Monographs
Monograph with Oxford University Press, published December 2022 (UK) and March 2023 (US).
Finalist for the 2023 Book Award from the International Society for Science and Religion (ISSR).
“I always like a book that wakes me up, makes my brain move in new directions, and offers new paradigms for thinking theologically. This book, while incredibly dense and filled to its electronic gills with footnotes, does this.” — Dolores L. Christie, Catholic Books Review
“a pathbreaking study which brings feminist theology into constructive dialogue with Darwinism.” –ISSR Awards Committee
“Overall, this is an intelligent, instructive, and well-argued work that makes a genuinely new contribution to interdisciplinary theology.”–Robin Gill, The Journal of Theological Studies (2024)
Selected Peer-Reviewed Articles
“Restoration of Abundance: Feyerabend, Mysticism, and Science-Engaged Theology” (forthcoming Spring 2024)
“Gender as Context in Science and Religion: ‘Natural’ Sexual Difference as a Case Study”
Philosophy, Theology, and the Sciences, (Vol. 9, Issue 2), 2022
“Visiting Iniquity Upon the Generations: Epigenetics, Systems Biology, and Theologies of Inherited Sin”
Philosophy, Theology, and the Sciences, (Vol. 7, Issue 2), 2020
“The Evolution of Homo Ludens: Sexual Selection and a Theology of Play”
Zygon, (Vol. 57, Issue 3), 2022
“Teresa of Avila on Theology and Shame,” New Blackfriars, (Vol. 99, Issue 1081), 2018
Contributions to Edited Volumes
Chapter entitled: “Creaturely Agency in Theology and Evolution” (forthcoming December 2023)`
Chapter entitled: “Unity in the Massa Peccati: Original Sin and the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis”
Chapter entitled: “Augustine and the Gendered Self in Time”
Online Resources
“Can evolutionary biology help to render natural law approaches to sexual ethics more affirming of non-heterosexual relationships?”, Theological Puzzles (Issue 8, 2022), https://www.theo-puzzles.ac.uk/2022/06/14/ulishney/
“Report on Supporting Diversity in STEM Faculty Hiring and Retention at CCCU Institutions,” SCIO (Scholarship and Christianity in Oxford, research for this report was funded by the John Templeton Foundation), September 2021. Report can be found here: https://www.scio-uk.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/2021-Report-on-Supporting-Diversity-in-STEM-Faculty.pdf