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Timothy Beal (Ph.D. Emory University) is Distinguished University Professor, Florence Harkness Professor of Religion, Interim Chair of Religious Studies, Faculty Director of the Experimental Humanities Initiative and the Humanity and Technology major, and Director of h.lab at Case Western Reserve University.
Tim has published seventeen books, including When Time Is Short: Finding Our Way in the Anthropocene (Beacon Press, 2022), and The Book of Revelation: A Biography (Princeton University Press, 2018), for which he won a Public Scholar Award from the National Endowment for the Humanities. In addition to scholarly articles and book chapters, he has written essays for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Harper's Magazine, and The Chronicle of Higher Education, among others. He is a distinguished scholar and engaging public speaker with a passion for exploring intersections of technology, religion, and ecology in the humanities and higher education. As a professor and speaker, he loves making complex ideas accessible and relevant to a wide range of audiences.
Tim was born in Hood River, Oregon and grew up near Anchorage, Alaska. He now commutes between Cleveland, Ohio, where he works, and Denver, Colorado, where he lives with his wife, Clover Reuter Beal, co-lead pastor of Montview Boulevard Presbyterian Church. Tim and Clover have two grown kids, Sophie and Seth.