Meet our Faculty

Dr. Olubunmi (Bunmi) Adegbola

Visiting Assistant Professor of New Testament and Louisville Postdoctoral Fellow

Rev. Dr. S. Helen Chukka (She/Her)

Assistant Professor of Hebrew Bible

Dr. Beth Elness-Hanson

Currently on leave to engage her three-year Marie Curie fellowship on Climate Change Mitigation in Maasailand

Rev. Dr. Samuel Giere

Professor of Biblical Interpretation

Dr. Samantha Gilmore

Assistant Professor of Homiletics

Rev. Dr. Kristin Johnston Largen (She/Her)

President

Rev. Dr. Martin J. Lohrmann

Associate Professor of Lutheran Confessions & Heritage

Rev. Dr. Craig L. Nessan

Professor of Contextual Theology and Ethics | The William D. Streng Professor for the Education and Renewal of the Church

Rev. Dr. Cheryl Peterson (She/Her)

Academic Dean and Professor of Ecumenical Theology

Rev. Dr. Jan Schnell (She/They)

Assistant Professor of Liturgics

Dr. Kristine Stache (She/Her)

Professor of Missional Leadership and Loehe Professor in Mission

Rev. Dr. Troy M. Troftgruben (He/Him)

Associate Professor of New Testament | The William A. & John E. Wagner Professor in Biblical Theology

Rev. Dr. Mark Yackel-Juleen

Assistant Professor for Small Town and Rural Ministry

Dr. Man-Hei Yip (She/Her)

Assistant Professor of Systematic Theology