Jeanine Thweatt
Classical and Liberal Education Core Advisor and Coordinator
Department
Center for Advising and Core Experience (CACE)
Research, Professional and Creative Activity
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.
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 and Related Service
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).
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 full CV here.
Office Hours:
- Monday: 3:00PM - 4:00PM
- Tuesday: 9:00AM - 12:00PM
- Wednesday: 3:00PM - 4:00PM
- Thursday: 9:00AM - 12:00PM