Koster, Hilda P.

Hilda P. Koster is the Sisters of St. Joseph of Toronto Associate Professor of Ecological Theology and the Director of the Elliott Allen Institute for Theology and Ecology at the Regis St. Michael’s Faculty of Theology. A native of the Netherlands, she holds a BA and MDiv from the University of Groningen (The Netherlands), a ThM from Princeton Theological Seminary (NJ/USA) and a PhD from the Divinity School of the University of Chicago. Prior to joining the Regis St Michael’s Faculty of Theology, Dr. Koster served as an Associate Professor in Theology and Environmental Studies at Concordia College (Moorhead, MN). 

Dr. Koster’s publications on Ecological Theology and Environmental Ethics have appeared in Theology Today, Modern Theology, The Journal of Religion, The Anglican Theological Review, and Scriptura. She coedited/authored: The Gift of Theology: The Contribution of Kathryn Tanner (Fortress Press, 2015); Planetary Solidarity: Global Women’s Voices on Christian Doctrine and Climate Justice (Fortress Press, 2017); T&T Clark Handbook of Christian Theology and Climate Change (Bloomsbury, 2019), and In Solidarity with the Earth: Multi-Disciplinary Theological Engagement with Gender, Mining, and Toxic Contamination (T&T Clark/Bloomsbury, 2023). Dr. Koster is also the co-editor of the T&T Clark book series Explorations in Theology, Gender, and Ecology (Bloomsbury).