Virginia Burrus, Professor of Early Church History, received her B.A. (1981) in Classical Civilization from Yale College, her M.A. (1984) and Ph.D. (1991) in History of Christianity from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California. She has taught in Drew University's Theological and Graduate Schools since 1991. Dr. Burrus's teaching and research interests in the field of ancient Christianity include: gender, sexuality, and the body; martyrdom and asceticism; ancient novels and hagiography; constructions of orthodoxy and heresy; histories of theology and historical theologies. She is a member of Washington Square UMC in New York City.

Charles Courtney, Professor of Philosophy of Religion, has been on the Drew faculty since 1964. His academic degrees are from Monnouth (IL) College (BA), Harvard Divinity School (BD), Northwestern University (MA, PhD). He has received several fellowships and grants, including a Fulbright Fellowship which supported his dissertation research at the University of Paris. His teaching and research interests are in comparative philosophy of religion, phenomenology, and the philosophy of human rights. He is a member of Franklin-St. John's UMC in Newark, New Jersey.

Morris L. Davis, Assistant Professor of Church History and Wesleyan and Methodist Studies, began teaching at Drew's Theological School in the Fall of 2003. He received his B.A. (1991) in History from Houghton College (New York), and his M.Phil. (1998) and Ph.D. (2003) in Theological and Religious Studies from the Caspersen School of Graduate Studies at Drew. Specializing in Christianity in the Americas and Wesleyan and Methodist movements, Dr. Davis is currently interested in race, missions, and U.S. denominational cultures.

Heather Murray Elkins, Associate Professor of Worship, is convener of the Liturgical Studies doctoral program, and an ordained elder in the West Virginia Annual Conference. She is a delegate to the 2004 General Conference and will be giving the keynote sermon for the pre-conference meeting of women delegates. During her pastoral career she has served as a local church pastor, a truck stop chaplain, a university chaplain, and an academic dean. She began her teaching career as an instructor in the first bi-lingual independent school on the Navaho Reservation and recently returned from teaching at Ewah Woman's University in Seoul Korea. She’s presently writing on worship, preaching, and the arts as well as a cross-cultural project in Appalachian Studies.

Catherine Keller, Professor of Constructive Theology, teaches and writes across a wide range of contemporary theological and religious studies. After undergraduate studies in theology in Heidelberg, Germany, and an M.Div. from Eden Seminary in 1977, she pursued doctoral studies at Claremont Graduate School, in conjunction with the Center for Process Studies. With John B. Cobb, Jr. as her advisor, she received her Ph.D in 1984. After 3 years as Assistant Professor at Xavier University, she has taught at Drew ever since, offering seminars in the reconstruction of historical Christian doctrine. She is a member of St. Paul and St. Andrew UMC in New York City. Stephen D. Moore, Professor of New Testament, received a PhD in New Testament from the University of Dublin (Trinity College) in 1986. He taught at Trinity, Yale Divinity School, Wichita State University, and the University of Sheffield before coming to Drew in 1999. His research centers on the interface of biblical studies and other contiguous fields, especially literary studies, cultural studies, gender studies, and postcolonial studies. Traci C. West, Associate Professor of Ethics and African American Studies, received her B.A. from Yale University (1981), M.Div. from Pacific School of Religion (1984) and PhD from Union Theological Seminary (1995). Her areas of research and teaching include: Christian social ethics; African American social thought; women's studies. She is an ordained elder in the New York Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church and previously served in parish and campus ministry in the Hartford Connecticut area.

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