About the Warden
Associate Professor Andrew McGowan
BA(Hons) WAust, BD(Hons) MelbCollDiv, PhD Notre Dame
Warden of Trinity College
and Joan F W Munro Lecturer in Theology
After serving as Acting Warden for much of 2005–2006, Dr Andrew McGowan became Warden of Trinity College in January 2007.
Dr McGowan was previously Director of the Trinity College Theological School, a position he held from 2003 until July 2007. He remains the Joan F W Munro Lecturer in Theology, having also held that appointment since 2003.
From left, Associate Professor Andrew McGowan with resident Trinity students, Harrison Wraight (Architecture), Jane Lovell (Medicine), Astrid Jalland (Arts/Law), and James Brown (Master of Commerce).
An Anglican priest, he has worked in parish ministry and tertiary education in Victoria, Western Australia and the United States. He studied Classics and Ancient History at the University of Western Australia, Theology at Trinity, and undertook doctoral studies in Christianity and Judaism in Antiquity at the University of Notre Dame in the USA.
He has lectured at Harvard and Yale, was formerly a lecturer at the University of Notre Dame Australia in Fremantle, and was Associate Professor of Early Christian History at the Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, before returning to Trinity.
His scholarly work on the social and intellectual life of early Christian communities has been published in leading journals in the USA and Europe, and in his book Ascetic Eucharists: Food and Drink in Early Christian Ritual Meals (Oxford: Clarendon, 1999).
Teaching
- Canon and Controversies (UFT)
- Theological Issues of the Early Church (UFT)
- Early Alexandrian Christianity (UFT)
- Introduction to Ministry Formation (TCTS - DipMin)
Administrative
- Warden & President of Trinity College
- Member of Senatus and Executive, UFT
- Member of the Melbourne College of Divinity
Church and Community
- Member of the Board of Directors, St Michael's Grammar School
- Member of the General Synod, Anglican Church of Australia
- Member of the Hughes-Cheong Lectureship Trust
- Member of the Advisory Board, Institute of Spiritual Studies, St Peter's, Eastern Hill
Research Interests
- Eucharistic origins, food and meals in antiquity
- Early North African Christianity
- Anglican Theology