Faculty Directory

Richard “Bo” Manly Adams, Jr.

Associate Professor in the Practice of Theological Bibliography

Amey Victoria Adkins-Jones

Assistant Professor of Theology and Africana Studies

Antonio Eduardo Alonso

Aquinas Associate Professor of Theology and Culture

Elizabeth Arnold

Scholar-in-Residence

Jennifer R. Ayres

Associate Dean of Faculty; L. Bevel Jones III Professor of Religious Education

Sarah Bogue

Associate Professor in the Practice of the History of Christianity

Ryan Bonfiglio

Professor in the Practice of Old Testament

Elizabeth M. Bounds

Associate Professor of Christian Ethics

Theodore Brelsford

Affiliate Associate Professor of Religion and Education

Anthony A. Briggman

Dr. Andrew J. and Georgia L. Ekonomou Distinguished Associate Professor of Patristic Theology

Jonathan Calvillo

Associate Professor of Latinx Communities

Letitia M. Campbell

Associate Professor in the Practice of Ethics and Society

Sarah Coakley

2025-26 McDonald Distinguished Visiting Professor

Lauren Calvin Cooke

Visiting Assistant Professor in the Practice of Religious Education

Elizabeth Corrie

Professor in the Practice of Youth Education and Peacebuilding

Steed Davidson

Affiliated Faculty

Tara Doyle

Senior Research Fellow

Musa W. Dube

William Ragsdale Cannon Distinguished Professor of New Testament

Thomas W. Elliott, Jr.

Professor in the Practice of Practical Theology and Methodist Studies

Gregory C. Ellison II

Associate Professor of Transformative Leadership and Communal Care

Dominic Erdozain

Research Fellow

Craig Ford

Assistant Professor of Ethics

Robert M. Franklin, Jr.

James T. and Berta R. Laney Professor in Moral Leadership

Teresa L. Fry Brown

Bandy Professor of Preaching

Geoffrey Goodman

Associate Professor of Psychology and Religion

Alison Collis Greene

Associate Professor of American Religious History

Jill B. Hamilton

Affiliated Faculty

Geordan Hammond

Associate Professor of Methodist and Wesleyan Studies

Jehu J. Hanciles

D.W. and Ruth Brooks Professor of World Christianity

Soren Hessler

Assistant Professor in the Practice of Leadership and Administration

Susan E. Hylen

Charles Howard Candler Professor of New Testament

Arun W. Jones

Dan and Lillian Hankey Associate Professor of World Evangelism

Joel B. Kemp

Assistant Professor of Hebrew Bible

Helen Jin Kim

Associate Professor of American Religious History

Emmanuel Y. Lartey

Charles Howard Candler Professor of Pastoral Theology and Spiritual Care

Joel M. LeMon

Associate Dean of Academic Affairs; The Rev. Dr. Donald Allen Harp, Jr. Distinguished Associate Professor of Biblical Studies

Lahronda Little

Research Fellow

Steffen Lösel

Professor in the Practice of Systematic Theology

Marie Friedmann Marquardt

Scholar-in-Residence

Ellen Ott Marshall

Professor of Christian Ethics and Conflict Transformation

Joy Ann McDougall

Associate Professor of Systematic Theology

Ian A. McFarland

Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Theology

Kevin Murriel

Assistant Professor in the Practice of Practical Theology

Dhruv Raj Nagar

Bhagawan Arnath Postdoctoral Fellow in Jain Studies

Roger S. Nam

Professor of Hebrew Bible

Brett Opalinski

Assistant Dean of Methodist Studies; Assistant Professor in the Practice of Spiritual Formation and Church Leadership

Nichole R. Phillips

Associate Professor in the Practice of Religion and Society

Chandra C. Plowden

Visiting Assistant Professor of Black Church Studies and African American Religion and Culture

Jennifer Quigley

Associate Professor of New Testament

Susan Reynolds

Associate Professor of Catholic Studies

P. Alice Rogers

Associate Professor in the Practice of Practical Theology

Ted A. Smith

Charles Howard Candler Professor of Divinity

Joanne Solis-Walker

Associate Dean of La Mesa Academy for Theological Studies; Professor in the Practice of Leadership

R. Kendall Soulen

Bishop Mack B. and Rose Y. Stokes Professor of Systematic Theology

Jonathan Strom

Mary Lee Hardin Willard Dean; Professor of Church History

Kristine Suna-Koro

Acting Associate Professor of Worship

John Thompson-Quartey

Professor in the Practice of Church Leadership

Danielle Tumminio Hansen

Associate Professor of Practical Theology and Spiritual Care

Hope Morgan Ward

Bishop-in-Residence

Damon Williams

Assistant Professor in the Practice of Practical Ministry

Khalia J. Williams

Associate Dean of Worship and Spiritual Formation; Professor in the Practice of Worship

Walter T. Wilson

Professor of New Testament

Vincent L. Wimbush

Senior Research Fellow

Deanna Ferree Womack

Associate Professor of History of Religions and Interfaith Studies

Jacob L. Wright

Professor of Hebrew Bible

Jennifer S. Wyant

Research Fellow

Hazem Ziada

Research Scholar