I am an Assistant Professor of Comparative Theology and Interreligious Studies at Seton Hall University and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Interreligious Studies.

I am a Catholic comparative theologian, interreligious studies scholar, and scholar of Islamic intellectual traditions (philosophy, theology, Sufism). In the Islamic traditions, my focus is on classical and post-classical Sufi-Philosophical traditions in Arabic and Persian, such as the School of Ibn ʿArabī and the madhhab-i ʿishq (School of Passionate Love). I research and learn from Persian poetry and their commentarial traditions. As a constructive theologian, my scholarship aims to read pre-modern sources as resources to historical and systematic questions and issues concerning the Catholic traditions. 

Subjects of interest include poetics, the imagination, the social imaginary, theological aesthetics, theo-poetics, and the thought of Catholic theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar. Contemporary concerns of Islamophobia, racism, and white supremacy inform a lot of my research in the field of interreligious studies. My other academic interest attends to how the ideology of late capitalism--especially neoliberalism--functions as a modern religion that effectively restricts our collective imagination for alternative, more equitable ways to relate with each other. I continue to be challenged by the knowledges and embodied intelligences of those indigenous to Turtle Island.