Caryn D. Riswold

Caryn D. Riswold serves as a NetVUE senior consultant, with a specific role of supporting member institutions as they navigate the vocational challenges of generative artificial intelligence. She writes and speaks about pedagogy, equity, and vocation in undergraduate education. As a member of the first cohort of the NetVUE Scholarly Resources Project, she wrote in At This Time and In This Place about the liberative and humanizing dimensions of vocation for faculty and staff. She has also written for NetVUE’s “Vocation Matters” blog and serves as a peer reviewer for Studies in Vocation and Calling. Caryn is the author of four books, the most recent of which is ReEngaging ELCA Social Teaching on Abortion (2024). She holds the Mike and Marge McCoy Family Distinguished Chair in Lutheran Heritage and Mission and professor of religion at Wartburg College (IA). She earned a BA from Augustana University (SD), an MA from the Claremont School of Theology (CA), and a ThM and PhD from the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago.