claremont Graduate University
MDiv, Eden Theological Seminary
BA, University of Heidelberg
Seminary Hall 110
ckeller@drew.edu
973-408-3268
Hyo-Dong Lee
Associate Professor of Comparative Theology
PhD, Vanderbilt University
MDiv, United Theological College
BA, BTh, MA, McGill University
BA, Yonsei University
Seminary Hall 22
hlee5@drew.edu
973-408-3129
Jesse Mann
Associate Professor in the Practice of Bibliography and Theological Research
Theological Librarian
MA, PhD, University of Chicago
BA, Dickinson College
Library 127A
jmann@drew.edu
973-408-3472
Mark A. Miller
Director of Craig Chapel
Associate Professor of Church Music
Composer in Residence
MM, The Juilliard School
BA, Yale University
Seminary Hall 206
mamiller@drew.edu
973-408-3844
Stephen Moore
Edmund S. Janes Professor of New Testament Studies
PhD, University of Dublin
BA, University College, Galway
Seminary Hall 106
smoore@drew.edu
973-408-3313
Kevin Newburg
Assistant Professor in the History of Christianity
MPhil, PhD, Drew University
MA, Nazarene Theological Seminary
BA, MA, Point Loma Nazarene University
Seminary Hall 17
knewburg@drew.edu
973-408-3928
Kenneth Ngwa
Associate Professor of Hebrew Bible
PhD, Princeton Theological Seminary
BA, MA Yaoundé Faculty of Protestant Theology, Cameroon
Seminary Hall 23
kngwa@drew.edu
973-408-3780
Elìas Ortega-Aponte
Associate Professor of Social Theory and Religious Ethics
MDiv, PhD, Princeton Theological Seminary
BA, Calvin College
Seminary Hall 24
eortega@drew.edu
973-408-3305
Kate M. Ott
Associate Professor of Christian Social Ethics
University Scholar in Everyday Ethics
PhD, Union Theological Seminary
MAR, Yale University
BA, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Seminary Hall 28
kott@drew.edu
973-408-3298
Arthur Pressley
Associate Professor of Psychology and Religion
PhD, Northwestern University
MDiv, Garrett-Evangelical Seminary
BA, Allegheny College
Seminary Hall 208
apressle@drew.edu
973-408-3594
Jennifer A. Quigley
Assistant Professor of New Testament
and Early Christian Studies
Louisville Postdoctoral Fellow
ThD, Harvard University
BA, MDiv, STM, Boston University
Seminary Hall 19
jquigley@drew.edu
973-408-3361
Daniel D. Shin
E. Stanley Jones Chair in Evangelism
Associate Professor of Theology and World Christianity
PhD, University of Chicago
MDiv, Yale University
BA, MA, Wheaton College
Seminary Hall 18
dshin@drew.edu
973-408-3746
Gary V. Simpson
Associate Professor of Homiletics
DMin, United Theological Seminary
MDiv, Union Theological Seminary
BA, Denison University
Seminary Hall 16
gsimpson@drew.edu
973-408-3992
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Angella M. Pak Son
Associate Professor of Psychology and Religion
PhD, Princeton Theological Seminary
BSB, University of Minnesota
Seminary Hall 25
ason@drew.edu
973-408-3260
Althea Spencer-Miller
Assistant Professor of New Testament
PhD, Claremont Graduate University
ThM, Emory University
BA, University of the West Indies
Seminary Hall 29
aspencer@drew.edu
973-408-3281
Leonard Sweet
Professor Emeritus of Evangelism
PhD, University of Rochester
MDiv, Colgate Rochester Divinity School
BA, University of Richmond
lsweet@drew.edu
973-722-0954
J. Terry Todd
Associate Professor of American Religious Studies
PhD, Columbia University
MDiv, Harvard University
BA, Boston University
Seminary Hall 114
jtodd@drew.edu
973-408-3847
Javier Viera
Dean of the Theological School
Professor of Pastoral Theology
EdD, Columbia University
STM, Yale University
MDiv, Duke University
BA, Florida Southern College
Seminary Hall 102
jviera@drew.edu
973-408-3255
Peter D. Weaver
Florence E. Bell Bishop-in-Residence
ThD, Boston University
MDiv, Drew Theological School
BA, West Virginia Wesleyan University
Seminary Hall
pweaver@drew.edu
973-408-3255
Traci C. West
James W. Pearsall Professor of Christian Ethics and African American Studies
PhD, Union Theological Seminary
MDiv, Pacific School of Religion
BA, Yale University
Seminary Hall 203
twest@drew.edu
973-408-3082
Nancy Lynne Westfield
Professor of Religious Education
PhD, The Union Institute
MA, Scarritt Graduate School
BA, Murry State University
Seminary Hall 15
lwestfie@drew.edu
973-408-3063
Adventurous Scholars
The Methodist Unification: Christianity and the Politics of Race in the Jim Crow Era
“Davis’ work is a critical addition to Methodist historiography and is indispensable for anyone seeking to understand the racial dynamics within Methodism in the 20th century.”
—Ian Straker, Methodist History
Face of the Deep
“Keller set the standard for postmodern feminist theology," and her book Face of the Deep was judged "a brilliant and landmark text.”
—Mark Manolopoulos, With Gifted Thinkers: Conversations with Caputo, Hart, Horner, Kearney, Keller, Rigby, Taylor, Wallace, Westphal
Jesus Among Her Children: Q, Eschatology and the Construction of Christian Origin
“Occasionally a book comes along whose ambition it is to reorient interpretive categories and invite us to think differently about Christian origins. This ... is just such a book.”
—John Kloppenborg, Expository Times
Narrative in the Hebrew Bible
“[These] sensitive, nuanced readings demonstrate the capacity of good literary criticism to tap into the deep theological richness of the Hebrew text.”
—James Ackerman, Interpretation
A Semiotic Theory of Theology and Philosophy
“Robert S. Corrington plumbs the symbolic world as deeply as any philosophical theologian ever has.”
—Wesley Wildman, The Journal of Religion
The Bible in Theory: Critical and Postcritical Essays
“Stephen Moore has produced some of the most brilliant commentary on biblical texts—and biblical scholarship—available anywhere.”
—Dale Martin, Woolsey Professor of Religious Studies, Yale University
Disruptive Christian Ethics
“[This book is] an important contribution to the field of Christian ethics, both in its engagement of ethical methodology and in its critical analysis of various social issues and forms of oppression.”
—Laura Stivers, Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics