Catherine Corbin
Spring 2024 John Jay Fellow
Hometown: Exeter, NH
College: Gordon College/University of St. Andrews (Scotland)
Degree: B.A. Political Science, History and Biblical Studies/MLitt Systematic and Historical Theology
Catherine Corbin graduated summa cum laude from Gordon College with majors in Political Science, History, and Biblical Studies and a minor in Classical Studies. As an honors scholar in the Jerusalem and Athens Forum, Gordon’s ‘Great Books’ program, she studied literature, philosophy, and aesthetics in tandem, enhancing her interdisciplinary instinct. Her academic interests propelled her across the globe to intern with the leading corporate strategy firm in Ghana and to study virtue ethics in Italy with the Studio for Art, Faith and History and historical geography in Israel, Palestine, and Jordan with Jerusalem University College. On campus, Catherine served extensively in student government and student discipleship and, after attending the American Enterprise Institute’s Summer Honors Program in 2019, she chaired the college’s AEI Executive Council. Captivated by classical antiquity and its reverberations, as a recipient of AEI’s Young Scholars Award, Catherine explored Gnostic eschatological rhetoric and revolutionary millenarianism, applying the scholarship of Eric Voegelin and Norman Cohn to contemporary politics.
Catherine then attended the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, receiving an MLitt in Systematic and Historical Theology with Distinction in 2023. Her dissertation drew together patristic and medieval theological sources and exegetical work in a bold constructive project on Isaiah 6. She has since participated in the Witherspoon Institute’s Natural Law and Public Affairs seminar and was selected as a Logos Fellow by Scholarship and Christianity in Oxford.
Following her fellowship at the John Jay Institute, Catherine will complete her M.A. in Theological Studies from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, where she is a Presidential Scholar. She then plans to commence studies in Greece and Savannah, Georgia, for an M.A. in the Humanities through Ralston College, a new institution dedicated to free inquiry and the revival of higher education. Enlivened by the enterprises of the academic, she will eagerly proceed thereafter with doctoral studies in pursuit of such a vocation.