B.A., Hampden-Sydney College, 1991
M.Div., Duke University Divinity School, 1996
Ph.D. Boston College, 2006

Mark Gammon is Assistant Professor of Religion with a specialization in theological ethics.  His dissertation, “A Fatal But Sure Sign: Moral Theology and Jewish Suffering,” is a critique of post-Holocaust moral theology and an attempt to reclaim the christocentric traditions of rescuers for contemporary Christian practice.  He is active in the ongoing scholarly conversation between Christianity and Judaism, presenting at the international conference on genocide, Remembering for the Future, in Oxford, England in 2000 and publishing in the conference proceedings.  In 2006, he was a participant in a National Endowment for the Humanities summer seminar, “Representations of the ‘Other’: Jews in Medieval Christendom” at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies in Oxford, England.

Dr. Gammon came to Simpson College in 2003 from the Institute for Communitarian Policy Studies at George Washington University, a public policy think tank, where he served as a research associate, writing extensively on cross-cultural moral theory, international relations, and First Amendment law and co-editing a volume of the Chicago-Kent Law Review  dealing with the First Amendment rights of children.  He is the author of a chapter on free speech and the protection of children in a volume on church-state relations in the U.S. forthcoming from Praeger Press. He also has published reviews in the fields of Christian social ethics and biomedical ethics.  His current research interests include Jewish-Christian relations, virtue ethics, Reformed and post-liberal theology, Puritanism, and revolutionary theory.  He teaches several classes dealing with various aspects of religious ethics, as well as introductory classes in biblical studies, American religion, and the Western tradition.

Office: Mary Berry 221
(515) 961-1685
mark.gammon@simpson.edu