I am a Catholic feminist theologian working at the intersection of systematic theology, evolutionary biology, and feminist philosophy and theology. From 2022-2024, I was Assistant Professor of Theology and the Theology Program Director (2023-2024) at Gannon University in Erie, PA. In the Fall of 2024, I will begin a new role as Assistant Professor of Systematic Theology at Boston College. My first monograph is entitled Original Sin and the Evolution of Sexual Difference and was published with Oxford University Press (March 2023). It was a finalist for the International Society for Science and Religion’s 2023 Book Prize.
I recently completed a grant project that was funded by the John Templeton Foundation (Grant ID: 62619) and was entitled “Biocultural Evolution and Theological Anthropology.” Insights from this project will be published in a special issue of The Heythrop Journal in 2025. I am now embarking on a new grant project (Grant ID: 63330), also funded by the John Templeton Foundation, entitled “Spiritual Naturalisms: Nature Spirituality and Ecological Activity Among the ‘Spiritual but not Religious.'” This project will run from 2024-2027, and it examines the rise of nature spirituality among the ‘spiritual but not religious,” the ways in which theology may play implicit roles in nature spirituality, and the relevance of nature spirituality for creation care. Both of these grant opportunities are providing assistance with the development of my second monograph, tentatively entitled Beauty in the Wild: Ecological Aesthetics, Theology, and Feminism.
