Joel Douglas Harrison How to talk about my vocation... There are three things I believe I am created and shaped to do: live in community, live with the poor, pray, and do some training. I don't want to get caught up in the highly competitive atmosphere of academia, but I do want to be an obedient scholar. I don't think I could do this without living and learning from the poor and doing so in community. Ideally, I dream about living in an intentional community that lived among and with the poor and welcomed students to live with us for short periods of time and supervise some academic reflection on their experiences. I am really big on hospitality. I guess my interest is really in discipleship... ...Making them and becoming one of them.

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I think its pretty crummy to show you part of a resume' and say, "this is who I am." but at least it gives you a clue. I kept it short. Peace.

Education:

Ph.D. Candidate in Religion and Social Ethics, Present

• University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA

Master of Arts in Religion and Social Ethics, May 2000

• University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA

Master of Arts in Theology, May 1996

• Point Loma Nazarene College, San Diego, CA

Urban Ministry Credential / Certificate of Community Development, May 1994

• Bresee Institute / Nazarene Theological Seminary, Los Angeles, CA

Bachelor of Arts, Applied Communications/Music Certificate, May 1993

• Point Loma Nazarene College, San Diego, CA

Professional Experience:

5/99 to Present	Course Coordinator, Freshman Writing Program, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
8/98 to present	Assistant Lecturer, Freshman Writing Program, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
9/97 to 9/98	Research Assistant, Center for Religion and Civic Culture, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
1/97 to 8/97	Admissions Coordinator for the D.Min. Program, Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena CA
9/96 to 11/96	Visiting Assistant, L'Arche Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
9/94 to 5/96	Intern for Spiritual Development, Urban Ministry/Director of the CityWorks Service Learning Program, Point Loma Nazarene College, San Diego, CA
9/93 to 5/94	Worship, Arts, and Communications Intern, Los Angeles First Church of the Nazarene/ Bresee Institute, Los Angeles CA

Presentations and Lectures:

November 2000, Scheduled	Paper, American Academy of Religion National Conference, Religion and Disability Studies Section, "The Disabled Soul? The Importance of Intersubjective Aspects in Non Reductive Physicallist Accounts of the Human Soul
November 1999	Workshop presenter, Conference Co-Sponsor, Subversive Holiness Conference, Kingdom House Community - San Diego, "Jesus as the Final Violence."
8/98 to present	Assistant Lecturer, Freshman Writing Program, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
February, 1999	Response to Randy Maddox on Wesleyan Themes in Higher Education, Wesley Center, San Diego, CA
October 1997	Workshop Presenter, Annual Clergy Conference, Loma Linda University Children's Hospital, "Theology for Non-violence"
March 1997	Workshop presenter, Health Ministries Conference, San Francisco Theological Seminary / Azusa Pacific University School of Nursing "The Homeless Gift to the Local Church: the Wholistic Ministry of the Urban Poor"
January 1997	Lecturer, Canadian Nazarene College / Calgary Church of the Nazarene,Series Topic: "Where Jesus Hides: Christ and the Poor in Christian Ethics"
Summer 1996	Instructor, Eastern Mediterranean Nazarene Bible College, Larnaca, Cyprus, Advanced Church History, Reformation through modern Christian thought

Professional Associations:

Association of Nazarene Sociologists of Religion

Christian Theological Research Fellowship

American Academy of Religion

Wesleyan Theological Society

Volunteer Experience:

Missionaries of Charity Volunteer, Calcutta, India

Committee for Christian Social Concerns AIDS Hospice Volunteer, San Diego, CA

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