Kaitlyn Dugan is the Director of the Center for Barth Studies. She is grant co-author for two Scholarly Editions and Scholarly Translations grants awarded to the center by the National Endowment for the Humanities to the Karl Barth Translator’s Seminar in 2019 and 2023. Dugan is also a project partner on a Swiss National Science Foundation research grant titled “Die Krise der Wirklichkeit. Zur Leistungskraft (post-)apokalyptischer Theologie in Zeiten kognitiv-existenzieller Unsicherheit am Beispiel Karl Barths.” She is co-editor (with Philip G. Ziegler) of The Finality of the Gospel: Karl Barth and the Tasks of Eschatology (Brill, 2022) and (with Paul Dafydd Jones) of Karl Barth and Liberation Theology (T&T Clark, 2023). Dugan is also the English language editor for Zeitschrift für Dialektische Theologie. In the summer of 2024, Dugan was the first Scholar-in-Residence at the Karl Barth Center for Reformed Theology at the University of Basel, Switzerland.
Dugan 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 a Doctor of Philosophy in systematic theology from the University of Aberdeen. Dugan’s research and writing focus on Pauline apocalyptic theology, eschatology, Karl Barth, Christian liberation theologies, and theologies of death. She is currently writing her first book manuscript.
Dr. Henry Walter Spaulding III (he/him) is Editorial Manager for the Center for Barth Studies at Princeton Theological Seminary. He also serves as an instructor of Religion at Ohio Wesleyan University and adjunct professor of Christian ethics at Ashland University, Ashland Theological Seminary, George Fox University, and Indiana Wesleyan University. He is the author of several books, including Iconoclastic Sex: Christian Sexual Ethics and Human Trafficking and Between Two Gileads: Romans 13 and Fundamentalist, Christian Nationalism (Cascade). He has published a number of articles in journals such as the Wesleyan Theological Journal, Review and Expositor, and Literary Imagination. He is also pastor at Hope United Methodist Church in Columbus, Ohio.
Gavin Chase (he/him) is a writer and editor from Chicago exploring the intersections of faith, society, and the natural world. Currently pursuing a Master of Divinity at Princeton Theological Seminary, his research delves into the complex relationships between religion, ecology, and power structures. In addition to his role as Associate Editor at the Center for Barth Studies, Gavin also contributes to the Princeton Farminary Project, where he tends the chickens and cultivates a deeper understanding of sustainable practices within the context of theological education.
Yanan (he/him) is a writer and composer from Cagayan de Oro, Philippines, who works at the intersections of theology, politics, and the arts. His writing has appeared in Sojourners, Christianity Today, Geez Magazine, and Bittersweet Monthly, among other outlets. In 2021, he released a piano-based record called After Supper, a set of musings on eucharistic decay and the poetic nature of faith.