Nationality American Education University of Chicago Name Margaret Mitchell | Alma mater University of Chicago | |
 | ||
Fields Early Christianity
New Testament Residence Chicago, Illinois, United States Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Humanities, US & Canada | ||
Institutions University of Chicago Doctoral advisor Hans Dieter Betz | ||
UnCommon Core | Talking about Religion in Public with Margaret Mitchell
Margaret M. Mitchell is an American scholar of Early Christianity. Mitchell, who was a student of Hans Dieter Betz and Robert M. Grant, received her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1989 and currently serves at the same institution as Dean of the Divinity School and Shailer Mathews Professor of New Testament and Early Christian Literature. Mitchell has been dean of the University of Chicago Divinity School since July 1, 2010.
Mitchell is a widely published and well respected author who has made groundbreaking contributions to research on the letters of the Apostle Paul to the Corinthians, on early Christian rhetoric and on John Chrysostom. She has served on the editorial board of the Journal of Biblical Literature and New Testament Studies and is currently the co-editor of a number of series including the Novum Testamentum Supplement series (Brill) and the Writings from the Greco-Roman World text and translation series (Society of Biblical Literature). Forthcoming projects include a commentary in the Hermeneia series on 2 Corinthians. She was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship in 2010.