jnelsonlong[at]mun[dot]ca

Committee
Dr. Nicholas Lynch (chair)
Dr. Barry Stephenson
Dr. Sarah Martin
Dr. Sharon Welch

An ordained parish minister serving a progressive faith, my interest is in community-engaged pedagogy, how we care for and build community within the institutional structures that we inherit, and how scholarship and community praxis that centers the bodies of those at the margins opens opportunity for wider thriving.

Education:
BA Washburn University, 2004
JD University of Utah SJ Quinney College of Law 2009
M.Div Meadville Lombard Theological School 2016
PhD Candidate, Geography, Memorial University

Research Areas:
Feminist and post-feminist economic geography, community-participatory geography, spatial conflict and the built environment, diverse economies and community provisioning, geographies of progressive faith, religious architectural humanities

Research Groups:
Adaptive Cities and Engagement - ACEspace
The After Church Atlas