The Reverend Micah T.J. Jackson email
Assistant Professor of Homiletics.
A candidate for the Ph.D. degree in Homiletics at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, Calif., Rev. Jackson joined the Seminary of the Southwest faculty in June 2008. His academic interests include the spiritual discipline of preaching, homiletic form and postmodern construction of the relationship between preacher and congregation. During his doctoral studies, he taught at Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary, Church Divinity School of the Pacific and the Graduate Theological Union. His courses ranged from “New Media in Worship and Preaching” to “Political Preaching.” Rev. Jackson is slated to be an instructor of the Episcopal Preaching Foundation’s Preaching Excellence Program in Summer 2008. He had been an Associated Clergy at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in Berkeley for two years before moving to Austin.
MDiv, Meadville Lombard Theological School. M.T.S., Seabury-Western Theological Seminary. Ph.D. (candidate), Graduate Theological Union.

Dr. Nathan G. Jennings email
Assistant Professor of Liturgics and Anglican Studies.
A native of Austin, Professor Jennings returned to his hometown when he joined the faculty of the Seminary of the Southwest in 2005. Dr. Jennings came to the seminary from the University of Virginia. In teaching liturgy, Jennings seeks to explore and reflect upon how liturgy places the Christian in contact with God and reality. Jennings’ approach to liturgy is therefore theological, and he is committed to liturgy as the living context of theological reflection. His research interests include liturgics, dogmatics, asceticism and theological hermeneutics. Jennings' dissertation engages the relationship between Christian asceticism, liturgical discipline and the practice of Christian dogmatic theology.
B.A., University of Texas. MDiv, Yale Divinity School. M.A., Ph.D., University of Virginia.

Ms. Ellen Jockusch email
Director of the Master’s Program in Pastoral Counseling, Spiritual Formation and Chaplaincy.
Ellen Jockusch has 25 years of experience in higher education – coordinating academic programs and advising students at the University of Texas. She served as director of the Texas Union Informal Class Program and developed the pilot program for Freshman Interest Groups, in which 1,000 UT students are now enrolled and which is recognized nationally as a model for learning communities. In addition, Ms. Jockusch was the academic coordinator of the interdisciplinary honors program, Plan II, where she had extensive experience with curriculum development, academic advising and working with adjunct, as well as tenured, faculty. Ms. Jockusch is a graduate of St. Stephen’s Episcopal School and a life-long Episcopalian who believes in the importance of theological education and spiritual community in the formation of Christians for lay ministry and service.
A.B., Stanford University. M.A., University of Texas.

Dr. Donald E. Keeney email
Director of the Booher Library.
Dr. Keeney has been Director of the Booher Library since the beginning of 2007. Prior to coming to the seminary, he was director of seminary libraries in metropolitan New York City, Charlotte, North Carolina, and Kansas City, Kansas. He has also taught classes in research methods, Greek, Hebrew, and other courses. Dr. Keeney considers the library a central component during seminary and in active ministry. The library therefore seeks to include resources for both clergy and laity. The Booher Library relies increasingly on computerized resources, providing many full-text articles and books online for both students and alums. Dr. Keeney believes that our energetic and competent staff makes it possible for the Booher Library to contribute significantly to seminary education.
B.A and M.A., Wheaton College. MDiv and Ph.D., Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. M.S.L.S., Columbia University.

The Reverend Cynthia Briggs Kittredge email
Ernest J. Villavaso, Jr., Associate Professor of New Testament.
Educating preachers and teachers to be conscious and responsible interpreters of Scripture, Professor Kittredge is committed to giving students the exegetical and interpretive tools both to appreciate and to critically engage with the biblical texts for theological reflection. Her research specialty is hermeneutics and the letters of Paul. Professor Kittredge, a contributor to the new Oxford Annotated Bible, is the author of Conversations with Scripture: The Gospel of John and Community and Authority: The Rhetoric of Obedience in the Pauline Tradition. She co-edited The Bible in the Public Square: Reading the Signs of the Times and Walk in the Ways of Wisdom: Essays in Honor of Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza. Prior to joining the seminary faculty in the fall of 1999, Professor Kittredge taught at Harvard University and the College of the Holy Cross. She serves as Assisting Priest at the Church of the Good Shepherd in Austin .
B.A., Williams College. MDiv, Th.M. and Th.D., Harvard Divinity School.

The Reverend Kathleen Sams Russell email
Assistant Professor of Contextual Theology for Ministry
Professor Russell brought a range of chaplaincy, parish, and social justice ministry to the Seminary of the Southwest when she joined its faculty in 2005. She has taught in many settings – parishes, programs of Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE), multi-disciplinary rounds in hospitals, workshops in diocesan settings and other small groups. She supervised CPE students at the Center for Urban Ministry in San Diego and the Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, DC. Her areas of expertise include theological reflection and integration, spiritual and pastoral assessment, faith development in the context of human growth and personality, and crisis ministry and intervention. Before coming to Austin, she served three years as acting rector of a San Diego church where she helped the vestry and parishioners through a period of crisis and transition. Prior to ordination, she organized retired and disabled textile workers in South Carolina in the late 1970s and early 80s.
B.A., Daemen College . MDiv, Seabury-Western Theological Seminary.

Dr. Russell E. Schulz email
Associate Professor of Church Music. Organist and Choirmaster.
Professor Schulz’s work focuses on sacred music, especially liturgical music and hymnody, but his real job, he says, is to keep music in the air of the Seminary of the Southwest. He chaired the music committee of The Hymnal 1982 and was tapped by Yale to co-edit its New Hymnal for Colleges and Schools. Formerly Dean of the Evergreen ( Colorado ) Music Conference for many years and past President of the Hymn Society of the U.S. and Canada , he has made presentations on hymnody in the U.S. and in Europe , including an American hymn festival in Westminster Abbey. To further his interest in folkloric (“intuitive”) music, he has interviewed people in the former Communist countries, as well as Copts in Egypt and all sorts of faithful in India , Mexico and Brazil , about how religious music speaks to ordinary folks. Professor Schulz, who has taught at the seminary since 1974, is composer of about 250 published works. He also is Director of Music at the Church of the Good Shepherd in Austin.
B.Mus., Valparaiso University. M.Mus., Union Theological Seminary. D.M.A., University of Texas.

Dr. Jana Strukova
Assistant Professor of Christian Education and Formation.
A native of former Czechoslovakia, Dr. Strukova came to this country in the mid-1990s to study Christian education. Her cross-cultural experiences give her a global lens and a spirit of tolerance while empowering her with a voice for witnessing to the struggle of the oppressed faith and to the sustaining gift of God’s grace in Christ. Dr. Strukova, who enjoys exploring the relationship between faith and a person’s socio-cultural situation, is committed to nurturing young people in values and habits that assist in building a just and socially-minded society. Before joining the seminary faculty in 2008, she was pastor of a Lutheran church, youth minister and Christian educator. She was a postdoctoral Fellow in Religious Practices at Emory University during the last academic year where she researched faith-based transformative practices that nurture and sustain youth in their life of faith – namely, the practices of table talking, care giving and sharing commons.
M.Ed., Philosophical Faculty of Safarik University. M.A.R. and S.T.M., Lutheran Theological Seminary. Ph.D., Princeton Theological Seminary.

Dr. Corinne Ware email
Assistant Professor of Ascetical Theology.
Dr. Ware teaches courses in spirituality. She was a clinical therapist specializing in work with adults, in marital therapy and spiritual formation at the Samaritan Counseling Center, St. Joseph, Mo., for seven years before joining the faculty and administration of the Seminary of the Southwest in the fall of 1997. A Fellow of the American Association of Pastoral Counselors and a licensed marriage and family therapist, she holds the Doctor of Ministry degree in pastoral counseling. Dr. Ware has written three books on spirituality: Saint Benedict on the Freeway, published by Abingdon, Discovering Your Spiritual Type and Connecting to God: Nurturing Spirituality Through Small Groups, both published by the Alban Institute. She is also the author of What Is Liturgy?, a Forward Movement publication.
B.S., Texas Christian University. MAR, Episcopal Theological Seminary of the Southwest. D.Min., Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.

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