Sarah K. Pinnock

Sarah K. Pinnock is Professor of contemporary religious thought. She majored in biology and religious studies at Canadian universities and then moved to the U.S. for the doctoral program in philosophy or religion at Yale University. In Hamburg Germany (1997-98) she held a DAAD (German Academic Exchange) doctoral fellowship at the Faculty of Protestant Theology. She joined the Trinity faculty in fall 2000 after two years teaching at California State University Chico. She won a Fulbright award to hold a visiting professorship at the Faculty of Theology of Latvia University in Riga (2006-07). She served as Religion Department Chair from 2012-18.

Pinnock delivered the lecture “The World Can Be Different: The Theological Vision of Dorothee Soelle” as part of Charles Marsh’s 2024 class at UVA, Theologies of Resistance and Reconciliation.