Claremont Lincoln University

Faculty Member, Ethics, Politics, and Society; Urban Studies

Mildred M. Hutchinson Professor of Urban Studies

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I am the Mildred M. Hutchinson Professor of urban studies at the Claremont School of Theology and s member of the PhD program in Ethics, Politics, and Society at the Claremont Lincoln University.

As a political scientist by training with an expertise in urban policy and civil rights, my research is situated at the intersection of politics and religion. I am currently very interested in religious social justice activism.  I recently completed a book on progressive prophetic activism in the U.S. in which I argue that contemporary religious activism takes place in two distinct social locations: the borderlands and among cosmopolitans. My research has also uncovered a significant increase in interreligious justice activism in the U.S. as all religious traditions set out to construct a scaffolding for justice activism from within their religious tradition

I teach courses on World Religions in Dialogue, Justice Organizing in Response to Globalization, Religion and Politics, American Prophetic Traditions, and Ministry in Immigrant Contexts, and Immigration as a Human Rights Crisis.

I consider myself to be a scholar/activist with a history of activism that stretches back to the mid 1970's and continue to be active on issues related to immigrant rights in the U.S.

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