Becky Cerling, PhD

Becky King Cerling serves as the executive director at the Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies at USC. She earned an M.Div. at Fuller Theological Seminary and a Ph.D. in European Medieval History and the History of Christianity from the University of Southern California. Her research centers on the role of children in medieval monasticism. Cerling is an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and has served as an affiliate faculty member in Church History at Fuller Seminary.