Curriculum Vitae

Last updated June 29, 2015

Education

• Ph.D. (2015), University of Notre Dame – Christian Ethics
  • Dissertation: “Pauperes Christi: Voluntary Poverty as Political Practice” [Synopsis]
  • Advisor: Jean Porter
  • Exams passed with high honors
• M.T.S. (2008), University of Notre Dame – History of Christianity (with high honors)
• B.A. (2005), Messiah College – Peace and Conflict Studies (summa cum laude)

Teaching Appointments

• Assistant Professor of Religion, Florida Southern College (Fall 2015–present)
• Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of Notre Dame (Summer 2015)
• Lecturer in Christian Ethics, Yale Divinity School (Fall 2014)
• Graduate Instructor, University of Notre Dame (Fall 2013)
• Adjunct Instructor, Messiah College (2008–2009)

Publications

Journal Articles

• “The Politics of Poverty: A Contribution to a Franciscan Political Theology.” The Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics 35, no. 1 (2015).

Book Chapters

• “The Ground of Perfection: Michael Sattler on ‘the Body of Christ.’” In New Perspectives in Believers Church Ecclesiology. Winnipeg: Canadian Mennonite University Press, 2010.

Book Reviews

• Review of Giorgio Agamben, The Highest Poverty: Monastic Rules and Form-of-Life, trans. Adam Kotsko. Modern Theology 31, no. 2 (2015).
• Review of Moral Dynamics of Economic Life, ed. Daniel Finn; and James Bailey, Rethinking Poverty. The Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics 34, no. 2 (2014).
• Review of The Church Made Strange for the Nations, ed. Paul G. Doerksen and Karl Koop. The Conrad Grebel Review 31, no. 1 (Winter 2013).

Selected Popular Publications

• “History and/as Political Theology.” Political Theology Today (July 2, 2014).
• “Pope Francis and Liberation Theology.” The Immanent Frame (May 9, 2014).

Fellowships and Academic Honors

• Dominica and Frank Annese Fellow in Graduate Studies, Nanovic Institute for European Studies, University of Notre Dame (2014–2015, declined)
• Graduate Teaching Fellow, Writing Program, University of Notre Dame (2014–15, declined)
• Presidential Fellow, University of Notre Dame (2009–2014)
• Outstanding Graduate Instructor Award, University of Notre Dame Graduate School and Kaneb Center for Teaching and Learning (2014)
• Lilly Graduate Fellow (2009–2012)

Research and Travel Grants

• Summer Stipend, Mellon Initiative on Religion Across the Disciplines, University of Notre Dame (2014) – $6,000
• Professional Development Grant, Dept. of Theology, University of Notre Dame (2014) – $600
• Professional Development Award, University of Notre Dame Graduate School (2013) – $1,100
• Professional Development Grant, Dept. of Theology, University of Notre Dame (2013) – $600
• Scholarship to the Seminario di formazione in storia religiosa e studi francescani, Assisi, Italy (July 2012)
• Professional Development Grant, Dept. of Theology, University of Notre Dame (2012) – $400
• Professional Development Award, University of Notre Dame Graduate School (2011) – $1,200
• Graduate Student Professional Development Award, Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts, University of Notre Dame (2011) – $500
• Professional Development Grant, Dept. of Theology, University of Notre Dame (2011) – $600

Conference Presentations

• “Poverty as protest: political asceticism in the Middle Ages” (November 2015). Presented at the national meeting of the American Academy of Religion, Atlanta, Georgia.
• “Christ and the secular sword: the ethics of imitation in medieval political theology” (October 2014). Presented at the Patristic, Medieval, and Renaissance Conference at Villanova University, Pennsylvania.
• “Poverty and freedom: a contribution to a Franciscan political theology” (January 2014). Presented at the annual meeting of the Society of Christian Ethics, Seattle, Washington.
• “Naturalizing private property: an outline of a medieval legal shift” (November 2013). Presented at the national meeting of the American Academy of Religion, Baltimore, Maryland.
• “The betrayal of St. Francis?” (April 2013). Presented at the Midwest Regional Meeting of the American Academy of Religion at Ohio Northern University, Ada, Ohio.
• “William of Saint-Amour: an anti-Franciscan theory of property” (July 2011). Presented in a session on Franciscan theories of property at the International Medieval Congress at the University of Leeds, UK.
• “Voluntary poverty and political theology: the case of Bonaventure” (May 2010). Presented in a session on Franciscan political theory at the International Congress of Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan.
• “The perfection of Christ: Michael Sattler’s ecclesiology” (May 2008). Presented at the 16^th Believers Church Conference at Canadian Mennonite University, Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Teaching Experience

Courses Taught

Florida Southern College (2015–2016)

• What is Religion? (beginning religious studies)
• Introduction to Christian Ethics (beginning theology)

Yale Divinity School (Fall 2014)

• Theology, Gender, and Violence (graduate seminar)
• Theology of Poverty (graduate lecture course)

University of Notre Dame (Fall 2013, Summer 2015)

• Christian Perspectives on War, Peace, and Revolution (intermediate theology)

Messiah College (2008–2009)

• Introduction to Christian Theology (beginning theology)
• Faith and Society (beginning theology)

Academic Service

Florida Southern College

• Sexual Respect and Awareness Committee (2015–2016)

University of Notre Dame

• Steering Committee for Association of Theological Schools Review, Dept. of Theology
  • Student Member (2012–2013)
• Graduate Theological Society
  • President (2012–2013)
  • Vice President (2010–2011)
  • Representative to the Graduate Student Union (2009–2010)
• Center for Social Concerns
  • Group Facilitator, Summer Service-Learning Program (Fall 2007)