Senior Fellows
Valerie Cooper
Valerie Cooper is Associate Professor of Religion and Society and Black Church Studies at Duke University. The first black woman to earn tenure at Duke Divinity School, she has taught courses there on religion and society, religion and popular culture, and black church studies since 2014. Her book, Word, Like Fire: Maria Stewart, the Bible, and the Rights of African Americans, examines the biblical hermeneutics of Maria Stewart, a pioneering, nineteenth century black woman abolitionist and preacher.
While at CTI, Cooper will continue work on her personal research projects, including two books. Segregated Sundays examines the costs and consequences of racially segregated Christian worship in the US, and Popular Apocalypses: Race, Fiction, and the Dystopian Futures We Fear, considers the ways that science fiction uses racial stereotypes and tropes to foreshadow the end of the American empire.
Amos Yong
Amos Yong is Professor of Theology and Mission at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California. His graduate education includes degrees in theology, history, and religious studies from Western Evangelical Seminary (now Portland Seminary) and Portland State University, both in Portland, Oregon, and Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, and an undergraduate degree from Bethany University of the Assemblies of God. Licensed as a minister with the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel, he has also authored or edited dozens of scholarly volumes.
Yong’s scholarship is foundational in Pentecostal theology, interacting with both traditional theological traditions and contemporary contextual theologies—dealing with such themes as the theologies of Christian-Buddhist dialogue, of disability, of hospitality, theology and science, political theology, Asian American theology, and of the mission of God.
David W. Miller
David brings an unusual “bilingual” perspective to the classroom and the boardroom. After retiring from 18 years on the faculty of Princeton University and directing its Faith & Work Initiative, he accepted an appointment as a Senior Fellow at the Center of Theological Inquiry. Before receiving his M.Div. and Ph.D. in ethics and entering academia, he spent 16 years in senior executive positions in international business and finance, including eight years in London.
Harvard Business Review called Miller’s book, God at Work: The History and Promise of the Faith at Work Movement (Oxford University Press, 2007), "most thoughtful." His newest book is The 5 Questions for Ethical Decisions: How to Succeed without Selling Your Soul (Princeton University Press, 2026) reframes how leaders and scholars think about and embody values-based leadership and ethics.