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Home » Susan Abraham, ThD » Susan Abraham, ThD

Susan Abraham, ThD

Vice President of Academic Affairs | Dean of Faculty | Professor of Theology and Post-Colonial Cultures
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Susan Abraham is Professor of Theology and Postcolonial Cultures, VP of Academic Affairs, and Dean of Faculty at Pacific School of Religion. She is the author of Identity, Ethics, and Nonviolence in Postcolonial Theory: A Rahnerian Theological Assessment (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), co-editor of Shoulder to Shoulder: Frontiers in Catholic Feminist Theology (Fortress, 2009), Blessed are Those Who Mourn: Depression, Anxiety, and Pain on the Path of an Incarnational Spirituality (Marymount Press, 2020) and numerous essays and articles in anthologies of contemporary theology and peer-reviewed journals. She is also the President of the Board of Editors of Concilium: An International Journal of Theology. In 2023 she was elected to the presidential line of the Catholic Theological Society of America and will serve as president of the CTSA in 2025.

Dr. Abraham brings wide experience and knowledge of higher education and institutional practices through her past affiliations with St. Bonaventure University, Harvard Divinity School, and Loyola Marymount University. Her publications, courses, and presentations weave practical theological insights from her experience of working as a youth minister in Mumbai, India, with theoretical perspectives from postcolonial theory, cultural studies, political theory and feminist theory.

Academic Credentials2023-2026: Elected to presidential line, Catholic Theological Society of America 2021: Elected President, Concilium: An International Journal of Theology, Editorial Board 2021: Ann O’Hara Graff Award, Catholic Theological Society of America (CTSA) 2019: Founding member, Committee on Race and Ethnicity, Association of Theological Schools (ATS) 2019: Vice Chair, Asian and Asian American Presidents and Deans, Association of Theological Schools (ATS) 2003: Doctor of Theology, Harvard Divinity School, Cambridge, MA
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