faculty research
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 […]
Prof. Wesley Wildman featured in BU Today: AI in Political Propaganda
The following is an excerpt from BU Today’s article “Is Trump’s Indictment Good for Democracy?” by Joel Brown, featuring Professor of Theology, Philosophy, and Ethics Wesley Wildman. Click here to read the full article. … Recently artificial intelligence has been a big story in part for its ability to create deep fakes in images, audio, and […]
BUSTH Announces Faculty Publications for March 2023
The School of Theology is pleased to announce the following faculty publications for March 2023: Eunil David Cho Book Review: Jessica Wai-Fong Wong, Disordered: The Holy Icons and Racial Myths (Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2021), Scottish Journal of Theology, 76(1), 86-88. Rebecca Copeland Copeland, R. L. (2023). The Perils of Premature Judgment: Reading Matthew […]
Prof. Christopher Evans featured on Un-Tied Methodism Podcast
Professor of History of Christianity and Methodist Studies Christopher Evans was featured on the March 16, 2023 podcast published by the United Methodist Church to discuss his new research work and biography on Frances Willard, Do Everything: The Biography of Frances Willard. He discusses how she was a major architect in 19th-century politics, temperance, and […]
Prof. Wesley Wildman hosts “Ask Me Anything” Forum on Social Platform Reddit
On Monday, February 27, Professor of Philosophy, Theology, and Ethics Wesley Wildman hosted a live “Ask Me Anything” forum on social platform Reddit. Prof. Wildman invited Reddit users to ask him anything about “the ethics of AI [artificial intelligence] text generation in education.” He answered questions “What do you see as the principal ethical risk […]
Prof. Peng Yin to deliver Lectures on Chinese Christianity
In 2023, Assistant Professor of Ethics Peng Yin will share the fruits of his research on Chinese Christianity at the Bartlett Lecture at Yale Divinity School and the McDonald Agape Lecture at the University of Hong Kong. These lectures draw from his concurrent book projects. The first, tentatively entitled Persisting in the Good: Thomas Aquinas […]
Prof. Christopher Evans publishes article in The Conversation
The following is an excerpt from The Conversation US’s article “How Frances Willard shaped feminism by leading the 19th-century temperance movement” by Professor of History of Christianity and Methodist Studies Christopher Evans. Click here to read the full article. Global reach of temperance movement Born in 1839, Willard wanted to become a Methodist minister. Instead, she became a teacher, […]
Prof. Daryl Ireland featured in BU Brink
The following is an excerpt from The Brink’s article “What’s Behind Boom of Christianity in China?” by Marc Chalufour, featuring Research Assistant Professor of Mission Daryl Ireland. Click here to read the full article. Theology scholars and a global network of researchers are using big data to map religion’s history in China and explain its rapid […]
Prof. Wesley Wildman featured in BU Today: Ethics of ChatGPT in the Classroom
The following is an excerpt from BU Today’s article “Why ChatGPT is Both Exciting and Unsettling for Students, Faculty” by Joel Brown, featuring Professor of Theology, Philosophy, and Ethics Wesley Wildman. Click here to read the full article. BU data science class takes a first step toward crafting a strategy for dealing with the artificial intelligence […]