Our Alums
Our Alums
Drew Theological School is proud of the vast achievements of our alums. Read on to learn more about the good work our community delivers.
PODCASTS
Un-Tied Methodism, Hosted by the Dr. Ashley Boggan Dreff T’17
Why do Methodists use Welch’s grape juice for communion? What is with the cross and flame logo? Explore these questions and more as we examine the roots of the United Methodist Church (and it’s predecessor denominations) to understand why the UMC is the way that it is…and where it might be going. Dr. Ashley Boggan Dreff hosts this production of the General Commission on Archives and History of the UMC.
Drew Community in the News
The Rev. Dr. Barber Featured in the New York Times
The Rev. Dr. Lydia Muñoz Named Executive Director of the National Plan for Hispanic/Latino Ministry
The Rev. Dr. William Barber II T’03 and Imam Saffet Catovic T’18 speak at the National Call For Moral Revival Rally at the US Capitol.
Poor, Low-income Americans Say to Congress: “I am the Cost of Cutting Build Back Better”
Alum Seong Ae Kim featured in Composers Now for 2021 Pocantico Center Residency
Master of Divinity student Leanh Wandera (Nanyanga) Featured in the UM News: Education Empowers Women and Girls in Kenya, written by alum Gad Maiga.
Dr. JJ Flag, Honoring Black History, Featured on ABC50
Rev. Jeff Campbell Elected General Secretary of Discipleship Ministries
Miller, Director of Craig Chapel, Professor of Church Music, Composer in Residence featured in Religion News Service
What are God’s Pronouns? How the Church Today is (or isn’t) Gendering God
Teresita Post-Matos T’14,’23 on helping migrant workers in Wimauma, Florida
Publications
Here are just a few of the recent publications from some of our GDR alums.
- An Yountae, The Decolonial Abyss: Mysticism and Cosmpolitics from the Ruin (Fordham University Press)
- Jennifer Barry, Bishops in Flight: Exile and Displacement in Late Antiquity (University of California Press)
- Karen Bray, Grave Attending: A Political Theology for the Unredeemed (Fordham University Press)
- Christy Cobb, Slavery, Gender, Truth, and Power in Luke-Acts and Other Ancient Narratives (Palgrave Macmillan)
- Shelly Dennis, Edible Entanglements: On a Political Theology of Food (Wipf and Stock Publishers)
- Ashley Boggan Dreff, Entangled: A History of American Methodism, Politics, and Sexuality (New Room Books)
- Ericka Shawndricka Dunbar, Trafficking Hadassah: Collective Trauma, Cultural Memory, and Identity in the Book of Esther and in the African Diaspora (Routledge Focus)
- Kathleen Gallagher Elkins, Mary, Mother of Martyrs: How Motherhood Became Self-Sacrifice in Early Christianity (Feminist Studies in Religion Books)
- Sarah Emanuel, Humor, Resistance, and Jewish Cultural Persistence in the Book of Revelation: Roasting Rome (Cambridge University Press)
- Arminta M. Fox, Paul Decentered: Reading 2 Corinthians with the Corinthian Women (Rowman & Littlefield)
- Krista E. Hughes, Dhawn B. Martin and Elaine Padilla, Ecological Solidarities: Mobilizing Faith and Justice for an Entangled World (Penn State University Press)
- Sharon Jacobs, Reading Mary Alongside Indian Surrogate Mothers: Violent Love, Oppressive Liberation, and Infancy Narratives (Palgrave Macmillan)
- Jennifer T. Kaalund, Reading Hebrews and 1 Peter with the African American Great Migration: Diaspora, Place and Identity (Bloomsbury)
- Peter Anthony Mena, Place and Identity in the Lives of Antony, Paul, and Mary of Egypt: Desert as Borderland (Palgrave Macmillan)
- Michael Oliver, Deconstructing Undecidability: Derrida, Justice, and Religious Discourse (Rowman & Littlefield)
- Stephanie Day Powell, Narrative Desire and the Book of Ruth (Bloomsbury)
- L. Benjamin Rolsky, The Rise and Fall of the Religious Left: Politics, Television, and Popular Culture in the 1970s and Beyond (Columbia University Press)
- Terra Schwerin Rowe, Toward a Better Worldliness: Ecology, Economy, and the Protestant Tradition (Fortress Press)
- Shannell T. Smith, The Woman Babylon and the Marks of Empire: Reading Revelation with a Postcolonial Womanist Hermeneutics of Ambiveilence (Fortress Press)
- Leah R. Thomas, Just Care: Ethical Anti-Racist Pastoral Care with Women with Mental Illness (Rowman & Littlefield)
- Jimmy Hoke, Feminism, Queerness, Affect, and Romans (SBL Press)
Alum Spotlights
The Rev. Sarah Welch-Pomerantz T’10,’22
Pastor, Community Church, Cedar Grove, NJ
The Rev. Dr. Jason Coker T’09,’13
President, Together for Hope
Shawn Anglim T’99
Head Pastor, First Grace United Methodist Church, New Orleans
Dr. Ashley Boggan Dreff T’17
General Secretary of the General Commission of Archives and History
The Rev. Dr. Emma Jordan-Simpson T’09
President, Auburn Seminary
The Rev. Donna Olivia Owusu-Ansah T’10
Chaplain, JFK Medical Center | Associate Minister, New Hope Baptist Church
The Rev. Dr. Kevin D. Miller T’03,’08
Executive Director of Graduate Admissions, Drew University
Krysta Angelique Piper T’18, Master of Divinity
United States Army Reserves, CH (1LT) – Chaplain First Lieutenant
Teresita Matos-Post T’14
Executive Director, Beth-El Farmworker Ministry
The Rev. Rodney James Lynch T’14,’15
Pastor and Executive Director, Baptist Student Foundation at Purdue University
Boram Lim T’14, Master of Divinity
Staff Chaplain, Good Samaritan Hospital
The Rev. James Lee T’19
Lead Pastor, Wesley United Methodist Church
Nicole Kaufman T’15, Master of Divinity
Chaplain, Arbor View Senior Living Community
Olivia DiAgostino T’19
Transformation Program Coordinator, United Methodist Women