The Boston Theological Institute

Marian Gh. Simion, Ph.D. (ABD)
Assistant Director
Member of the American Romanian Academy of Arts and Sciences

Ph.D. (ABD), expected 2012 Northeastern University (Political Science)
Ph.D. (cand.) expected 2014 London School of Theology (Theology)
MTS, 2000 Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology (Theological Studies)
BA, 1998 Hellenic College (Religious Studies)
Diploma in Theology 1994 Saint Gregory Orthodox Theological Seminary, Bucharest, Romania

Marian Gh. Simion works as Assistant Director of the Boston Theological Institute and teaches peace studies at Boston College and Hellenic College. He also serves as Field Education Supervisor at Harvard Divinity School. At the BTI he is in charge of administrative issues and publications.

Trained both as an Orthodox theologian and a political scientist, Marian Simion focuses his research on contentious politics and religious violence, with a special emphasis on Orthodox Christianity. He is also the founder of The Institute for Peace Studies in Eastern Christianity (IPSEC), and serves in the Executive Committee of the American Romanian Academy of Arts and Sciences.

He is the founding editor of the BTI Magazine, and the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the American Romanian Academy of Arts and Sciences -- a peer reviewed multidisciplinary publication of the Academy. He is the author or editor (and co-editor) of several scholarly works, such as: Religion and Political Conflict: From Dialectics to Cross-Domain Charting (co-author with Professor David Little and Ambassador Mihnea Motoc) Presses internationales Polytechnique: Montreal: 2010; Journal of the American Romanian Academy of Arts and Sciences Vol. 2005-2009, no. 29-33, Volume dedicated to George Emil Palade, the Nobel Prize Laureate in Physiology or Medicine (author and Editor-in-Chief) Polytechnic International Press: Montreal: 2009; Proceedings: The 32nd Annual Congress of the American Romanian Academy of Arts and Sciences (author and co-editor with Ilie Talpasanu) Polytechnic International Press: Montreal: 2008, etc.