Dr. Natalia Marandiuc

Professor of Systematic Theology | Perkins School of Theology, SMU

Natalia Marandiuc is Assistant Professor of Systematic Theology at Perkins School of Theology, SMU, where she also serves as affiliate faculty in the Religious Studies graduate program. Her first book, The Goodness of Home: Human and Divine Love and the Making of the Self was published by Oxford University Press in 2018 and won the Aldersgate Prize. She is currently writing her second monograph, provisionally titled Love and Human Thriving: A Feminist Soteriology, and has received a Templeton award to support this work. She co-chairs the Christian Systematic Theology Unit at the American Academy of Religion. She earned her Ph.D. in religious studies, with a specialization in systematic theology, from Yale University.