Professor Andrew McGowan to be new Editor for the Journal of Anglican Studies

The Trustees of the Journal of Anglican Studies and Cambridge University Press are delighted to announce that Professor Andrew McGowan is to be the new Editor of the Journal of Anglican Studies.

Professor McGowan succeeds Dr Bruce Kaye who was the Founding Editor. Dr Kaye will retain his connection with the JAS as a Consulting Editor.

Professor McGowan brings to the position a very wide and distinguished experience in academic work. After studying Classics and Ancient History followed by Theology in Perth and Melbourne he completed doctoral work on Christianity and Judaism in Antiquity at the University of Notre Dame in the USA. He lectured at the University of Notre Dame Australia in Fremantle, and at the Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is currently Warden of Trinity College, University of Melbourne and Joan FW Munro Professor of Historical Theology. He was elected in 2012 a Foundation Professor of the MCD University of Divinity, Australia's first specialist university.

He has published Ascetic Eucharists: Food and Drink in Early Christian Ritual Meals (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1999) and God in Early Christian Thought (Leiden: Brill, 2009) and numerous articles in academic journals. He is a member of learned societies including the Society of Biblical Literature and the North American Patristic Society. He is also a Canon of St Paul's Cathedral, Melbourne, and a member of the Doctrine Commission of the Anglican Church of Australia.

Further information can be found on his website at http://www.trinity.unimelb.edu.au/people/staff-directory/andrew-mcgowan.html

The Trustees place on record their great appreciation of the outstanding contribution that Dr Kaye has made to the founding and establishment of the Journal of Anglican Studies and welcome his willingness to remain in a consulting role with the journal.