School of Theology Faculty

Faculty Profiles

Priscilla Pope-LevisonPriscilla Pope-Levison

Professor of Theology and Assistant Director of Women’s Studies, SPU; affiliate faculty in Women Studies, University of Washington;
United Methodist clergywoman
B.Mus., DePauw University, 1980; M.Div., Duke Divinity School, 1983; Ph.D., University of St. Andrews, 1989. At SPU since 2001.

Email: popep@spu.edu
Phone: 206-281-2714
Office: Alexander 208

Before coming to SPU, Dr. Pope-Levison held faculty appointments at Duke Divinity School and at North Park College and Theological Seminary, where she received the Student Service Award.

Her research areas include American women’s religious history, contextual theology, mission and evangelism, and the ecumenical movement, and she has authored or edited several books in these areas. In addition, her articles have appeared in these academic and ecclesial journals: International Review of Mission, Missiology, Mid-Stream, Methodist History, Catalyst, Prism, Journal of the Academy for Evangelism in Theological Education, Journal for Preachers, and Lectionary Homiletics. Her essay, “A ‘Thirty Year War’ and More: Exposing Complexities in the Methodist Deaconess Movement,” was awarded the 2008 Women’s History Research Writing Award, sponsored by the General Commission of History and Archives of the United Methodist Church.

 

Dr. Pope-Levison has also contributed to several reference works, including Westminster Dictionary of Women and Religion in America, Encyclopedia of Women and Religion in North America, Global Dictionary of Theology, and Historical Dictionary of the Holiness Movement. .

The Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning selected Professor Pope-Levison to participate in its study of Fifty Effective Teachers of the Introductory Theology and Religion courses, and she has led workshops on teaching at regional and national gatherings.

Please view Dr. Pope-Levison’s C.V. for more publications.

Selected Publications

  • Turn the Pulpit Loose: Two Centuries of American Women Evangelists (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004)
  • Return to Babel: Global Perspectives on the Bible (Westminster John Knox, 1999)
  • Jesus in Global Contexts (Westminster John Knox, 1992)
  • Evangelization in a Liberation Perspective (Peter Lang, 1991)

What’s New

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Looking Ahead

M.A./M.Div. applications for Spring Admissions are due Feb. 15.

 

Dr. Kenda Creasy Dean will be speaking at the Palmer Lecture, May 6-7.

She will also be speaking at the Church Leaders Forum, May 6.

 

Lilly Fellows Program Summer Seminar


Annual Events

Paul T. Walls Lecture in Wesleyan Theology

Alfred S. Palmer Lectureship

Ministry in the Wesleyan Spirit Conference