Jennifer M. McBride, Ph.D.

 Jennifer M. McBride (Ph.D. University of Virginia) is Associate Dean and Associate Professor at McCormick Theological Seminary. Prior to McCormick, McBride held the Board of Regents Endowed Chair in Ethics at Wartburg College in Iowa (2011-2016) and was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Initiative in Religious Practices and Practical Theology at Emory University (2008-2009). At Emory, she served as program director for the Atlanta Theological Association’s Certificate in Theological Studies at Metro State Prison for Women (2009-2011). She founded a similar program through McCormick at Cook County Department of Corrections and serves as the academic representative of McCormick’s Solidarity Building Initiative.

McBride is author of Radical Discipleship: A Liturgical Politics of the Gospel (Fortress Press, 2017), The Church for the World: A Theology of Public Witness (Oxford University Press, 2011), and is co-editor of Bonhoeffer and King: Their Legacies and Import for Christian Social Thought (Fortress Press, 2010). Her most recent essays include “Bonhoeffer and Feminist Theologies” in The Oxford Handbook of Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2019) and “Bonhoeffer’s Critique of Morality: A Theological Resource for Dismantling Mass Incarceration” in Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Theology, and Political Resistance (2020). In addition to scholarly journals and anthologies, her work has appeared in popular publications like The Christian Century and CNN.com and has been featured in The New York Times.

Courses Taught:

• Introduction to Theological Reflection (Spring 2019, Fall 2019)

• Prison Abolition and a New Social Order and Meeting Unmet Needs (Summer 2020)

• The Theology and Ethics of Martin Luther King (Fall 2020)