STEPHANIE MOTA THURSTON

Princeton Theological Seminary stephanie.thurston@ptsem.edu Religion and Society 623.203.1590 Princeton, New Jersey 08540

EDUCATION

Present: Ph.D. student, Religion & Society, Princeton Theological Seminary

2014 M.A.R., Ethics Concentration, Yale Divinity School

2010 Teacher Certificate, Teacher in Residence Program, Rio Salado College

2008 B.A., Scripps College

Dual Major: Politics and International Relations, Religious Studies Senior Thesis: “Rawls’ Thin Theory of the State: A Theological Response”

Readers: Jerry Irish, Mark Golub

RESEARCH & TEACHING INTERESTS

Ethics & Moral Formation; Civic Education and Virtues; Religion and Politics; Political Theory; Political Theology; Ethnography and Qualitative Methods; Schools and Prisons. COMPREHENSIVE EXAMS Fall 2016 “How Fieldwork Relates to Anthropological Knowledge: Historical Developments and Recent

Trends” Humanities/Theory and Methods Exam—Paper Format

Fall 2016 Topics Covered: Islam in America, Demographics, Immigration & Assimilation Theory,

Religion and Religions Exam—5-hour Sit Down Format Spring 2017 “Citizenship Theory and Civic Virtue: A Review of Contemporary Developments”

Ethics Exam—Paper Format Spring 2017 Topics Covered: Social Reproduction and Resistance Theory, Religion and Civic Formation,

Major Education Reform Movements in US History Dissertation Related Exam—5-hour Sit Down Format

TEACHING 2014-2017 Certificate of Theology and Ministry—Inside-Outside Prison Cohort

Senior Teaching Fellow, Princeton Theological Seminary Spring 2017 ET3340 Christian Ethics and Modern Times with Professor John Bowlin

Teaching Assistant, Princeton Theological Seminary Fall 2016 & TH3200 Judaism, Christianity, and Islam in Israel/Palestine with Professor Ellen Charry Fall 2017 Teaching Assistant, Princeton Theological Seminary Spring 2016 ET5348 Issues in Human Sexuality with Professor Nancy Duff

Teaching Assistant, Princeton Theological Seminary

Fall 2015 & REL 219 Business Ethics and Modern Religious Thought with Professor David Miller Fall 2016 Teaching Assistant, Princeton University CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS 2017 Respondent. Political Theology Workshop. Fellowship of Protestant Ethics Symposium.

Princeton, NJ. 2017 “Pedagogy of Love: Self-Limitation and Solidarity in Prison Education.” Invited Panel

Participant. Society of Vineyard Scholars Annual Meeting. New Haven, CT. 2016 “Local Moral Exemplars: Septima Clark’s Revolutionary Love and Justice.” American Academy

of Religion Annual Meeting. Religion and Politics Section. San Antonio, TX. 2015 “Teaching Religion in Prison.” Columbia University Religion Department Graduate Student

Conference. New York, NY. 2015 “Pedagogical Practices and the Places We Inhabit: Teaching and Embodying Theology in

Prison.” Society of Vineyard Scholars Annual Meeting. Media, PA. PUBLICATIONS 2016 Review, Ethics of Everyday Life: Moral Theology, Social Anthropology, and the Imagination of the

Human. by Michael Banner, Princeton Theological Review, 19:1 (Spring 2016), 51-52. PROFESSIONAL SERVICE 2016- 2017 Co-Moderator, Theology and Religion & Society Writers Workshop, Princeton

Theological Seminary 2016 Coordinator, Augustine Workshop, Princeton Theological Seminary and Princeton

University 2015- 2016 Title VI/IX Hearing Panel, Princeton Theological Seminary 2015- 2016 PhD Student Group Co-Moderator, Princeton Theological Seminary PhD Student Representative, PhD Studies Committee, Princeton Theological Seminary 2014 Student Representative, Faculty Search Committee for Christian Social Ethics, Yale

Divinity School PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS American Academy of Religion Society of Christian Ethics Fellowship of Protestant Ethics LANGUAGES Spanish (Reading, Writing, Speaking) French (Reading and Translation) German (Reading and Translation)

FELLOWSHIPS & HONORS

2016-2018 Doctoral Fellowship, Louisville Institute 2014-2017 Doctoral Fellowship, Hispanic Theological Initiative 2014-2017 Doctoral Student Fellowship, Princeton Theological Seminary 2008 Helios Education Grant, Rio Salado College

2004-2008 Dean’s List, Scripps College

2004-2008 James E. Scripps Half Tuition Scholarship

2003 Mexican-American Raza Studies Program, Presidential Award