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Debbie Brubaker

Director of Online and Hybrid Programs; Lecturer

Debbie Brubaker is the Director of Online and Hybrid Programs at the Boston University School of Theology and oversees the Doctor of Ministry degree in Transformational Leadership as well as the newest online program, the Master of Arts in Religion and Public Leadership. 

Dr. Brubaker holds a PhD in Religion from Vanderbilt University. She was a fellow with Vanderbilt’s Theology and Practice Program, the Public Theology and Racial Justice Collaborative, and a Mellon Graduate Fellow for the Digital Humanities. She holds a Master of Divinity from Boston University School of Theology. 

In addition to her work in educational technologies and online pedagogy for theological education, her current research uses methods from cultural anthropology, digital humanities, and constructive Christian theology to assess how white Christian churches develop responses to anti-Black racism. She is also interested in the role of digital technologies in contemporary religious practice and connections between affect and religious experience. 

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