Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs, Chowan College, 1996-2000 (responsible for curriculum transformation and oversight of the entire academic program; led efforts to integrate teaching, learning, and technology; Director of Global Education programs; Co-Director of Freshman Year Experience; wrote the proposal for Chowan College's Ethics Across the Curriculum emphasis and the Chowan College Center for Ethics; led faculty workshops, new faculty orientations, and performed other administrative tasks).

Professor and Acting Chairperson, Department of Religion and Philosophy, Chowan College, 1990-2000 (Chairperson and Full Professor, 1999-2000; Associate Professor, 1994-1999; Assistant Professor, 1990-1994).

London Semester Professor, London, England, 1999. Planned, led, and administered entire program for Chowan College in conjunction with Dr. Dennis Watson, Professor of Chemistry, Louisiana College.

Director, "Thinking and Writing Across the Curriculum" program, Chowan College, 1995-1996.

Assistant Professor, Department of Religion and Philosophy (sabbatical replacement), Berry College, Rome, Georgia, 1989-1990.

Associate Editor, Emory Studies in Early Christianity, Trinity Press International, 1991- Scholars Press, 1992-

Instructor in New Testament/Greek, Southern Seminary, Louisville, Kentucky, 1988-1989.

Research Assistant, Dr. R. Alan Culpepper, Southern Seminary, 1987 (research for John, the Son of Zebedee:  The Life of a Legend, South Carolina Press, 1993).

Garrett Teaching Fellow, New Testament Department, Southern Seminary, 1984-1987 (New Testament Introduction, The Gospel of Luke, The Gospel of John, Introduction to Greek, Greek Exegesis).