2023 Karl Barth Conference:

J. Kameron Carter

J. Kameron Carter is Professor of Religious Studies and African American and African Diaspora Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington, where he also co-directs IU’s Center for Religion and the Human. His work focuses on the linked catastrophes of race, (settler) colonialism, and environmental crises as matters of religion. Author of the highly acclaimed Race: A Theological Account (Oxford UP, 2008) and The Anarchy of Black Religion: A Mystic Song (in final production with Duke UP for publication in late 2022), Carter is in the last stages of writing The Religion of Whiteness: An Apocalyptic Lyric, which is with Yale UP.

Brandy Daniels

Brandy Daniels is an Assistant Professor of Theology and of Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Portland. Brandy has published on topics ranging from Bonhoeffer and Foucault on racial identity, to poststructuralism and liberation theology, to Eastern Orthodox apophatic theology and Lacanian psychoanalytic theory. Her current research project explores the ways accounts and practices of formation in modern Christianity, particularly within feminist theologies, impact gender and sexual difference. Brandy serves as the co-chair of the Queer Studies in Religion unit of the American Academy of Religion, as co-chair of the LGBTQ working group and the Women’s Caucus of the Society of Christian Ethics, as member on the executive committee of the Political Theology Network, and she is an ordained minister with the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ).

Gary Dorrien

Gary Dorrien teaches at Union Theological Seminary and Columbia University. His many books include Kantian Reason and Hegelian Spirit: The Idealistic Logic of Modern Theology (2012, Wiley-Blackwell), which won the PROSE Award, The New Abolition: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Black Social Gospel (Yale, 2015), which won the Grawemeyer Award, and Breaking White Supremacy: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Black Social Gospel (Yale, 2018), which won the American Library Association Award. His latest books are In a Post-Hegelian Spirit: Philosophical Theology as Idealistic Discontent (Baylor, 2020) and American Democratic Socialism: History, Politics, Religion, and Theory (Yale, 2021).

Catherine Keller

Catherine Keller is George T. Cobb Professor of Constructive Theology in the Graduate Division of Religion of Drew University. She works across a spectrum of ecofeminist, process, pluralist, political, philosophical theology. Books she has authored include From a Broken Web: Separation, Sexism and Self, Apocalypse Now & Then; God & Power; Face of the Deep: a Theology of Becoming; On the Mystery: Discerning God in Process; Cloud of the Impossible: Negative Theology and Planetary Entanglement; and Intercarnations: Exercises in Theological Possibility; Political Theology of the Earth. Most recent is Facing Apocalypse: Climate, Democracy and Other Last Chances. She has also co-edited several volumes of the Drew Transdisciplinary Theological Colloquium.

Dr. Natalia Marandiuc

Natalia Marandiuc is Assistant Professor of Systematic Theology at Perkins School of Theology, SMU, where she also serves as affiliate faculty in the Religious Studies graduate program. Her first book, The Goodness of Home: Human and Divine Love and the Making of the Self was published by Oxford University Press in 2018 and won the Aldersgate Prize. She is currently writing her second monograph, provisionally titled Love and Human Thriving: A Feminist Soteriology, and has received a Templeton award to support this work. She co-chairs the Christian Systematic Theology Unit at the American Academy of Religion. She earned her Ph.D. in religious studies, with a specialization in systematic theology, from Yale University.

Hanna Reichel

Hanna Reichel is Charles Hodge Professor of Systematic Theology at Princeton Theological Seminary. Reichel earned their Dr. theol. in Systematic Theology from Heidelberg University, Germany, after an MDiv in Theology and a BSc in Economics. Prior to coming to Princeton, they taught at Heidelberg University and Halle-Wittenberg University in Germany.

Reichel co-chairs AAR’s Christian Systematic Theology unit and is a member of the steering committee of AAR’s Reformed History and Theology unit, the Karl Barth Society of North America, and the annual International Karl Barth Conference in Switzerland. Reichel co-edits Brill’s Studies in Systematic Theology series and Routledge’s Karl Barth Studies series and chairs Princeton Theological Seminary’s Center for Barth Studies advisory board. A ruling elder in the PC (USA), Reichel also serves on the Theology Working Group of the World Communion of Reformed Churches, currently preparing for the General Council meeting 2025 in Chiang Mai, Thailand.

Reichel is the author of Theologie als Bekenntnis: Karl Barths kontextuelle Lektüre des Heidelberger Katechismus and After Method: Queer Grace, Conceptual Design, and the Possibility of Theology.

Dr. Eboni Marshall Turman

Eboni Marshall Turman teaches constructive theology, ethics, and African American religion at Yale University Divinity School. Her research interests include the varieties of 20th century US theological liberalisms, most especially Black and womanist theological, social ethical, and theo-aesthetic traditions. In addition to several journal articles and book chapters, she is the author of Toward a Womanist Ethic of Incarnation: Black Bodies, the Black Church, and the Council of Chalcedon. Her current book project is tentatively titled, Black Woman’s Burden: Male Power, Gender Violence, and the Scandal of African American Social Christianity. She is a 2018 recipient of the Inspire Yale award, and a 2018 recipient of the Yale University Bouchet Faculty Excellence award for research and teaching. Dr. Turman co-chairs the Black Theology group of the American Academy of Religion and serves on the executive board of the Society for the Study of Black Religion.

Dr. Devin Singh

Devin Singh is Associate Professor of Religion at Dartmouth College and faculty associate in Dartmouth’s Consortium of Studies in Race, Migration, and Sexuality. He is the author of Divine Currency: The Theological Power of Money in the West (Stanford 2018) and Economy and Modern Christian Thought (Brill 2022), co-editor of Reimagining Leadership on the Commons: Shifting the Paradigm for a More Ethical, Equitable, and Just World (Emerald 2021), as well as author of articles in journals such as Political Theology, Harvard Theological Review, Journal of Religious Ethics, and Telos. He is currently completing a book project on debt in the religious imagination and beginning another project on the politics of the doctrine of the ascension.

Dr. Rothney S. Tshaka

Rothney S. Tshaka completed his PhD at the University of Stellenbosch. He is currently Full Professor of Ethics and Systematic Theology and Director of the School of Humanities, in the College of Human Sciences at the University of South Africa. He is also an ordained Minister of Word and Sacrament in the Uniting Reformed Church in Southern Africa. He is one of the founding convenors for the Trans-Atlantic Round Table on Religion and Race, as well as editorial board member of Black Theology: An International Journal. His current research interests are in the fields of Black and African studies, Reformed Theology, Black and African Theologies and Critical Race theories. He is recipient of numerous scholarly awards including the Unisa chancellor’s award for research. He has been convenor for the NRF specialist committee for Religion and Theology. He has published a book, numerous articles and book chapters on the intersections of Theology, Race and Politics.

Dr. Andrea C. White

Andrea C. White is Associate Professor of Theology and Culture at Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York. Her teaching and research fashion a nexus between womanist theology, black feminist critical theory, and phenomenology. She serves as Chair of Columbia University’s Senate Commission on Diversity, and has served as Executive Director of the Society for the Study of Black Religion and Chair of the American Academy of Religion’s Black Theology Unit. She holds a PhD in theology from The University of Chicago, Master of Divinity from Yale Divinity School, and Bachelor of Arts from Oberlin College. She is also an ordained American Baptist minister.

Rev. Dr. Ted Smith

The Rev. Dr. Ted Smith works at the intersections of practical and political theology. Smith’s first book, The New Measures, tells a history of preaching that gives rise to eschatological visions of modern democracy. His second book, Weird John Brown, works through memories of the raid on Harpers Ferry to show the limits of social ethics for thinking about violence. Smith has edited collections of essays on sexuality and ordination, contemporary issues in preaching, and economic inequality. He is currently editing a series of books on the meanings and purposes of theological education in a time of great change.

Hanna Reichel

Hanna Reichel is Charles Hodge Professor of Systematic Theology at Princeton Theological Seminary. Reichel earned their Dr. theol. in Systematic Theology from Heidelberg University, Germany, after an MDiv in Theology and a BSc in Economics. Prior to coming to Princeton, they taught at Heidelberg University and Halle-Wittenberg University in Germany.

Reichel co-chairs AAR’s Christian Systematic Theology unit and is a member of the steering committee of AAR’s Reformed History and Theology unit, the Karl Barth Society of North America, and the annual International Karl Barth Conference in Switzerland. Reichel co-edits Brill’s Studies in Systematic Theology series and Routledge’s Karl Barth Studies series and chairs Princeton Theological Seminary’s Center for Barth Studies advisory board. A ruling elder in the PC (USA), Reichel also serves on the Theology Working Group of the World Communion of Reformed Churches, currently preparing for the General Council meeting 2025 in Chiang Mai, Thailand.

Reichel is the author of Theologie als Bekenntnis: Karl Barths kontextuelle Lektüre des Heidelberger Katechismus and After Method: Queer Grace, Conceptual Design, and the Possibility of Theology.

Dr. Andrea C. White

Andrea C. White is Associate Professor of Theology and Culture at Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York. Her teaching and research fashion a nexus between womanist theology, black feminist critical theory, and phenomenology. She serves as Chair of Columbia University’s Senate Commission on Diversity, and has served as Executive Director of the Society for the Study of Black Religion and Chair of the American Academy of Religion’s Black Theology Unit. She holds a PhD in theology from The University of Chicago, Master of Divinity from Yale Divinity School, and Bachelor of Arts from Oberlin College. She is also an ordained American Baptist minister.

Kaitlyn Dugan

Kaitlyn Dugan is the Director of the Center for Barth Studies, which involves managing the daily operations, programs, and conferences of the center as well as curating, preserving, maintaining, and developing Princeton Theological Seminary’s Barth Special Research Collection. She is grant co-author for the $300,000 Scholarly Editions and Scholarly Translations grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities to the Karl Barth Translator’s Seminar in 2019. Kaitlyn also serves as the Project Co-Director for the Translators Seminar. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy and political science from Taylor University, a Master of Arts in theology from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, a Master of Divinity from Princeton Theological Seminary, and received her PhD in systematic theology from the University of Aberdeen in June 2022. Her dissertation research focuses on developing a constructive theological account of death informed by Pauline apocalyptic theology and is titled “The Enduring Enemy: Towards An Apocalyptic Theology of Death.” She is currently working towards publishing her dissertation. Kaitlyn is a member of St. James Presbyterian Church (PCUSA) in Harlem, New York City.

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