Julia Zuze

  • Adjunct Faculty, Fall 2025
  • College Academy, Biology and Anatomy & Physiology
  • Postgraduate Diploma in Integrated Immunology, University of Oxford
  • Doctor of Philosophy (D.Phil., PhD equivalent), University of Oxford
  • Master of Science in Global Health Sciences, University of California at San Francisco (UCSF)
  • D.Min. Candidate, Black Leadership and Ministry, Nazarene Theological Seminary
  • Expertise: Biology, Immunology, Public Health, Medical Sciences, and Ministry

Dr. Julia Zuze is from Brooklyn, NY where she was born to immigrants from Guyana, South America. She graduated with a postgraduate diploma in integrated immunology (2005) and a Doctorate in Philosophy in Clinical Medicine in the field of immunology (2011) from the University of Oxford in England. Dr. Zuze attended the University of Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship and with a fellowship that enabled a joint project with researchers at the Vaccine Research Center at the National Institutes of Health, an Oxford-Cambridge Biomedical Scholarship as the first Rhodes Scholar selected to participate in the joint program. Dr. Zuze taught first year Chemistry and upper-level Medicinal Chemistry (2009-2010) and transitioned to a post-doctoral fellowship at UCSF called the Traineeships in AIDS Prevention Studies (TAPS) (2012-2015) during which she completed a Master of Science in Global Health Sciences (2013).

Dr. Zuze is in the ordination process in the Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) movement and serves as a landscaper and minister at her vibrant local church. Dr. Zuze’s commitment to her call to ministry led to her enrollment in an M.Div. program (2024-2025) before her discernment led to a transition to the D.Min
program at Nazarene Theological Seminary, which is the seminary for a sister denomination to her own affiliation (CHOG). Dr. Zuze has engaged in specialized
training in ministry including being named an Engle Fellow at the Engle Institute for Preaching at Princeton Theological Seminary (2025) as well as ongoing training through Anderson University (Indiana)’s Dr. James Earl Massey Center for
Compelling Preaching.

Dr. Zuze identifies as a “spiritual storyteller” and looks forward to sharing her creative artifacts including poetry, creative non-fiction, and essays with the world as an expression of praise and obedience to the Great Commission in Matthew 28-19-20.
Dr. Zuze is married to Daliso, and they reside in South Florida. She loves to read, garden, and feed people. Dr. Zuze prioritizes her first ministry – her husband and their family – by spending quality time engaged in their favorite joint activity outside of praying and praising God: going to the beach.

  • Biology Pedagogy (In-Progress) Research Phase – “Tandem Writing
    Assignments as a Pedagogical Tool for Biology Instruction in the Era of AI”
  • Theology Publication (In-Progress) Exploratory Phase – Title TBD
  • First-year Chemistry (1 semester)
  • Upper division Medicinal Chemistry (1 semester)
  • Laboratory Skills (as a postdoctoral fellow)
  • New England Science Symposium, Boston, MA. 2008
    “Maintenance of CTL Responses to SL9 Epitope Variants in HIV infection is
    Mediated by Cross-reactive TCR Clonotypes”
  • Keystone Symposia, HIV Vaccines, Banff, Canada. 2008
    “CD8+ T cell Responses to SL9 Variants are Mediated by Cross-reactive
    Clonotypes”
  • Oxford-Cambridge NIH Colloquium, Cambridge, United Kingdom. 2007
    “HIV-1 Epitope Variation and Cytotoxic T Lymphocytes”