Faculty Awards and Distinctions

Tom Elliott, Professor in the Practice of Practical Theology and Methodist Studies
The Provost’s Distinguished Teaching Award for Excellence in Graduate and Professional Education for Candler School of Theology, Emory University

Geordan Hammond, Associate Professor of Methodist and Wesleyan Studies; Director of International Initiatives
Smith/Wynkoop Book Award from the Wesleyan Theological Society for Holiness and Pentecostal Movements

Joel Kemp, Assistant Professor of Hebrew Bible
McDonald Distinguished Senior Fellow at Emory’s Center for the Study of Law and Religion

Helen Kim, Associate Professor of American Religious History
Outstanding Achievement in History from the Association of Asian American Studies for Race for Revival: How Cold War South Korea Shaped the American Evangelical Empire

Khalia Williams, Associate Dean of Worship and Spiritual Formation; Associate Professor in the Practice of Worship; Co-Director of the Baptist Studies Program
On Eagle’s Wings Excellence in Teaching Award

Jacob Wright, Professor of Hebrew Bible
PROSE Award from the Association of American Publishers (AAP) for Why the Bible Began: An Alternative History of Scripture and Its Origins

Antonio Alonso, Aquinas Assistant Professor of Theology and Culture; Director of Catholic Studies
First Place in the “Resources for Liturgy” category of the Association of Catholic Publishers’ Excellence in Publishing Awards for Gloriosi: Music of the Pascal Triduum/Música del Triduo Pascual

Ryan Bonfiglio, Associate Professor in the Practice of Old Testament; Executive Director of the Candler Foundry
“On Eagle’s Wings” Award for Excellence in Teaching, Candler School of Theology

Liz Bounds, Associate Professor of Christian Ethics
Excellence in Teaching and Pedagogy Award from the Center for Women at Emory and the Emory Alumni Association

Alison Collis Greene, Associate Professor of American Religious History
Louisville Institute Sabbatical Grant for Researchers

Musa Dube, William Ragsdale Cannon Distinguished Professor of New Testament
Elected to the African Academy of Sciences in the Cultural Sciences, Humanities and Social Sciences category

Gregory K. Hillis, Professor in the Practice of Theology; Executive Director, Aquinas Center of Theology
“Louie” Award for Best New Book on Thomas Merton, International Thomas Merton Society

Joel Kemp, Assistant Professor of Hebrew Bible
The Provost’s Distinguished Teaching Award for Excellence in Graduate and Professional Education for Candler School of Theology, Emory University
Louisville Institute Sabbatical Grant for Researchers Outstanding Service to the Candler Community by a Faculty Member
Teresa Fry Brown Award

Emmanuel Y. Lartey, Charles Howard Candler Professor of Pastoral Theology and Spiritual Care
The Provost’s Distinguished Teaching Award for Excellence in Graduate and Professional Education for the Laney Graduate School, Emory University

Jan Love, Mary Lee Hardin Willard Dean; Professor of Christianity and World Politics
Named an “Atlanta Woman of Influence” by the Atlanta Business Chronicle

Nichole R. Phillips, Associate Professor in the Practice of Religion and Society; Director of the Black Church Studies Program
“Black Faith, Bodies, Mother Mortality and COVID-19: A Response to Religion, Science and Medicine,” a sociology of science and religion research project funded by The Templeton Religion Trust and coordinated by the Issachur Fund in partnership with Rice University and the University of California, San Diego, 2020-2023

Susan B. Reynolds, Assistant Professor of Catholic Studies
The Catherine Mowry LaCugna Award, Catholic Theological Society of America
New Scholar Essay Prize for Catholic Studies in the Americas by Fordham University’s Curran Center for American Catholic Studies

Ted A. Smith, Charles Howard Candler Professor of Divinity; Associate Dean of Faculty
Co-Principal Investigator, “Pathways for Tomorrow” Grant from Lilly Endowment Inc., Phase 1: 2021; Phase 2: 2021-2023; Phase 3: 2021-2026

Khalia J. Williams, Associate Dean of Worship and Spiritual Formation; Associate Professor in the Practice of Worship
Principal Investigator, Lilly Endowment Inc. Grant for The Sacred Arts Collective

Jacob L. Wright, Professor of Hebrew Bible
Publisher’s Weekly Starred Review for How the Bible Began
The New Yorker’s Top Books of 2023, for How the Bible Began

Jennifer R. Ayres, Professor of Religious Education
Exemplary Teacher Award, Emory University

The Provost’s Distinguished Teaching Award for Excellence in Graduate and Professional Education, Emory University

Sarah Bogue, Associate Professor in the Practice of the History of Christianity and Sr. Director of Digital Learning
Outstanding Service to the Candler Community by a Faculty Member

Teresa L. Fry Brown, Bandy Professor of Preaching
President of the Academy of Homiletics, 2022-2023

Elizabeth Corrie, Professor in the Practice of Youth Education and Peacebuilding
Gregory C. Ellison II, Associate Professor of Transformative Leadership and Communal Care
Lilly Endowment Young Adult Initiative Grant for The BRIDGE

Jehu Hanciles, D.W. and Ruth Brooks Professor of World Christianity
Louisville Institute Project Grant for Researchers for “African Immigrants and Transformations in American Christianity”

Susan E. Hylen, Charles Howard Candler Professor of New Testament
Named general editor of the Journal of Biblical Literature

Joel Kemp, Assistant Professor of Hebrew Bible
Inductee, Martin Luther King Jr. Collegium of Scholars at Morehouse College

Helen Jin Kim, Associate Professor of American Religious History
“Young Scholar in American Religion” Award from the Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture at Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis

Roger S. Nam, Professor of Hebrew Bible
Louisville Institute Sabbatical Grant for Researchers

Susan B. Reynolds, Assistant Professor of Catholic Studies
Louisville Institute Project Grant for Researchers for “Ways of the Cross: Passion and Protest as Public Theology”
“On Eagle’s Wings” Award for Excellence in Teaching, Candler School of Theology

Deanna Ferree Womack, Associate Professor of History of Religions and Interfaith Studies; Director of the Master of Religious Leadership Program
Louisville Institute Sabbatical Grant for Researchers for “Imaging Islam: Gender, Race, and American Protestant Encounters with Muslims,” 2021-2022

Antonio Alonso, Aquinas Assistant Professor of Theology and Culture; Director of Catholic Studies
Vital Worship Grant from the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship

Jennifer R. Ayres, Professor of Religious Education
The Vulcan Materials Company Teaching Excellence Award
The United Methodist General Board of Higher Education and Ministry Exemplary Teacher Award

Liz Bounds, Associate Professor of Christian Ethics
Provost’s Distinguished Teaching Award, Emory University

Kevin Murriel, Assistant Professor in the Practice of Practical Theology
Martin Luther King, Jr. Board of Preachers, Sponsors, and Collegium of Scholars, Morehouse College

Khalia J. Williams, Associate Dean of Worship and Spiritual Formation; Associate Professor in the Practice of Worship
Martin Luther King, Jr. Board of Preachers, Sponsors, and Collegium of Scholars, Morehouse College

Deanna Ferree Womack, Associate Professor of History of Religions and Interfaith Studies; Director of the Master of Religious Leadership Program
Neighbors: Christians and Muslims Building Community selected as one of the year’s top ten recommended books for ministry by The Academy of Parish Clergy