Ryann Craig is the Special Assistant to the Vice President for Mission & Ministry and OMM's Director of Academic Initiatives. She supports Fr. Mark Bosco, our VP for Mission & Ministry and the Magis Immersion Seminars. She is also a Faculty Fellow with the Center for Social Justice Teaching, Research, and Service, and an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Alwaleed Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding. In collaboration with the Center for Social Justice and the Berkley Center, Dr. Craig co-facilitates the Education and Social Justice Fellowship.
She recently served as the Berkley Center's Director of Student Programs and Assistant Research Professor (2019-2023). Before joining the Berkley Center, she worked in academic support and student advising as Assistant Director of Academic Support at Catholic University. She enjoyed being a copyeditor for the International Qurʾanic Studies Association’s journal and monograph series (2016-2018) and has been involved in several religious minority cultural heritage preservation initiatives in the U.S., Germany, and Israel/Palestine. Dr. Craig completed her Ph.D. (Catholic University of America) on the use of qurʾanic prooftexts by medieval Christian Arabic and Syriac authors while in-residence as a doctoral fellow at the Tantur Ecumenical Institute in Jerusalem. She is co-editor with Vasile-Octavian Mihoc of A Contested Coexistence: Insights in Arabic Christianity from Theology to Migration (Harrassowitz, 2020).
At the Berkley Center, Dr. Craig oversaw the Religion, Ethics, and World Affairs minor, the Doyle Global Dialogue, and the Doyle Seminars. She also worked closely with CNDLS on the Doyle Engaging Difference Program.