Member Council
The HTI consortium governing body is the Member Council (MC) which is comprised of presidents and deans from member schools. These visionary leaders are committed to a collaborative enterprise whereby they leverage and unite institutional resources to increase the presence of Latine faculty and students in the larger landscape of education. They meet at the American Academy of Religion (AAR) and Society of Biblical Literature (SBL) annual meeting to review and approve recommendations from the consortium Steering Committee. HTI acknowledges the dedication, wisdom, and service of the 2017-18 MC members toward increasing and advancing opportunities for Latine PhD students and faculty in theological and religious education.
Member Council & Steering Committee Chair
Edwin Aponte
Dean
Drew Theological School
Council Members
Douglas Weaver
Barbara Jo Beard Driskell Endowed
Research Chair in Historial Studies
Baylor University
G. SUJIN PAK
Dean of the School of Theology
Boston University
Jonathan Strom
Mary Lee Hardin Willard Dean of
Candler School of Theology
and Professor of Church History
Emory University
Lori Anne Ferrel
Dean, School of the Arts & Humanities
Claremont Graduate University
Bishop Grant Hagiya
President ad interim
Claremont School of Theology
Michael Svigel
Chair and Professor of Theological
Studies
Interim Director of PhD Studies
Dallas Theological Seminary
Edwin David Aponte
Dean of Theological School
Drew University Theological School
Edgardo Colón-Emeric
Dean
Ruth and A. Morris Williams, Jr.
Professor of Theology and Christian Ministry
Duke Divinity School
David Emmanuel Goatley
President
Fuller Theological Seminary
Javier A. Viera
President
Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary
Uriah Y. Kim
President and Professor of Biblical Studies
Graduate Theological Union
Catherine A Brekus
Chair of the Committee on the Study of Religion and Charles Warren Professor of the History of Religion in America
Harvard University
Lee Butler, Jr.
President
Iliff School of Theology
Robin J. Steinke
President and Professor of Systematic Theology
Luther Seminary
Linda E. Thomas
Vice President and Dean of
Academic Affairs and
Bernard Fischer, Westberg
Distinguished Professor of
Theology and Anthropology
Lutheran School of Theology, Chicago
John J. Markey, O.P.
Professor of Theology
Director of PhD in
Spirituality Program
Oblate School of Theology
Roy L. Heller
Director of the Graduate Program in Religious Studies; Professor of
Old Testament, Altshuler Distinguished Teaching Professor
Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University
Jonathan Lee Walton
President
Princeton Theological Seminary
James Theodore Robinson
Dean
Nathan Cummings Professor
of Jewish Studies, Professor of
the History of Judaism, Islamic
Studies, and the History of
Religions in the Divinity School and the College
The University of Chicago
Daniel Machiela
Director of Doctoral Program
Associate Professor
University of Notre Dame
Yolanda Pierce
Dean
Vanderbilt Divinity School
Marc Cortez
PhD Program Director and Knoedler, Professor of Theology
Wheaton College
Marc Robinson
Dean of Humanities
Professor of Theater & Performance
Studies and English
Yale University