Siobhán Garrigan
Associate professor of liturgical studies and associate dean for Marquand Chapel.
Professor Garrigan is author of Beyond Ritual: Sacramental Theology after Habermas and a former Government of Ireland Humanities Scholar. Before coming to Yale, she taught Religion Today: Tradition, Modernity, and Change at the Open University in Belfast and courses in systematic theology at the Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology. Prior to teaching, she worked extensively with homeless people. She has coordinated numerous worship services for major ecumenical and interfaith gatherings, and published several articles connecting worship, theology, and social justice. In addition to writing about the ecumenical daily worship program in Marquand Chapel which she directs, and the methods for vibrant, participative congregational worship she has developed with Patrick Evans, her current research includes one book on how worship practices relate to sectarianism and an project titled Queer Worship. Her long-standing commitments to ecumenism, feminism, and revitalizing Christian worship recently combined in a volume of LITURGY called New and Borrowed Rites which she co-edited with Janet Walton, and she is co-editing a volume with Todd Johnson on The Role of Seminary Chapels in Theological Education. B.A. Oxford University; S.T.M. Union Theological Seminary, New York; Ph.D. Milltown Institute, Dublin.