Ehrman has taught at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill since 1988, after four years of teaching at Rutgers University. At UNC he has served as both the Director of Graduate Studies and the Chair of the Department of Religious Studies. Ehrman currently serves as co-editor of the series "New Testament Tools, Studies, and Documents" (E. J. Brill), co-editor-in-chief for the journal "Vigiliae Christianae", and on several other editorial boards for journals and monographs. Ehrman formerly served as President of the Southeast Region of the Society of Biblical Literature, chair of the New Testament textual criticism section of the Society, book review editor of the "Journal of Biblical Literature", and editor of the monograph series "The New Testament in the Greek Fathers" (Scholars Press)