founder of the Merom Institute (renamed the Merom Conference Center), Chairman of the department of social ethics in the University of Chicago Divinity School, regional consultant for the India, Burma, and Ceylon foreign work survey of the YMCA and YWCA, visiting professor at the Tata School of Social Service, India 1936–1937. Fred Eastman — ACPE pioneer and colleague of Anton Boisen, Union Theological Seminary (Manhattan) alumni, and professor of Biography, Literature, and Drama. Victor Obenhaus — Union Theological Seminary (Manhattan) alumni, author, professor of Christian ethics, National Council of Churches leader, prison reform advocate. André LaCocque — Founder of the Center for Jewish, Christian and Islamic Studies at CTS, Professor Emeritus of Old Testament at Chicago Theological Seminary, colleague of and co-author with Paul Ricœur, winner of the Gordon J. Laing Award, prolific author. W. Widick Schroeder — Political and Process Theologian, professor of religion and society Emeritus at CTS Rabbi Herman Schaalman — Activist, rabbi, scholar, son of Dachau concentration camp survivor, rabbi emeritus of Congregation Emanuel, past president of the Council of Religious Leaders of Metropolitan Chicago, honoree of the Herman Schaalman Chair of Jewish Studies at Chicago Theological Seminary. Yoshio Fukuyama — Theologian and religious pioneer, father of Francis Fukuyama Wilhelm Pauck — German-American church historian and historical theologian in the field of Reformation studies Notable current faculty Theodore W. Jennings, Jr. — Professor of Biblical and Constructive Theology Ken Stone — Professor of Bible, Culture and Hermeneutics John H. Thomas — Visiting Professor in Church Ministries Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite — author, former CTS president, syndicated columnist, ordained minister, activist, theologian, and translator of the Bible Rachel Mikva — Rabbi Herman E. Schaalman Associate Professor of Jewish Studies, director of the Center for Jewish, Christian and Islamic Studies Rami Nashashibi — community organizer and American Muslim activist who co-founded and continues to serve as the executive director of the Inner-City Muslim Action Network (IMAN) Notable alumni Jesse Jackson Sr. — American civil rights activist, politician, and Baptist minister. (M.Div., 2000) John W. de Gruchy — Anti-Apartheid leader, Karl Barth Prize award recipient, former Robert Selby Taylor Professor of Christian Studies at University of Cape Town, and an Extraordinary Professor at the University of Stellenbosch. Jeremiah Wright, Jr. — Pastor Emeritus of Trinity United Church of Christ, and black liberation theologian. (1982, D.D.) Florence Amanda Fensham — First woman in the US awarded a degree from a seminary