RESEARCH
Video editing credit: Sarah Hoenicke Flores
Created for the University of California Humanities Research Initiative’s Wildland-Urban Interface Climate Action Network fellowship
ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS
"Prayer as Pluriversal Praxis" (2025), Public Humanities. What it means to create a world in which “many worlds fit,” as the Zapatistas declared, has increasingly been taken up across the humanities and social sciences, introduced by decolonial theorists. This article focuses on some of the practices that allow for the enaction of the pluriverse: prayer and attachments to sacred space. I focus on a prayer camp organized by the Coalition to Save the Lemay Forest to the south of Winnipeg, showing that broadly construed notions of prayer can be understood as a pluriversal methodology wherein worlds are navigated through shared—yet still positionally aware—attachments to place. In the prayer camp, prayer—as plea/appeal, practice, action, communication, or commitment—is comfortable with divergent cosmological perspectives, rooted in (un)common attachments to sacred space: both in shared goals of protecting the space and honoring its legacy but also through an engagement with an “uncommon commoning” of that which is sacred and/or otherworldly. I argue that the sacred is an integral part of coalition building within the space; in turn, coalition building can also serve to reinvigorate connections to sacred space and worlds
"Wedding of the Classes at Mississippi State College for Women," Merge, vol. 2, Mississippi University for Women: spring 2018. Photo: Depiction of the Junior-Freshman Wedding, shared via Facebook by The Mississippi University for Women's Beulah Culbertson Archives and Special Collections, Fant Library
COMMUNITY-DRIVEN
WORK
“Community is Another Word for Ecosystem”
Created in partnership with Harbor Christian Church and the University of California Humanities Research Initiative’s Wildland-Urban Interface Climate Action Network
Youth in California participate in a Blue Theology field trip.
Photo credit: Sadie Cullumber