Dr. Derek Nelson ’99, Associate Professor of Religion and Chair of the Department of Religion at Thiel College in Greenville, PA, is the 2011 recipient of the Judge and Mrs. George H. Rowley Endowment for Teaching Excellence Award. Derek will use the funds to study, adding a month-long study abroad component to the existing “Luther and His Legacy” course. Derek has taught at Thiel since 2006. 

Derek was a Religion major at Wabash, has a master’s of divinity from Yale University, and a doctorate in systematic and philosophical theology from Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, Calif. 

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