Religious Life

Dean of Religious Life and the Chapel
The Rev. Dr. Alison L. Boden
aboden@princeton.edu

Alison L. Boden serves as Dean of Religious Life and the Chapel. She received an A.B. from Vassar, an M.Div. from Union Theological Seminary, and a Ph.D. from the University of Bradford (UK). An actress before turning to ministry, Dr. Boden also earned a diploma from the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre in New York. She has since served as Dean of the Chapel and Sr. Lecturer at the University of Chicago and as University Chaplain at Bucknell University. Her writing and teaching interests have focused on such topics as human rights and religion, religion and violence, religion in the academy, and a variety of social justice issues. She is the author of Women's Rights and Religious Practice (Palgrave, 2007) and is an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ.

Associate Dean of Religious Life and the Chapel
The Rev. Deborah K. Blanks
dkblanks@princeton.edu

Deborah K. Blanks earned a Master of Theology degree from Princeton Theological Seminary, and a Master of Divinity degree from The Interdenominational Theological Center in Atlanta, Georgia. As an undergraduate at Rutgers University, Douglass College, she majored in political science and a earned a B. A. degree. Prior to entering the world of university chaplaincy, she served as a United States Navy chaplain for ten years, three months, and twenty-eight days. Reverend Blanks has the unique distinction of working at two Ivy League universities, first, as an Assistant University Chaplain at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island for three years, and currently serving as the Associate Dean of Religious Life and of the Chapel at Princeton University. She is an ordained minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church. 
 

Associate Dean of Religious Life

Matthew C. Weiner, Ph.D.

mcweiner@princeton.edu

Matthew Weiner served for ten years as Program Director for the Interfaith Center of New York, where he developed a methodology for engaging religiously diverse communities through civil society, working with over 500 grassroots religious leaders and the New York State Court System, the New York Public Library, Catholic Charities, the New York Board of Rabbis, and the United Nations. He earned a Ph.D. from Union Theological Seminary, an M.T.S. from Harvard Divinity School, and an BA from New York University. He writes about public religion, interfaith and civil society, and engaged Buddhism.