The Revd Dr Susanna Snyder

Bio:

Dr Susanna Snyder

Role 
Programme Leader for Short Courses and Director of Research
Lecturer in Theology and Ethics

Usual office hours & location 
Monday and Wednesday (remote)
Tuesday (in college)

About
Susanna is Programme Leader for Short Courses, Director of Research, and Lecturer in Theology and Ethics at Sarum College.

She studied at the Universities of Cambridge (MA) and Birmingham (BATS, PhD), and previously taught at Emory University, Episcopal Divinity School and the University of Texas at Austin in the USA. Before arriving at Sarum, Susanna was Academic Dean at Ripon College Cuddesdon. An associate member of the Faculty of Theology and Religion at the University of Oxford, she also earned a Postgraduate Certificate in Psychodynamic Counselling from Oxford University in 2022.
Susanna is mum to two young children, an Anglican priest, and enjoys edible gardening and running.

Research interests 
Susanna’s research has focused on migration, refugees, theology and faith-based action. Other research interests include spirituality, social justice and the arts; practical theology and qualitative research; parenting and social justice; as well as political theology and Christian ethics more broadly. She is currently working on a research project that explores some contours and practices of hope in our twenty-first century world.

Teaching
Susanna teaches at undergraduate and postgraduate levels in the areas of Christian Ethics, Theology and Social Justice, Theologies and Ethics of Migration, Practical Theology and Research Methods.

Supervision
I welcome enquiries from prospective PhD students interested in Christian ethics, practical theology, and a range of theological topics that intersect with contemporary social and political issues. Possible areas for research projects could include migration and refugees; social justice, theology and the arts; postcolonial and liberation theologies; hope; and practical theology and empirical research.

Professional Memberships & Responsibilities 
Society for the Study of Christian Ethics
British and Irish Association for Practical Theology
Editorial Board, Studies in Christian Ethics, 2024-26
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy/Advance:HE

Selected List of Publications 
Parenting for a Better World: Social Justice Practices for Your Family and The Planet, co-edited with Ellen Ott Marshall. St Louis, MO: Chalice, 2022.

‘Walking, Wounds and Washing Feet—Pedetic Textures of a Theo-Ethical Response to Migration’, Studies in Christian Ethics 32(1) (2018), 3-19.

‘The Art of Wounded Hope: Forced Migration, Prophecy and Aesth/ethics’, Political Theology 19(6) (2018)

Intersections of Religion and Migration: Issues at the Global Crossroads, co-edited with J Saunders and E Fiddian-Qasmiyeh. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.

‘Looking Through the Bars: Immigration Detention and the Ethics of Mysticism’, Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics 35(1) (2015), 167-187.

Church in an Age of Global Migration: A Moving Body, co-edited with A Brazal and J Ralston. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

‘Immigration Detention and Faith-Based Organizations’, Social Work (2015), with H Bell and N Busch-Armendariz. doi: 10.1093/sw/swv004.

‘Unsettled Integration: Pre- and post-migration factors in Congolese refugee women’s resettlement experiences in the United States’, International Social Work (2015), 1-15, with K. Wachter, L Cook Heffron, M Nsonwu and N Busch-Armendariz. DOI: 10.1177/0020872815580049.

Asylum-Seeking, Migration and Church. Farnham: Ashgate, 2012.