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Todd C. Ream

Teacher, Author, & Publisher

About

Born and raised in Southern California, Todd C. Ream serves at Indiana Wesleyan University as University Professor, Executive Director of Faculty Scholarship, and Senior Fellow for Programming for the Lumen Research Institute.

He also serves as Senior Fellow for Public Engagement for the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities and as Publisher for Christian Scholar’s Review.

As the Publisher for Christian Scholar’s Review, Todd hosts the weekly “Saturdays at Seven” conversation series with “thought leaders about the academic vocation and the relationship that vocation shares with the Church.”

Previously, he served on college and university campuses in residence life, student support services, honors programs, and as a chief student development officer.

Todd is the author or editor of nineteen books and is presently writing The Academic Vocation (under contract with Oxford University Press) and Hesburgh of Notre Dame: An American Prophet (1957-1972) (under contract with Catholic University of America Press).   

Todd has also contributed over 200 articles, editorials, interviews, and reviews to a wide variety of journals, magazines, and newspapers including: About Campus; America; Christianity TodayCruxFirst Things; the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette; the Hedgehog Review; the Heythrop JournalInside Higher EdModern Theology; the National Catholic ReporterNew BlackfriarsNotre Dame Magazine; the Review of Higher Education; and Teachers College Record.

Todd and his wife, Sara, are members of Northview Church-Kokomo where Sara serves as Kids Pastor. Their daughter, Addison, and son-in-law, Owen, are graduate students at Duke University and their daughter, Ashley, is an undergraduate student at Westmont College.

Curriculum Vitae

Current Professional Appointments

University Professor and Executive Director of Faculty Scholarship (2025- )

Indiana Wesleyan University

Professor of Humanities and Executive Director of Faculty Research and Scholarship (2023–2025)

Indiana Wesleyan University

Senior Fellow for Programming (2016– )

Lumen Research Institute

Publisher (2019– )

Christian Scholar’s Review

Senior Fellow for Public Engagement (2022– )

Council for Christian Colleges and Universities

Previous Professional Appointments

Professor of Higher Education (2013–2022)

Taylor University

Various Roles (2004–2013)

Indiana Wesleyan University

Senior Scholar for Faith and Scholarship (2010–2013)

Associate Director of the John Wesley Honors College (2007–2010)

Director of the Center for Student Success (2004–2007)

Post-Doctoral Research Fellow (2002–2004)

Baylor University

Dean of Students (2000–2002)

Oklahoma Baptist University

Witmer Residence Director and Lecturer in Historical Theology (1996–2000)

Messiah College

Education

The Pennsylvania State University

Doctorate of Philosophy in Higher Education, 2001

Duke University Divinity School

Master of Divinity, 1996

Baylor University

Bachelor of Arts in Religion, 1993

Recent Teaching

Faculty Formation Seminar I

  • HNR 175: What is Beauty?
  • HNR 230: Called to Contemplation
  • HNR 310a: Honors Tutorial—The Religious and Social History of the 1960s
  • HNR 310b: Honors Tutorial—Justice unto All Peoples
  • HNR 350: Honors Research Seminar
  • PHL 180: Honors Humanities Philosophy