Kathryn E. Tanner

Tanner joined Yale Divinity School in 2010 after teaching at the University of Chicago Divinity School for sixteen years and in Yale's Department of Religious Studies for ten. Her work relates the history of Christian thought to contemporary issues of theological concern using social, cultural, and feminist theory. Tanner is a past president of the American Theological Society, the oldest theological society in the United States. For eight years she has been a member of the Theology Committee that advises the Episcopal Church's House of Bishops. In the academic year 2010-11, she had a Luce Fellowship to research financial markets and the critical perspectives that Christian theology can bring to bear on them. In 2015-16, she delivered the Gifford Lectures at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland.