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Kirstin Boswell

University Chaplain and Dean of Multifaith Engagement & Assistant Professor of Religious Studies

Department: Truitt Center for Religious and Spiritual Life

Location: Academic Village Numen Lumen P, Office 107
Mailing address: 2960 พรพรศศ Box Elon, NC 27244

Phone number: (336) 278-7729

Brief Biography

Reverend Kirstin Boswell, Ph.D. serves as University Chaplain and Dean of Multifaith Engagement at พรพรศศ, where she provides leadership for the Truitt Center for Religious and Spiritual Life. She supports the spiritual and ethical development of students, faculty, and staff through multifaith engagement, pastoral care, leadership development, and community-building initiatives.

Boswell is also Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and is a scholar of womanist theology, higher education chaplaincy, and vocational discernment. Her research explores the experiences of Black clergywomen in chaplaincy and the intersections of faith, identity, and institutional leadership. She is committed to cultivating spaces of belonging, dialogue, and purpose across lines of religious, spiritual, and worldview difference.

 

 

News & Notes

Education

  • Ph.D., The University of Chicago
  • M.Div., The University of Chicago
  • B.A., The University of Virginia 

Publications

  • Akmal, Tahara, Kirstin C. Boswell, Su Yon Pak, and Helen H. Chung. “The Conversation Circles: A Sacred Space of Healing.” In Redefining Spiritual Spaces in the Age of Technology, 179–193. Management, Change, Strategy and Positive Leadership. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature, 2025. . 
  • Boswell, G. H., and K. Boswell-Ford. “Testing a SEM Model of Two Religious Concepts and Experiential Spirituality.” Journal of Religion and Health 49, no. 2 (2010): 200–211. 
  • Boswell-Ford, Kirstin. “Self and the Home-Place: Self-Identity and God in African American Culture.” In Another World Is Possible, edited by Dwight N. Hopkins and Marjorie Lewis, 313–330. London: Equinox Publishing, 2009. 
  • Boswell-Ford, Kirstin. “Self-Identity and African American Women.” Paper presented at the Aboriginal Community Development Association, Adelaide, Australia, 2007.