Edgardo A. Colón-Emeric

Edgardo Colón-Emeric is Dean of Duke Divinity School and the Ruth and A. Morris Williams, Jr. Professor of Theology and Christian Ministry. 

Born and raised in Puerto Rico, Colón-Emeric earned a B.S. degree (Cornell University) and M.S. degree (University of Vermont) in mechanical engineering before earning his M.Div. and Ph.D. in theology at Duke University.

He is an ordained elder in the United Methodist Church, with international ecumenical service as chair of the World Methodist Council’s Ecumenical and Inter-religious Committee, co-chair of the Methodist-Roman Catholic International Commission, and co-chair of the Anglican-Methodist International Coordinating Committee.

Colón-Emeric joined the faculty of Duke Divinity School in 2008, and he has served as the founding director of the Hispanic House of Studies, director of the Center of Reconciliation, and associate dean for academic formation. He also served as the director of Central American Methodist Course of Study and director of the Duke-Peru Theological Initiative, among his many other contributions to serve the church, academy, and world.

His scholarship explores the intersection of Methodist and Catholic theologies and Wesleyan and Latin American experiences. He is the author of The People Called Metodista: Renewing Doctrine, Worship, and Missions from the Margins (Abingdon Press) and the award-winning books Wesley, Aquinas, and Christian Perfection: An Ecumenical Dialogue (Baylor University Press) and Óscar Romero’s Theological Vision: Liberation and the Transfiguration of the Poor (University of Notre Dame Press).

Colón-Emeric has served as dean of Duke Divinity School since July 2021.