EDUCATION
University of Chicago Divinity School, Chicago, IL
Ph.D. candidate in religious ethics
University of Chicago Divinity School, Chicago, IL
M.A. in religion, 1995
Saint Olaf College, Northfield, MN
B.A., majors in history and philosophy (departmental distinction), 1992
DISSERTATION
Title: “Attestation and Injunction: The Phenomenology of Conscience
in Paul Ricoeur’s Hermeneutics of the Capable Self (A Comparative
Study of Heidegger, Lévinas, and Ricoeur)”
Advisor: William Schweiker
Readers: David Tracy; Jean-Luc Marion
DOCTORAL EXAMINATIONS
1. Philosophical Ethics
2. Theological Ethics
3. Philosophy of Religions: Contemporary
4. Hermeneutics and Religious Reflection
HONORS
2004-2005 Marty Center Dissertation Fellowship
2004 Brauer Seminar Award, University of Chicago
2003 Norman Wait Harris Memorial Fund Award, The Center for International
Studies, University of Chicago (Co-recipient)
2003 Conference Proposal Competition Award, The Franke Institute for
the Humanities, University of Chicago (Co-recipient)
1993-1996 Divinity School Scholarship, Divinity School, University
of Chicago
PUBLICATIONS
Edited Books:
Humanity Before God: Contemporary Faces of Jewish, Christian,
and Muslim Ethics, co-edited with William Schweiker and Kevin Jung
(Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress Press, 2006.)
Articles/Essays:
“Creation and Initiative: Paul Ricoeur’s Ethics of Originary
Affirmation,” in Humanity Before God: Contemporary Faces of
Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Ethics, edited by Michael Johnson,
Kevin Jung, and William Schweiker (Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress Press,
2006.)
“Proximities: Old and New,” Sightings. Martin Marty Center,
University of Chicago Divinity School, October 2001
Reviews:
Patrick Bourgeois, Philosophy at the Boundary of Reason.
In The Journal of Religion, 2005.
Paul Ricoeur, The Just. In The Journal of Religion,
2002.
PRESENTATIONS/LECTURES
Respondent to "Unity and Disassembly: Moral Aesthetics from Edwards
and Buddhaghosa," by Joyce S. Shin and David A. Clairmont, 2006
Student Ethics Conference, University of Chicago, April 2006.
“Heidegger and Thanatology in Twentieth Century Philosophy,”
Philosophy of Religion Section, American Academy of Religion Annual
Meeting, Philadelphia, 2005.
“Attestation and Acknowledgment: A Practice-based Theory of
Meaning as a Point of Convergence between Paul Ricoeur’s Christian
Ethics and Hilary Putnam’s Jewish Ethics,” The Society of
Christian Ethics Annual Meeting, Chicago, 2004.
“Attestation and Acknowledgment: Paul Ricoeur and Hilary Putnam
on the Ethics of Responsibility,” The D. R. Sharpe Lectures on
Social Ethics, University of Chicago Divinity School, 2003.
“Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Life Together.”
Four-part lecture series at Hyde Park Union Church, Chicago IL, October,
2003. (Co-lecturer and discussion leader)
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Adjunct Instructor:
Business Ethics. University of St. Francis, Joliet, IL, Spring Semester
2005.
Business Ethics. University of St. Francis, Joliet, IL, Fall Semester
2004.
Teaching Assistant:
History of Theological Ethics II: Modern to Contemporary (William
Schweiker). University of Chicago Divinity School, Spring 2006.
History of Theological Ethics I: Ancient to Medieval (William Schweiker).
University of Chicago Divinity School, Winter 2006.
History of Theological Ethics II: Modern to Contemporary (William
Schweiker), University of Chicago Divinity School, Winter 2004.
History of Theological Ethics I: Ancient to Medieval (William Schweiker),
University of Chicago Divinity School, Autumn 2003.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Conference Organizer:
“Humanity Before God: Contemporary Faces of Jewish, Christian,
and Islamic Ethics,” The D. R. Sharpe Lectures on Social Ethics,
University of Chicago Divinity School, October 2003. (Co-organizer)
(Website)
Student Ethics Conference. The University of Chicago Divinity School.
Chicago, IL. April, 1997. (Co-organizer)
Student Ethics Conference. The University of Chicago Divinity School.
Chicago, IL. April, 1996. (Main organizer; moderator)
Research Assistant:
Research Assistant to Professor William Schweiker, University of Chicago
Divinity School, 2002-present.
Editorial Assistant:
Assistant to Professor Howard Hong in Kierkegaard’s Works
editorial project. Howard and Edna Hong Kierkegaard Library. St. Olaf
College, Northfield, MN. (2-year undergraduate position)
Supervisor, Academic Research Library:
Assistant Section Head, Acquisitions Department, University of Chicago
Library, 2000-present
Project Assistant:
Project Assistant for Web Site Design and Content Maintenance, The
Religion, Culture, and Family Project, The University of Chicago Divinity
School, 2003-2004.
TEACHING COMPETENCE
Primary:
History of Western Religious Thought; Theological and Philosophical
Ethics (Protestant Ethics; Roman Catholic Moral Theology; Responsibility
Ethics; Ethical Theories); Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy;
German Idealism; Continental Philosophy, 19th and 20th c.; Social and
Political Ethics (Ancient and Modern Political Thought; Just War Theories);
Philosophical Theology; Philosophy of Religions, modern and contemporary;
Hermeneutical Theory; Philosophical Hermeneutics
Secondary:
Philosophy of Religion; Contemporary Jewish Thought; History of Analytic
Philosophy, 19th and 20th c.; Metaphysics (Ancient and Modern) and Epistemology
LANGUAGES:
French, German
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
The Society of Christian Ethics
American Academy of Religion
REFERENCES
(available upon request)
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