Watt’s scholarship recognized

Dr. Jonathan Watt received the 2005 Excellence in Scholarship Award, which is presented annually to a faculty member whose contributions have advanced his or her academic discipline and achieved recognition beyond the campus.

Watt, an associate professor of biblical studies, began working part-time for Geneva in 1994 while pastoring College Hill Reformed Presbyterian Church. In 2000 he started working full time for Geneva and was granted tenure in 2004.

He teaches the introductory Bible courses as well as upper level courses ranging from Old Testament to English grammars to missions to Greek. In addition he teaches classes for Geneva’s degree completion program and at the Reformed Presbyterian Theological Seminary in Pittsburgh. His book Code-Switching in Luke and Acts was published by Peter Lang Publishing in 1997, and he has since self-published other works. In 1992 he co-designed Semper Reformanda, a journal of pastoral and theological studies for the Reformed Presbyterian Church in North America, which he also edited until recently.

He has written numerous scholarly articles and is a member of the Evangelical Theological Society and the Society of Biblical Literature. He travels every fall to the conferences of these two groups, and he has also attended conferences in Sweden and Hawaii and lectured in Canada and Japan.

“Dr. Watt’s research serves as an excellent model for our students of continuing growth and development and adds to his depth and breadth of knowledge serving as background for his New Testament, missions, and linguistics courses,” says Dr. Dean Smith, chair of the biblical studies and philosophy department.