About
Nicholas Rowe (PhD, Boston College) is the Hansen Associate Professor of Leadership at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. He has more than thirty years of higher education experience in faculty and senior administrative roles. Most recently, he was Associate Vice President for Student and Global Engagement at Gordon College. He spent the previous ten years on the faculty of St Augustine College of South Africa in Johannesburg, culminating in the role of Academic Dean and Interim President.
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His teaching and research interests investigate how communities use the past to form collective identities and how this fuels intergroup conflict. He spent over twenty years consulting about cross-racial and cross-ethnic reconciliation and conflict resolution. He also provided pastoral counseling and spiritual direction for reconciling communities in the USA and South Africa.
His international experiences in higher education have convinced him that this is a strategic point in world history and that communities worldwide require leaders who are lively in imagination, protective of human dignity, relentless in pursuit of the common good, and attentive in spirit.
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Dr. Rowe and his wife, writer Sheila Wise Rowe, live in Massachusetts, near their adult children and grandchild.
Awards, Scholarships and Grants
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Lift Every Voice and Teach: Teaching Race, Memory, Justice, and Reconciliation.Workgroup of The Projecton Lived Theology (PLT), University of Virginia, 2021 - Present
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Benjamin Ryan Chair of Religious and Values Education, St. Augustine College of South Africa, 2011 - 2014
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Fellow, Institute on Race and Social Division, Boston University, 2001 - 2002
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Fellow, National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute, W. E. B. Dubois Center for Afro-American Studies, Harvard University, 2000
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Eastern Nazarene College Teaching Excellence Award, 1997 Harry Frank Guggenheim Dissertation Fellow, 1993 - 1994
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Boston College University Fellow, 1989 - 1993
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Doctor of Philosophy in History, Boston College, 1990 - 1997
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Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1980 - 1985