Princeton Theological Seminary Welcomes New Faculty and Staff

Princeton, NJ, August 1, 2006– Princeton Theological Seminary is pleased to announce the appointment of a new faculty member and a new administrator. 

Bo Lee was named instructor in Christian education, effective July 1, 2006. Lee is in the Ph.D. program in historical theology at the Seminary. Her dissertation topic is “Sacrifice and Desire: The Rhetoric of Self-Denial in the Mystical Theologies of Madame Jeanne Guyon and Anna Maria van Schurman.” Lee earned her B.A. from Yale University in 1993, her M.Div. from Trinity International University in Deerfield, Illinois, in 1997, and her Th.M. from Princeton Seminary in 1999. She previously taught at Loyola College in Baltimore, Maryland. She is a member of the Presbyterian Church (USA) and of the American Academy of Religion, the American Society of Church History, and the Society for the Study of Christian Spirituality.

Rosemary Mitchell was appointed director of development in the Seminary Relations Department in June. She earned her B.A. from the State University of New York at Cortland in 1974, and her M.Div. from Princeton Seminary in 1977. She previously served as executive director of the Women’s Foundation of Genesee Valley, a nonprofit founded in 1994 to provide grants that fund economic self-sufficiency programs for women in a seven-county region in upstate New York. Before that she was copastor of Downtown United Presbyterian Church in Rochester, New York.

In addition, Donna Kline was promoted to the position of vice president of administration, effective July 1, and John Gilmore, senior vice president, was given the additional designation of chief operating officer.

Princeton Theological Seminary was founded in 1812, the first seminary established by the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church. With an international student body and faculty, it is the largest Presbyterian seminary in the country, with more than 700 students in six graduate degree programs.