Lutheran Seminary professor
receives national writing award

The honoree, Dr. Pamela Cooper-White, is an Episcopal priest and professor of Pastoral Theology at The Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia

Dr. Pamela Cooper-White, center, receives her award from Dr. Ann Ross Stewart, AAPC president, and Dr. Douglas Ronsheim, AAPC executive director.

PHILADELPHIA, PA (April 18, 2005) - The Rev. Dr. Pamela Cooper-White, professor of Pastoral Theology at The Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia, has been honored with the Distinguished Achievement in Research and Writing Award of the American Association of Pastoral Counselors (AAPC). She is an AAPC Fellow. The honor was presented April 16 during the annual AAPC banquet held this year in Fort Worth, TX.

Dr. Cooper-White, an Episcopal priest and pastoral psychotherapist, was recognized for the depth and clarity of writing about psychoanalysis in her new book, Shared Wisdom: Use of the Self in Pastoral Care and Counseling (Fortress, 2004). The audience for the book includes parish pastors and pastoral counselors as well as those who are students of psychoanalysis. The award also acknowledges her past writing contributions, including the award-winning The Cry of Tamar: Violence Against Women and the Church's Response (Fortress, 1995), winner of top ten books recognition by the Academy of Parish Clergy in 1995; and Schoenberg and the God Idea (UMI Research Press, 1985). She's also published a small group resource book entitled, Women Healing and Empowering (ELCA Publishing) and numerous chapters and articles on aspects of pastoral theology, women's development, and pastoral care of post-traumatic stress.

Dr. Cooper-White, a resident of Philadelphia's East Mt. Airy section, has taught courses on pastoral care and counseling, pastoral theology and Anglicanism at the seminary since 1999.

A supremely talented vocalist, Dr. Cooper-White is a scholar with wide-ranging interests. She holds a BMus from Boston University (1977); an MA from Harvard University (1980); an MDiv from Harvard Divinity School (1983); a PhD from Harvard University (1983); an MA from Holy Names College, Oakland, CA (1994), and a PhD, Institute for Clinical Social Work (2001). She has held pastorates in Massachusetts, California, Illinois and Pennsylvania. Dr. Cooper-White is married to the Rev. Dr. Michael Cooper-White, president of the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg. The couple has a daughter, Macrina.