Mark D. Jordan | |
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Occupation | Professor |
Awards | Randy Shilts Award (2011) |
Academic background | |
Education | St. John's College University of Texas at Austin |
Academic work | |
Institutions | Harvard University Emory University University of Notre Dame Washington University in St. Louis |
Doctoral students | Stephen J. Blackwood [1] |
Mark D. Jordan (born 1953/54) is a scholar of Christian theology,European philosophy,and gender studies. He is currently the Richard Reinhold Niebuhr Research Professor of Divinity at Harvard Divinity School and Professor of the Studies of Women,Gender,and Sexuality in the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
At Harvard,he teaches courses on the Western traditions of Christian theology,the relations of religion to art or literature,and the prospects for sexual ethics. Jordan also writes on gender,sexuality,and the relationship between religious doctrine and LGBT issues. [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] In addition to his scholarship and classroom teaching,Jordan has discussed sexual and religious issues to audiences that range from college lectureships to National Public Radio,the New York Times ,and CNN.
Jordan's most recent books are Teaching Bodies:Moral Formation in the Summa of Thomas Aquinas (Fordham 2016) and Convulsing Bodies:Religion and Resistance in Foucault (Stanford 2015).
Prior to his return to Harvard in 2014,Jordan held endowed professorships at Emory University,Washington University in St. Louis,University of Notre Dame and at Harvard University. [8]
In 2019,it was announced that Jordan would be elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. [9] In 2011,Jordan won the annual Randy Shilts Award for nonfiction for his book,Recruiting Young Love:How Christians Talk about Homosexuality. [10] He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship,a Fulbright-Hays grant (Spain),a Luce Fellowship in Theology,and a grant from the Ford Foundation. [11]
Jordan received his BA from St. John's College [12] and his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin. He grew up in Dallas,where he graduated from St. Mark's School of Texas. [13] [14]
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