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Steed Vernyl Davidson named VP of academic affairs and dean at McCormick Theological Seminary

The faculty voted unanimously to make him dean.

Steed Vernyl David­son became vice president of academic af­fairs and dean of the faculty at Mc­Cormick Theo­logi­cal Seminary in Chicago.

Anna Case-Winters, chair of the search committee, said the faculty voted unanimously to make Davidson dean for a three-year term, adding that he “has a real vision and vocation for this work.”

Davidson, who is also professor of Hebrew Bible, is author of Empire and Exile: Postcolonial Readings of the Book of Jeremiah. Originally from Trinidad and Tobago, he coedited the book Islands, Islanders and the Bible. His research areas also include refugee studies and forced migration.