Publications, Papers, Reviews
Forthcoming, with Madleina Daenhardt: ‘Mutuality and a shared imagination: How church and society can reconnect through integral mission’ in Connecting Christianities: World Christianity and Mission in the 21st Century, CCCW Silver Jubilee Commemorative Volume, eds. Muthuraj Swamy and Jenny Leith
2025, ‘Ghosts of the Remnant: A postcolonial reading of the relationship between history and identity in Jeremiah 39-44’ in Biblical Interpretation, vol. 33.3
2022, with Jack Belloli: ‘Becoming Companions: A Conversation on Formation and Whiteness’, in The Hour, Vol. III, issue 1
2020 (Regnum Books): Jubilee: God's answer to Poverty? eds. Hannah J. Swithinbank and Emmanuel Murangira, with Caitlin Collins including the chapter Participation in Christ: Being Shaped for Jubilee Lives.
2019: Special issue of Transformation, vol.36.2, guest edited by Hannah J. Swithinbank and Iyisha Rocke, including the article Looking at the World in the Light of Jubilee.
2019: Sustained by Faith: the role of Christian belief and practice in living sustainably, with Richard Gower and Naomi Foxwood, in the Handbook of Sustainability and Humanities: linking social values, theology and spirituality towards sustainability, eds. Walter Leal Filho and Adriana Consorte McCrea.
2019 (T&T Clark): Poverty in the Early Church and Today, eds. Steve Walton and Hannah Swithinbank including the chapter, ‘The ‘Undeserving Poor’: The Rhetoric and Theological Development of a Problematic Category’
2017 (Tearfund) Made in the Image of God: the importance of the imago dei for issues in international development, eds. David Westlake, Krish Kandiah and Hannah Swithinbank
2012: The Corruption of the Constitution? The Lex Gabinia and Lex Manilia and the changing res publica in Corruption and Integrity in Ancient Greece and Rome: Acta Classica, Proceedings of the Classical Association of South Africa, Supplement IV.
Conference Papers
2025: Crooks and Strivers in the Vast, Secret City: geographies of sin in Colson Whitehead’s Harlem novels, presented at the SST annual conference.
2023: Risking judgments in the light of judgement: attending to the Spirit in the writing of history, presented at the SST annual conference.
Published in The Noesis Review, Volume X (Cambridge, 2023)
2021: Curricular Reparations: Exploring Decolonisation as Reconciliation, presented at SST Postgraduate Conference on Reconciliation, Cambridge
2011: A Call to Arms: Sallust’s Presentation of the creation of the ‘People’ as a political unit, presented at the Classical Association (CA) Conference, Durham.
2010: Driving out the Enemy: Cicero’s Philippics and the danger of exclusionary rhetoric, presented at Cicero Awayday VI, Newcastle
2008: ‘Doing Words Wrong: vera vocabula and the decline of the res publica in Sallust’s Bellum Catilinae,’ presented at the Classical Association Conference, Liverpool.
Reviews
2025: Review of After Method: Queer Grace, Conceptual Design and the Possibility of Theology, by Hannah Reichel + Bad Theology: Oppression in the Name of God, by Leah Robinson, in Crucible (July 2025 Issue)
2025: ‘Reparations and Reckoning’, Review Essay (of Michael Banner’s Britain’s Slavery Debt: Reparations Now! and Nigel Biggar’s Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning) in Crucible: Past History, Present Dilemmas.
2016: Review of Connolly, J. (2015) The Life of Roman Republicanism in the Journal of Roman Studies 106
2013: Review of Gallia, A.B. (2012) Remembering the Roman Republic: Culture, Politics and History under the Principate in The Journal of Roman Studies 103
2012: Review of Robb, Maggie. (2010) Beyond Populares and Optimates: Political Language in the Late Republic (Historia Einzelschriften 213) in The Journal of Roman Studies 102.
2010: Review of Takács, S. (2009) The Construction of Authority in Ancient Rome and Byzantium: The Rhetoric of Empire in The Journal of Roman Studies 100.
2009: Review of Connolly, J. (2007) The State of Speech. Rhetoric and Political Thought in Ancient Rome, in Classical Review 59.1.
Selected Work History
St Philip and All Saints with St Luke’s, Kew: Asst. Curate (2023-present)
Tearfund: Theology and Network Engagement Team Leader, (2016-2020), Theology Development Manager (2015-2016) and Integral Mission Researcher (2013-2015).
Responsible for team leadership, strategy and management, and for developing organisational theology, resourcing and training across a wide variety of areas relevant to aid and development work. Focus areas included jubilee, environmental and creation care, peacebuilding, diversity and inclusion and missiology.
Fondation Hardt, Research Scholar (April - June 2010) and DAAD Research Scholar, University of Cologne (2009-2010).
