Susan Eastman

Associate Research Professor of New Testament | Duke Divinity School

Susan Grove Eastman is Associate Research Professor of New Testament at the Duke Divinity School. Her research focuses on Paul’s letters in relationship to the formation and transformation of Christian identity. Among her most recent books, Paul and the Person: Reframing Paul’s Anthropology (2017)—a study of identity formation through a close reading of key Pauline texts in conversation with contemporary experimental psychology, philosophy, and neuroscience—and Recovering Paul’s Mother Tongue (2007). Ordained in the Episcopal Church, she has served churches from New York to Alaska.