Grad Profiles

Doctoral Student

University of Virginia - PhD Religious Studies (anticipated completion 2021)
- Dissertation Title: “The Courage to Be Otherwise: A Neurodivergent Theology of Liberation and Survival”
- Co-Directors: Nichole Flores and Paul Jones
University of Virginia - MA Religious Studies
University of Georgia - BA summa cum laude, Greek and Religion

Theological and ethical reflection on human neurodivergence
Latin American, black, feminist, Womanist, queer, disability, and Latinx Christian liberation theologies
The interrelation of theology, ethics, and aesthetics
Modern Christian theology (especially the works of Karl Barth and Paul Tillich)

Lecturer, University of Virginia (2020)
- Theologies of Liberation: An exploration of Latin American, black, feminist, Womanist, queer, disability, and Latinx Christian liberation theologies
Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Virginia (2016 - 2019)
- Theological Bioethics (Nichole Flores)
- Introduction to the Hebrew Bible (Ashley Tate)
- Spiritual but Not Religious: Spirituality in America (Matthew Hedstrom)
- Elements of Christian Thought (Paul Jones)
- Religion in America Since 1865 (Heather Warren)
- Introduction to the New Testament (Janet Spittler)
Graduate Assistant for the Summer Transition Program, University of Virginia (2019)
Student Recovery Support Assistant at the UVA organization Hoos in Recovery (2018-2019)
Preceptor for the Reacting to the Past program, University of Georgia (2013-2014)
- “Threshold of Democracy: Athens in 403 B.C.” (Christine Albright ; Celeste Condit)
- “Beware the Ides of March: Rome in 44 BCE,” (Christine Albright)

Dissertation Completion Fellowship, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Virginia (2020-2021): Assists doctoral students who are poised to complete distinguished dissertations
Honorary Dissertation Fellowship, Louisville Institute at Louisville, KY (2020-2021): Granted to students whose dissertation project has the potential to strengthen the religious life of North American Christians
PVI Collective Graduate Fellowship, The Power, Violence & Inequality Collective at the University of Virginia (2020): Awarded to graduate students whose proposed research is focused on violence rooted in power and inequality
Zora Neale Hurston Award, Department of Women, Gender & Sexuality at the University of Virginia (2017): Awarded for the Best Graduate Paper in Women, Gender & Sexuality
Classics Prize, Department of Classics at the University of Georgia (2015): Awarded to the graduating senior who has performed at the highest level in the major as an undergraduate, and has displayed qualities of leadership while at UGA

“Stirring Being with Grace: A Queer Pneumatological Disruption of 20th and 21st Century Gender Essentialism, and Its Implications for ‘God-talk’ and Theological Anthropology,” Feminist Theology (forthcoming May 2021)

"The Courage to Be Otherwise: Tillich's Concepts of Anxiety & Despair as Resources for Theological Reflection on Mental Illness." 2019 Virginia Graduate Conference, "An Age of Extremism?" Charlottesville, VA, March 2019.
“Assault and Grace: The Role of Aesthetic Experience in Resisting Decreation of the Self.” University of Virginia Diversifying Scholarship Conference. Charlottesville, VA, November 2018.

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