About the Professor

(The Rev.) Hugh R. Page, Jr, DMin, PhD

Dean, First Year of Studies

Walter Associate Professor of Theology

Associate Professor of Africana Studies

University of Notre Dame

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Dr. Hugh R. Page, Jr. received a B.A. from Hampton Institute (1977); an M.Div. from General Theological Seminary (1980); an S.T.M. from General Theological Seminary (1983); an M.A. (1988) and Ph.D. (1990) from Harvard University (1988); and a D.Min. from the Graduate Theological Foundation (2006). He is the Walter Associate Professor of Theology and Associate Professor of Africana Studies. He also serves as Dean of the First Year Studies.

Page does work in the areas of Near Eastern languages and cultures, Hebrew Bible research, and Afrodiasporan studies. He is particularly interested in early Hebrew poetry; the cartographic impulse of ancient epic; theories of myth; African American biblical interpretation; the use of religious traditions and sacred texts in the construction of individual and corporate identity in the Black community; and the role of mysticism and esoterism in African American, Afro-Caribbean, and Afro-Canadian spirituality.

He is a Research Associate of Human Relations Area Files at Yale University and the Institute for Signifying Scriptures in Claremont, CA. He holds membership in the American Academy of Religion, the Society of Biblical Literature, the Society for Old Testament Studies, the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, the Academy of Homiletics, and the Society for the Study of Black Religion.

His published works include Exploring New Paradigms in Biblical and Cognate Studies (as editor), The Myth of Cosmic Rebellion: A Study of its Reflexes in Ugaritic and Biblical Literature, and Exodus (People's Bible Commentary). He has received numerous honors for his academic, administrative, and other activities including the James L. Moore Scholar Award (1989), the Kaneb Award for excellence in teaching (2000), the Erskine Peters Award from the ND Chapter of the NAACP (2000), a Presidential Award from the University of Notre Dame (2001), and two citations from the University's African and African-American Studies Program for outstanding leadership (2002, 2005).

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