Trish Zimmerman

Trish Zimmerman is an Associate Professor of Practice in the Religion Department at St.Olaf College. She co-teaches in the Environmental Conversation and has taught for many years in Enduring Questions/Great Conversation. Her research and teaching focus on the history of Christianity with particular emphasis on the diversities of Christian thought and practice, feminist theology, theology of food, and comparative mysticism.

 Some publications include: “Riven. A Mysticism of Place in Times of Grief”; “The Mystic Traveler in a Global Spiritual Age” in Teaching Interreligious Encounters Eds. Marc Pugliese and Alexander Hwang; co-editor with Amy Hollywood of The Cambridge Companion to Christian Mysticism. She has served on the Council of the American Society of Church History and as a senior fellow for the Ford Foundation Difficult Dialogues project, as co-chair of the Steering Committee of the History of Christianity group for the American Academy of Religion. She enjoys teaching at The Damascus Project and leading continuing education (CLE) for lawyers and businesses on religious literacy.