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M. Jan Holton

Assistant Professor of Pastoral Care and Counseling

jan.holton@yale.edu

B.A. Randolph Macon College
M.Div. Union Theological Seminary (Richmond)
Ph.D. Vanderbilt University

Professor Holton’s most recent research focuses on the dynamics of trauma and resilience in refugee populations.
For her dissertation, “Nowhere Left to Run: Pastoral Theology Interprets Community and the Lost Boys of Sudan,” Professor Holton conducted field research among the Lost Boys in Kakuma refugee camp, Kenya. She has also conducted field work in such war- and disaster-ravaged areas as Sarajevo, Bosnia, and Nicaragua. Her other research and teaching interests include intercultural pastoral theology (especially ethnographic perspectives of suffering), medical anthropology, pastoral care in times of crisis (death, dying, grief, addiction, the transition of hope, hospital ministry), and ritual in pastoral care. Her pastoral and clinical experience includes chaplaincy at a level-one trauma center. Professor Holton is an ordained elder in the United Methodist Church.