Jeanine Thweatt
Professional Profile
Dr. Thweatt holds a PhD in Philosophy and Theology (Religion and Science) from Princeton Theological Seminary. Her research interests include: theological anthropology; philosophy of science and epistemology; biotechnologies and bioethics; posthuman/transhumanism; feminist, queer, and postcolonial theologies.
Teaching
Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, Flagler College, 2016-2017
Courses taught at Flagler: First Year Seminar, Keystone Seminar, Introduction to Philosophy, World Religions
Courses taught elsewhere: Human Origins & Ends: Evolution, Technology & Theological Anthropology (Princeton Seminary); Foundations of Theology I & II (New Brunswick Theological Seminary); Questions in Theology and Science and The Human Person in a Technological Age (Science for Ministry Institute).
Research
Recent Conferences
International Society for Science and Religion, “Biological Frameworks and Cyborg Theologies,” November 18, 2017
Symposium on Posthumanism/Transhumanism, University of Toronto, July 5, 2017
Designobjekt Mensch?: Tranhumanismus in Theologie, Philosophie und Naturwissenschaften, Munster Germany, April 4-7, 2017
Plenary speaker, Samford University Center for Science and Religion Transhumanism Conference, September 24-26, 2015.
Beck Lecturer, “Monkeys, Cyborgs, and the Imago Dei: Humanity in Faith & Science,” Southwestern College, September 24-25, 2013.
Recent publications
Cyborg Selves: A Theological Anthropology of the Posthuman. Ashgate Religion
and Science Series. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate Publishing, 2012.
“Cyborg Christ: Transhumanism and the Sacred Body,” Herder (Germany), forthcoming.
Ask the Beasts: Darwin and the God of Love, by Elizabeth A. Johnson (book review). Theology Today 73.2 (2016): 181-182.
“Feminism, Religion and Science.” In Routledge Companion to Religion and Science, edited by
James Haag, Michael Spezio and Gregory Peterson, New York: Routledge, 2011.
“Artificial Wombs and Cyborg Births: Postgenderism and Theology.” In Transhumanism and Transcendence: Christian Hope in an Age of Technological Enhancement, edited by Ron Cole-Turner, Georgetown University Press, 2011.
More Information
Dr. Thweatt is also a certified birth doula through DONA International, a volunteer with the Betty Griffin Center, a knitter, and an aspiring bass guitarist (emphasis on aspiring). You can find her .
Office Hours:
- Monday: 3:00PM - 4:00PM
- Tuesday: 9:00AM - 12:00PM
- Wednesday: 3:00PM - 4:00PM
- Thursday: 9:00AM - 12:00PM