Austin Lee Campbell EDUCATION Committee on the Study of Religion Harvard University Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street -3879 864.934.3404 (mobile) austincampbell@fas.harvard.edu Harvard University, Cambridge, MA Ph.D., A.M. in Religion (expected May 2017) 2011 Subfields: Ethics and Theology Dissertation: Consolation s Afterlife: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Illusion in Anticipating Death Committee: Mark Jordan (advisor), Amy Hollywood, Charles Stang Harvard Divinity School, Cambridge, MA M.T.S. in Religion, Ethics and Politics 2008 10 Gardner-Webb University, Boiling Springs, NC B.A. summa cum laude in Philosophy and Theology, minors in German and Classical Languages 2003 07 Intensive language study at Goethe-Institut in Dresden, Germany (Summer 2006) Thesis: The Success of Philosophical Failure: Martin Buber s Dialogical Ontology Revisited RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS Religion, Science, and Medicine Ethics (religious and philosophical) Death and Dying History of Christian Thought (esp. early and medieval) Religion and the Arts Theory and Method in the Study of Religion PUBLICATIONS Consolation in Stitches, The Journal of Religion 96.4 (October 2016): 439 466. Medical Manichaeism: Toward an Augustinian Intervention, Journal of Religious Ethics 41.2 (June 2013): 310 331. Dumb Suffering: A Consideration of Silence in Job 2:7-13 and 42:1-6, Cult and Culture 5 (Spring 2010). Work in Progress Rewriting Mortality (under review) Remembering: A Poetics of Resurrection (under review) Review of The Consolation of Boethius as Poetic Liturgy by Stephen Blackwood, The Journal of Religion (commissioned)
Austin L. Campbell CV page 2 of 6 TEACHING EXPERIENCE Harvard University, Cambridge, MA Teaching Fellow and Interim Instructor 2013 Principal Instructor Religion 98: Religion and Medicine (Fall 2015) Junior tutorial with 4 students, 2 pre-med students from outside the department. Designed syllabus and all course materials. Religion 1543: Nineteenth Century Religious Thought: Theology and the Critique of Religion (Fall 2015) Graduate course with 11 students. Recruited by faculty member going on leave mid-semester to assume responsibility for teaching duties, including composing and delivering lectures, grading papers, and designing exam. HDS 4591: Master of Divinity Senior Thesis Workshop (Fall 2015; Fall 2013) Thesis Advisor (list of titles in teaching portfolio) 2 undergraduate honors theses 14 Master of Divinity theses Head Teaching Fellow Regular duties include: Collaborating with faculty on course design. Developing course materials like assignment guides and final exam questions. Coordinating sections and all administrative backend. Meeting weekly with faculty and graduate students. Solving pedagogical problems. Leading individual discussion sections. Ethical Reasoning 42: Sexual Ethics as Ethical Reasoning (Spring 2016; planned Spring 2017) Undergraduate general education course taught by Mark Jordan. Coordinated 10 sections (5 teaching fellows, 122 students). Led 2 sections. Anthropology 1400: Quests for Wisdom: Religious, Aesthetic, Moral Approaches to the Art of Living (Spring 2014) Undergraduate course taught by Arthur Kleinman, Davíd Carrasco, and Michael Puett. Coordinated 5 sections (3 teaching fellows; 81 students). By faculty selection, led 1 special section for graduate students. Ethical Reasoning 33: Medical Ethics and History (Fall 2014) Undergraduate general education course taught by David Jones. Coordinated 12 sections (6 teaching fellows; 206 students). Led 1 section. Culture and Belief 58: Death and Dying Case Studies in Medical Humanities (Spring 2014). Undergraduate general education course taught by Arthur Kleinman and David Jones. Coordinated 5 sections (3 teaching fellows; 47 students). Led 1 section.
Austin L. Campbell CV page 3 of 6 Discussion Section Leader Religion 57: Faith and Authenticity: Religion, Existentialism, and the Human Condition (Spring 2015), with Courtney Lamberth. Religion 2454: God and Modern Writing (Fall 2014), with Mark Jordan. HDS 2925: Administration and Leadership (Spring 2013), with Emily Click. Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA Ethics Discussion Facilitator 2010 11 Led bi-monthly, case-based discussion groups of first- and second-year medical students as part of the required Ethics and Professionalism course sequence. Veritas Tutors, Cambridge, MA Tutor and ESL Instructor 2010-11 Developed curriculum, taught a year-long class of 8 Chinese and Korean high schoolers. Tutored individual students in philosophy and German. Gardner-Webb University, Boiling Springs, NC Teaching Assistant and Tutor 2005 07 In the Writing Center, consulted students on writing process and revision strategies. Team-taught with faculty member 2 honors sections of required freshman seminar. Additional Education and Awards Teaching Certificate, Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning 2013 16 Involves written reflection on teaching practice, supervision and video analysis of instruction, and three semester-long seminars on pedagogy. Certificate of Distinction in Teaching For overall evaluations of at least 4.5/5.0 in undergraduate courses with five or more student responses. Awarded each semester I taught an eligible course in Harvard College: Spring 2016 (4.9/5.0 21 responses) Spring 2015 (4.91/5.0 11 responses) Fall 2014 (4.8/5.0 15 responses) Spring 2014 (5.0/5.0 10 responses)
Austin L. Campbell CV page 4 of 6 HONORS & FELLOWSHIPS Graduate Fellow in Ethics, Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics 2016 17 Research featured in Colloquy magazine (fall edition), The Future of the Study of Religion 2014 by Edward Mason Certificate of Distinction in Teaching, Harvard University (awarded four times) 2014 16 Ernest Frederick Slater Scholarship 2012 16 Harvard University Presidential Scholar 2008 10 Marquand Scholarship, Yale Divinity School (declined) 2008 Most Outstanding Male Graduate, Gardner-Webb University (by faculty vote) 2007 Gardner-Webb University Fellows Scholarship 2003 07 CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION & TALKS Guest lecture: The Waste Land, Harvard Divinity School course God and Modern Writing. October 2014. Module coordinator: Religion and Environmental Imagination, Graduate Conference on Religion at Harvard Divinity School. Cambridge, MA. October 2014. Guest lecture: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Leadership in Community, Harvard Divinity School course Administration and Leadership. April 2013. Conference paper: Contemplating the End for Action, New England Anglican Studies Conference. Cambridge, MA. April 2013. Conference paper: Sex, Resurrected: Theology after Complementarity, Koinonia Forum at Princeton Theological Seminary. Princeton, NJ. March 2013. Conference paper: Ways of Knowing Death, Graduate Conference on Religion at Harvard Divinity School. Cambridge, MA. October 2012. Guest lecture: Theology on the Sickbed: Why Talk about Disease Matters, Christ Church Cambridge Brewing on Belief Forum. Cambridge, MA. October 2010. Panel presentation: Reflections on Grief in Field Education and New Testament Texts with Prof. Laura Nasrallah, Harvard Divinity School. Cambridge, MA. April 2010. Conference paper: "The Ontological and Political Relationship of Justice and Peace in City of God 19, Alpha Chi National Convention. San Antonio, TX. March 2007. Keynote: "Making Scholarship Effective for Good," Alpha Chi Zeta Chapter Induction, Gardner-Webb University. Boiling Springs, NC. January 2007. Conference paper: "Theonomy and Symbol: A Tillichian Response to The Sacred Canopy, Alpha Chi Regional Convention. Wilmington, NC. March 2006.
Austin L. Campbell CV page 5 of 6 SELECTED SERVICE Harvard Theological Review Editorial Assistant 2015 Harvard Divinity School Faculty Search Committee for Ministry Studies, Student Liaison 2012 13 RELATED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA Interfaith Chaplain 2010 Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, MA Chaplain Intern 2009 10 Cedar Tree Foundation, Boston, MA Environmental Health Research Intern 2008 09 Habitat for Humanity of Kitsap County, Bremerton, WA AmeriCorps VISTA for Communications and Volunteer Development 2007 08 PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS American Academy of Religion American Society for Bioethics and Humanities International Society for Religion, Literature, and Culture LANGUAGES French German Greek, ancient Latin Spanish (speak/write: beginner; read: advanced) (speak/write/read: near fluency) (read: intermediate) (read: intermediate) (speak/write: beginner; read: advanced)
Austin L. Campbell CV page 6 of 6 REFERENCES Mark D. Jordan Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Christian Thought, Harvard Divinity School Professor of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Harvard University 14 Divinity Avenue, Divinity Hall 302 617.496.7122 mjordan@hds.harvard.edu Amy Hollywood Elizabeth H. Monrad Professor of Christian Studies, Harvard Divinity School Chair of the Committee on the Study of Religion, Harvard University 14 Divinity Avenue, Divinity Hall 401 ahollywood@hds.harvard.edu Charles Stang Professor of Early Christian Thought, Harvard Divinity School 42 Francis Avenue, Center for the Study of World Religions 208 cstang@hds.harvard.edu David S. Jones (teaching reference) A. Bernard Ackerman Professor of the Culture of Medicine, Harvard University 1 Oxford Street Science Center, Room 371 dsjones@harvard.edu Courtney Bickel Lamberth (teaching reference) Director of Undergraduate Studies and Lecturer in the Study of Religion, Harvard University 12 Quincy Street, Barker Center 302 lamberth@fas.harvard.edu