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Marian Gh. Simion, PhD
Assistant Director
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PhD in Public and International Affairs (Northeastern University)
MTS in Theological Studies (Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology)
BA in Religious Studies (Hellenic College)
Baccalaureate in Philology (Saint Gregory Orthodox Theological Seminary, Bucharest)
Diploma in Theology (Saint Gregory Orthodox Theological Seminary, Bucharest)
Diploma of Capacity for Priesthood (Archdiocese of Bucharest & Romanian Orthodox Patriarchate)
Dr. Marian Gh. Simion is the Assistant Director of the Boston Theological Institute and teaches peace studies at Boston College Department of Theology. Since 2006 he has been appointed Field Education Supervisor at Harvard Divinity School. At the BTI he is in charge of administrative issues and publications.
Prior to immigrating to the United States in 1995, Dr. Simion completed six years of intensive theological education in Orthodox theology at the Theological Seminaries of Craiova and Bucharest, as well as at the University of Bucharest. He also took lessons in music theory and Byzantine musicology at the Academy of Music in Bucharest, and studied bel canto privately with the renowned Romanian tenor, Corneliu Fanateanu, then activated as a professional baritone in the Choir of the Opera Nationala Bucuresti.
Trained both as an Orthodox theologian and as a political scientist, in the United States, Dr. Simion focuses his research on international security, comparative politics, political theology, religious phenomenology, and collective violence, with a special focus on Eastern and Oriental Christianity. In 2008 he founded The Institute for Peace Studies in Eastern Christianity (IPSEC) for the purpose of advancing research and curricula development for peace studies. He is the founding editor of the BTI Magazine, and a member of the Editorial Board of Studii Teologice, the top-ranked theological journal of the Schools of Theology under the Romanian Patriarchate.
Dr. Simion is the author of Religion and Political Conflict: From Dialectics to Cross-Domain Charting (Preface by His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, and contributions from Professor David Little and Ambassador Mihnea Motoc), published by Presses internationales Polytechnique: Montreal: 2011; and co-editor and co-author of Just Peace: Orthodox Perspectives WCC Publications: Geneva, 2012; co-editor and co-author of Overcoming Violence: Religion, Conflict and Peacebuilding Boston Theological Institute: Newton Centre, MA 2010); editor of 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, Polytechnic International Press: Montreal: 2009), and of other volumes.
Dr. Simion is a member of The U.S. Association for the Club of Rome (a global think tank that deals with a broad range of critical global issues like climate, energy, peace, security and social transformation), as well as a member of the American Academy of Religion, and American Political Science Association.
Media Expertise
Dr. Marian Gh. Simion welcomes media inquiries on the following subjects:
Political Violence and Religion
Orthodox Christianity
Ecumenical Affairs
Terrorism, International Security and Religion
Nationalism and Identity Politics
Global Politics and Religion
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