STEPHANIE MOTA THURSTON Wake Forest University | Program for Leadership & Character [email protected] | 623.203.1590
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
Wake Forest University 2020 Postdoctoral Fellow | Program for Leadership & Character Visiting Professor | School of Divinity
EDUCATION
Princeton Theological Seminary Ph.D., Religion and Society 2020 Dissertation: Making Citizens in a Credential Society: Identities, Values, and Practices at Brooklyn High
Yale University Divinity School 2014 M.A., Religion and Ethics
Scripps College 2008 B.A., Politics and Religious Studies
TEACHING
Instructor of Record
Welcoming the Stranger: Migration, Citizenship, and the Virtue of Hospitality Approved Spring 2020 Wake Forest University | School of Divinity
Character and the Good Life: Negotiating Questions of Race, Class, & Gender Fall 2020 Wake Forest University | School of Divinity
Colloquium in Theology, Women, and Gender Spring 2020 Princeton Seminary Spring 2019
Complicity and Responsibility: Living Faithfully Amid Structural Injustice Fall 2018 Princeton Seminary
Teaching Assistant
Black Religion in the New Public Square with Professor Keri Day Spring 2019 Princeton Seminary
Judaism, Christianity, and Islam in Israel/Palestine with Professor Ellen Charry Fall 2017 Princeton Seminary
Christian Ethics and Modern Times with Professor John Bowlin Spring 2017 Princeton Seminary
Business Ethics and Modern Religious Thought with Professor David Miller Fall 2016 Princeton University, Department of Religion
Thurston 2 Judaism, Christianity, and Islam in Israel/Palestine with Professor Ellen Charry Fall 2016 Princeton Seminary
Issues in Human Sexuality with Professor Nancy Duff Spring 2016 Princeton Seminary
Business Ethics and Modern Religious Thought with Professor David Miller Fall 2015 Princeton University, Department of Religion
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
2020 “Alternative Models of Political Engagement: Forging the Language of Social Conscience in a Secular Age,” Panel Response to Peter Casarella’s The God of the People: A Latino/a Theology, Society of Christian Ethics Annual Meeting. Washington, DC.
2019 “Responding to Structural Injustice: Intention, Blameworthiness, and Moral Responsibility” Society of Christian Ethics Annual Meeting. Louisville, KY.
2018 “The Ethnographic Turn, Public Anthropology, and the Civic Responsibilities of Scholars” American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting. Ethics Section. Denver, CO.
2017 “Pedagogy of Love: Self-Limitation and Solidarity in Prison Education.” Society of Vineyard Scholars Annual Meeting. New Haven, CT.
2016 “Local Moral Exemplars: Septima Clark’s Revolutionary Love and Justice.” American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting. Religion and Politics Section. San Antonio, TX.
2015 “Teaching Religion in Prison.” Columbia University Religion Department Graduate Student Conference. New York, NY.
2015 “Pedagogical Practices and the Places We Inhabit: Teaching and Embodying Theology in Prison.” Society of Vineyard Scholars Annual Meeting. Media, PA.
PUBLICATIONS
2019 Stephanie Mota Thurston, “Engaging the Everyday in Womanist Ethics and Mujerista Theology,” Michael Lamb and Brian A. Williams, eds. Everyday Ethics: Moral Theology and the Practices of Ordinary Life. Georgetown University Press.
2016 Stephanie Mota Thurston, Book Review, “Ethics of Everyday Life: Moral Theology, Social Anthropology, and the Imagination of the Human” by Michael Banner, Princeton Theological Review, 19:1 (Spring 2016), 51-52.
UNDER REVIEW OR IN PREPARATION
2020 “Responsibility for Structural Injustice: A Case Study in Patterns of Contemporary School Segregation.” (In Preparation)
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2020-21 Consultant for Theological Education in Prisons programing. Department of Continuing Education. Princeton Seminary.
2018 “Yearning for a World without Prisons: Abolition and the Role of a Theological Imagination.” Paper Presented at the Joy, Justice, and Bondage Consultation. Yale Center for Faith & Culture. Yale University.
2018 “Reformed Theology in Public Life” Panel Participant. Presbyterian Student Fellowship. Princeton Theological Seminary.
2017 “Vocation and Higher Education” Panel Participant. Louisville Institute Doctoral and Postdoctoral Fellows Fall Gathering. Louisville, KY.
2017 “Debates Surrounding Minority Underachievement.” ANT 368 Ethnography of Schools and Schooling. Princeton University.
ADMINISTRATIVE AND LEADERSHIP POSITIONS
Princeton Theological Seminary 2018-2020 Director of Center for Theology, Women, and Gender
Princeton Theological Seminary 2019-2020 Field Education Site Supervisor: Garden State Youth Correctional Facility
Princeton Theological Seminary 2014-2020 Senior Teaching Fellow: Certificate of Theology and Ministry—Inside-Outside Prison Cohort Department of Continuing Education, Princeton Seminary Garden State Youth Correctional Facility, New Jersey Department of Corrections
Princeton Theological Seminary 2018 Research Assistant: Lilly Foundation’s Thriving in Ministry Initiative
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
2020 Faculty Search Committee, History of Christianity Appointment Wake Forest University, School of Divinity
2020 Fellowship of Protestant Ethics—Board Member
2019-2020 Fieldwork in Ethics, SCE Working Group—Member of Leadership Team
2016- 2017 Theology and Religion & Society Ph.D. Writers Workshop—Co-moderator
2016 Augustine in Religion and Politics Summer Workshop—Conference Coordinator Princeton Theological Seminary and Princeton University
2015- 2016 Title VI/IX Hearing Panel—Member Princeton Theological Seminary
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2015- 2016 PhD Student Group—Co-Moderator PhD Studies Committee—Student Representative Princeton Seminary
2014 Faculty Search Committee for Christian Social Ethics—Student Representative Yale University, School of Divinity
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
American Academy of Religion American Political Science Association Society of Christian Ethics Fellowship of Protestant Ethics—Board Member
LANGUAGES
Spanish (Reading and Translation, Speaking-Intermediate) French (Reading and Translation)
FELLOWSHIPS & HONORS
2020-2021 Teaching & Learning Digital Salon for Latinx Perspectives on Possibilities of Teaching Theology and Religious Studies, Wabash Center
2018 Dissertation Fellowship, Lilly Foundation & Hispanic Theological Initiative
2016-2018 Doctoral Fellowship, Louisville Institute
2014-2019 Doctoral Fellowship, Hispanic Theological Initiative
OTHER RELEVANT EXPERIENCE & TRAINING
2020 Course Development Workshop, Program for Leadership & Character, Wake Forest University
2020 Peer Learning Community, Interdisciplinary Group, Center for the Advancement of Teaching, Wake Forest University
2019-2020 Ethnography in Theology and Ethics Workshop Series, Fieldwork in Ethics Working Group
2018 Teaching Seminar for Doctoral Students, Wabash Center, New York, NY