Rev. Colin Bossen

Adjunct Faculty

Education

PhD Harvard University
AM Harvard University
MDiv Meadville Lombard Theological School

COURSES
UU Theologies
Type: Asynchronous with required Zoom discussions
Units: 3

Biography

Colin Bossen earned his PhD in American Studies and his AM in United States history from Harvard University. He also earned an MDiv. from Meadville Lombard Theological School. Since graduating from Harvard, he has served as the Senior Minister of the First Unitarian Universalist of Houston. During that time, he has held non-residential fellowships with Rice and Princeton Universities. He is currently the inaugural, non-residential, Visiting Fellow for the Carpenter Centre, the University of Oxford’s research centre in Unitarian and Dissenting studies. In the spring of 2025, he will also be a Distinguished Scholar with the Starr King School for the Ministry.

His writings have appeared in a variety of popular publications and in academic journals such as KATALOG: Journal of Photography & Video, Politics, Religion & Ideology, Race & Class, and the Journal of Unitarian Universalist Studies. 2025 will see the publication of three of his books: Contemporary Unitarian Universalist Theologies: A Global Study (Brill); The Political Theologies of Populism: the Religious Worlds of Industrial Workers of the World, the Ku Klux Klan, and the Universal Negro Improvement Association (Wayne State University Press); and American Populism and Unitarian Universalism: the 2019 Minns Lectures (Palgrave Macmillan). He keeps a blog at www.colinbossen.com.

Starr King School for the Ministry
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