TIMOTHY K.

SNYDER
CURRICULUM VITAE
Doctoral Fellow in Practical Theology Boston University

Boston University School of Theology 745 Commonwealth Ave. Boston, MA, 02215 830.305.0774 tksnyder@bu.edu www.about.me/timothysnyder

Education
In progress 2011 2008 Ph.D. M.A. B.A. Boston University Luther Seminary Texas Lutheran University

Awards & Honors

2012-2013 2012-2015 ELCA Educational Grant Doctoral Fellowship Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Boston University

Teaching & Research Assistantships

Spring 2012 Teaching Assistant Reading the Audiences with Professor Mary Sue Dreier & Professor Lois Malcolm Transforming Missional Ministries with Professor Mary Sue Dreier Luther Seminary, St. Paul, Minnesota. Teaching Assistant Reading the Audiences with Professor Mary Due Dreier and Professor Lois Malcolm Starting New Missional Ministries with Professor Mary Sue Dreier Luther Seminary, St. Paul, Minnesota. Research Assistant Professor Christian Scharen with The Learning Pastoral Imagination Project (Lilly Research Grant) and Ecclesiology and Ethnography Research GroupUSA. Luther Seminary, St. Paul, Minnesota. Teaching Assistant Contemporary & Alternative Worship with Professor Christian Scharen Luther Seminary, St. Paul, Minnesota.

Fall 2011

Fall 2011

Spring 2011

Publications
Official Study Guide to Broken Hallelujahs: Why Popular Music Matters to Those Seeking God (Christian Scharen, Brazos Press, 2001). Fall 2011. Available at www.christianscharen.com/broken-hallelujahs. Curating Worship, Culture and The Church (article), Lutheran Forum, Summer 2011. Improvising with Tradition: A Case (Self) Study (book chapter) in The Hyphenateds: How Emergence Christianity is Re-Traditioning Mainline Practice, Phil Snider, editor. Chalice Press, 2011. The Deep, Local and Relational Church: Towards a More Hope-filled Ecclesiology (senior thesis) in The Body of Christ: Essays on Ecclesiology, The Department of Theology, Philosophy & Classical Languages, Texas Lutheran University, May 2008.

Conference Papers & Presentations

Experimentation & Assimilation: Collective Religious Identities in Settled and Unsettled Cultures at The American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting. A session sponsored by the Ecclesiological Investigations Group. November 17-20, 2012. Chicago, Illinois. Popular Christianity in Sports Media: Tim Tebow as Self-Made Caricature of a Prophet with Kevin M. Snyder. A paper presentation at The Christian Evasion of Popular Culture Conference. November 1-3, 2012. Sponsored by Dordt College, Sioux Center, Iowa. Social Media as Convergent Practice: Why Social Media is Not Just Another Mission Field (conference workshop) at The Symposium on Youth and Mission, The Annual Meeting of the American Society of Missiology. June 2012. Chicago, Illinois. Irony & Theology: Ethnographic Insights on the Church in Unsettled Culture (paper presentation) at The Conference on Ecclesiology & Ethnography. Sponsored by Luther Seminary and The Ecclesiology and Ethnography Research Group (US-UK). May 21-22, 2012. St. Paul, Minnesota. The Swell Season v. Former US Representative Anthony Weiner: A Comparative Case Study on Performative Relationality as Mediated Via Twitter (paper presentation) at The International Conference on Digital Religion. January 12-15, 2012. Sponsored by The Center for Media, Religion & Culture, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado. Theological Imagination & Wisdom in Alternative Worship (public presentation). August 21, 2011 at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Theology as a Response to a Wound: Reflections on Church Planting (guest lecture) in CL 4530 Starting New Missional Ministries with Professor Mary Sue Dreier, Spring 2011, Luther Seminary, St. Paul, Minnesota. Improvising with Tradition: Christian Identity, Creativity and Diversity in Practice (paper presentation), Changing Contours of Christian Unity Panel at Changing Contours in World Christianity and Mission. November 5, 2010 at Boston College. Sponsored by the Boston Theological Institute, Boston, Massachusetts. Improvising with Tradition: A Case Study in Alternative Worship & Missions in the United Kingdom (public presentation). April 2010. Sponsored by The Center for Missional Leadership at Luther Seminary, St. Paul, Minnesota. Dispatches from an Emerging Ministry: The Netzer Co-Op (guest lecture) in CL 4530 Starting New Missional Ministries with Professor Mary Sue Dreier, Spring 2010. Luther Seminary, St. Paul, Minnesota.

Professional Experience
2008 2010-2012 2007-2009 Executive Editor (2011), Managing Editor (2008-2011) GENERATE Magazine. San Antonio, Texas. Founding Director/Lay minister The Heights Center for Hope at Hope Lutheran Church (ELCA). Saint Paul, Minnesota. Mission Developer/Lay pastor The Netzer Co-Op, A Mission Community of the Southwest Texas Synod, ELCA. Austin, Texas.

Professional ServiceChurch & Academy

2012 Assessment Advisory Committee, Office of the Academic Dean Task Force on Assessment for Program Redesign & Curricular Revision Luther Seminary. St. Paul, Minnesota. Advisory Group The Center for Religion, Youth and Community Engagement Augsburg College, Minneapolis, Minnesota. RepresentativeGraduate Theological Education & Liaison to the Faculty Academic Concerns Committee Student Council, Luther Seminary. St. Paul, Minnesota. Member Editorial Board, Theology & Philosophy: The Journal of the Department of Theology, Philosophy and Classical Languages, Texas Lutheran University. Seguin, Texas. Consultant The Emerging Ministry Strategy Team, Evangelical Outreach & Congregational Mission Program Unit, ELCA. Chicago, Illinois. Advisory Member The Church Council/Board of Directors, The Churchwide (National) Organization of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). Chicago, Illinois Advisory Member The Board of the Lutheran Youth OrganizationELCA. Chicago, Illinois.

2011-2012

2011-2012

2008

2008

2003-2005

2003-2006

Professional Membership
American Academy of Religion Association of Practical Theology Ecclesiology & Ethnography Research Network

Research Interests
Constructive theology20th century Jrgen Moltmann & Dietrich Bonhoeffer Theories of Practice/Practical Theology Theological & Social Ethics Religion, Media & Culture Worship/Liturgical Studies Ritual Studies & Memorialization Theology and the Arts Public & Political Theology Social Sciences/Cultural Studies Social Theory, Sociology of Culture, Sociology of Religion, Cultural Anthropology/Ethnography (Qualitative Methods) Spirituality & Formation