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Dr Susanna Snyder

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ssnyder@sarum.ac.uk

Bio:

Dr Susanna Snyder is a Visiting Scholar at Sarum College, and a Research Associate with the Susanna Wesley Foundation working on a project exploring understandings, experiences and practices of hope in twenty-first century local communities.

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 becoming Academic Dean at Ripon College Cuddesdon and then Director of Research at Sarum College.

An associate member of the Faculty of Theology and Religion at the University of Oxford, her research has focused on faith-based responses to refugees, and her most recent book is Parenting for a Better World: Social Justice Practices for Your Family and the Planet (Chalice Press, 2022).

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.

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