INSTITUTIONAL DOCTORAL FORUM 2022
JUNE 23-25 Eldorado Hotel & Spa 309 W San Francisco St. Santa Fe, NM 87501
IDN ATTENDEE ROSTER FTE STAFF EVENT GUESTS
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MEET THE ATTENDEES
JAMIE BERGERON Jamie Bergeron is an experienced diversity, equity and inclusion practitioner and consultant. She trains and consults with university departments, non-profit organizations, and corporate teams to expand their commitments to equity. She holds a Master of Education (M.Ed.) degree from University at Buffalo with a specialization in Inclusive Leadership Practice. She holds a B.A. from State University at New York – College at Brockport in Spanish Literature and Language, where she became the first in her family to earn a college degree. Jamie works as a Manager, Americas DEI at a global professional services firm serving employees and clients across North and South America, and private consultant. She is a Certified Human Resource Professional with Society for Human Resource Professionals (SHRM-CP) and was recently honored by Business Equality Magazine as a 2022 40 Under 40 LGBT+ Honoree. She lives in Boston, MA with her partner and two dogs.
SANDRA DIXON
Sandra Lee Dixon is Assistant Director of the Joint Ph.D. Program in the Study of Religion of the University of Denver and the Iliff School of Theology. She is appointed as Associate Professor of Psychology and Religion in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Denver. Sandy’s scholarship focuses on the intersection of psychology, religion, and morality. She has published on the psychological and cultural study of St. Augustine’s life through the writing of his Confessions and is currently working on a book on religion and moral psychology. Her research and presentations have also included interviews with activists on both sides of the abortion issue. She recently started chairing her department. She earned her Ph.D. in Divinity with a specialty in religion and the human sciences at the Divinity School of the University of Chicago and her A.B. in pg 1 psychology at Bryn Mawr College.
Patrick Hornbeck was appointed interim dean of Fordham University’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in late December 2021. He holds the rank of Professor in the Department of Theology, where he has taught since 2007. Hornbeck also serves as Special Faculty Advisor to the Provost for Strategic Planning and was one of the co-chairs of the process that led to the development of Fordham’s strategic plan, Educating for Justice. He is a former chair of the Theology Department (20132020) and former officer of the Faculty Senate. Hornbeck will graduate in May 2022 from Fordham Law School.
TINA HOUSTON-ARMSTRONG
PATRICK HORNBECK
Tina Armstrong, Ph.D. joined the School of Psychology faculty at Fuller Seminary in July 2015 as director of clinical training, PhD program director and assistant professor of clinical psychology. She is the principal investigator of the Black Women’s Spirituality research lab, which seeks to enhance Black women flourishing from a biopsychosocial spiritual model. As a community psychologist, she is committed to bridging the gap between academia and historically underserved communities by facilitating the spiritual formation and training o the next generation of psychologists. Armstrong holds that effective education does more than simply educate students—it also acts as a condu that helps to create, sustain, and improve our communities. As a licensed clinical psychologist, Armstrong is a member of numerous profession organizations and has a thriving private practice Her practice focuses on the health and wellbeing of Black women and specializes in providing psychological assessments that are culturally informed.
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JAMES HUDNUT-BEUMLER James Hudnut-Beumler is the Anne Potter Wilson Distinguished Professor of American Religious History at Vanderbilt University. He served as Dean of the Divinity School from 2000 until 2013. Hudnut-Beumler will serve as Chair of Vanderbilt’s Graduate Department of Religion for three years beginning in July of 2022. A historian of American religion, Hudnut-Beumler is the author of numerous books including the most recently, Strangers and Friends at the Welcome Table: Contemporary Christianities in the American South(University of North Carolina, 2018, 2022) and The Story of Religion in America: An Introduction with James Byrd (WJK, 2021). James Hudnut-Beumler is an ordained minister of the Presbyterian Church (USA).
Wonhee Anne Joh is the Harry R. Kendall Professor of Christian Theology and Postcolonial Studies at GarrettEvangelical Theological Seminary, Director of PhD Studies Program as well as Faculty Affiliate in the Departments of Religious Studies and Asian American Studies at Northwestern University and member of the research faculty cohort on Religion, Race and Global Politics of the Buffett Institute for Global Studies at Northwestern University. In addition to numerous articles and chapters, her publications include, Heart of the Cross: A Postcolonial Christology and co-editor of Critical Theology Against US Militarism in Asia: Decolonization and Deimperialization, and Feminist Praxis Against US Militarism. Forthcoming from Fordham University Press is Trauma, Affect and Race.
WONHEE ANNE JOH
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Filipe Maia’s research and teaching focus on liberation theologies and philosophies, theology and economics, and the Christian eschatological imagination. His scholarship pays special attention to the ways in which imaginaries about the future shape politics, economics, cultural patterns, and religious practices. Employing sources in Marxist and continental philosophies, Dr. Maia’s current book project offers an analysis of the debate in critical theory addressing the “financialization” of capitalism to show how future-talk is ubiquitous to financial discourse and how contemporary finance engenders a particular mode of temporality. In this context, Dr. Maia suggests that the language of hope, as approached by Latinx liberation theologians, is a subversive social force that can continuously question and resist the hopes and expectations conjured by hegemonic economic discourses.
FILIPE MAIA
Dr. Roger S. Nam (UCLA, PhD) is professor of Hebrew Bible at Candler School of Theology/Emory University, where he has worked since 2020. Prior to that, he had served as dean and professor of biblical studies at Portland Seminary at George Fox University in Oregon. A financial analyst before turning his attention to biblical studies, Nam focuses his research on the economies of the ancient Near East and the book of Ezra-Nehemiah, applying traditional historical-critical methods within social-scientific frameworks. He has also served as a pastor in Seoul, Korea.
ROGER NAM
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ERICA RAMIREZ Erica Ramirez is a sociologist of religion, and currently the Director of Applied Research at Auburn Seminary in Manhattan. She earned her bachelor's degree from Southwestern Assemblies of God University, a master’s from Wheaton College and a PhD from Drew Theological School in New Jersey. A fifth generation Texan and a third generation Pentecostal, Erica has recently published articles on Pentecostal politics in The Washington Post andPolitical Theological Network. Her first book explores the origins of US Pentecostalism as carnivalesque. Erica lives in San Antonio with her husband, Chris, their three children, and two unruly dogs.
YUKI SCHWARTZ
B. Yuki Schwartz is assistant professor of constructive and political theologies, and a Louisville Institute Postdoctoral Scholar, 2022-23, at Claremont School of Theology. They are also an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ. Their research interests include Asian American theologies and histories of resistance, Asian North American and diasporic literature and pop culture, affect theory, decolonization and decoloniality, and practices of imagination and collective belonging. Yuki received their PhD in Theology and Ethics from Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary, an MDiv from Phillips Theological Seminary, and is a previous FTE North American Dissertation Fellow. Currently, Yuki is working to turn their dissertation on the colonizing politics of shame into a book, and is researching different theopolitical aspects of Asian North American model minority identity and pg 5 identification.
Phillis Isabella Sheppard is E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Associate Professor of Religion, Psychology, and Culture. Her research engages the intersection where the social and the intrapsychic meet. In her book Self, Culture and Others in Womanist Practical Theology (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011) she argued for a psychoanalytic dimension to womanist approaches to practical theology. The book was the focus of a panel discussion at the American Academy of Religion’s Womanist Approaches to Religion and Society session. As a practical theologian, Dr. Sheppard is recognized for her contributions to practical theology, psychology and religion, womanist methodology, cultural studies, pastoral theology, and spiritual practices. She serves on the steering or executive committees of several national guilds: Psychology, Culture and Religion and the Womanist Approaches to the Study of Religion and Society (both groups of the American Academy of Religion); the Association of Practical Theology; and the Theological Education committee of the American Academy of Religion. Additionally, she served as co-editor for the Journal of Pastoral Society book review and is editor of the Reflections section for the Journal of Pastoral Care and Counseling.
PHILLIS SHEPPARD
Dr. Emily Vogt is the Associate Dean and Director of the MA, STM, and PhD Programs at Chicago Theological Seminary. She also holds the title of Affiliated Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Ethnography. She earned a PhD in Anthropology from the University of Chicago where her work focused on issues of historicity, citizenship, and culture in the French Caribbean.
EMILY VOGT
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STAFF STEPHEN LEWIS The Rev. Stephen Lewis is president of FTE. He has more than 15 years of experience in corporate and nonprofit leadership, strategic planning, program development and group facilitation. Stephen is currently the chair of the Center for Courage & Renewal’s Board of Directors and served as a member of Duke Divinity School’s Board of Visitors during 2008-2013. He holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration with a concentration in banking and finance from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and a Master of Divinity from Duke University.
PATRICK REYES
Dr. Patrick B. Reyes is the senior director of learning design at FTE. Patrick is the author of The Purpose Gap: Empowering Communities of Color to Find Meaning and Thrive, and of the awardwinning book Nobody Cries When We Die: God, Community, and Surviving to Adulthood. A Chicano educator, administrator, and institutional strategist, he is the Senior Director of Learning Design at the Forum for Theological Exploration. He is president-elect of the Religious Education Association and serves on several boards in education and the non-profit sector supporting the next generation of BIPOC leaders and educators. Patrick holds a Doctorate and Master of Arts from Claremont School of Theology, a Master of Divinity from Boston University School of Theology, and is proud to be a graduate of the California State education system, California State University at Sacramento (Sac State). You can learn more about Patrick at patrickbreyes.com.
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Melissa is an experience design manager at FTE, Melissa helps design, support and create expeiriences for FTE constituents. Melissa is deeply passionate about social justice and healing work. Melissa's previous work includes community organizing, living in community with the homeless, anti-racism and equity work.
HEATHER WALLACE
MELISSA SCOTT
Heather B.P. Wallace is a manager of learning design with FTE and has been with the organization since January 2014. She provides leadership and support for FTE Grant Initiatives, Grantee Consultations, Regional Discernment Retreat, and the Christian Leadership Forum. She previously worked in high school youth theological programs at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago. She also worked for the Hegeler Carus Foundation while studying for her Master's in Social Justice and Community Development at Loyola Chicago's Institute of Pastoral Studies.
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GUEST NEWTON ARMSTRONG
Newton Armstrong is a licensed Civil Engineer with the State of California who’s always had an interest in Christian Theology, Christian history and most recently the impact of racism in American Christianity. Newton has an MBA from University of California, Irvine and a Masters of Art in Christian Apologetics from Biola University. Newton has over 25 years of experience in the engineering field. He brings extensive experience as a Project Manager including working in Baghdad, Iraq to help rebuild Iraq’s infrastructure. Newton enjoys discussing theology, traveling and watching a good sci-fi movie.
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