A total of 336 persons registered for the March 2009 meeting, which was held at the Marriott Hotel DFW North. Among these registrants, 174 were member faculty, and 128 were students. By organization, 117 were AAR members, 168 SBL, 25 ASOR, and 22 ASSR. Plenary addresses featured Dr. Carol A. Newsom, Charles Howard Candler Professor of Old Testament at Emory University, and Dr. Mark Juergensmeyer, Director of the Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

 

Exhibitors, using 28 tables, included Abingdon Press, American Bible Society, Baker Publishing Group, Baylor University Press, Continuum/T&T Clark, Eisenbrauns, Fortress Press, Hendrickson Publishers, InterVarsity Press, Society of Biblical Literature, Wipf and Stock Publishers, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, and Zondervan.

 

At the annual reception, outgoing SWCRS President Nadia Lahutsky (Texas Christian University) announced the SWCRS board's awarding of a Junior Scholar Grant to Prof. Michael Martin (Lubbock Christian University). Lahutsky also announced the 2009-2010 SWCRS officers:

Jeffrey Bingham (Dallas Theological Seminary), President

Andrew O. Fort (Texas Christian University), Vice President

Stacy L. Patty (Lubbock Christian University), Secretary Treasurer