Carolyn Dreyer

Adjunct Faculty, Global Studies & Service


Dr. Dreyer teaches for the MA in Theological and Cultural Anthropology (MATCA). She earned her bachelor’s degree at Eastern University in anthropology and missiology. Building from her undergraduate work, Dr. Dreyer co-authored a book with Emeritus Professor Andrew Bush, Millennials and the Mission of God: A Prophetic Dialogue (2017). She completed her PhD in social anthropology at the University of Cambridge, with ethnographic research focused on spiritual formation amongst British Anglo-Catholics and the relational modalities by which theology challenges secular epistemology. She won the Society for the Anthropology of Religion’s Student Paper Prize (2021) for her work. Finding home in Eastern’s MATCA program, Dr. Dreyer’s research interests include Christianity, secularism, theology’s relationship to anthropology, and epistemology.