KYLE LAMBELET Candler School of Theology 1531 Dickey Drive Atlanta, GA 30322 404-727-1820 kyle.lambelet@emory.edu kylelambelet.com EDUCATION Doctor of Philosophy in Theology and Peace Studies 2017 Candidacy exams in Theology passed with distinction 2015 Comprehensive exams in Peace Studies passed with distinction 2015 Advisor: Gerald McKenny Vanderbilt University Divinity School Masters of Theological Studies in Ethics and Society 2012 First Honors Advisor: Melissa Snarr Azusa Pacific University Bachelor of Arts in Biblical Studies and Theology 2005 Minor in Biblical Languages Certificate of Distinction in Biblical Literature Summa Cum Laude ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS Candler School of Theology, Emory University Postdoctoral Fellow 2017-2018 HONORS & AWARDS The Louisville Institute Dissertation Completion Fellowship ($22,000) 2016-2017 Doctoral Fellowship ($4,000 and travel funds) 2014-2016 Kroc Excellence Scholarship, Kroc Institute for International Peace 2012-present Studies (full tuition award and stipend increase) Summer Language Abroad Grant, Center for the Study of Language 2015 and Culture Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Award, Kaneb Center for 2014 Teaching and Learning Mullen Family Fellowship, Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies 2013-2014 (full tuition and stipend award)
Vanderbilt University Founder s Medal for First Honors, Vanderbilt University Divinity School 2012 Dean s List, Vanderbilt University Divinity School 2009-2012 Carpenter Scholarship, Vanderbilt University Divinity School 2009-2012 (full tuition and stipend scholarship awarded for academic achievement and commitment to social justice) Azusa Pacific University Paul and Marie Ronald Most Outstanding Graduating Senior ($1000 2005 award given to most outstanding graduate on the basis of academic excellence, service to the community, and professional promise) Most Outstanding Theology Major, School of Theology 2005 Servant Leadership Award, Office of Service Learning 2003 Board of Trustees Full-Tuition Scholarship 2001-2005 Robert C. Byrd Honors Scholarship, State of Colorado 2001-2005 DISSERTATION Presente! Political Theology at the Gates of Fort Benning Committee: Gerald McKenny (advisor), Ann Mische, Atalia Omer, Ted A. Smith, Todd Whitmore What is the place of the dead in our politics? For those who manage geo-political flows of capital, munitions, and security, the dead are unwanted haunts that need to be repressed and kept out of sight. For nonviolent social movements like the School of the Americas Watch, however, the dead are agents that dynamically shape the political action. I argue through this extended case study of one of the longest running nonviolent campaigns currently active in the United States that the presence of the dead among the SOA Watch gives rise to a messianic political theology. Such messianism does not devolve into either violence or quietism, as some scholars have feared. Rather, I show how the dead call the living into deliberative practical reason about the role of liturgy, pluralism, law and charisma in their movement to close the SOA/WHINSEC and fundamentally change US foreign policy in Latin America. WORKS IN PROGRESS Taking a Stand (or a Seat) in the Peace Studies Classroom (under review with Peace Review) Mourning the Dead, Following the Living: Exemplary dead and charismatic leadership (under review with the Journal of Religious Ethics) Lovers of God s Law: Politics of the higher law and ethics of civil disobedience (under review with Political Theology) Review of Cathleen Kaveny, Prophecy without Contempt: Religious Discourse in the Public Square, Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics (forthcoming) How Long O Lord? Lamentation and Political Agency (forthcoming chapter in a volume honoring the legacy of Lúcás Chan SJ titled Building Bridges) Conflict as Communion (under review with the Journal of Anglican Studies) 2
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS Just Peacemaking: Practices, norms and ends after twenty-five years January 2018 Annual Meeting of the Society of Christian Ethics (upcoming) Lovers of God s Law: Politics of the higher law and ethics of June 2017 civil disobedience Annual Meeting of the Fellowship for Protestant Ethics A Just War on Climate Change? June 2017 Annual Convention of the Catholic Theological Society of America, Moral Theology Group Strategic Nonviolence and the Eclipse of Ethics February 2017 Annual Convention of the International Studies Association, Peace Studies Group Conflict and Communion: Anglicanism s Crisis as Transformative January 2017 Opportunity World without End: The New Shape of World Christianity, Georgetown College Iconography of Peace: Motivating Movement Participation November 2016 through Rituals of Lament Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, Religion, Social Conflict and Peace Group Mourning the Dead, Following the Living: Exemplary Dead November 2016 and Charismatic Leadership Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, Ethics Section How Long O Lord? Lamentation and Political Agency April 2016 Biblical Ethics in the 21 st Century, Marquette University Crossing the line: Liturgical protest and the tasks of deliberation November 2015 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, Ecclesial Practices Group Gospel Obedience: Transgression, affirmation and appropriation November 2015 of the law at the gates of Fort Benning Beyond Boundaries: Shifting Dynamics in Peace and Conflict Studies, Strategic Nonviolence and the Eclipse of Ethics October 2015 Annual Conference of the Peace and Justice Studies Association A Dark Theme Revisited: Reading John Howard Yoder s Sexualized March 2015 Violence With Brian Hamilton at the Moral Theology Colloquium How Long O Lord? Practices of Lamentation and the Restoration October 2014 of Political Agency Duke Graduate Conference in Theology Duke Divinity School Presente!: Eschatological memories and political praxis March 2014 Eschatology and Moral Order University of Chicago Human Rights in Pacem in Terris: Universal Order, Lingua Franca, March 2013 Unicorn or Diagnostic Tool? 3
Conference on the Catholic Social Tradition SELECTED POPULAR PUBLICATIONS A One to One on the Road to Emmaus Daily Theology, 2017. https://dailytheology.org/2017/05/05/a-one-to-one-on-the-road-to-emmaus/ What s ethical about popular casuistry? Contending Modernities Blog, 2016. http://contendingmodernities.nd.edu/authority-community-identity/whats-ethical-aboutpopular-casuistry/ Engage survivors more, and Yoder less (co-authored with Brian Hamilton), National Catholic Reporter, February 26 March 10, 2016. https://www.ncronline.org/news/accountability/engage-survivors-more-and-yoder-less RESEARCH LANGUAGES Spanish (intermediate) French (reading) Biblical Hebrew (reading) Latin (reading) RESEARCH EXPERIENCE Political Theology Network with Vincent Lloyd and David True, 2017-present. Working as managing editor and coordinator of the Political Theology Networks Political Theology Today, a Luce funded initiative. Organizing editorial staff to write, edit and solicit web content related to political theology. Developing new media platforms for generating dialogue across diverse constituencies committed to the study and practice of political theology. Contending Modernities with Atalia Omer, Ebrahim Moosa and Scott Appleby, University of Notre Dame, 2013, 2016-2017. Participated in Prof. Appleby s Contending Modernities research seminar along with Prof. Sumanto Al-Qurtuby, contributing original research on the status of Islamic peacebuilding. Worked as a research associate with Prof. Omer to write, edit, and solicit articles for the Contending Modernities website on the dynamics of religious and secular forces in late modernity. Born of Lament with Emmanuel Katongole, Associate Professor of Theology and Peace Studies,, 2014. Supported Prof. Katongole s research related to his book Born of Lament on the peacebuilding practices of lament in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo by submitting reviews of relevant literature, editing major grant applications, and assisting with a doctoral seminar on the topic. Read the entire manuscript and offered extensive edits and comments. Weird John Brown with Ted Smith, Assistant Professor of Ethics and Society, Vanderbilt University Divinity School, 2011. Supported Prof. Smith s research on his book Weird John Brown on divine violence and the limits of ethics by submitting reviews of relevant literature and editing drafts of proposals and chapters. 4
PROFESSIONAL TEACHING EXPERIENCE Candler School of Theology, Emory University Political Theology and Community Organizing Spring 2018 Designed and taught this elective for graduate students that combines the theoretical resources of political theology with the practical skills of community organizing. The course concludes with a case study on local and regional organizing against mass incarceration. Voices of Nonviolence Fall 2017 Designed and taught this elective for graduate students covering exemplars of nonviolent thought and action from Leo Tolstoy to the Movement for Black Lives. Dissertation Writing Seminar Fall 2017 Spring 2018 Co-taught this workshop with George Lopez to aid late stage graduate students in finishing their dissertations, preparing job materials and publishing their work. Christian Perspectives on War, Peace, and Revolution Fall 2016 Designed and taught course that fulfills the second level theology requirement for undergraduates and focused on Christian perspectives on violence from the early church to today. Brought particular attention to contemporary ethical problems and how they are clarified and challenged by engagement with the tradition of Christian moral and political reflection. Biomedical Ethics, with Gerald McKenny, Professor of Moral Theology Spring 2015 Assisted with this introductory course for pre-medical students, by leading a weekly discussion section, lecturing on the preferential option for the poor and Paul Farmer s critique of bio-medical ethics, and grading exams. Foundations of Theology, with Neil Arner, Assistant Professor of Moral Theology Fall 2014 Assisted with this writing intensive introduction to the study of theology with particular attention to the unity of scripture, by grading weekly assignments, lecturing in this course along with Prof. Arner s graduate level Ecumenical Ethics, and editing several major and minor grant applications. Introduction to Peace Studies with Atalia Omer, Associate Professor of Fall 2013 Religion, Conflict and Peace Studies Assisted with this introductory course by grading exams and written assignments, and lecturing and leading class discussion on occasion. Awarded the Kaneb Institute for Teaching and Learning s Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Award. PEDAGOGICAL TRAINING Kaneb Center for Teaching and Learning, Striving for Excellence in College and University Teaching Certificate June 2016 Foundations of Teaching in the Humanities, workshop series Fall 2015 5
GRED60612: Effective Teaching in the Social Sciences & Humanities June 2013 with Prof. George Lopez Department of Theology, Teaching Workshops 2016 with Prof. Joseph Wawrykow and Prof. Todd Walatka THEO83301: Theological Pedagogy with Prof. Robert Krieg Spring 2016 Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, Teaching Peace in the 21 st Century: Summer Institute for Faculty June 2016 INSTITUTIONAL SERVICE Board Member, Fellowship for Protestant Ethics, 2017-2020. Panelist, Practitioner-Scholar Dialogue Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame, March 2015. Respondent and moderator, Addressing Terrorism in the Modern World Respondent and moderator, Notre Dame Peace Conference, March 2015 Chair, Committee to draft a constitution for the Kroc Doctoral Student Organization, 2013. Moderator, Working for Perspective: Gender, Race, Theology & Labor Vanderbilt University Divinity School, March 2010. Member, Working Group to draft the Vanderbilt University Divinity School Commitment on Poverty, Class, and Economic Justice, 2011. Member, Honor Council, Vanderbilt University Divinity School, 2009-2011. OTHER RELEVANT EXPERIENCE Guest preaching, public speaking, teaching and worship leadership in multiple ecclesial contexts. Lay ecclesial leadership, particularly as member of the Chapter of the Cathedral of Saint James, South Bend, Indiana, 2016-2017. Professional organizing with the Greensboro Truth and Community Reconciliation Project and Beloved Community Center, 2006-2008. Volunteer organizing to support grassroots community engagement on issues of racial and economic justice as well as community violence prevention in Atlanta, Greensboro, Nashville and South Bend. PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS American Academy of Religion Catholic Theological Society of America Fellowship for Protestant Ethics International Studies Association Peace and Justice Studies Association Society of Christian Ethics 6