Ann Milliken Pederson, Ph.D., M.Div., Th.M., M.A.

Biography 

Dr. Ann Milliken Pederson teaches Christian theology, with particular emphases in religion and medical sciences, feminist theologies, theology and the arts and Lutheran constructive theology. She is also an adjunct professor in the Section for Ethics and Humanities at the Sanford School of Medicine of the University of South Dakota. Pederson has written five books: Where in the World is God? Variations on a Theme (Chalice Press, 1998), God, Creation, and All That Jazz (Chalice Press, 2001), The Music of Creation, co-authored with the Rev. Dr. Canon Arthur Peacocke, (Fortress Press, 2006), The Geography of God's Incarnation: Landscapes and Narratives of Faith (Wipf and Stock, 2013) and Our Bodies Are Selves, co-authored with Philip Hefner and Susan Barreto (Wipf and Stock, 2015). She has also authored entries in the Oxford Handbook of Religion and Science, and numerous articles in Zygon, Word and World, Religions and other periodicals. Pederson is a graduate of Montana State University, with a B.A. in music, United Theological Seminary (MARS) and Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago (M.Div., M.T.S. and Ph.D). Pederson was the Stanley L. Olson Chair of Moral Values (2002-05), received the Niebuhr Excellence in Teaching Award (2002), was one of two recipients of the Carole Bland Cultivating Faculty Excellence Endowment in 2010-11, received the Augustana Student Association Faculty Recognition Award in 2010, was awarded Our Savior's Lutheran Church Chair in Religion in 2012-14, received the Charles and Jane Zaloudek Faculty Research Award in May 2017 and is a fellow in the International Society of Science and Religion. Pederson is also an ordained pastor in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA).