 | L. Serene Jones |
L. Serene Jones, who has been designated the Titus Street Professor of Theology, is a noted theologian whose research has explored such topics as feminist theology and feminist theory, trauma theory (the experience of trauma survivors from a theological perspective) and reproductive loss.
Her books include "Feminist Theory and Theology: Cartographies of Grace" and "Calvin and the Rhetoric of Piety." She co-edited two books, "Liberating Eschatology: Essays in Honor of Letty Russell" (with Divinity School colleague Margaret Farley) and "Setting the Table: Women in Theological Conversation."
The feminist theologian has written and lectured on a wide range of topics from a theological standpoint, including HIV/AIDS in Africa, theological education, cultural studies, the Third World debt crisis and capitalist growth, among others.
A graduate of the University of Oklahoma, Jones was a special student at the Tamil Nadu Theological Seminary in South India before earning her M. Div. from the Yale Divinity School in 1985. She earned a Ph.D., also from Yale, in 1991. A member of the Divinity School faculty since 1996, she has held joint appointments in African American Studies and the Women and Gender Studies Program since 1998. During the 1998-1999 academic year, she was a lecturer at the Law School.
Jones is currently a fellow of the Whitney Humanities Center. She was awarded a 2002-2003 sabbatical grant from the Louisville Institute to work on her current project, "Jesus and the Jones Girls." She has received a Pew Evangelical Scholars Sabbatical Grant and a Faculty Research Award from Yale.
The alumna is a series editor of Theologians in Context, published by Oxford University Press. She serves on the advisory board of the Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Religion and Theology at Wabash College in Indiana and is a consultant to the Ministry Fellows Program of The Fund for Theological Education.
Jones is a member of numerous professional or scholarly organizations, including the American Academy of Religion, the American Theological Society, the Consultation on Feminist Theory and Theology and the New Haven Theology Group, among others.
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