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2024-25 Residents

Resident Scholars

The following scholars will be at the Collegeville Institute for a full semester or academic year.

Jane Dawson (Spring 2025)

Writer, Educator, Spiritual Director
Comox, BC, Canada
Project Title: The Last Speech of Moses

Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen (Fall 2024)

Professor of Systematic Theology
Fuller Theological Seminary
Temple City, CA
Project Title: We Believe: Muslims and Christians in Conversation about Faith

Leocadie Lushombo (Fall 2024)

Assistant Professor of Christian Ethics
Jesuit School of Theology/Santa Clara University
Berkeley, CA
Project Title: Mother Land: An Ethnography and Ecological Conversion of Forestry Community

Gregory Polan (Spring 2025)

Abbot Primate of the Benedictine Federation
Conception Abbey
Conception, MO
Project Title: How, When, and Why the Violent Language from the Psalms Challenges Us to Pray

Amy Richter (Full Year)

Faculty
Queens College, St. John’s NL, Canada
Mont-Tremblant, QC, Canada
Project Title: Redirecting Our Gaze and Rewilding Our Worship: 1 Enoch as a Resource for Addressing Creation Care and Climate Crisis

Kimberley Smolik (Full Year)

Nonprofit Executive; Leadership Coach; Artist
Leadership Roundtable
Saint Paul, MN
Project Title: Protagonist: An Exploration of the Leadership Voices of Catholic Women Saints through Painting, Prayer, and Personal Journaling

Short Term Scholars

The following scholars will be at the Collegeville Institute for less than one semester.

Danae Ashley (March 2025)

Priest and Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
Episcopal Church
Everett, WA
Project Title: The Ministry of Presence: Holistic Healing in Mental Health through the 12th Century Practices of Hildegard of Bingen

Kit Carlson (April 2025)

Rector, All Saints Episcopal Church
Episcopal Church
East Lansing, MI
Project Title: All Mortal Flesh: Essays on the Body

Briana Gibson ReevesBriana Gibson Reeves (Spring 2025)

Actress, Mezzo Soprano, Mover, Teaching Artist
Brooklyn, NY
Project Title: Spirituality expressed through Screenplay

Roohi Choudhry (Sept-Nov 2024)

Writer and Teaching Artist
Brooklyn, NY
Project Title: Clay Body: Essays

Alicia Forde (March 2025)

Director
International Office, UUA
Boulder, CO
Project Title: Queer Intimacies and the Poetry of Friendship

Katie Gordon (October 2024)

Website Content Manager
Monasteries of the Heart (Benedictine Sisters of Erie)
Erie, PA
Project Title: Living Otherwise: Monastic Wisdom at the Threshold of Change

Zenzele Isoke (December 2024)

Associate Professor of the Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
University of Maryland, College Park
Bowie, MD
Project Title: Memoir: To Rape a Butterfly: Blackness and the Afterlife of Childhood Violence

Les James (Oct-Nov 2024)

Writer
Montgomery, IL
Project Title: In Our Nature

Rebecca Janzen (November 2024)

Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC
Project Title: Mining Religion: Religious Sites and Extractive Industries Across the Americas

Aaron Klink (Sept-Oct 2024)

Hospice Chaplain and Bereavement Coordinator
Pruitt Hospital/Duke University
Durham, NC
Project Title: Healing, Disability, and Resurrection: Pastoral Care and Hope for Persons with Disabilities

John Lewis (Sept-Oct 2024)

Co-Director; Iona Collaborative Theologian in Residence
St. Benedict’s Workshop; Episcopal Theological Seminary of the Southwest
San Antonio, TX
Project Title: Salvation’s Work Paul and Communal Discernment for Churches

Arleta Little (Nov-Dec 2024)

Executive and Artistic Director
Loft Literary Center
Minneapolis, MN
Project Title: Book project influenced by the life and work of Howard Thurman

Craig Mueller (Nov-Dec 2024)

Lead Pastor
Holy Trinity Lutheran Church
Chicago, IL
Project Title: Mother of God: A Lutheran Pastor Reflects on Devotion to Mary from a Personal and Ecumenical Perspective

Camilla Russell (February 2025)

Publications Editor: Institutum Historicum Societatis Iesu (IHSI)
Roman Jesuit Archive, University of Newcastle (Australia)
Rome, Italy
Project Title: A Global History of the Jesuits in 10 Key Documents

Aishah Shahidah Simmons
(Sept-Oct 2024)

Survivor-Healer, Cultural Worker, and Mindfulness Meditation Teacher
Philadelphia, PA
Project Title: Spiritual Memoir: Love, Justice, and Dharma

Julien Smith (April 2025)

Professor of Humanities and Theology
Valparaiso University
Valparaiso, IN
Project Title: Practicing the Good Life: Essential Practices for Christian Earthkeeping

Michelle Voss (April 2025)

Professor and Past Principal
Emmanuel College, Toronto School of Theology
Toronto, ON, Canada
Project Title: The Journey Is Our Home: Intersectional, Interfaith Engagement

Chanequa Walker-Barnes (Feb-March 2025)

Professor of Practical Theology and Pastoral Care
Columbia Theological Seminary
Atlanta, GA
Project Title: Surviving White Space: Essays on Race, Faith, and Healing

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