Catherine Campbell

I am an incoming Ph.D. student in the Department of Theology at Fordham University in New York City, pursuing doctoral study in modern liturgical history after having recently completed an S.T.M. in Liturgical Studies under Andrew McGowan and Gabriel Radle at the Yale Divinity School and the Institute of Sacred Music. My current area of academic focus is the development and revision of materials for the Liturgy of the Hours among women’s monastic communities.

Prior to my S.T.M., I spent a year as a chaplain resident at the Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, NJ, where I completed the Clinical Pastoral Education sequence and worked especially with trauma, cardiovascular intensive care and transplant, and oncology patients. I am a 2024 graduate from the Yale Divinity School M.Div. program, alongside which I received the Diploma in Anglican Studies at the Berkeley Divinity School at Yale. Prior to my M.Div., I was a member of the first cohort of M.A. students in Peace and Social Transformation at the Earlham School of Religion, and completed my undergraduate study in the history of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

My theological, liturgical, and musical commitments currently bring me into fellowship with Roman Catholic, Episcopal Church, and ecumenical communities, and during my years in New Haven I belonged to the parish choir at Christ Church, New Haven. I have previously sung, served, and led services in St. Luke’s Chapel at Berkeley Divinity School; at Yale’s Marquand Chapel; and during my chaplain residency, at Christ Church, New Brunswick. However, I have come to these various communities by way of the formation I received first among the Religious Society of Friends. During college, I was received into membership at the Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia, which worships in silence in a beautiful 215-year-old meetinghouse in the Old City neighborhood.

When I’m not at school or at church, I might be found rejoicing in any number of choir rehearsals or gatherings of English or Scottish country dancers, or chipping determinedly away at both ancient and contemporary Anglican and Catholic hymn and chant repertoire as an enthusiastic beginner organist. I constantly find myself the proud big sister of @lachlanjc.