Kara Slade

Associate Chaplain | Princeton University
The Rev. Dr. Kara Slade serves as Associate Chaplain at the Episcopal chaplaincy to Princeton University and Associate Rector at Trinity Church in Princeton. She is also a member of the faculty at Princeton Theological Seminary, where she teaches Anglican Studies and advises the Episcopal/Anglican student cohort. A native of Pensacola, Florida and lifelong Southerner, Kara received her PhD in Christian theology and ethics at Duke University in 2018, with research interests that include Karl Barth, Søren Kierkegaard, and the ethics of science, technology, and medicine. A former specialist in the dynamics of nonlinear and complex systems, she earned the BSE, MS, and PhD in mechanical engineering and materials science at the Duke Pratt School of Engineering (and served on the faculty there) before joining NASA as a research engineer. After leaving government service, she returned to Duke in 2009 as a student in the Divinity School, and stayed on for her second doctorate. She serves on the Committee for the Priesthood of the Diocese of New Jersey and the General Board of Examining Chaplains of the Episcopal Church, and is also the chair of the Society of Scholar-Priests.