The Rev. Jaco J. Hamman has been named director of Vanderbilt University Divinity School’s Program in Theology and Practice.

Hamman will also be an associate professor in the area of religion, psychology and culture.  

Hamman, a professor of pastoral care and counseling who studies the confluence of theology and psychology in people’s lives, previously was with Western Theological Seminary in Holland, Mich. He will join Vanderbilt in August after teaching in Zambia this summer.