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Grau Accepts Position in Norway; MacDougall is Visiting Professor

Dear Friends:

Marion Grau

Before you all take a well-deserved break next week, I want to let you know that Professor Marion Grau has accepted the positions of professor of systematic theology and missiology at the Norwegian School of Theology and editor of the Norwegian Journal of Missiology beginning this fall.

Marion’s impressive research, which includes three books and numerous journal articles, has made substantial contributions to her field and the wider church’s understanding of systematic and constructive theology. You may know that, for the last several years, Marion has been conducting research on pilgrimage sponsored by the Norwegian Research Foundation’s Ritual and Democracy Project. Her new position will make it possible both to return to Europe full-time and to extend this important new academic work and the relationships that have developed from it. While I will be sorry to say goodbye to Marion, who has been at CDSP for fourteen years, I hope you will all join me in congratulating her on this prestigious new position.

Between now and the end of the spring semester in May, we will find opportunities to celebrate Marion’s time with us. Most immediately, I hope that you will plan to attend, in person or online, the forum on her new book, “Refiguring Theological Hermeneutics:  Hermes, Trickster, Fool,” tomorrow evening at 7:45 pm. More information is available on the website.

I am glad to announce that Scott MacDougall will join us for the 2015-2016 academic year as visiting assistant professor of theology. Scott, whose MA thesis I directed at General Theological Seminary in 2007, holds a PhD in theology from Fordham University and has taught there as a teaching fellow since 2010. In addition to his first-rate academic career, Scott is also an experienced grants manager who has worked for the Rockefeller Foundation, the Open Society Foundations, and other New York-based non-profit organizations. While Scott joins us in Berkeley, his husband, Michael Angelo, will remain in New York, where he is the founder and creative director of the prestigious salon Wonderland, and will visit us during the year.

Faithfully,

The Very Rev. W. Mark Richardson
Dean and President