Author Bios

Author Bios

Neal DeRoo is the Canada Research Chair in Phenomenology and Philosophy of Religion at The King’s University in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Before coming to King’s in 2016, he taught at Brock University and Dordt College and served as the Director of the Andreas Center for Reformed Scholarship and Service. He publishes and lectures worldwide on topics related to phenomenology, oppression theory, and philosophy of religion.

Daniel Fishley is studying for his PhD in Religious Studies at McGill University in Montreal Canada. His area of scholarly focus is on the intersection between Continental philosophy and Christian Theology – with specific interest given to the influence of Meister Eckhart on the Continental tradition.

Joshua Giardino is an independent researcher working in the areas of philosophy, theology, and the digital humanities. Research interests include systematic theology as well as early Christian logic, epistemology, and ontology. He is focused on exploring ancient answers to modern questions, as well as correspondences between ancient and modern thought.

Ashley (Gay) Graham is Project Manager at Simpli.fi in Fort Worth, Texas. She received her Ph.D. in Religion from Emory University and her Master’s in Theological Research from Andover Newton Theological School. Graham’s manuscript, “God’s Absence is Not Nothing: Thinking the Absolute Otherwise,” pursues the perennial question of God’s alterity as it pertains to the limits of thought and the corruptibility of institutions.

Roger Green is general editor of The New Polis and a Senior Lecturer in the English Department at Metropolitan State University of Denver. His work brings political theology into conversation with psychedelics and aesthetics. He is the author of A Transatlantic Political Theology of Psychedelic Aesthetics: Enchanted Citizens.

Silas Guerriero is an anthropologist and Associate Professor of the Science of Religion Department and of the Post-Graduate Program of Religious Studies of the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo, PUC-SP. He acts works in the area search of the Anthropology of Religion, especially new religious movements and religion in modernity.

Joel Harrison is a PhD candidate in religious studies at Northwestern University. His work is focused on the relationship between theology and social theory at the turn of the 20th century in Germany and theory and method in the early history of religious studies. His dissertation, “Between Normativity and History: Ernst Troeltsch’s Mystic Type and the Creative Agency of Values”, reads the “mystic type” in Troeltsch’s theological sociology of the Church as a way of understanding his later work in the philosophy of history, particularly his solution to the problem of history and normativity.

Cyril Hovorun is an Associate Professor of Theological Studies at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles and Acting Director of Huffington Ecumenical Institute. A graduate of the Theological Academy in Kyiv and National University in Athens, he accomplished his doctoral studies at Durham University under the supervision of Fr Andrew Louth.

Joyce Konigsburg is Visiting Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Notre Dame of Maryland University.

Kevin Lewis is a professor of Religious Studies in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at the University of South Carolina. Lewis graduated from the University of Chicago with a PhD in Religion and Literature in 1980 and published The Appeal of Muggletonianism in 1986.

Emily McAvan is an Australian academic and writer. Her research centers on the intersection between the secular and the religious, focusing on the aesthetic, gendered and sexual implications of the sacred. Her first book The Postmodern Sacred came out on MacFarland in 2012. Her work on religion and culture has appeared in journals such as Literature & Theology, The Bible and Critical Theory, and The Journal of Postcolonial Writing.

Michael Oliver is currently a Departmental Lecturer in the Faculty of Theology and Religion at the University of Oxford, UK. He holds a Ph.D. in Theological and Philosophical Studies in Religion from Drew University, with a concentration in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.

Sarah Pessin is Professor of Philosophy and Jewish Thought at the University of Denver. She works on Levinas, Phenomenology, Greek and Medieval cosmologies and ethics, philosophies of religion and race, and interfaith civics. She is the author of Ibn Gabirol’s Theology of Desire (Cambridge, 2013), and is currently working on a book on Levinasian “pausal subjectivity” and its relation to politics of responsibility.

Andrea L Stanton is Associate Professor of Islamic Studies and Chair of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Denver. She obtained her MA and PhD in Middle Eastern history from Columbia University, and her BA in history and in religion from Williams College. She has received grants from the American Academy of Religion, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the US Institute of Peace.

Elijah Prewitt-Davis is a Ph.D. candidate at Drew University. He teaches in the Theology Department at Xavier University and both the Religion and Philosophy Departments at the University of Dayton. His research focuses on modern and contemporary continental philosophy of religion. The working title of his dissertation is “Of the World: The Belief of Gilles Deleuze.”

Joshua Samuel completed his Ph.D. in Comparative Theology and Interreligious Engagement in May 2017 at the Union Theological Seminary, New York.

Eric Trozzo is Director of the Lutheran Study Centre at Sabah Theological Seminary in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia. He holds a PhD in Theological and Philosophical Studies from Drew University. He is the author of Rupturing Eschatology: Divine Glory and the Silence of the Cross (Fortress, 2014), and is currently completing a manuscript entitled The Cyberdimension: A Political Theology of Cyberspace and Cybersecurity.

Olli-Pekka Vainio is University Lecturer of Systematic Theology at Faculty of Theology, University of Helsinki. His research interests include history of philosophy and theology, and contemporary philosophy of religion. His most recent publications include Disagreeing Virtuously (Eerdmans 2017) and Cosmology in Theological Perspective (Baker 2018).