Karen Westerfield Tucker

Westerfield Tucker, Karen Beth. b. Washington, D.C., 26 December 1954. Westerfield Tucker is a historian, a liturgical and hymnological scholar, and Professor of Worship at the Boston University School of Theology in Boston, Massachusetts, where she has taught courses on worship, sacramental theology, congregational song, and ecumenism since 2004. Born in Washington, D.C., Karen grew up in Wheaton, Maryland. She began taking piano lessons at the age of five when her parents observed her “constructing” chords on the family piano. When she was ten, her father purchased a Hammond organ for the home and switched her to organ lessons, engaging C. Marvin Fewell, then the organist at Glenmont...