Rev. Dr. Shauna Hannan | Workshop Facilitator

President of the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago

The Rev. Dr. Shauna Hannan is President of the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago (LSTC). Prior to joining LSTC, she served as Professor of Homiletics at Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary and as Core Doctoral Faculty for the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, CA. Her previous calls also include Professor of Preaching at Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary in Columbia, SC; and parish pastor at Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd in Moorhead, MN. Among other publications, Dr. Hannan is the co-author, with filmmaker Gael Chandler, of Scripting a Sermon: Using the Wisdom of Filmmaking for Impactful Preaching (WJKP, 2024); the author of The Peoples’ Sermon: Preaching as a Ministry of the Whole Congregation (Fortress, 2021); and co-editor of Eco-Lutheranism: Lutheran Perspectives on Ecology. Ordained in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) since 1998, Dr. Hannan holds her M.Div. from Luther Seminary and the Ph.D. from Princeton Theological Seminary.