Victor Anderson

Oberlin Alumni Professor of Christian Ethics
Professor of African American and Diaspora Studies and Religious Studies

Victor Anderson is the Oberlin Alumni Professor of Christian Ethics at the Divinity School. He is also the Professor of African American and Diaspora Studies and Religious Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences. He holds theological degrees from Calvin Theological Seminary including the Master of Divinity and Master of Theology in Philosophical and Moral Theology. He earned the M.A and Ph.D. in Religion from Princeton University in Religion, Ethics, and Politics (1991, 1992). Anderson has published three books: Beyond Ontological Blackness: An Essay in African American Religious and Cultural Criticism ([1995] 1999), Pragmatic Theology: Negotiating the Intersection of an American Philosophy of Religion and Public Theology (1999), and Creative Exchange: A Constructive Theology of African American Religious Experience (2008). His work seeks to help people find meaning, significance, and hope in their experience of the world. In 2000, Anderson was honored by the Chancellor of Vanderbilt University as a Distinguished Faculty member for his commitment to advancing diversity in education.