Alumni/ae News
BUSTH announces 2023 Student Leadership Awards
On Wednesday, May 3, the BUSTH community gathered for the final Wednesday Community Day of the academic year. During community lunch, Dean G. Sujin Pak, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Bryan Stone, and Associate Dean for Students and Community Life Cristian De La Rosa awarded 11 outstanding students certificates reflecting their extraordinary contributions to the […]
Prof. Wesley Wildman featured in Boston Globe: Colleges dealing with AI
The following is an excerpt from The Boston Globe’s article “Months after ChatGPT’s noisy debut, colleges take differing approaches to dealing with AI” by Jeremy C. Fox, featuring Professor of Theology, Philosophy, and Ethics Wesley Wildman. Click here to read the full article. … At Boston University, students in professor Wesley J. Wildman’s Data, Society, and Ethics […]
BUSTH Announces Faculty Publications for April 2023
The School of Theology is pleased to announce the following faculty publications for April 2023: Daryl Ireland “Leaping (and Bridging) the Digital Gorge: Development, User-Experience, and the China Historical Christian Database (CHCD),” Digital Humanities 1, no. 1 (2022): 123-134. “Lessons and Gifts of Interreligious Encounters,” in Portraits of Global Christianity: Research and Reflections in Honor […]
Hazel Monae (STH ’19) Named New Racial Equity, Diversity & Inclusion Program Manager for Gaithersburg Maryland
This was originally published by Gaithersburg on February 28, 2023 and can be found here. City Manager Tanisha Briley announced the selection of Hazel Monae as the new Racial Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (REDI) Program Manager within the City Manager’s Office. Hazel will begin her role with the City on March 6, 2023, and will be introduced […]
Kelly Drescher Johnson (STH ’10) Named in Top 15 Women to Watch by The American Animal Hospital Association
This was originally published by The American Animal Hospital Association on March 29, 2023 and can be found here. What guides you in your current work? No one chooses trauma, but what we do with it matters. I have had my share of traumatic events in life; part of my healing was to learn more about […]
John R. Bryant (STH ’70) Named as an Inductee into The Baltimore Sun’s Business and Civic Hall of Fame
This was originally published by The Baltimore Sun on March 26, 2023 and can be found here. Excerpt from article: John R. Bryant A Baltimore native, retired bishop John R. Bryant has pastored three churches, including the Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Baltimore, which he’s credited with reviving. He has shepherded more than 100 […]
Dr. Josef Sorett (STH’00) Publishes Black is a Church: Christianity and the Contours of African American Life
Dr. Josef Sorett (STH’00) published Black is a Church: Christianity and the Contours of African American Life. The book overview states: Stretches the presumed boundaries of “the black church” and underlines the polyvocal nature of a phenomenon often assumed to be monolithic Supplies a firm foundation for deeper understanding of what constitutes Afro-modernity through historical […]
Reverend Cornell William Brooks (STH’87) on Panel that Discussed Policing and Racial Justice
This was originally published by Harvard Kennedy School on December 28, 2023 and can be found here. Excerpt from the article: It has been almost three years since the murder of George Floyd by a white police officer in Minneapolis sparked nationwide protests and started what became a national reckoning on race and on police and […]
Prof. Dana Robert and Dr. Rolanda Ward, (STH’02) Reconnect at Meeting of ATS Council on Theological Scholarship and Research
Prof. Dana L Robert and alum Dr. Rolanda L. Ward, Director of the Rose Bente Lee Ostapenko Center for Race, Equity and Mission; Associate Professor Social Work, Niagara University met February 20, 2023 at a meeting of the ATS Council on Theological Scholarship and Research in San Antonio. Prof. Robert is a member of the […]
Video Celebrating Reverend Mariama M. White-Hammond (STH’17)
This was originally published by CBS News on February 20, 2023 and can be found here. Check out video of Reverend Mariama White-Hammond, the Chief of Environment, Energy and Open Space for the city of Boston here.