Assistant Dean of Students 

As Assistant Dean of Students at the Divinity School, Nathan is responsible for the recruitment of and communication with prospective students, admissions processes and yield, and professional development and placement for current students and recent alumni (including through the Colman Program for the Craft of Teaching, Leadership, and Service). In collaboration with the Dean of Students, Student Affairs Manager, and wider Divinity School community, Nathan also contributes to an array of initiatives and programs that enhance student belonging and success. 

Nathan (MA’14, PhD’22) re-joined the Divinity School after two years at UChicagoGRAD on the professional development team, where he led career advising for master’s students across more than 20 programs, developed an alumni engagement strategy, and managed a number of events such as Research Speaks and the University’s Three-Minute Thesis competition.

Like many millennials, Nathan has dealt with the existential dread of being in his 30s by picking up distance running (completing his second marathon in October 2024). He is currently also returning to his research on narratives as sources for “image theory” in late ancient Christianity. Nathan is the author of an introduction and translation of the Byzantine Story of the Image of Edessa in Tony Burke’s New Testament Apocrypha: More Noncanonical Scriptures Vol. 3, and he is working on a book and two articles based on material from his dissertation, “Signs of Life: Late Ancient Christianity, Narrative, and the Paradox of Living Images."