Research

My research is animated by a commitment to reduce suffering. I am fascinated by conflict dynamics and the myriad ways that we make life worse and better for one another. My book in progress, Moving Through Impasse, develops a praxis of identity transformation that can mitigate destructive ideologies. 

Selected Publications:  

• "Empowerment and Transformation: Correlating John of the Cross and Judith Herman for Trauma Healing," International Journal of Practical Theology Volume 27: Issue 1 (June 2023): 99–113.

• “The Intensifying Intersection of Ethics, Religion, Theology, and Peace Studies,” Journal of Religious Ethics Volume 49: Issue 1 (March 2021): 189-212.

• “The Spirituality of a Pluralist: A Theological Reading of Connolly's Why I Am Not a Secularist,” Spiritus 20 (2020): 45-57.

• “‘There is still a lot of pollution in there’: Undoing Violent Ideologies, Undoing the Self” in Suffering and the Christian Life, ed. Karen Kilby and Rachel Davies (Bloomsbury, 2019).

• “An Ever-Stitched Wholeness: Multi-dimensional Relationality in Trauma Theory and Schillebeeckx’s Theology of Salvation” in At the Crossroads: Edward Schillebeeckx and the Frontiers of Public Theology, ed. Stephan van Erp, Christopher Cimorelli and Christiane Alpers (Bloomsbury Press, 2017).

• “The Intersection of Christian Theology and Peacebuilding.” With Janna Hunter-Bowman in The Oxford Handbook of Religion, Conflict, and Peacebuilding, ed. Atalia Omer, R. Scott Appleby and David Little (Oxford University Press, 2015), 569-596.