United Methodist Faculty

While our faculty represent nearly all major Christian traditions, we have the strongest faculty you’ll find anywhere in Methodist history, doctrine, and polity. Students are advised and taught by the people who wrote the texts used in classes at seminaries everywhere. Students seeking ordination are advised by Methodist faculty, who are in most cases also ordained clergy. That means advisors will understand the ordination process and share their students' commitment to the life of the church.
Sangwoo Kim
Associate Dean for Vocational Formation; Senior Director of the Methodist House; Administrative Faculty
Kate Bowler
Associate Professor of American Religious History
Kenneth H. Carter
Bishop-in-Residence; Consulting Faculty
Daniel Castelo
Associate Dean for Academic Formation, William Kellon Quick Professor of Theology and Methodist Studies
Mark Chaves
Anne Firor Scott Distinguished Professor of Sociology
Jung Choi
Associate Dean for Global and Intercultural Formation; Director, Asian House of Studies; Administrative Faculty
Edgardo Colón-Emeric
Dean of Duke Divinity School; Ruth and A. Morris Williams, Jr. Professor of Theology and Christian Ministry
Valerie Cooper
Associate Professor of Religion and Society and Black Church Studies
Frederick Edie
Associate Professor of the Practice of Christian Education
Amy Laura Hall
Associate Professor of Christian Ethics and Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies
Jan Holton
Associate Professor of the Practice of Pastoral Theology and Care
Lester Ruth
Research Professor of Christian Worship
Brent A. Strawn
D. Moody Smith Distinguished Professor of Old Testament; Professor of Law
Alma Tinoco Ruiz
Royce and Jane Reynolds Assistant Professor of the Practice of Homiletics and Evangelism, Director of the Hispanic House of Studies, and Foundation For Evangelism Fellow
Laceye Warner
Professor of the Practice of Church Ministry and Methodist Studies; Associate Dean for Wesleyan Engagement
William Willimon
Professor of the Practice of Christian Ministry
Brittany E. Wilson
Associate Professor of New Testament