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Dr. Sarah Conrad Sours serves as Professor of Theological Ethics, Vice President for Academic Affairs, and Dean of the Faculty at Huntingdon College, a United Methodist institution, since joining the faculty in 2013. Prior to Huntingdon, she taught at King’s College in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, and Southwestern College in Winfield, Kansas. She earned her Ph.D. in Christian Theology and Ethics from Duke University, with a dissertation titled Mapping Suffering: Pain, Illness, and Happiness in the Thought of John Wesley, supervised by Stanley Hauerwas, focusing on suffering and bioethics. She also holds a Master of Divinity from Duke Divinity School and an Honors Bachelor of Arts in English and Music from the University of Delaware. Appointed to her current administrative roles effective June 1, 2023, she previously served as associate vice president for academic assessment and accreditation support and associate dean of faculty, while progressing from assistant to associate professor of religion.

Dr. Sours's research specializations include bioethics, scriptural ethics, academic integrity, and courtesy. She is authoring a book under contract with Cascade Books, tentatively titled O Give Me That Book!: Scripture in the Wesleyan Tradition. Key publications encompass “Disabling Hope: Healing Imagery in the Wesleyan Hymn Tradition” in the Journal of Wesley and Methodist Studies 12.2 (June 2020); “Mad Manners: Courtesy, Conflict, and Social Change” in The Universe is Indifferent: Philosophical, Theological and Religious Reflections on Mad Men, edited by Ann Duncan and Jacob Goodson (Cascade Books, 2016); and entries “Asceticism,” “Quality of Life,” and “Tolerance” in the Dictionary of Scripture and Ethics, edited by Joel Green, Jacqueline Lapsley, Rebekah Miles, and Allen Verhey (Brazos Press, 2011). She has published book reviews in the Journal of Disability and Religion, Modern Theology, Wesleyan Theological Journal, and Scottish Journal of Theology. A John Wesley Senior Fellow, Dr. Sours contributes significantly to theological scholarship and institutional leadership.