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Susan E. Henking is a scholar of religious studies and the 14th president of Shimer College in Chicago. She was appointed to this position in July 2012. Henking is the first female president of this small Great Books college since its 19th-century founder, Frances Shimer, ceded control to the University of Chicago in 1896.〔 Henking is one of the small number of openly lesbian college presidents. In an interview with Chicago's ''Windy City Times'', Henking said of Shimer, "I have never been in a place that is more welcoming; it's amazingly welcoming on the LGBT front." Henking blogs frequently on higher education and other topics on the ''Huffington Post'' and also ''ChicagoNow''. In the past she was also a regular contributor to ''Religion Dispatches'', an online magazine of religion, politics and culture. ==Career== Susan Henking received her BA from Duke University in 1977 and her MA from the University of Chicago Divinity School in 1979. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago Divinity School in 1988,〔 and began teaching at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in 1988.〔 Her doctoral dissertation was titled “Protestant Religious Experience and the Rise of American Sociology: A Contextual Study of Varieties of Secularization”.〔 Henking taught at Hobart and William Smith Colleges for more than 20 years, principally in the field of religious studies. She also taught in Women's Studies. In 1992 she received the Faculty Distinguished Teaching Award. She was the founding editor of the "Teaching Religious Studies" series from the American Academy of Religion. In addition to teaching at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Henking served in various administrative roles. She was the interim Dean of Faculty from 1998 to 2001. She headed the Department of Religious Studies from 2002 to 2005 and 2008 to 2009.〔 In addition, before her departure in the summer of 2012, she served as adviser to the Board of Trustees. Henking has also written and taught in the field of LGBT studies. Often her work has been at the junction of LGBT studies and religious studies, as in ''Que(e)rying Religion'' the volume she co-edited in 1997. She co-chaired the department of LGBT studies at HWS, which was the first such program in the nation to offer a major. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Susan Henking」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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