Deborah Beth Creamer

Deborah Beth Creamer currently serves as Director of Accreditation and Institutional Evaluation at the Association of Theological Schools (www.ats.edu), where her work includes facilitating accrediting reviews, providing education and support to member schools about assessment and accreditation, and providing staff support to the work of the Board of Commissioners of the ATS Commission on Accrediting.

Prior to coming to ATS, she served at Iliff School of Theology, beginning in 1997 as a member of the library staff, becoming a faculty member in 2005, then director of the library, associate dean for academic affairs in 2009, and interim dean and vice-president for academic affairs for the 2012–2013 academic year. She is an MDiv graduate of Vanderbilt University Divinity School, has an MLIS from the University of Denver, and received her PhD from Iliff School of Theology and University of Denver Joint PhD program.

Creamer is the author of Disability and Christian Theology: Embodied Limits and Constructive Possibilities (2009), and co-editor of Women, Church, and Leadership: New Paradigms (2012). She is the author of a number of articles on disability theology and is a frequent speaker on issues of disability and religion for churches and other local and national groups. A former co-chair and founding member of the Religion and Disability Studies Group of the American Academy of Religion, she currently serves on the AAR’s Committee on the Status of People with Disabilities.