Rachel A. Heath

Theology and Practice Fellow | Graduate Department of Religion at Vanderbilt University

Rachel A. Heath is a PhD student and a Theology and Practice Fellow in the Graduate Department of Religion at Vanderbilt University (Nashville, TN, USA). Her research interests and publications center on the confluences of multiple religious belonging, theologies of multiplicity, queer and feminist theories and theologies, multifaith chaplaincy, and interfaith praxis. She holds an M.Div. from Yale Divinity School and a certificate in Religion and the Arts through the Yale Institute of Sacred Music. Prior to doctoral studies, she worked in various capacities at the University of Chicago. She has served on the executive committee (2015-2017) for the National Association of College and University Chaplains (NACUC) and was a 2011 seminary fellow with the Fellowship at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics (FASPE). She currently serves on the leadership council for the newly emerging Association for Interreligious/Interfaith Studies (AIIS).