Faculty and Students Honors and Awards
New Scholarships Honor Two Consequential Women at School of Theology
This article was originally published by BU Today on April 30, 2020. Please see the full article here. Mary Elizabeth Moore, retiring as dean, and Nancy Ammerman, sociology of religion professor emerita, retired in 2018 By Rich Barlow April 30, 2020 – Dean Mary Elizabeth Moore, retiring as School of Theology dean this spring, made institutional […]
Celebratory Renaming of BUSTH Community Center
Tuesday, April 28 – Dean Mary Elizabeth Moore’s retirement celebration was featured in today’s “Close-Up,” BU Today’s weekly photography feature. The moment captured via Zoom on April 22 features an elated Dean Moore, reacting to the news delivered by Boston University President Robert Brown that the BUSTH Community Center was renamed to the Mary Elizabeth and […]
Assistant Professor Shively Smith Awarded Vital Worship Grant for 2020
The Calvin Institute of Christian Worship announced it will fund 15 grants to Teacher-Scholars for 2020-2021 as part of its Vital Worship Grants Program. Assistant Professor of New Testament Shively T. J. Smith has been awarded one of these prestigious grants for her project entitled “Visual Explorations of Interpretative Practice with Howard Thurman.” She will focus […]
Professor Wariboko to Deliver 41st W.E.B. DuBois Lecture at University of Maryland, Baltimore
Walter G. Muelder Professor of Social Ethics Nimi Wariboko has been asked to deliver the 41st W. E. B. Du Bois Distinguished Annual Lecture of the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB). His lecture, titled “The Future of Du Bois: Consciousness, Citizenship and Epistemology in Africa”, is scheduled for Wednesday, November 13. The W.E.B. Du Bois Lecture Series […]
Assistant Professor Copeland Wins Award at CATA Conference
October 26, Rochester, NY – Assistant Professor of Theology Becky Copeland was this weekend awarded the first prize for the best paper in this year’s God’s Wisdom and the Wonder of Creation Conference of the Canadian-American Theological Association (CATA). Her paper, “Wells, Springs, and Commodification: Water Rights and Hagar’s Tribulations,” won The Jack and Phyllis Middleton Memorial […]
STH Installs David Schnasa Jacobsen as Inaugural Bishops Scholar of Homiletics and Preaching
October 16, 2019 – The School of Theology on Wednesday celebrated the installation of Professor David Schnasa Jacobsen as the inaugural Bishops Scholar of Homiletics and Preaching. The Bishops Scholar position was originally named for the Bishop Edwin Holt Hughes (STH’1892) Memorial Fund, which initially honored Bishop Hughes by supporting a promising future in homiletics and preaching for […]
Religion and Conflict Transformation Program Named in Honor of Professor Tom Porter
May 2, 2019 – On Thursday evening in the STH Community Center, many members of the STH community gathered to celebrate the life’s work of long-time faculty member Thomas W. Porter, Jr. as he prepares for his retirement at the end of this academic year. Professor Porter began his tenure at the School of Theology back […]
Student Leadership Society Class of 2019 Announced
Wednesday, May 1, 2019 – During the last Community Lunch of the academic year, Deans Mary Elizabeth Moore, Bryan Stone, and Teddy Hickman-Maynard presented this year’s Student Leadership Society Class of 2019. The Student Leadership Society honors graduating STH students who have made extraordinary contributions to the community life of STH. Founded in 1994, this society […]
Professor Nancy Ammerman Selected for Greeley Lifetime Achievement Award
April 22, 2019 – Professor Nancy Ammerman has been selected for the Andrew M. Greeley Lifetime Achievement Award in the Sociology of Religion. As part of the award ceremony at the University of Notre Dame, she will give a plenary talk before being celebrated with a ceremony at a dinner on Friday, April 26. Dean Mary […]
Professor Nimi Wariboko featured in “In Praise of Greatness”
Muelder Professor of Social Ethics Nimi Wariboko is featured in a new book on Africa’s leading public intellectuals and living legends. In Praise of Greatness, by Professor Toyin Falola, University of Texas. The book chronicles the life and scholarship of Africans who have made substantive contributions to knowledge. This book is a first-of-its-kind, and Professor […]