Swarthmore College is a private liberal arts college in Swarthmore,Pennsylvania. Founded in 1864,with its first classes held in 1869,Swarthmore is one of the earliest coeducational colleges in the United States. It was established as a college under the Religious Society of Friends. By 1906,Swarthmore had dropped its religious affiliation and officially became non-sectarian.
Colgate University is a private liberal arts college in Hamilton,New York. The college was founded in 1819 as the Baptist Education Society of the State of New York and operated under that name until 1823,when it was renamed Hamilton Theological and Literary Institution,often called Hamilton College (1823–1846),then Madison College (1846–1890),and its present name since 1890.
The University of Denver (DU) is a private research university in Denver,Colorado. Founded in 1864,it is the oldest independent private university in the Rocky Mountain Region of the United States. It is classified among "R1:Doctoral Universities –very high research activity". DU enrolls approximately 5,700 undergraduate students and 7,200 graduate students. The 125-acre (0.51 km2) main campus is a designated arboretum and is located primarily in the University Neighborhood,about five miles (8 km) south of downtown Denver. The 720-acre Kennedy Mountain Campus is located approximately 110 miles northwest of Denver,in Larimer County.
Candler School of Theology is one of seven graduate schools at Emory University,located in metropolitan Atlanta,Georgia. A university-based school of theology,Candler educates ministers,scholars of religion and other leaders. It is also one of 13 seminaries affiliated with the United Methodist Church.
Henry Augustus Buchtel was an American minister,educator,and public official. He was the seventeenth governor of Colorado.
Yale Divinity School (YDS) is one of the twelve graduate and professional schools of Yale University in New Haven,Connecticut.
Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School is a Baptist seminary in Rochester,New York. It is affiliated with the American Baptist Churches USA.
Jane Alison Shaw is a British historian of religion,Anglican priest and academic. She is principal of Harris Manchester College,Oxford,Professor of the History of Religion,and Pro-Vice-Chancellor at the University of Oxford. Previously she was Professor of Religious Studies and Dean of Religious Life at Stanford University and Dean of Grace Cathedral in San Francisco.
Victoria Matthews is a Canadian Anglican bishop. From 2008 until 2018,she served as Bishop of Christchurch in the Anglican Church in Aotearoa,New Zealand and Polynesia. In 1994,she became the first woman ordained bishop in the Anglican Church of Canada when she was made a suffragan bishop of the Diocese of Toronto. She then served as the Bishop of Edmonton from 1997 to 2007.
Andover Newton Theological School (ANTS) was a graduate school and seminary in Newton,Massachusetts,affiliated with the American Baptist Churches USA and the United Church of Christ. It was the product of a merger between Andover Theological Seminary and Newton Theological Institution. In recent years,it was an official open and affirming seminary,meaning that it was open to students of same-sex attraction or transgender orientation and generally advocated for tolerance of it in church and society.
Theodore Wood Friend III was an American historian,novelist,and teacher,and a former president of Swarthmore College.
The Sturm College of Law is the professional graduate law school of the University of Denver. It is one of two law schools in the state of Colorado. Founded in 1892,the Sturm College of Law was one of the first in America's Mountain West. The college is located on the University of Denver's campus,about seven miles south of downtown Denver. According to Denver Law's 2017 ABA-required disclosures,67.9% of the Class of 2017 obtained full-time,long-term,JD-required employment nine months after graduation,excluding solo practitioners.
Rebecca Margaret Blank was an American economist and academic administrator. She was chancellor of the University of Wisconsin–Madison from 2013 to 2022. She served in several senior roles in the United States Department of Commerce during the presidency of Barack Obama,including more than a year as acting United States Secretary of Commerce.
James T. Laney is an American minister,professor,and former diplomat. He served as dean of the Candler School of Theology,president of Emory University,and United States Ambassador to South Korea.
Letty Mandeville Russell was a feminist theologian,professor,and prolific author. She was a member of the first class of women admitted to Harvard Divinity School,and one of the first women ordained in the United Presbyterian Church. After earning a doctorate in theology at Union Theological Seminary,she joined the faculty at Yale Divinity School,where she taught for 28 years.
Candida R. Moss is an English public intellectual,journalist,New Testament scholar and historian of Christianity,and as of 2017,the Edward Cadbury Professor of Theology in the Department of Theology and Religion at the University of Birmingham. A graduate of Oxford and Yale universities,Moss specialises in the study of the New Testament,with a focus on the subject of martyrdom in early Christianity,as well as other topics from the New Testament and early Church History. She is the winner of a number of awards relating to her research and writing.
Deborah Flemister Mullen is an ordained pastor in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and a theological educator,specifically in the fields of modern American Christianity and Black Church Studies. She retired in January 2018 as Vice President for Equity,Diversity,and Inclusion and Associate Professor of American Christianity and Black Church Studies at Columbia Theological Seminary. Her work actively engages the ongoing debates in American religion and civil society surrounding race,sexuality and social justice. In the academic field she focuses on the creation and leading of graduate theological education curriculum that prepares religious leaders for ministries throughout the world and promotes growth in academic institutions.
Emilie Maureen Townes is an American Christian social ethicist and theologian. She is currently Dean and E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Professor of Womanist Ethics and Society at the Vanderbilt University Divinity School. Townes was the first African-American woman to be elected president of the American Academy of Religion in 2008 and served as president of the Society for the Study of Black Religion from 2012–2016.
Andover Newton Seminary at Yale Divinity School is an American seminary program founded in 2017 within Yale Divinity School and located in New Haven,Connecticut. It is the successor institution of Andover Newton Theological School (ANTS),the oldest graduate seminary in the United States and the nation's first graduate institution of any kind.
Mary Shawn Copeland,known professionally as M. Shawn Copeland,is a retired American womanist and Black Catholic theologian,and a former religious sister. She is professor emerita of systematic theology at Boston College and is known for her work in theological anthropology,political theology,and African American Catholicism.
