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Jaisy Joseph

United States
Institution Villanova University
Position Assistant Professor
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Email Address jaisy.joseph@villanova.edu
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Prior Educational Background
  • PhD, Systematic Theology, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 2019
  • M.Div., History of Christianity, Harvard Divinity School, Cambridge, MA 2012
Research Interests
  • Ecclesiology and Church Leadership
  • Feminist, Womanist, or Mujerista Ethics
  • Globalization
  • Immigration
  • Inculturation Theologies
  • Indigenous Peoples
  • Liberation Theologies
  • Nonviolence
  • Postcolonial/Decolonial Theologies
  • Race
  • Social Ethics
  • War, Peace, and Peacebuilding
Recent Publications
  • “Responding to Shame with Solidarity: The Sex Abuse Crisis in the Indian Catholic Church,” Asian Horizons, vol 14, no.2 (2020): 381-392.
  • “Synodality, Conciliarity, and Yogams: Catholic Ecclesial Structures of Decision-Making and the Future of Christianity,” eds Aristotle Papanikolaou and George Demacopoulos (New York, NY: Fordham University Press), forthcoming.
  • “Marked by 2020: Disorientation and Reorientation in a Pandemic Age,” eds. Michael Trice and Patricia O’Connell Killen (Washington D.C.: Georgetown University Press), 2023.
  • “One Long Labor: Towards an Indian American Interreligious Consciousness,” in The T&T Clark Handbook to Asian American Biblical Hermeneutics, co-authored with Khyati Y. Joshi, eds. Seung Ai Yang and Uriah Kim (London: T&T Clark), 2019.
Professional Activities and Affiliations
  • Catholic Theological Society of America: 2016 – present
  • Asian Pacific American Religions Research Initiative: 2010 - present
  • American Academy of Religion: 2010 – present