Andrew Brian McGowan was born on 17 August 1961 and is an Australian scholar of early Christianity and an Anglican priest.
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Andrew McGowan is McFaddin Professor of Anglican Studies at Yale Divinity School and dean and president of the Berkeley Divinity School at Yale.
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Andrew McGowan then studied classics and ancient history at the University of Western Australia.
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Andrew McGowan studied theology at Trinity College in Melbourne.
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Andrew McGowan then undertook doctoral studies in Christianity and Judaism in Antiquity at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, United States, where he was supervised by Harold W Attridge.
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Andrew McGowan's thesis was titled "To Gather the Fragments: The Social Significance of Food and Drink in Early Christian Ritual Meals", and published in revised form by the Clarendon Press at Oxford in its Oxford Early Christian Studies series as Ascetic Eucharists: Food and Drink in Early Christian Ritual Meals.
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On his return to Australia in 1996, Andrew McGowan was lecturer in New Testament and Early Christianity at the University of Notre Dame Australia in Fremantle.
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Andrew McGowan returned to Trinity College as director of its theological school in 2003.
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In July 2014, McGowan returned to the United States to succeed Joseph H Britton in the post of dean and president of the Berkeley Divinity School at Yale and Associate Dean for Anglican Studies at Yale Divinity School.
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Andrew McGowan was editor of the Journal of Anglican Studies from 2013 to 2020.
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Andrew McGowan has been a commentator on aspects of higher education and religion in contemporary society, including in the Washington Post, USA Today, The Age, The Australian, The Conversation, ABC's The Drum, the news column of the Biblical Archaeology Society called "Bible History Daily" and SkyNews.