Princeton Theological Seminary Welcomes New Faculty
and Administrators
Princeton, NJ, July 29, 2005– Princeton
Seminary is pleased to announce the appointment of three new
faculty members and two new administrators.
Dr.
Gordon Graham, currently Regius Professor of Moral Philosophy
at the University
of Aberdeen in Aberdeen, Scotland, director of the Centre
for the Study of Scottish Philosophy, and founding editor
of the Journal of Scottish Philosophy, has accepted
an appointment to the faculty as the Henry Luce III Professor
of Philosophy and the Arts, with tenure, effective January
1, 2006. He received his Ph.D. in 1975 from Durham University
in England. Graham’s interests center on aesthetics,
applied philosophy, ethics and moral philosophy, the philosophy
of history, political philosophy, and Scottish philosophy.
Shane
Berg, who graduated from Princeton Seminary with a M.Div.
in May 2000, was hired as an instructor in New Testament,
effective July 1, 2005. Berg, who is a Ph.D. candidate at
Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, previously taught
as a visiting instructor in religious studies at Connecticut
College in New London and as instructor in New Testament Greek
at Yale University Divinity School. He is a member of the
American Philological Association, the American Society of
Papyrology, the Catholic Biblical Association of America,
and the Society of Biblical Literature.
Jeremy
M. Hutton was hired as an assistant professor in Old Testament,
effective July 1, 2005. Hutton graduated from Harvard University
with a Ph.D. in Hebrew Bible in June of this year and also
received his A.M. from Harvard in 2002. His dissertation “The
Transjordanian Palimpsest: The Overwritten Texts of Personal
Exile in the Deuteronomistic History,” took an interdisciplinary
approach to the symbolic geography of Transjordan and the
Jordan River in the Deuteronomistic History, using concepts
and models from anthropological, sociological, and philosophical
thought. Hutton is a member of the Evangelical Lutheran Church
of America.
In other news, Hui Chen
has accepted the appointment as dean of continuing education
in the Department of Academic Affairs, effective January 1,
2006. An M.Div. graduate of Princeton Seminary in May, Chen
received a J.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles
School of Law in 1991 and worked for more than a decade as
an attorney, first with the U.S. Department of Justice and
later with Microsoft Corporation. Throughout her legal career,
she devoted significant time to the design and delivery of
continuing education programs for lawyers and judges in the
United States and in Europe and Asia. Since her transition
into ministry, she has been engaged in adult education in
churches and in continuing education for clergy. She is currently
at the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England, in a
six-month scholar-in-residence program studying patristics.
David H. Wall, a 1980 M.A. graduate of Princeton Seminary,
has accepted the appointment as registrar, effective July
1, 2006. He is currently interim director of continuing education
until Hui Chen assumes the position as dean in January. He
previously held the position of program coordinator for continuing
education for 11 years and before that was director of the
summer school and assistant director of the School of Christian
Education for 14 years. Wall is a certified Christian educator
in the Presbyterian Church (USA), an elder at Nassau Presbyterian
Church in Princeton, New Jersey, and is very active in the
Presbytery of New Brunswick.
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 five graduate degree programs.
