Research Interests

environmental humanities; climate ethics; religion and ecology; integral ecology; ecofeminism; continental philosophy; deconstruction

Biography

Sam Mickey, PhD, is an Adjunct Professor in PCC at CIIS and in the Theology and Religious Studies department at the University of San Francisco. He is a Research Associate for the Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology, the Book Review Editor for the journal Worldviews: Global Religions, Culture, and Ecology, and the author of several books exploring intersections of philosophy, religion, and ecology.

Education

PhD CIIS PCC 2012, MA Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of North Texas 2006, BA in Philosophy (minor in Religious Studies) at the University of North Texas, 2003

Awards & Distinctions

On the Verge of a Planetary Civilization: A Philosophy of Integral Ecology (Rowman & Littlefield, 2014); Coexistentialism and the Unbearable Intimacy of Ecological Emergency (Lexington Books, 2016); New Materialism and Theology (Brill, 2022). Ecofeminism in Dialogue (edited with Douglas A. Vakoch) (Lexington Books, 2017); Women and Nature? Beyond Dualism in Gender, Body, and Environment (edited with Douglas A. Vakoch) (Routledge, 2017); Literature and Ecofeminism: Intersectional and International Voices (edited with Douglas A. Vakoch) (Routledge, 2018); Living Earth Community: Multiple Ways of Being and Knowing (edited with Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim) (Open Book Publishers, 2020); Integrating Ecology and Justice in a Changing Climate (University of San Francisco Press, 2020).

Courses

Ecopoetics