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About Angela Kim Harkins
- Angela Kim Harkins is an Associate Professor of New Testament at Boston College School of Theology and Ministry.Harkins was born in Seoul, South Korea and grew up in the northwest side of Chicago, Illinois.
- She completed her undergraduate (B.A.
- Hons., 1994, Theology major and Philosophy minor) at Loyola University, Chicago and went on to complete a M.A.
- degree in the Department of Theology at the University of Notre Dame with a concentration in biblical languages.
- In 1997-1998 she studied at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel with funding from a Fulbright fellowship, a year that coincided with the fiftieth anniversary of the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls.
- She returned to Notre Dame to begin her Ph.D.
- studies in the Christianity and Judaism in Antiquity area, where she also minored in Syriac exegesis and liturgical theology.
- Her dissertation on the Qumran Hodayot (2003) was later published as a series of articles. Harkins was a tenured Associate Professor in the Religious Studies Department and a member of the Judaic Studies faculty at Fairfield University in Connecticut, where she was awarded the Distinguished Teaching Award by the College of Arts and Sciences in 2011.
- She then held a Marie Curie International Incoming Fellowship at the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom to undertake research on religious experience at Qumran.
- Following that fellowship, she joined the Boston College School of Theology and Ministry as an Associate Professor of the New Testament in their Ecclesiastical Faculty.Harkins is an active member of the Society of Biblical Literature and has served as chair of the Religious Experience in Antiquity section and as a steering committee member of the new consultation on Prayer in Antiquity.
- She also serves on the steering committee of the Qumran and Dead Sea Scrolls program unit of the International Society of Biblical Literature.
- She was chair of the Program Committee of the Catholic Biblical Association and has been an active member of that society since 2004 (assoc.
- 1997).
- Harkins served a term on the Lilly National Network Board, an organization whose mission is to strengthen the quality and character of church-related institutions of higher learning in America.
- She currently sits on the board of Collegium: A Colloquy of Faith and Intellectual Life.
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