Gregory Sterling

2018 – 40 over 40 (Top 40 alumni over 40), Pepperdine University

At the University of Notre Dame, Sterling was appointed as Director of Graduate Studies for the Department of Theology, Associate Dean of the Faculty and Executive Associate Dean for the College of Arts and Letters, and Dean of the Graduate School in 1997, 2001, 2006 and 2008, respectively. In 2012, he was appointed as Reverend Henry L. Slack Dean of Yale Divinity School.

Sterling joined the faculty at the University of Notre Dame in 1989 as a Visiting Assistant Professor and became a regular member of the faculty in 1990. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 1995 and to Professor of Theology in 2000. After teaching as Professor at University of Notre Dame for twenty-three years, Sterling left the University and was appointed by Yale University in 2012, as the Lillian Claus Professor of New Testament at Yale Divinity School and Professor of Religion in Department of Religious Studies.

Sterling received his bachelor's degree in Christianity and History in 1978 and completed post-baccalaureate studies in classics in the following year at Houston Baptist University. He then received his master's degree in Religion degree from Pepperdine University in 1980 and his Masters in Classics degree from University of California in 1982. In 1990, he completed his Doctoral studies in Biblical Studies with a specialization in the New Testament from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley.