 | Willis Jenkins |
Willis Jenkins, the newly appointed Margaret Farley Assistant Professor of Social Ethics, focuses his teaching and research on environmental ethics, religion and sustainable development, and moral theologies.
His other areas of interest include Christian ethics and urban planning and the legacies of Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Martin Luther King for American social reform.
Jenkins earned his Ph.D. in religious studies in May at the University of Virginia, where he also obtained an M.A. He did undergraduate work at Wheaton College.
Jenkins has had international experience in community development initiatives. As a co-founder and associate coordinator of the Episcopal Young Adult Service Corps, he designed an international service internship for young adults and helped interview, place and mentor participants, among other responsibilities. He served on the Episcopal Church's Standing Commission on World Mission from 2000 to 2006. A former teacher at a rural campus of Uganda Christian University, he also helped assess a reforestation effort by the International Small-Group Tree-Planting Organization in Uganda and Tanzania. He facilitated micro-credit lending grants and an ongoing scholarship fund for female leadership development through the Kyogyera Village Women's Cooperative in Uganda and was a consultant to the Episcopal Church Center for International Missions Programs.
The new Yale faculty member has published articles on such topics as Islamic law and environmental ethics; Episcopalians, homosexuality and world mission; and Protestant ecclesiology in Bonhoeffer and Martin Luther King. His articles have been published in the Journal of Religion, Environmental Ethics, Anglican Theological Review, Worldviews: Environment, Culture, Religion and the Journal of Lutheran Ethics. His reflections and reviews have appeared in publications including The Witness and The Christian Century.
A visiting instructor and interim director of theological studies at Bishop McAllister Tertiary College in Bushenyi, Uganda, 1997-1998, Jenkins has also served as a research fellow in environmental ethics at the University of Virginia's Institute for Practical Ethics and Public Policy (2002-2005). He was an adjunct professor at the University of Virginia from 2003 to 2005 and was the Sara Shallenberger Brown Fellow there 2004-2006.
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Willis Jenkins joins faculty as the
Margaret Farley Assistant Professor
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