Sidnie White Crawford

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Sidnie White Crawford (born January 8, 1960) is a scholar and priest. She is professor emerita of Classics and Religious Studies at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, where she taught from 1997 to 2018 and later became emerita. Her work focuses on the Dead Sea Scrolls and the textual criticism of the Hebrew Bible. She has also taught at St. Olaf College and Albright College and has been a visiting professor at Boston College. Since 2018 she has been affiliated with Princeton Theological Seminary, and she serves as the board chair of the W. F. Albright Institute of Archaeology in Jerusalem. In 2018 she received an honorary doctorate from Uppsala University.

Education and ordination: White Crawford earned a Master of Theological Studies from Harvard Divinity School in 1984 and a PhD in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations from Harvard University in 1988, supervised by Frank Moore Cross. She was ordained as a priest in the Episcopal Church in 2005 and has served in the Episcopal Diocese of Nebraska since 2011, including a long-term post at Christ Episcopal Church in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania.