Mark D. Jordan


Mark D. Jordan is a scholar of Christian theology, European philosophy, and gender studies. He is currently the Andrew Mellon Professor of Christian Thought at Harvard Divinity School and Professor of the Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality in the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
At Harvard, he teaches courses on the Western traditions of Christian theology, the relations of religion to art or literature, and the prospects for sexual ethics. Jordan also writes on gender, sexuality, and the relationship between religious doctrine and LGBT issues. In addition to his scholarship and classroom teaching, Jordan has discussed sexual and religious issues to audiences that range from college lectureships to National Public Radio, the New York Times, and CNN.
Jordan's most recent books are Teaching Bodies: Moral Formation in the Summa of Thomas Aquinas and Convulsing Bodies: Religion and Resistance in Foucault.

Earlier Affiliations and Awards

Prior to his return to Harvard in 2014, Jordan held endowed professorships at Emory, Washington University at St. Louis, Notre Dame and at Harvard.
In 2019, it was announced that Jordan would be elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2011, Jordan won the annual Randy Shilts Award for nonfiction for his book, Recruiting Young Love: How Christians Talk about Homosexuality. He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Fulbright-Hays grant, a Luce Fellowship in Theology, and a grant from the Ford Foundation.

Early life and education

Jordan received his BA from St. John’s College and his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin. He grew up in Dallas, where he graduated from St. Mark's School of Texas.

Books