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 Georgetown University 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 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
