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Linda Thomas
United Staets of America
Professor of theology and anthropology, she came to the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago in 2000 from Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary, Evanston, Ill. She has pastored congregations in White Plains and Brooklyn, N.Y., and was dean of students and a lecturer in spiritual formation at Wesley Seminary in Washington, D.C. After earning the doctor of philosophy degree, she taught at Iliff School of Theology in Denver until going to Garrett in 1997. Author of many articles, her book Under the Canopy: Ritual Process and Spiritual Resilience in South Africa, chronicles her field research in a South African village—research she won a Lilly grant to replicate on the south side of Chicago in 2000. She is married to Dwight Hopkins, who teaches at the University of Chicago Divinity School, and they live in Chicago with their daughter Dora.