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