Catch up with our alumni community around the world
Dr Jessie Fubara-Manuel (PhD 2021) has been awarded a three-year research grant by the Templeton Foundation, administered at the Nagle Institute at Calvin University, in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Dr Whitney Gamble-Smith (PhD 2014) is Director of Interdisciplinary Studies at The Master’s University.
Prof Mark A. Garcia (PhD 2004) has been appointed Associate Professor of Systematic Theology at Westminster Theological Seminary, Philadelphia.
Dr Jay Thomas Hewitt (PhD 2018) is now Lecturer in New Testament at the University of Aberdeen.
Dr Samuel Hildebrandt (PhD 2016) is Lecturer in Biblical Studies at Nazarene Theological College, in Manchester. He recently co-edited From Words to Meaning: Studies on Old Testament Language and Theology for David J. Reimer (Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2021), a festschrift for our former Senior Lecturer in Hebrew Bible, Dr David Reimer.
Prof Joshua Hordern (PhD 2009) has been promoted to Professor of Christian Ethics at the University of Oxford, and has recently published Compassion in Healthcare: Pilgrimage, Practice, and Civic Life (Oxford University Press, 2020).
Dr Tore Johnsen (PhD, 2021) has published Sámi Nature-Centred Christianity in the European Arctic: Indigenous Theology beyond Hierarchical Worldmaking (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022).
Dr Jeremy Kidwell (PhD 2014) is Associate Professor of Theological Ethics at the University of Birmingham.
Dr David Kirkpatrick (PhD 2015) is Assistant Professor of Religion at James Madison University, before which he was the Timothy Gannon Postdoctoral Fellow in American Religious History at Florida State University.
Caleb Kobosh (MTh 2019) is now a PhD student at Vanderbilt University.
Dr Joanna Leidenhag (PhD 2019) has been appointed Lecturer in Theology and Liberal Arts at the University of Leeds.
Wing Li (MA 2016) is now in the final year of the MDiv at Princeton Theological Seminary.
Alison Merrit Smith (MA 2010) is an arts project manager in Berlin. She produces the REAL/ SYMBOL podcast.
Dr Russell Newton (MA 2011, MTh 2014, PhD 2018) our former Hope Trust postdoctoral fellow, is now Lecturer in Church History at the Faith Mission Bible College, Edinburgh. He recently co-edited The Clergy in Early Modern Scotland (Boydell and Brewer, 2021).
Rev Dr Andrew Ong (PhD 2020) is Pastor of Discipleship at Christ Church, in Berkeley, California.
Morgan Petersen (MSc 2018) is now studying for a PhD in microbiology and immunology at the University of Toronto.
Dr Prasad Phillips (PhD 2018) is Deputy Executive Director of the Oxford Centre for Religion and Public Life.
Dr Zachary Purvis formerly a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at New College, is now Lecturer in Scottish Church History at Edinburgh Theological Seminary.
Christian Richards (MA 2016) is a Full Stack UX Designer with The Weir Group PLC.
Dr Sarah Lane Ritchie (MSc 2014, PhD 2017) our former Lecturer in Science and Theology, is now Program Officer (Philosophy and Theology) at the John Templeton Foundation.
Dr Dieter Roth (PhD 2009) is Assistant Professor of New Testament at Boston College.
Zack Seals (MTh 2020) is studying for a PhD in Reformation History at the University of Geneva.
Dr Matthew Sharp (MTh 2016, PhD 2020) has been appointed Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow at the University of St Andrews. His first book, Divination and Philosophy in the Letters of Paul, will be published this year by Edinburgh University Press.
Dr Karl Shuve (PhD 2010) is Associate Professor of Ancient and Medieval Christianity at the University of Virginia.
Emmanuel Kwame Tettey (MSc 2018) is a Research Fellow at the Akrofi-Christaller Institute of Theology, in Akropong-Akuapem, Ghana.
Paulo Won (MTh 2016) is Lecturer in Biblical Studies at the Seminário Teológico Servo de Cristo in São Paolo, Brazil. His most recent book is E Deus falou na língua dos homens (Thomas Nelson Brazil, 2020). Videos on his YouTube channel Didaskalia have been viewed over 1 million times
Rev Dr Jaime Wright (PhD 2020) has been ordained a priest in the Scottish Episcopal Church.
