Hi, I'm Sam!
A native Ohioan, Samantha Christopher is a third-year Master of Divinity student at Yale University and a candidate for the Diploma in Anglican Studies from Berkeley Divinity School at Yale. She is currently serving as Seminarian at St. Ignatius of Antioch Episcopal Church, a historic Anglo-Catholic parish in New York City. She served as Seminarian at Trinity Church on the Green in New Haven, Connecticut from 2023-2024.
Prior to her time at Yale, she worked in Academic Administration at the University of Arizona from 2021 to 2022 and served as an Episcopal Service Corps member in Tucson from 2020 to 2021. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science, magna cum laude, from The Ohio State University. During her time at Ohio State, Samantha was particularly interested in the intersections of federalism, housing policy, and state and local governance.
Samantha’s academic interests are currently broadly focused on the interactions between sovereignty, social contract theory, and sacramental life. She is also interested in examining medieval hagiographies of the Real Presence through the lenses of affect, trans, and queer theory, focusing on narratives of disgust, wounds, and body horror as portrayed in the catalogue of David Cronenberg.
Samantha is a Candidate for Holy Orders in the Episcopal Diocese of Arizona. She is sponsored for ordination by the Episcopal Campus Ministry at the University of Arizona.