The Reverend Kathleen Sams Russell
Assistant Professor of Contextual Theology for Ministry
512.472.4133 ext 337
Professor Russell brought a range of chaplaincy, parish, and social justice ministry to Seminary of the Southwest when she joined its faculty in 2005. She has taught in many settings - parishes, programs of Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE), 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, pastoral care, vocational 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. Currently she is a candidate for a Doctor of Ministry degree from Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary in Austin, Texas, with a concentration in Christian Nurture.
B.A., Daemen College. M.Div., Seabury-Western Theological Seminary.
