Kittredge appointed to Academic Dean at Seminary of the Southwest
Apr 07, 2010
Cynthia Briggs Kittredge will assume responsibilities of Academic Dean at Seminary of the Southwest on June 1, 2010. She follows Alan P.R. Gregory who has held the three-year appointment for two terms. At the conclusion of this academic year, Dr. Gregory will return to full time teaching as professor of church history.
Professor Kittredge is the Ernest J. Villavaso, Jr. Professor of New Testament at the seminary. She holds three graduate degrees, including the Th.D., from Harvard Divinity School. A priest in the Episcopal Church, Cynthia is canonically resident in the Diocese of Texas and serves on the staff at Good Shepherd Episcopal Church in Austin. She also is serving on the steering group for Theological Education in the Anglican Communion.
The Rev. Dr. Gregory's achievements in office are notable and numerous. He has successfully guided the seminary through reaccreditation processes with both the Association of Theological Schools and the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. He oversaw the reorganization of the seminary's counseling and non-ordination programs into the Center for Christian Ministry and Vocation and led the process to establish a new degree in the seminary's curriculum, the Master of Arts in Spiritual Formation.
Professor Gregory has played a key role in hiring more than half of the seminary's current fulltime faculty, who are scholars, gifted teachers, and mature Christians fully devoted to the formation of Christian leaders to serve the church and the world.
Dr. Gregory is the author of Moving Gnomes by Midnight, a volume of sermons, and Coleridge and the Conservative Imagination, in addition to being a contributor to the Oxford Guide to Romanticism and Coleridge's Assertion of Religion. His third book, Quenching Hell, an introduction to the Anglican mystic, William Law, was published in October 2008. He joined Seminary of the Southwest faculty in 1995 and was appointed Academic Dean in 2004.
Earlier this year, Kittredge was appointed dean of community life at the seminary. An announcement regarding her replacement is pending.