Jeremy Posadas – personal website: critical theorist, social justice educator, political strategist

Dr. Jeremy Posadas

critical theorist • social justice educator • political strategist

Hello! I’m Dr. Jeremy Posadas, and I teach on the rural border of Texas and Oklahoma at a liberal arts college called Austin College (which, despite its name, is located nowhere near Austin). I hold the John F. Anderson Chair of Christian Thought and am also a core faculty member in the gender studies program. Through my teaching, scholarship, workshops, and strategies, I invite people into the moral critique of social inequalities that structure America today — especially those based on class, gender/sexuality, and race — and into the imagination of a world where everyone is equitably free to enjoy liveliness and live with joy.

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As a social ethicist and constructive theologian, my writing is rooted in Christian traditions that struggle for the liberation of all people, along with the Earth, from injustice in its multivalent forms.
As an activist, my organizing has primarily manifested itself in the movements for worker justice and LGBT/queer justice.
And as a political strategist, I am committed to helping forge a new “politics against disposability” through which various marginalized communities can recognize shared interests to build solidarity and power.

Education
December 2012
PhD: Religion

Emory University (Atlanta)
May 2006
MDiv: Hebrew Bible and Christian Worship

Union Theological Seminary NYC
June 2003
AB with Honors: Fundamentals (Great Books program)

The University of Chicago

Recent Scholarship
“To Confess the Fundamental Marian Dogma: Postulating the Doctrine of Mary’s Reproductive Justice”
Chapter in Rape Culture and Religious Studies: Critical and Pedagogical Engagements, ed. Rhiannon Graybill, Meredith Minister, and Beatrice Lawrence, forthcoming from Lexington Books
“The Refusal of Work in Christian Ethics and Theology: Interpreting Work from an Anti-Work Perspective”

Journal of Religious Ethics 45.2 (June 2017): 330-361.
“Theological Complicity in the Disappearing of the Working Class"
Dialog: A Journal of Theology 55.1 (March 2016), 70-78.

Employment
2011-present
Austin College

Associate Professor of Religious Studies (previously Assistant Professor)
2007-2011
Emory Center for Interactive Teaching

Digital Pedagogy Consultant
2003-2006
Trinity Lutheran Church of Manhattan

Pastoral Associate

Speaking/Workshop Topics
What Is Class and How Does It Work?
Teaching to Address the Cause of Rape Culture: Toxic Masculinity
Multi-Racial Worker Organizing: Effective Disruption of White Supremacy

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