Ekaterina Lomperis, PhD

Ekaterina Lomperis is the inaugural Scott and Susan Orr Family Associate Professor and Chair in Medical Humanities and Christian Faith. She arrives from George Fox University where she has been the Richard B. Parker Associate Professor of Theology and the winner of the 2024 graduate faculty Achievement Award for Research and Scholarship.

Raised and educated in the countries of Moldova and Russia, she moved to the United States to earn her MDiv from Harvard University and her PhD from the University of Chicago.

Dr. Lomperis’s research focuses on past and present intersections between medicine and Christianity, with particular attention to their historical, theological, and ethical dimensions. Within medical humanities, her areas of academic interest span Christian theologies of medicine, the relationship between medicine and Christianity in the early modern era, gendered dimensions in the religious histories of healing, and contemporary Christian spiritualities in healthcare.  

Dr. Lomperis is author of two books: the academically acclaimed The Reformations of Medicine: Early Modern Beginnings and Contemporary Possibilities (Fortress Press, 2025) and, with Gary Ferngren, Essential Readings in Medicine and Religion (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017). She has won numerous grants and fellowships, including most recently two grants from the American Academy for the Advancement of Science, deepening engagements between science and Christianity. 

Dr. Lomperis has contributed her leadership to national scholarly organizations. In the last six years, she has been an advisory board member of the Conference on Medicine and Religion, where she most recently served on the Mission and Vision Statement Committee and is currently on the Planning and Hosting Committee. She is also an elected officer on the Executive Committee of the Society for Reformation Research.

Dr. Lomperis is a passionate and caring teacher, who has been awarded several professional development grants from the Wabash Center for the Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion. 

In her free time, she intermittently enjoys loud games with her three children and quiet nature walks.