A member of Candler’s faculty since 1997, Dr. Jonathan Strom became the school’s Mary Lee Hardin Willard Dean on August 1, 2024. His prior administrative leadership at the school included several years as the director of international initiatives, and seven years as associate, then senior associate, dean of faculty and academic affairs (2015–2022). From November 2019 through July 2021, Strom served in an acting dean capacity while then-Dean Jan Love served as interim provost of Emory University.
As a scholar of church history, Strom’s research interests include Pietism in continental Europe, the history of the Protestant clergy, and the emergence of modern forms of piety and religious practice. He has written widely on the clergy, lay religion, and reform movements in post-Reformation Germany, and is the author/editor of five books, most recently German Pietism and the Problem of Conversion (Penn State Press, 2018). He is currently working on a project on the history of the common priesthood.
A Fulbright Scholar, Strom has been supported in his work by grants from the Lilly Foundation, the Association of Theological Schools, and Emory’s University Research Committee. He is a member of the American Historical Association, the American Society of Church History, the Pietism Studies Working Group, and the German Studies Association.
“Pietism and Conversion in Dargun,” in Pietismus und Neuzeit. Pietismus und Neuzeit, 2014
“Krisenbewusstsein und Zukunftserwartung bei Friedrich Breckling,” in Geschichtsbewusstsein und Zukunftserwartung. Göttingen University Press, 2013
“Constructing Religious Experience: Conversion Narratives in Hallensian Pietism,” in Beiträge des III. Internationalen Kongresses für Pietismusforschung. Halle, 2012
Co-editor, Factbook on Theological Education for the Academic Year 1996-1997. Association of Theological Schools, 1997
Young Center’s Dale W. Brown Book Award for German Pietism and the Problem of Conversion, 2019
DAAD Research Fellowship
Summer Research and Teaching Award, Candler School of Theology
Herzog-Ernst Scholarship for research in the Gotha library collections
Summer Research and Teaching Award, Candler School of Theology
University Research Committee Grant, Emory University, 2003-2004
Faculty Research Expense Grant, the Association of Theological Schools
Summer Research and Teaching Award, Candler School of Theology
Lilly Faculty Fellowship and Visiting Scholar at the Max-Planck-Institut für Geschichte in Göttingen, 2000-2001
Summer Research and Teaching Award, Candler School of Theology
Wabash Workshop on Teaching and Learning, 1998-1999
Reforming the Church and the People: Sixteenth-Century Models
Women in Radical Protestantism
History of Clergy and Their Office
Pietism: The Development of Modern Piety
Theology of Luther
Reformation Theology and Historiography
In the media
June 25, 2024
Jonathan Strom Named Next Dean of Candler School of Theology
The Emory News Center
March 30, 2017
Honors Day Convocation Sermon
Candler School of Theology
October 27, 2016
Cranach, 'Law and Gospel' and the Protestant Theological Tradition,
Reformation Day at Emory
April 14, 2016
Honors Day Convocation
Candler School of Theology
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