Matthew Vaughan serves as the AAR’s Regions Director.
Matthew is also Associate Director of Instructional Design and Operations at the Columbia University School of Professional Studies. There, Matthew manages a team of designers and developers who ensure academic and technological integrity in online academic programming. He holds an Adjunct Assistant Professorship in Professional Writing at the New York University School of Professional Studies, where he was the recipient in 2019 of the Teaching Excellence Award. He is a former public high school teacher.
Matthew’s academic work is located at the intersection of religious learning and religious pluralism. His writing has been featured in the Journal of Scriptural Reasoning, Restoration Quarterly, and other edited contexts. He completed his PhD (Religion & Education) in 2015 at Union Theological Seminary in New York City. He sits on the editorial board for the Journal of Scriptural Reasoning.
Matthew lives in New York’s Hudson Valley with an infamous Red Heeler named Rosie.