Christopher J.

Dowdy
Southern Methodist University P.O. Box 750317 Dallas, TX 75275

EDUCATION
2013 Ph.D. Religious Studies Graduate Program in Religious Studies, Southern Methodist University Dallas, TX Dissertation: "The Work of Redress: A Christian Realist Analysis of Political Forgiveness Highest Honors Advisor: Robin W. Lovin Graduate Student Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Cambridge, MA Non-Degree Special Student under the Committee for the Study of Religion M.A. History and Theology Graduate School of Theology, Abilene Christian University Abilene, TX Thesis: "Democracy and Incarnation: Christian Theology in Conversation with Jeffrey Stout" Advisor: Frederick D. Aquino B.A. Biblical Text College of Biblical Studies, Abilene Christian University Abilene, TX Philosophy Minor; Honors Thesis: Redeeming the Task: Theological Education as Deification

2007

2006

2003

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
2013 2011 Adjunct Instructor of Theology, Graduate School of Theology, Abilene Christian University Adjunct Instructor of Religious Studies, Dedman College, Southern Methodist University

PUBLICATIONS
2014 2011 Allen Brooks and the Elks Arch: Racist Violence and Collective Forgetting in the Dallas Landscape. Journal of the American Studies Association of Texas. Forthcoming, fall 2014. "Mercy," in Dictionary of Scripture and Ethics. Edited by Joel B. Green. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdman's, 2011.

Realist Reconciliation: Political Forgiveness, Historical Injustice, and the Work of Redress. Book manuscript in preparation.

GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS

2010-12 2008-11 2006-07 Christian Scholarship Foundation Graduate Fellowship Award Southern Methodist University Graduate Program in Religious Studies Graduate Award Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Graduate Prize Fellowship. Funding for Non-degree Special Student status under the Committee on the Study of Religion

CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION
Papers Presented 2014 Less than Embrace, More than Restraint: Bundles of Loves, Periodic Catastrophes, and the Realist Case for Political Forgiveness, Love and Law Conference, Pepperdine University School Of Law, Malibu, CA, February 8. Captain Americas Black Body: Trauma, Moral Scarring, and Collective Memory in Morales and Bakers Truth: Red White and Black, American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD, November 24. Justice and/or Closure? Forgiveness-Seeking Punishment and Unsolved Civil Rights Crimes, Society of Christian Ethics Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, January 4. Ambiguous Deliverances: Civil Rights Cold Cases and the Place for Punishment in Political Forgiveness, American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, November 19. "Exchanging Absences: Memory Work, Repentance, and Commemorative Silence at Sites of Racial Violence," American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, October 31. "Un/repentant Silences: Rectification, Commemoration, and the Unforgivable at Sites of Racial Violence" Christian Scholars Conference, Nashville, TN, June 7. "We Might as Well Go to the Elks' Arch: Tracing Violence, Commemoration, and Moral Repair on the Dallas Landscape, Southwestern Commission on Religious Studies Annual Meeting, Irving, TX, March 10. "Ways of Being Demonic: Zombie Literature and the Challenge to the Moral Imagination," "Thinking the Enemy" Emory University History Department, Postcolonial Group Graduate Student Conference, Atlanta, GA, October 14. "Until I Was Stricken: Disability and Prayer in Reinhold Niebuhr," Southwestern Regional Conference on Religious Studies Annual Meeting, Irving, TX, March 10.

2013

2013 2012 2010 2010 2010

2009

2009

2008 2007 2006

"Regulative Epistemology and Democratic Pluralism: Ironic Attachment as Practical Wisdom in Reinhold Niebuhr," Christian Scholars Conference, Nashville, TN, June 11. "Faith and the Political Conditions of Reason: MacIntyre, Nussbaum, and the Common Good," Christian Scholars Conference, Rochester, MI, June 7. "Justice in Translation: Theological Education in Light of Jeffrey Stout and Umberto Eco," CoPresenter, Abilene Christian University Conference on Christian Higher Education, Abilene, TX, March 12.

Panels Organized
2013 2013 2012 2012 2011 Ethics in Constantinian Company: Recovering Theological Resources for Ethics in Imperial Times (with Charles Mathewes), Society of Christian Scholars' Conference, Nashville, TN, June 6 "With Friends Like These: Critical Engagements with the Release of Rachel Held Evanss Year of Biblical Womanhood, Christian Scholars' Conference, Nashville, TN, June 7 "Restoring the City? Prospects for Reconciliation and Social Justice from within the Restoration Movement (with Larry James), Christian Scholars Conference, Nashville, TN June 7 "The Healed and the Scarred: Structural Wrongdoing and the Limits of Christian Reconciliation," Christian Scholars Conference, June 8 "After Apology: A Conversation on Race, Apology, and Christian Higher Education with Royce Money, Christian Scholars Conference, Malibu, CA, June 16

CAMPUS AND DEPARTMENTAL LECTURES

Invited Presenter 2010 "We Might as Well Go to the Elks' Arch: Tracing Violence, Commemoration, and Moral Repair on the Dallas Landscape SMU Graduate Student Research Fair, Dedman College, Southern Methodist University, February 16

Invited Respondent 2009 Response to Nigel Biggars Forgiveness of Enemies in Northern Ireland," SMU Graduate Program in Religious Studies, Tate Lecture Colloquy, September 23

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Sole Design and Instructional Duties Introduction to Systematic Theology Online Graduate School of Theology, Abilene Christian University Ways of Being Religious: Introduction to Religion Dedman College, Southern Methodist University Assistant or Co-Instructional Duties

Fall 2013 Fall 2011

Moral Theology Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University Reconciliation: Global Immersion Course, Belfast NI Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University Christianity and American Public Life Dedman College, Southern Methodist University Honors Christianity and American Public Life Dedman College, Southern Methodist University Bioethics from a Christian Perspective Dedman College, Southern Methodist University Honors Bioethics from a Christian Perspective Dedman College, Southern Methodist University Magic, Myth, and Religion Dedman College, Southern Methodist University Christ and Culture Online College of Bible, Missions, and Ministry, Abilene Christian University Introduction to the Old Testament Online College of Bible, Missions, and Ministry, Abilene Christian University

Spring 2011 Summer 2009 Fall 2010, Fall 2011 Fall 2010, Fall 2011 Spring 2010, Spring 2011 Spring 2010, Spring 2011 Spring 2009 Summer 2011, Fall 2012 Summer 2005

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
2009-Present 2009 2008 Research and Administrative Assistant to Elizabeth Scurlock University Professor of Human Values, SMU Graduate Assistant, Perkins School of Theology Global Immersion Program in Belfast, Northern Ireland Research Assistant to Rebekah Miles. Collection and analysis of primary sources for the article Uncredited: Was Ursula Niebuhr Reinhold Niebuhrs Co-Author? Christian Century. January 19, 2012. Graduate Assistant, Graduate School of Theology, ACU

2004-06

UNIVERSITY SERVICE
2010 2008-10 Mentor, First-Year Mentoring Program, Graduate Program in Religious Studies Chair, Graduate Student Colloquy, SMU Graduate Program in Religious Studies Student Association

COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
2012 2008 2005 Public Policy Research and Administrative Assistant Volunteer CitySquare Public Policy Department, Dallas, TX Jail Group Facilitator Bridges to Life, Hutchins County Jail, TX Refugee Mentor

International Rescue Committee, Abilene, TX 2001-03 Intake Volunteer and Volunteer Coordinator Isaiah 58 Homeless Ministries, Abilene, TX

LANGUAGES
Greek French Spanish Latin Dictionary Reading Dictionary Reading Dictionary Reading Dictionary Reading

MEMBERSHIPS
The Society of Christian Ethics The American Academy of Religion

REFERENCES
Dr. Robin W. Lovin Director of Research Center of Theological Inquiry 50 Stockton Street Princeton, New Jersey 08540 Email: robin.lovin@ctinquiry.org Dr. Rebekah L. Miles Professor of Ethics and Practical Theology Perkins School of Theology Southern Methodist University PO Box 750133 Dallas, Texas 75275-0133 Email: rlmiles@smu.edu Dr. Charles E. Curran Elizabeth Scurlock University Professor of Human Values Southern Methodist University PO Box 750317 Dallas, TX 75275-0317 Email: ccurran@smu.edu Dr. Jill DeTemple Associate Professor of Religious Studies Southern Methodist University PO Box 0202 Dallas, TX 752750-202 Email: detemple@smu.edu