Curriculum Vitae

Last updated September 3, 2014

Education

Ph.D. (expected 2015), University of Notre Dame – Christian Ethics
- Dissertation: “The Poor of Christ: 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)

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

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

Review of Giorgio Agamben, The Highest Poverty: Monastic Rules and Form-of-Life, trans. Adam Kotsko. Forthcoming in Modern Theology.
Review of Moral Dynamics of Economic Life, ed. Daniel Finn; and James Bailey, Rethinking Poverty. In 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. In The Conrad Grebel Review 31, no. 1 (Winter 2013).

“Waldensians, Women, & Preaching as a Political Act,” Political Theology Today (Sept. 3, 2014).
“History and/as Political Theology.” Political Theology Today (July 2, 2014).
“Pope Francis and Liberation Theology.” The Immanent Frame (May 9, 2014).
“The Revolutionary Poverty of Arnold of Brescia.” Political Theology Today (May 7, 2014).

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)

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

“Christ and the secular sword: the ethics of imitation in medieval political theology” (October 2014). To be 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.

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