Faculty and Students Honors and Awards
Boston University awarded grant from Lilly Endowment Inc. to launch “The New Wineskins Network”
Boston University is proud to announce that it has been awarded a $1 million grant from Lilly Endowment Inc. to support the creation of the New Wineskins Network, a five-year initiative designed to strengthen partnerships among local congregations, clergy, and seminary leaders for the sake of ministry formation. Led by the Boston University School of […]
Prof. Filipe Maia receives Saddlebag Award from United Methodist Church
Assistant Professor of Theology Filipe Maia together with co-editor David W. Scott (’07, GRS’13) has received the 2025 Saddlebag Award from the Historical Society of the United Methodist Church for their work on the publication Methodism and American Empire: Reflections on Decolonizing the Church. According to the Historical Society of the United Methodist Church, the […]
BUSTH announces Faculty Publications and Presentations for September 2025
The School of Theology is pleased to announce the following faculty publications and scholarly presentations for September 2025: Alejandro Botta Book review: Reinhard Gregor Kratz, Bernd U. Schipper (Eds), Elephantine in Context: Studies on the History, Religion and Literature of the Judeans in Persian Period Egypt. Mohr Siebeck (2022). Review of Biblical Literature, Published 2025-08-22. […]
Boston University awarded $5.2 million grant from Templeton Foundation to integrate virtue and flourishing within mental healthcare
Boston University has been awarded a $5.2 million grant from the John Templeton Foundation for a three-year research project to support the Training and Treatment Integration Research for Virtue and Flourishing in Mental Healthcare: A Team Science Project. Growing to $10.7 million including matching funds over the three years, this project aims to develop evidence-based […]
Profs. Rebecca Copeland and Luis Menéndez-Antuña both promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure
The following is an excerpt from the BU Today article “25 Charles River Campus Faculty Receive Promotions” featuring Associate Professor of Theology Rebecca Copeland and Associate Professor of New Testament Luis Menéndez- Antuña, published on July 1, 2025. Twenty-five faculty on Boston University’s Charles River Campus have just received promotions, 17 to the rank […]
STM Student Greta Gaffin (’23, ’26) published in latest Anglican & Episcopal History Journal
The following is an excerpt from the article “History, theology, and ecumenism of the episcopate are focus of atest Episcopal history journal” featuring STM student Greta Gaffin (’23,’26), published on June 30, 2025. Historians explore Anglican theologies and anxieties related to the episcopacy in the latest issue of Anglican & Episcopal History (AEH). The summer issue […]
BUSTH welcomes new Assistant Professor of Homiletics
Boston University School of Theology (BUSTH) is pleased to announce the appointment of new full-time faculty member Rev. Dr. Timothy L. Adkins-Jones (’09, ’20), who will begin on July 1, 2025. Rev. Dr. Adkins-Jones will join the faculty as Assistant Professor of Homiletics, most recently serving as Assistant Professor of Homiletics at Union Theological Seminary. […]
Prof. Emilie Townes to receive William Rainey Harper Award from Religious Education Association
Martin Luther King, Jr. Professor of Religion and Black Studies emilie townes will receive the William Rainey Harper Award from the Religious Education Association (REA) at their annual meeting in July 2025. According to REA president Karen-Marie Yust, ThD, the nominating board believes that Prof. townes’s work “has had a profound effect on the theory […]
Prof. Shelly Rambo promoted to Full Professor
The following is an excerpt from the BU Today article “23 Charles River Campus Faculty Promoted to Full Professor” featuring Professor of Theology Shelly Rambo, published on May 21, 2025. … Among the nearly two dozen faculty on Boston University’s Charles River Campus recently promoted to full professor are a computer scientist who studies […]
Prof. Emilie Townes interviewed by UChicago Divinity School
The following is an excerpt from the article “A Little Education Goes a Long Way” featuring Martin Luther King, Jr. Professor of Religion and Black Studies emilie m. townes published on May 6, 2025 by University of Chicago Divinity School. The bluster of early May in Hyde Park didn’t dim the joy Rev. Dr. Emilie […]