Service and Administration

Service at North Central College

  • Chair, Faculty Development and Recognition Committee, 2022-2024
  • Undergraduate Academic Standing Committee, 2021-2024
  • Academic Programs Assessment Committee, 2018-2020
  • Coordinating assessment program for Shimer Great Books School
  • Coordinating curricular reorganization and revision (trimester to semester) for Shimer Great Books School

Service at Shimer College
Associate Dean, 2015-17

  • Coordinating academic assessment program
  • Coordinating curricular reorganization (semester to trimester)
  • Scheduling and setting agenda for faculty and other meetings
  • Assisting in course planning and development of academic policy

Other major initiatives

  • Spearheaded revision of interdisciplinary Humanities capstone course
  • Revamped interdisciplinary Senior Capstone sequence
  • Designed and implemented two-year pathway program for transfer students

Fellow of the PhD Center, Chicago Theological Seminary, 2011-

  • Directed PhD-level tutorials
  • Administered comprehensive exams for doctoral candidates
  • Served on dissertation committees

Referee work

  • Publishers: Fordham University Press, Palgrave Macmillan, Rowman & Littlefield International, Stanford University Press
  • Journals: Political Theology, Critical Research in Religion, The Review of Politics, Theology Today, Symplokē, Mosaic, Griffith Law Review, Toronto Journal of Theology, parrhesia
  • Dissertation outside reader: University of Capetown (Department of Religion)

Service on editorial/advisory boards

  • “Provocations” book series, University of Nebraska Press
  • Continental Theory and Thought journal, University of Canterbury (New Zealand)

Service to the American Academy of Religion

  • Co-Chair of the Theology and Continental Philosophy Group, 2016-2020
  • Member of the Steering Committee for the Bible, Theology, and Postmodernism Group, 2010-2013
  • Student Liaison, 2006-2008