Nancy R. Howell is Professor of Theology and Philosophy of Religion at Saint Paul School of Theology, a United Methodist seminary in Kansas City, Missouri, as well as adjunct facult in Bioethics at the Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences.  She has received four teaching awards dedicated to undergraduate and graduate courses engaging dialogue between science and religion.  Howell is Associate Editor of the Encyclopedia of Science and Religion and author of A Feminist Cosmology: Ecology, Solidarity, and Metaphysics.  Her research and teaching explore the intersections of ethology, genetics, evolution, ecology, and theology with attention to the social location of the worldviews shaping the fields.  Howell is a founding member of the prestigious International Society for Science and Religion.  A long-standing supporter of professional societies dedicated to science and religion research, Howell is a member of the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences and the Institute on Religion in an Age of Science.