Divinity School Teaching Fellow in the College

Colin Weaver is a scholar of religion, ethics, and the environment. His research draws on the techniques and insights of ordinary language philosophy to investigate ecological ethics and politics, theory and method in ethics and religious studies, and religious conceptions of animals and nature. He received his Ph.D. in Religion and Ethics from the University of Chicago Divinity School in 2024. His current book project seeks to augment the imaginative habits of a strand of environmentalism characterized by a preoccupation with transforming the worldviews of its religious and cultural opponents. The project seeks to free these advocates from their narrow focus on worldview change and enable them to imagine a future on a damaged planet where other people do not disappear through eco-conversion but instead require encounter and negotiation. His articles in preparation include a critical study of how Indigenous ecological knowledge is constructed as an extractable resource in U.S. scholarly and institutional discourses and a paper that examines the ethical and political stakes of a collection of Evangelical hunting devotionals for how environmentalists picture their repugnant others.