Welcome to the Wabash Center
The Wabash Center supports theology and religion faculty and doctoral students reflecting on their teaching practice — in both theological education and undergraduate education, in the United States and Canada. We facilitate faculty conversations about the goals and processes of teaching and student learning. Our programming develops faculty skills for critical reflection on teaching practice.
We are fully funded by Lilly Endowment Inc.
We have a very small professional staff that facilitates our various programs. For the most part, our programs are designed and led by faculty from across the country who have participated in previous Wabash Center programming. Our strategy is to cultivate workshop participants to become leaders of future workshops — and contributors to the full range of Wabash Center programming and resources.
We convene Summer Teaching Workshops, which include honorarium and reimbursed travel expenses.
Our grant program and consultants support faculty conversations about teaching on your campus.
We convene sessions on teaching at the annual AAR-SBL conference and the annual meeting of ETS.
We publish a peer-reviewed journal, a blog series, and provide other resources for teachers.
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800-655-7117
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Lilly Endowment Funding
Lilly Endowment renews support with a new three-year 7.75 million dollar grant funding Wabash Center activities from 2015 through 2018.
Feature Article
The Wabash Center workshops provide a place for teachers of theology and religion to share ideas, reflect on practices and keep pace with a fast-changing environment — and to relax and have fun.
- October 2020
Rachel Mills: New Administrative Assistant
Andrew Sinclair Hudson: New Associate Director - July 2020
Stacie Cordell: New Grants & Finance Administrator - June 2019
Dr. Nancy Lynne Westfield Named Director - May 2019
She Wren Retires - April 2019
Carly Dannenmueller: New Digital Communications Coordinator - December 2018
Dena Pence Announces Retirement - April 2017
Beth Reffett assumes position of Meeting Coordinator - April 2016
Rita Arthur retiring as Grants Coordinator - March 2016
Mary Stimming: New Associate Director - Summer 2013
Wabash Celebrates 1000th Workshop Participants
- July 2011
Lilly Renews Support with 6.2 Million Dollar Grant - April 2010
New “Insights into Religion” Web Portal - July 2009
Lilly Endowment Awards $8.1 Million Grant to Continue Wabash Center Work - April 2009
Wabash Center Launches a New Logo - November 2008
Wabash Mourns the Death of Bill Placher - April 2008
Wabash Center Moves to a New Building - January 2007
New Website Launched - June 2006
Nadine (Dena) S. Pence Named Director of the Wabash Center