Religion

Chapters

2021
“Divine and Human Agency in Calvin’s Institutes,” in The Oxford Handbook of Calvin and Calvinism, ed. Bruce Gordon and Carl R. Trueman, Oxford University Press, 43-56.

Reviews

2026
(Forthcoming) Symposium Curator and Introduction, Syndicate Forum on David Kelsey’s 
Human Anguish and God’s Power.

Public writing

2025
"The Risks of Eco-Theodicy,” Research Reflection, for Harvard’s Center for the Study of World Religions, June 9.

2026
(Article) “‘A Special Case of a Broader Phenomenon’: Recognition and the Reception of Amitav Ghosh’s Critique of the Literary Novel,” under review at ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment.

Revelatory Ecologies (Book Manuscript).

“The Ecological Crisis of Story, and Other Stories of Crisis” (Article). Expected Date of 
Completion: Spring 2027.

Presentations

“Despair as Environmental Knowledge,” Society for the Social Studies of Science Annual Meeting, October 7, 2026.

“Don’t You Dare Despair: On the Affective Enemies and Apocalyptic Anxieties of Public Climate Discourses,” Political Theology Network Conference, October 24, 2025.

“Into the ‘Insane Midden’: Mystical Experiences of Exhaustion in Jeff VanderMeer’s Ecological Fiction,” American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, November 24, 2024.

“The ‘Partial Theodicy’ of Donna Haraway’s Chthulucene,” American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, November 23, 2024.

“Theology in the Impasse of Ecological Crisis: On Amitav Ghosh and the Creation of Unthinkability,” American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, November 19, 2023.

“Peripheral Visions of Ecological Crisis: Refusal and Revelation in Jeff VanderMeer’s Hummingbird Salamander and Rumaan Alam’s Leave the World Behind,” International Society  for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture, February 4, 2023. 

“Crisis Clarity, or the Occlusion of Meaning? The Problems of Revealed Relationality,”American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, November 22, 2022.

“Bodied Permeability and the Threat/Promise of Annihilation,” Brown UniversityReligious Studies Graduate Student Conference, March 6, 2020. 

Panels

Panel Co-Organizer, “Writing at the Limits of Narrative: A Panel on Climate Change,” featuring NYT best-selling author Jeff VanderMeer, feminist science studies scholar Banu Subramaniam, and Grist climate fiction creative manager Tory Stephens. Yale University, April 25, 2024. Raised $24,000 in funds for the event.

Funding sources: Poynter Fellowship in Journalism at Yale, Yale Institute for Sacred Music, Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies, Franke Program in Science and the Humanities, Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology, and Whitney Humanities Center

Discussion Co-Moderator, “Vulnerability: A Conversation with Karen Barad,” Yale University, October 31, 2022. 

Invited Talks

“The Ecological ‘Crisis of Story,’ and Other Stories of Ecological Crisis,” Skidmore College, April 7, 2026.

“The Paradox of Providence,” “Our Lives with God: Lessons from Our Shared History,” and “Our Lives with God: Prayer, Praise, and Communal Discernment,” featured speaker and preacher for Adult Vacation Bible School, Eastminster Presbyterian Church, Columbia, SC, August 2-3, 2025. 

2022-2023
University Dissertation Fellowship, Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

2022
Summer Dissertation Writing-in-Residence Working Group, Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

2015-2017
Marquand Scholarship, top merit-based scholarship for Yale Divinity School

2015
Elizabeth Dodge Clark Award for Religious Studies, University of South Carolina

2015
Jeong S. Yang Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Mathematics, University of South Carolina

2014
Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Chapter of South Carolina

2013, 2014
Thomas Markham Mathematics Scholarship, University of South Carolina