2021-22 Research Fellows
Fall 2021
Paul Gifford
Emeritus Professor, Study of Religions
School of Oriental & African Studies (SOAS)
University of London
(Addis Ababa, Ethiopia)
Dr. Gifford's research project while at CWCIT Is titled “African—or Public— Theology?," and his publications include
Winter 2022
Erico João HammesProfessor of Systematic Theology
Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul
(Porto Alegre, Brazil)
Dr. Hammes' research project while at CWCIT is titled “A Spirit Christology of Peace and Nonviolence in the Discipleship of Jesus," and his publications in Portuguese include
Spring 2022
Jodi Mikalachki
Associate Professor of English
University of Burundi
(Bujumbura, Burundi)
Dr. Mikalachki's research project while at CWCIT is titled "Fragile, Handicapped, Young: Martyrdom and Peace in Burundi," and her publications include "Fraternity, Martyrdom and Peace in Burundi: The Forty Servants of God of Buta," Journal of Global Catholicism, 6.1 (2021), and "Narrating Violence in Burundian Genocide and Civil War Literature: Pacifique Irankunda's 'Playing at Violence,'" in Emerging East African Literatures and Cultures (Galda Verlag, 2020).
Jakob Egeris Thorsen
Associate Professor of Theology (Diaconia)
Aarhus University
(Aarhus, Denmark)
Dr. Thorsen's research project while at CWCIT is titled “Maya Religious Practices and Catholic Theology of Inculturation: An Ethnographic Analysis of Maya Catholicism in Guatemala and a Constructive Theological Proposal," and his recent publications in English and Danish include