Dr. Stephanie Arel

Adjunct Professor for Community Transformation Center 

Education: Ph.D., Boston University; M.A., Union Theological Seminary; M.L.A., University of South Florida; B.A., Eckerd College

Dr. Stephanie Arel is currently an Instructor at Fordham University. Her research focuses on the pastoral theological responses to trauma. She was previously an Andrew W. Mellon Fellow at the 9/11 Memorial & Museum and a visiting researcher at New York University. She is the author of Affect Theory, Shame, and Christian Formation (Palgrave 2016) and Bearing Witness: The Wounds of Trauma at Memorial Museums (Fortress Press, 2023). She holds a certificate in treatment for trauma in the clinical setting from the New York Institute in Psychoanalysis and has been teaching in trauma and theology for 12 years.