Christopher Haw PhD. Theology and Peace Studies University of Notre Dame [email protected] PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS 2018-present: Assistant Professor of Theology, University of Scranton 2017-2018: Adjunct Professor, Humanities and Theology, Westville Prison Education Initiative (program of University of Notre Dame and Holy Cross College). Courses taught: “Humanities: Great Comedies,” “Intro to Theology.” 2009-2012: Adjunct Professor, Religious Studies, Cabrini University. Courses taught: “Jesus: History and Myth” and “Contemporary Spirituality.” 2003- : Independently contracted lecturer. See below and CV addendum. 2012-2013: Community Staff and Project Manager with Heart of Camden Redevelopment Agency, overseeing housing development and renovation of historic firehall (1889) in South Camden ($750k job). 2003-2005: Tutor, Phys Ed. Teacher, and Sports Coach. Sacred Heart School, Camden, NJ. Serving all K-8 levels. EDUCATION 2013-2018: University of Notre Dame, Kroc Center for International Studies, PhD, Theology and Peace Studies. Includes teacher assistantships. 2007-2009: Villanova University, M.A. summa cum laude, comprehensive exams passed “with distinction,” theology and religious studies. Includes research assistantships. 1999-2003: Eastern University, B.A., magna cum laude, double major in theology, sociology. HONORS AND AWARDS Steve Pepe Fellowship, University of Notre Dame, 2017-2018. Notebaert Fellowship (highest tier), University of Notre Dame, 2013-2019. Excellence in Publishing Award (2012), Association of Catholic Publishers: “3rd Place: Biography” for From Willow Creek to Sacred Heart. “Starred Review,” Publishers Weekly, Jesus for President, 2008. “Books of the Year: Religion,” Jesus for President, Publisher’s Weekly, 255 (44), p. 24. Nov 2008. “Top Ten Books of 2008,” Jesus for President, Relevant Magazine. All-American Collegiate Scholar, United States Achievement Academy, 2003. “Excellence in Applied Christian Ethics,” Eastern University, 2003. For public service with Philadelphia homeless and public witness against war in Iraq. “Barnabus Servant Leadership Award,” Eastern University, 2002. BOOKS Haw, Chris, From Willow Creek to Sacred Heart: Rekindling my Love for Catholicism (Indianapolis, IN: Ave Maria Press, 2012). (trans. Swedish) Claiborne, Shane and Chris Haw, Jesus for President: Politics for Ordinary Radicals (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, March 2008). (trans. German, Korean) ACADEMIC JOURNAL ARTICLES Human Evolution and the Victim Mechanism: Locating Girard’s Hominization Hypothesis through Literature Survey, Contagion 24 (2017): 191-226. CHAPTERS IN BOOKS “On Fatherhood and Carpentry,” in McGrath, Mickey, Go to Joseph (Franklin Park, IL: World Library Publications, 2013). “Banned Questions About Jesus, with Chris Haw,” in Christian Piatt (ed), Banned Questions About the Bible (Atlanta, GA: Chalice Press, 2012). “End Prayers,” in Okoru, Enuma, Shane Claiborne and Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, Common Prayer: A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan 2010). ESSAYS “Vatican Nuclear Disarmament,” The Observer (paper and online), Nov 23, 2017: http://ndsmcobserver.com/2017/12/vatican-nuclear-disarmament/. “A Ritual of Sincerity: A Response to ‘Worship at Willow Creek’,” America Magazine, Feb 6th, 2014, online article (http://americamagazine.org/content/all-things/ritual- sincerity-response-worship-willow-creek) “Lament and Hope, Grief and Expectation,” Tokens: Theology, Music, Books, Stories, online article, https://www.tokensshow.com/blog/chris-haw-lament-and-hope (Dec 10th, 2013). “Papa Ratzi’s Rare Resignation: Pope Bows Out, First Time Since Middle Ages,” Red Letter Christians Blogsite, http://www.redletterchristians.org/papa-ratzis-rare- resignation-pope-bows-out-first-time-since-middle-ages/. (Feb, 2013). “Giving Thanks for the Saints,” Patheos Book-Club, Nov, 2012. “Church as Brand,” Neue Quarterly Magazine (Relevant Media Group, April/May 2011). “Tourism, The Exotic, and Stability,” Conspire! Magazine, 5 (Philadelphia, PA: The Simple Way, Spring, 2010). “The Numbers Game,” Neue Quarterly Magazine (Relevant Media Group, Spring 2010). “Its not Business, Its Personal,” Neue Quarterly Magazine (Relevant Media Group, Winter 2009/2010). “Just a Phone?,” Relevant Magazine (Relevant Media Group, July/August 2009 print edition). “The Christian and the iPhone: A Primer for Black Friday,” Mars Hill Graduate School’s The Other Journal, Nov 27th, 2008. http://theotherjournal.com/article.php?id=499 “The Relevance of our Irrelevance” in Fermi Shorts (June 2008) http://www.qideas.org/essays/ “On Not Changing the Course of History,” The Enclave Journal (Feb. 2005). “In Search of True Nonviolence: On My Civil Disobedience Arrest,” through 3 publications, The Enclave Journal, Evangelicals for Social Action and PRISM’s E-pistle, and Workplace Spirituality website (http://www.workplacespirituality.info/InSearchOfTrueNonviolence.html)(Fall 2004). ACADEMIC PAPER PRESENTATIONS Monotheism, Pluralism, and Apophatic Intolerance, Brown University Graduate Conference, March 16-17, 2018. Girard at the Intersection of Analogy and Dialectic, The American Academy of Religion, Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, Nov 19, 2017. Respondent to Eileen Hunt Botting’s lecture, “Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein and the Rights of Genetically Modified Children,” Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, Feb 17, 2017. “Beyond Vattimo’s Christian Atheism and Girard’s Christianity-as-Religion-Destroyer: Toward the Axial Age and a Broader Theoclasm.” Joint Conference Between the University of Chicago Divinity School and University of Notre Dame Theology Departments, Theology, Ethics, and the Death of God, at the University of Chicago, October 2016 “Human evolution and the single victim mechanism: Locating Girard’s Hominization Hypothesis through Literature Survey.” The One By Whom Scandal Comes: Critically Engaging the Girardian Corpus, Colloquium on Violence and Religion, St. Louis University, July 2015. “Practicing Resurrection in Urban Wastelands,” The European Forum on Religion and the Environment, Conference: “Religion in the Anthropocene,” Munich, Germany, May 2015. “Three Films as Violence Exegetes,” The Colloquium on Violence and Religion, Freising, Germany, July 2014. “Why I Think Protestantism Still Has a Public Future: A commentary on Weber’s Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism,” American Sociological Association Meeting, Eastern University, Spring 2001. INVITED LECTURES: ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS Panelist w/ Professor of Political Science, Dr. Michael Desch, “The Pope and the Bomb,” Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, Dec 5th, 2017. “Rust Belt Apocalypse and the Eucharist,” The Annual Cardinal Newman Lecture, Loyola University Chicago, March 23rd, 2017. Respondent to Andrew McKenna’s “René Girard, Moral Injury, and Literary Knowledge,” at Loyola University’s Catholic Minds, Catholic Matters Lecture Series, Tues Nov 15th, 2016. Lecture at Dr. William Cavanaugh’s classes, “Intro to Catholicism,” regarding their use of my book, DePaul University, May 2015. “On loving a ruined city and a messy church,” Windows on the World Campus Lecture Series, Eastern University, PA. November, 2014. Lecture at Dr. William Cavanaugh’s classes, “Intro to Catholicism,” regarding their use of my book, DePaul University, April 2014. Campus-wide lecture on my book From Willow Creek to Sacred Heart, and my journey into Catholicism, Eastern University, Dec 4th, 2012. The Intersection of Faith and Politics, Veritas Forum, University of New Hampshire, Oct 25th, 2012. Four DePaul University Lectures organized by Dr. William Cavanaugh and Catholic Studies Department (including his “Intro to Catholicism” class, with my book [2012] assigned), Oct 9-11, 2012. Plenary Lecture, “(C/c)atholicity and Empire” at Occupy Empire Conference: Anabaptism in God’s Mission, Eastern Mennonite Seminary, April 2012. Two Plenary Lectures and two workshops, respectively, “Lessons of Faith from Camden,” “The Relevance of Irrelevance,” and “Practicing Resurrection amid Fake Resurrection and Devastation” (2), at World Mission Initiative Conference: “A Relevant Church in a Changing World,” Pittsburg Theological Seminary, March 2012. “Bullets, Bad Theology, and Half-Decent Alternatives,” Renew and Remind Conference, Phillips Theological Seminary, Tulsa, OK, Jan 2012. “Sustainable Community Development,” Week-long course, Creation Care Study Program, Belize, December 2011. On the Ecological Destruction of Camden and a New-Monastic Response, “Lessons for servant leadership,” Chapel address and classes, McMurray University, TX, April 19th, 2011. Convocation speech, Bluffton University, “On Gaining and Losing One’s Life: Lessons of Faith from America’s Most Dangerous City,” Aug 31, 2010. Plenary lecture at St. Mary’s College of Maryland, Symposium on environmental action and living in Camden, Oct 22nd, 2009. Lecture on urban decay, environmental racism, life in Camden, “charity,” and justice, delivered to all freshman Eastern University students, Sept 2009. Lecture at Villanova Ethics Department Lectures, “Ethics for Lunch,” “Excommunication and Violence,” April, 22nd, 2009. Lectures at Dr. Mark Graham’s two “Catholic Ethics” courses, Villanova University, in relation to their study of my book, April 1, 2009. Co-Lecture with Shane Claiborne, On Christian Nonviolence, at The Veritas Forum, Harvard University Feb. 21st, 2009. The Basic Ethics and Identity Latent in Christian Nonviolence, Neumann University, PA, Introduction to Ethics