Steve Turley has been with GFM at Rice University since 2010, advising the Rice Graduate Christian Fellowship and the Jones (MBA) Christian Fellowship, and cultivating a Christian faculty network in greater Houston. He holds a BA in Economics from Stanford University, an MDiv from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, and a PhD in History from the University of Wisconsin - Madison. In addition to GFM work, he has served as a lecturer in History at Rice University, and as Adjunct Assistant Professor in History at Fuller Theological Seminary - Texas. His first book was published in 2014 by Asghate, Franciscan Spirituality and Mission in New Spain, 1524-1599: Conflict Beneath the Sycamore Tree. Steve married Ruth Lopez in 1994, and they now have two sons together. Ruth serves as Associate Professor of Sociology at Rice.
