Research and Writing

Research Areas:

  • Art and Religion
  • Migration and Religion
  • Ethnographic Research
  • Deep Listening
  • Public Theology and Public Scholarship
  • Home and Belonging
  • Higher Education
  • Practices of Reflection

Peer-Reviewed Publications:

  • Contested Home: Asylum-Seeking and Church, Religion in Motion, vol. 2, Transcript Verlag, 2024 (forthcoming).
  • Home as Place and Agency: Asylum-Seekers’ Perspectives and Church Practices, Theologische Zeitschrift, Theologischen Fakultät der Universität Basel, ThZ 1/78, February 2022.
  • Responding to the Loss of Home: Perspectives and Practices of Refugees in the Context of the Projekt DA-SEIN in Basel (Switzerland), with Dr. Andrea Bieler, in Religion and Migration: Negotiating Hospitality, Agency and Vulnerability, Andrea Bieler, Isolde Karle, Hyeran Kim-Cragg, and Ilona Nord, eds., Leipzig: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt GmbH, 2019.
  • Benedictine Spirituality and the Land, OCHRE: Journal of Women’s Spirituality, Vol. 1, 2007.

Presentations (selected):

  • Deep Listening, Improvisation, and the Future of Scholarship, American Academy of Religion, Western Region Conference, Las Vegas, NV, 2024
  • To Research or Not: Reflections on Listening in Ethnographic Research, with Dr. Rupa Pillai, American Academy of Religion, Anthropology of Religion Unit, San Antonio, TX, 2023
  • How We (Don’t) Listen to Asylum-Seekers, American Academy of Religion, Western Region Conference, Davis, CA, 2023
  • Home, Utopia, and Asylum-Seeking, Utopia and Migration: Renewing the Imagination of Borders in the 21st c., International Multidisciplinary Conference, Oxford, UK, 2021
  • Offering “A Piece of Home” to Asylum-seekers: Possibilities for Decolonizing Church Outreach, American Academy of Religion, Practical Theology Unit, online conference, 2020
  • Asylum-Seeking and Leaving Home, Interdisciplinary Immigration Workshop, University of California, Berkeley, 2020                            
  • Leaving Home: Rites of Passage and the Refugee Experience, American Academy of Religion, Western Region Conference, online conference, 2020
  • Integration and “being with” Refugees: A Case Study of Offene Kirche Elisabethen, Basel, Switzerland, American Academy of Religion, Religions, Borders, and Immigration Seminar, San Diego, CA, 2019
  • Swiss Migration Policy and the Refugee Experience, Interdisciplinary Immigration Workshop, University of California, Berkeley, 2019
  • The Interview as a Site of Resistance, American Academy of Religion, Western Region Conference, Tempe, AZ, 2019
  • Refugee Narratives of Home, Migration-Related Migration Research Colloquium, Basel, Switzerland, 2018
  • The Practice of Hospitality: Migration, Welcome, and Religious Practice, Mesoamerican Studies Center Conference, University of California, Merced, CA, 2017
  • Theological Reflection in a Secular Age, American Academy of Religion, Western Region Conference, Santa Clara, CA, 2015
  • Improvisational Play and American Life, Great Lakes American Studies Conference, Rochester, NY, 2008
  • InterPlaying India: Improvisation as Intercultural Dialogue, The Politics of Play and Performance, California State University, Sacramento, CA, 2008