Christine Helmer awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Theology by the Theology Faculty of the University of Helsinki

Christine Helmer was  awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Theology by the Theology Faculty of the University of Helsinki on June 2017. 

Professor Christine Helmer (b. 1965) is Arthur E. Andersen Teaching and Research Professor, and Professor of German and Religious Studies at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois (USA). Her research focuses on the historical and intellectual significance of academic theology as well as on the contribution of the theological perspective to society and other academic fields. Dr. Helmer spent the year 2012–2013 as the Marie Curie EURIAS (European Institutes of Advanced Study) Fellow at the Helsinki Collegium of Advanced Studies, has cooperated with numerous Finnish scholars and was a member of the international review committee for the Faculty of Theology in 2015.