Research Interests
My current research engages the sermons of preachers displaced by climate catastrophe. I also examine how place and performance are negotiated in the pulpit rhetoric of minoritized preachers.
Fellowships, Gifts & Other Supported Research
A New Exodus: Responses to Climate Change in the Fijian Methodist Pulpit ·
January 2021
Awarded by: The Trent Foundation Memorial Fund
When I was a Stranger: Immigration, Preaching, and Religious Imagination ·
September 2020
Awarded by: Duke Bass Connections
#MyVoiceMyBody: Minoritized Preachers in the Duke Chapel Pulpit ·
January 2020
Awarded by: Duke Bass Connections
External Relationships
- The BTS Center: Spiritual Leadership for a Climate Changed World
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