REBECCA S. CHOPP President Swarthmore College 500 College Avenue Swarthmore, Pennsylvania 19081 610-328-8314 [email protected]
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REBECCA S. CHOPP President Swarthmore College 500 College Avenue Swarthmore, Pennsylvania 19081 610-328-8314 [email protected] Education Ph.D. University of Chicago, 1983 M.Div. St. Paul School of Theology, 1977 B.A. Kansas Wesleyan University, 1974 Positions Held 2009-present President, Swarthmore College 2002-2009 President and Professor of Philosophy and Religion, Colgate University 2001 Dean and Titus Street Professor of Theology, Yale Divinity School, Yale University 1998-2001 Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs, Emory University 1997-98 Interim Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, Emory University 1996 Charles Howard Candler Professor of Theology, Emory University 1993-97 Dean of Faculty and Academic Affairs, Candler School of Theology 1993 Professor of Theology, Candler School of Theology and Graduate Division of Religion, Emory University 1991-93 Director of Graduate Studies, Institute for Women's Studies, Emory University 1989-93 Associate Professor, Candler School of Theology and Graduate Division of Religion, Emory University 1987 Associate Faculty, Institute for Women's Studies, Emory University Associate Faculty, Institute for Liberal Arts, Emory University 1986-89 Assistant Professor, Candler School of Theology and Graduate Division of Religion, Emory University 1982-86 Assistant Professor of Theology, University of Chicago Divinity School Selected Scholarships/Fellowships/Awards 2008 Professional Achievement Citation, University of Chicago 2003 D.D. Lafayette University, Easton, Pennsylvania 2001 D.D. Lehigh University, Bethlehem PA 1997 Alumna of the Year, University of Chicago Divinity School 1995 Founder's Day Award, Baker University, Baldwin City, Kansas 1991 Distinguished Alumna Award, Saint Paul School of Theology, Kansas City, Missouri 1990 Alumni Achievement Award, Kansas Wesleyan University, Salina, Kansas 1990 Luce Fellow, Emory University 1982 Superior Pass, Ph.D. Qualifying Exams, University of Chicago 1981-82 Dempster Fellowship Recipient, United Methodist Board of Higher Education 1977 Graduate with Highest Honors, Saint Paul School of Theology 1976 Bishop Frank Fellowship, Saint Paul School of Theology 1974 Faculty Award for Most Outstanding Scholarship, Saint Paul School of Theology 1 1974 Magna Cum Laude, Kansas Wesleyan University Professional Organizations Leadership Member, Division I Presidential Advisory Group, 2008-present National Survey of Student Engagement, National Advisory Board, 2007-present Board of Directors, Association of American Colleges and Universities, 2006 Chair, Council of Presidents, Patriot League, 2006-2008 American Association of Colleges and Universities, 2006-Executive Committee, Campus Compact, New York State, 2006 Executive Committee, New York Campus Compact, 2006 Executive Committee, Annapolis Group, 2005-present Board of Directors, American Council of Learned Societies, 2004-2006 Vice Chair, The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 2001-2008 President, American Academy of Religion, 2001 President-Elect, American Academy of Religion, 2000 Vice President, American Academy of Religion, 1999 President, American Academy of Religion Southeast Region, 1994-present Co-chair, Workgroup on Constructive Theology, 1987-92 Chair, Rhetoric and Religious Discourse Workgroup, American Academy of Religion, 1986-92 Membership AAU Provost Aquinas Center Board of Directors, 1997-present The American Academy of Religion (AAR) Annapolis Group, 2002-present American Council on Education, 2002-present Association of American Colleges and Universities, 2002-present The Society of Biblical Literature (SBL) AAR Awards for Excellence, Judging Panel, 1996-2000 Council on Scholarship and Research, ATS, 1993-96 Modern Language Association Westminster Schools Board of Trustees, Atlanta, Georgia Workgroup on Constructive Theology, 1986-present Editorial Editor, Theology, Religious Studies Review, 1989-1993 Editor, At-Large, Christian Century , 1989-1995 Editorial Board, Emory Theological Studies, Scholars Press, 1990-2000 Editorial Board, Religion and Ideology, Cambridge University Press, 1990-2000 Editorial Board, Journal of Religion, 1992-present Editorial Board, Word and World, 1994-2002 Editorial Board, International Journal of Practical Theology, 1996 Publishing Committee, AAR, 1992-1995 2 Publications Books: Differing Horizons: Feminist Theory and Theology, ed. Rebecca S. Chopp and Sheila Davaney (Fortress Press, 1997) Saving Work: Feminist Practices of Theological Education (Westminster Press, 1995) Reconstructing Christian Theology ed. with introduction by Rebecca S. Chopp and Mark Kline Taylor (Fortress Press, 1994, Korean Edition, 1999) The Power to Speak: Feminism, Language, God (Crossroads, 1989) The Praxis of Suffering: An Interpretation of Liberation and Political Theologies (Orbis Press, 1986) Articles: “Living Lives of Integrity and Truth,” Journal of College and Character, Volume VII, No. 6, July 2006 1-10. “Spotlight on Teaching: Loving the Future,” AAR Religious Studies News, October 2005. “An Agenda for Higher Education,” Roads to Reconciliation: Conflict and Dialogue in the Twenty-First Century” ed. Amy Benson Brown and Karen M. Poremski (M.E. Sharpe, 2005). “University as Global City: A New Way of Seeing Today’s Academy,” Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, vol. 36 no. 2 (March/April 2004) 44-51. “Beyond the Founding Fratricidal Conflict: A Tale of Three Cities,” The Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 70:3 (2002) 461-474. “ What’s Old is New Again: Alternative Strategies for Supporting Faculty,” Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning 33(2001) 41-46, co-authors Susan Frost and Martin Jean. “Religious Characteristics of US Women Physicians,” Social Science & Medicine, 49 (1999) pp. 1717-1722, co-authors Erica Frank, Mary Lynn Dell. “Reimaging Public Discourse,” Black Faith and Public Talk: Critical Essay on James H. Cone’s Black Theology & Black Power. ed. Dwight N. Hopkins (Orbis Press, 1999). “A Particular Vision: New Ways of Thinking about Theological Education,” Practical Divinity: Readings in Wesleyan Theology, Volume Two, ed. Thomas A. Langford (Abingdon Press, 1999) “A Rhetorical Paradigm for Pedagogy,” Teaching the Bible: The Discourses and Politics of Biblical Pedagogy, ed. Fernando F. Segovia and Mary Ann Tolbert (Orbis Books, 1998) “Theorizing Feminist Theology,” Horizons in Feminist Theology, ed. Rebecca S. Chopp and Sheila Davaney (Fortress Press, 1997) 3 “American Feminist Theology,” The Modern Theologians (2nd. Ed.) ed. David Ford (Blackwell Publishers, 1997) “Bearing Witness: Traditional Faith in Contemporary Expression,” Quarterly Review (Fall, 1997) “Christian Moral Imagination, A Feminist Practical Theology and the Future of Theological Education,” International Journal of Practical Theology (Spring, 1997): 97-107 “In the Real World: Feminist Theologies and the Church,” Quarterly Review (Spring, 1996): 3-22 "Praxis," and "Theological Method," Dictionary of Feminist Theologies (Louisville, KY: Westminster/John Knox Press) pp. 181-182; pp. 221-222 “Cultivating Theological Scholarship,” Theological Education Vol. XXXII, (November, 1995): 79-84 "Beyond Narratives: Cone's Martin and Malcolm and America," Union Seminary Quarterly Review, Vol. 48, No. 1-2, (August, 1994): 19-26 "Anointed to Preach: Speaking of Sin in the Midst of Grace," The Portion of the Poor: Good News to the Poor in the Wesleyan Tradition ed. M. Douglas Meeks (Nashville: Abingdon, 1994) "For Her Own Sake: Women and Theological Education,” Holy Ground Volume One, November, 1994 "Feminist Queries and Metaphysical Musings," Modern Theology (September, 1994): 42-67 "Foreword," The Disabled God: Toward a Liberatory Theology of Disability Nancy L. Eiesland (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1994) "From Patriarchy Into Freedom: A Conversation Between American Feminist Theology and French Feminist Theory," Transfigurations ed. Maggie Kim, Susan St. Ville, and Susan Simonitis (Fortress, 1993) "Naming the Mutations of Sin in North America: Feminist Theology as Critical Theory," The Ecumenist ed. Gregory Baum, October, 1994 "Recent Works in Systematic Theology," Review Essay Religious Studies Review, Fall, 1993 "A Feminist Perspective: Christianity, Democracy and Feminist Theology in Christianity and Democracy in Global Context ed. John Witte, Jr. (Westview Press, 1993) "Feminist Theology," Handbook for Christian Theology ed. Joe Price and Don Musser (Abingdon, 1991) "Voices of Challenge, Voices of Hope," Whom Shall We Send? A Dialogue on the Itinerary ed. Donald E. Messer (Nashville: Abingdon, 1991) "Liberating Christian Ministry," Clergy Ethics in a Changed Society ed. Jim Wind (Westminster, 1991) "Praxis," The Catholic Dictionary of Spirituality (Michael Glazier: 1991) "Situating the Structure: Prophetic Feminism in Theological Education," The Structure of Theological Education ed. Barbara Wheeler and Edward Farley (Westminster, 1991) 4 Pastoral Theology and Liberation Theology, co-authored with Duane Parker, The Journal of Pastoral Care, (October, 1990) "Emerging Issues and Theological Education," ATS Theological Education 26:2 (Spring, 1990): 106-124 "Latin American Liberation Theology," The Modern Theologians, Vol. II ed. David F. Ford (Basil Blackwell, 1989) "Feminist Theology as Political Theology: Visions on the Margins," Theology, Politics and Peace. ed. Ted Runyon (Orbis, 1989) "Palm Sunday Christianity," Christian Century March 15, 1989 "Diluting Our Witness," Christian Century February 1, 1989 "Seeing and Naming the World