Rev. Pamela Cooper-White, Ph.D., is the Christiane Brooks Johnson Professor of psychology and religion, emerita, and dean and vice president emerita for Academic Affairs at Union Theological Seminary in New York. An Episcopal priest (recently retired), she completed eight years as assisting priest at the Episcopal Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York in May 2023. An award-winning author, she has published 10 books and over 100 articles and anthology chapters.
Her most recent book, The Psychology of Christian Nationalism, was awarded the INDIE independent publishers’ 2022 gold medal for social and political science. She was the 2013-14 Fulbright-Freud Scholar of Psychoanalysis at the Freud Museum in Vienna; is a member of the American Psychoanalytic Association and honorary member of the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis (NPAP New York). She serves on the board of the Freud Foundation U.S. (Freud Museum, Vienna); the editorial Board of the Journal of Pastoral Theology; and is past president of the International Association for Spiritual Care (Switzerland), former co-chair of the Psychology, Culture & Religion program unit of the American Academy of Religion. She is a frequent keynote speaker both nationally and internationally including Copenhagen, Oslo, Vienna, Budapest, Prague, and Jerusalem.