New Faces in Administration
Two new administrators bring extensive experience with them to their roles at the Divinity School. Maggi Dawn, an accomplished author, musician, and theologian from the University of Cambridge, is the new associate dean for Marquand Chapel and associate professor (adjunct) of theology and literature. She previously served at Cambridge’s Robinson College and Kings College, where she oversaw the well-known Christmas programs Carols from Kings on BBC TV and the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols on BBC Radio. Lucinda A. Huffaker, executive secretary of the Religious Education Association, will direct YDS’s supervised ministries program. She served for more than a decade as associate director and then director of the Indiana-based Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion.
Faculty Appointments
Jennifer Herdt has been appointed the Gilbert L. Stark Professor of Christian Ethics, succeeding Margaret Farley, who retired from the faculty in 2007. Herdt joined YDS in 2010 after 11 years on the faculty of theology at the University of Notre Dame. Her primary interests are in early modern and modern moral thought, classical and contemporary virtue ethics, and contemporary theological ethics and political theology. Meanwhile, Christopher Beeley ’94MDiv, the Walter H. Gray Associate Professor of Anglican Studies and Patristics, has been granted tenure. Beeley joined YDS and Berkeley Divinity School at Yale in 2003 after one year as an assistant visiting professor at YDS and one year as a visiting lecturer at his alma mater, Washington and Lee University. He teaches early Christian theology and history and modern Anglican tradition.
YDS Students Travel in China
A group of 14 students visited China in May on a YDS travel seminar, accompanied by assistant professor of Asian theology Chloë Starr and associate dean of admissions and financial aid Anna Ramirez. Included on the trip were visits to seminaries, rural and urban churches, Confucian temples, and mosques, in addition to famous sites such as the Great Wall of China, Tiananmen Square, the Forbidden City, and the Tomb of Genghis Khan. The trip, said Jesse Zink ’12MDiv, allowed the group to “meet people in their own context, listen, and learn what they had to say. It’s these kinds of trips that build the unity of the worldwide body of Christ one relationship at a time.”
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