Current Officers:
President: Antoinette DeNapoli Texas Christian University
Vice President: Timothy Sandoval, Texas Christian University
Executive Director: Richard Wright Abilene Christian University
Current Directors:
Directors Ex Officio:
Antoinette DeNapoli, Texas Christian University (President)
Timothy Sandoval, Texas Christian University (Vice President)
Richard Wright, Abilene Christian University (Executive Director)
Directors Selected by the American Academy of Religion:
Interim President: Cindy Dawson, University of Houston
Past-President: Carl Hughes, Texas Lutheran University
President-elect: Marie Olson Purcell
Vice President: Andrew Lee, University of Central Oklahoma
Chief Regional Officer: Cindy Dawson, University of Houston
Directors Selected by the SWCRS Board of Directors:
Jeanne Stevenson-Moessner, Southern Methodist University (member at large)
Margaret Talbot, Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary (member at large)
Lisa Wolfe, Oklahoma City University (member at large)
Directors Selected by the Association for the Scientific Study of Religion:
President: Dennis Horton, Baylor University
Executive Secretary: Gerhard Stuebben, Baylor University
Treasurer: Dennis Horton, Baylor University
VP Organizational Development: Karol Chandler-Ezell, Stephen F. Auston University
VP Meetings and Programs: David Hocomb, University of Mary Hardin-Baylor
Directors Selected by the Scholars of Biblical and Related Literature:
President: Matthew Calhoun, Texas Christian University
Past-President: Rannfrid Thelle, Wichita State University
President-elect: Rebecca Poe Hays, Truett Seminary, Baylor University
Vice President: Lidija Novakovic, Baylor University
Regional Coordinator: Joseph McDonald, Texas Christian University
Past Officers:
Past Presidents:
2025-26 David Moessner, Texas Christian University
2024-25 Rebecca Huskey, University of Oklahoma
2023-24 Kelley Coblentz Bautch, St. Edwards University
2022-23 Darren J. N. Middleton, Baylor University
2021-22 Mark W. Hamilton, Abilene Christian University
2020-21 Ivette Vargas-O’Bryan, Austin College
2019-20 W. H. Bellinger, Baylor University
2018-19 Stacy L. Patty, Lubbock Christian University
2017-18 Renate Hood, University of Mary Hardin Baylor
2016-17 Eric Mitchell, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
2015-16 James Thompson, Abilene Christian University
2014-15 Steve Ortiz, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
2013-14 Carole Holcomb, University of Mary Hardin-Baylor
2012-13 Mikeal C. Parsons, Baylor University
2011-12 Warren Carter, Brite Divinity School
2010-11 Andrew O. Fort, Texas Christian University
2009-10 Jeffrey Bingham, Dallas Theological Seminary
2008-09 Nadia Lahutsky, Texas Christian University
2007-08 C. Mackenzie Brown, Trinity University
2006-07 Sharyn Dowd, Baylor University
2005-06 C. David Grant, Texas Christian University
2004-05 Jesse Long, Lubbock Christian University
2003-04 Francisco Garcia-Treto, Trinity University
2002-03 Amy Oden, Oklahoma City University; Stephen Stell, Austin College
2001-02 Stephen B. Reid, Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary
2000-01 James Moyer, Southwest Missouri State University
1999-00 Terry Muck, Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary
1998-99 Roy F. Melugin, Austin College
1997-98 Nadia Lahutsky, Texas Christian University
1996-97 Claudia V. Camp, Texas Christian University
1995-96 Harold Hatt, Phillips Theological Seminary
1994-95 Philip Shuler, McMurry University
1993-94 Paula Cooey, Trinity University
1992-93 Victor Matthews, Southwest Missouri State University
1991-92 Robert B. Sloan, Baylor University
1990-91 Toni Crave, Brite Divinity School
1989-90 George Boyd, Trinity University
1988-89 Thomas W. Nuckols, Austin College
1987-88 Richard A. Hoehn, Brite Divinity School
1986-87 John Alsup, Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary
1985-86 Joe E. Barnhart, North Texas State University
1984-85 William O. Walker, Jr., Trinity University
1983-84 Joseph B. Tyson, Southern Methodist University
1982-83 Kenneth T. Lawrence, Texas Christian University
1981-82 M. Eugene Boring, Phillips Graduate Seminary
1980-81 Bruce C. Cresson, Baylor University
1979-80 Roy F. Melugin, Austin College
1978-79 Thomas H. Olbricht, Abilene Christian University
1977-78 W. Eugene March, Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary
1976-77 W. L. Hendricks, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
1975-76 John G. Gammie, University of Tulsa
1974-75 Albert C. Outler, Perkins School of Theology
Past Executive Secretaries:
2018-23 Jan Jaynes Quesada, Texas Christian University
2013-18 Richard Bautch, St. Edwards University
2006-13 Stacy L. Patty, Lubbock Christian University
2003-06 William Pitts, Baylor University
1997-03 William H. Bellinger, Baylor University
1991-97 Toni Craven, Brite Divinity School
1990-91 Gary Lance Johnson, Phillips Graduate Seminary
1987-00 Daniel B. McGee, Baylor University
1980-87 Thomas H. Olbricht, Abilene Christian University
1978-80 William O. Walker, Jr., Trinity University
1974-78 Joseph B. Tyson, Southern Methodist University
SWCRS Web Master: Nicholas R. Werse, Baylor University