CPT Co-Directors receive promotions
Congratulations to Center for Practical Theology Co-Directors Courtney Goto and Claire Wolfteich on their recent promotions! Courtney Goto was promoted to associate professor with tenure and Claire Wolfteich to professor of practical theology and spirituality studies. The following announcements were featured in BU Today’s coverage of faculty promotion on June 1, 2017 and March 22, 2017. Congratulations, Professors Goto and Wolfteich!
“Courtney Goto, School of Theology Associate Professor of Religious Education:
Goto studies the role of arts and aesthetics in religious learning and the intersections of power, privilege, and culture in practical theology. She won STH’s Teaching Excellence Award and is the author of The Grace of Playing: Pedagogies for Leaning into God’s New Creation (Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2016). She is also Co-Director of BU’s Center for Practical Theology.”
“Claire Wolfteich, School of Theology Professor of Practical Theology and Spirituality Studies:
Wolfteich’s research focus is in practical theology, spiritual studies, and the engagement of practical theology with Catholic fields of theological discourse. Considered among the world’s leading experts in her discipline, she is a past president of both the International Academy of Practical Theology and the Association of Practical Theology. She is currently president of the Society for the Study of Christian Spirituality. She has authored, coauthored, or edited numerous books, most recently Catholic Approaches in Practical Theology: International and Interdisciplinary Perspectives (Peeters Publishers, 2016), and is on the editorial boards of several scholarly journals. Wolfteich has been a co–principal investigator on four major grants from the Lilly Endowment and last year won the STH Faculty Teaching Excellence Award.”