Recent Publications
- An Ecological Theology of Liberation: Salvation and Political Ecology (n.b. recipient of College Theology Society's Best Book Award, 2020)
- “The Age of Cain: The ‘Anthropocene,’ Western Extractive Colonialism, and the Christian Imagination” Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics 44.1 (2024): 27-45.
- “Reconfiguring Ignacio Ellacuría’s symbol of ‘the Crucified People’: Jesus, the Suffering Servant, and Abel,” Theological Studies 84.1 (2023): 8–29.
- “The Meek Shall Inherit the Earth: Surfacing the Politico-Ecological Dimensions of Nonviolent Struggle," Journal of Catholic Social Thought 20.2 (2023): 241-257.
- “On Grieving for the Garden of the World: Catholic Education and the Cultivation of an Ecologically Sensitive Conscience” in Conscience and Catholic Education: Theology, Administration, and Teaching, eds. David DeCosse and Kevin Baxter (Maryknoll: Orbis, 2022), 183–197.
Grants and Awards
- 2020-2021 Sabbatical Research Grant, Louisville Institute (for Confronting the Age of Cain: Christian Faith in the "Anthropocene," in progress)
- 2020-2021 Research Fellow, Kroc Institute for Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame
- 2017 First Book Grant, Louisville Institute (for An Ecological Theology of Liberation)
Courses Taught
- Introduction to Christian Theology
- Christian Environmental Ethics
- World Christianity
- Violence and Holiness in Twentieth Centery El Salvador
- Liberation Theology: Roots and Brances (seminar)
- Justice, Peace, and the Integrity of Creation (seminar)
- The Resurrection (seminar)