Program Committee

The Program Committee shall have authority to determine the content of the program of the SCE Annual Meeting, with the exception of the SCE plenary speakers and conference theme, which shall be chosen by the President.  The Program Committee shall be chaired by the President and shall include the Presidential Cabinet (ex officio with voice and with vote) and one member (not necessarily a member of the Board) appointed by the president for that year only. The Program Committee shall also include the Editor or co-editors (ex officio with voice and with vote) and at least three additional members appointed by the President from the elected members of the Board of Directors. The Board of Directors or, with the approval of the Board of Directors, the Program Committee itself, shall have the authority to include more participants in the selection process, provided that (1) the additional members be restricted to preliminary electronic voting only, (2) the additional members and the terms of their appointment shall be communicated to the membership as a whole, and (3) no less than 60 percent of the votes deciding the content of the program shall be cast by representatives elected directly by the membership as a whole.  Weighted voting may be used.

The Program Committee selects proposals and designs the program for the Annual Meeting, largely through a blind electronic ballot carried out before the Committee actually gathers in March or April. This selection process includes those serving on the Program Committee plus one vote from each of the Working Groups, the Women's Caucus, and the Students' Caucus.

2024-2025

Past President D. Stephen Long Southern Methodist University Professor	President Emilie M. Townes Vanderbilt University  Professor	President Elect Rebecca Todd Peters Elon University  Professor of Religious Studies
Vice President Diana Fritz Cates University of Iowa Associate Professor of Ethics	Editor KC Choi Seton Hall University Professor	Editor MT Davila DePaul University Professor
Victor Carmona University of San Diego Assistant Professor of Theology and Religious Studies	Karen Guth College of the Holy Cross Associate Professor of Religious Studies	Eboni Marshall-Turman Yale Divinity School Assistant Professor of Theology and African American Religion
Karen Ross Catholic Theological Union Program Director, Professor		Ex-officio   Ellie See Talley Management Group Executive Director