Peter Paris
Elmer G. Homrighausen Professor of Christian Social Ethics and Liaison with the Princeton University African American Studies Program
Department of Theology
228 Speer Library
Phone: 609.497.7814
Fax: 609.497.7728
Email: peter.paris@ptsem.edu

Peter Paris is Princeton Theological Seminary’s Elmer G. Homrighausen Professor of Christian Social Ethics and Liaison with the Princeton University African American Studies Program.  He earned his B.A. and B.D. degrees from Acadia University in Nova Scotia, and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. His courses cover various subjects in African American social ethics, Aristotle’s ethics and politics, and the theology and ethics of Reinhold and H. Richard Niebuhr. An ordained Baptist minister, he is an active member of the First Baptist Church in Princeton. He is past president of the Society for the Study of Black Religion, the American Academy of Religion, and the Society of Christian Ethics. Paris is the senior editor of the New York University series “Religion, Race, and Ethnicity,” general editor of The History of the Riverside Church in New York City, and serves on the editorial boards of several journals. He is a member of the board of trustees of New York Theological Seminary and the Princeton Young Achievers, an after-school program for children of low-income families.