Staff

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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Henry Spaulding

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

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 Rahim N. Melo

Yanan (he/him) is a Managing Editor 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.