Selected Publications

Book

The Aesthetics of Solidarity: Our Lady of Guadalupe and American Democracy. (Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2021).

Journal Articles and Book Chapters:

• “Rootedness on the Slippery Earth: Migration in a Time of Social Upheaval,” in Religion Justice and Social Upheaval, eds. Matthew T. Eggemeier, Peter Joseph Fritz, and Karen V. Guth (New York, NY: Fordham University Press, 2022): 112-123.
• “Mercy as a Public Virtue,” Journal of Religious Ethics 48, no. 3 (September 2020): 458-472.
• “Ethics from Marginalized Perspectives,” Reimagining the Moral Life: On Lisa Sowle Cahill’s Contributions to Christian Ethics, eds. KC Choi, Sarah Moses, and Andrea Vicini. (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 2020): 149-160.  
• “Capitalism and the Face of the Oppressed: A Response to Kathryn Tanner and Devin Singh.” Modern Theology. Forthcoming 2020. 
• “A Response to Emily Reimer-Berry's ‘Another Pro-Life Movement is Possible’ - Power, Politics, and the Pro-Life Movement .” Proceedings of the Catholic Theological Society of America. 2019;74: 39-42. 
• “Greed.” Naming Our Sins: How Recognizing the Seven Deadly Vices Can Renew the Sacrament of Reconciliation. David Cloutier and Jana Bennett, eds. Washington, D.C. The Catholic University of America Press; 2019. pp. 73-88.
• “We Who Believe in Freedom: Ella Baker’s Creed.” Can I Get a Witness: Thirteen Peacemakers, Community-Builders, and Agitators for Faith and Justice. Charles Marsh, Shea Tuttle, and Dan Rhodes, eds. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans; 2019. pp. 119-134. 
• "Our Sister, Mother Earth": Solidarity and Familial Ecology in Laudato Si'.” Journal of Religious Ethics. 2018;46 (3): 463-478. 
• “Trinity and Justice: A Theological Response to the Sexual Assault of Migrant Women.” Journal of Religion and Society. 2018;16 (1): 39-51. 
• “Beyond Consumptive Solidarity: An Aesthetic Response to Human Trafficking.” Journal of Religious Ethics. 2018;46 (2): 360–377. 

Selected Digital Publications

• “Mr. Peña Returns from Washington: Federico Peña made history as mayor of Denver. Now he is imagining a better church.”

America Magazine:

• https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2020/01/10/its-hard-define-what-home-means-todays-world-psalms-can-help
• https://www.americamagazine.org/arts-culture/2019/07/12/what-role-public-theologian-today
• https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2018/12/13/why-dioceses-need-support-struggling-latino-churches
• https://www.americamagazine.org/arts-culture/2018/03/23/martin-luther-king-jr-and-dignity-black-lives-matter-network
• https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2017/12/01/guadalupes-legacy-how-486-year-old-vision-mary-mexico-continues-influence-church
• https://www.americamagazine.org/politics-society/2017/05/12/jeffersons-shadow-can-catholic-theology-thrive-public-university
• https://www.americamagazine.org/arts-culture/2017/08/09/netflixs-chasing-coral-documents-unseen-environmental-disaster
• https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2017/07/12/when-kkk-came-town-catholics-prayed-now-what
• https://www.americamagazine.org/issue/invisible-woman

Political Theology Network:

• https://politicaltheology.com/democratic-discernment-and-the-fate-of-community-murals/

The Miller Center (with Charles Mathewes)

• http://firstyear2017.org/essay/the-first-citizen.html

Select Awards and Grants

• 2017 Yale Center for Faith and Culture Junior Faculty Summer Research Grant

• 2016 Mellon Global South Humanities Fellow at the Institute for Humanities and Global Cultures

• 2015 Catherine Mowry LaCugna Award for best academic essay in theology from the Catholic Theological Society of America for essay, “Beyond Consumptive Solidarity: An Aesthetic Response to Modern Day Slavery”