Creston Davis

Creston Davis (born 1970) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at Rollins College.
Life
Davis was born in Hanover, Pennsylvania. He joined the Army in 1989 where he served in an Airborne, Long Range Surveillance Unit until 1993.
Education
In 1997, Davis completed a BA in Philosophy at Calvin College. He received an M.T.S. from Duke University where he studied under Stanley Hauerwas and Kenneth Surin. He studied at Yale University from 1999- 2000. In 2006, he completed his Ph.D. from the University of Virginia where he studied under a co-founder of the Radical Orthodoxy movement, John Milbank, and renowned cultural critic Slavoj Zizek. He started his position at Rollins College in the Fall, 2006.
Work
Davis works in several fields including Political Theology, Continental Philosophy, and Psychoanalysis. He publishes the BLOG, Objet Petit a, http://crestondavis.wordpress.com/. He has coauthored a book on St. Paul and Politics with John Milbank and Slavoj Zizek, edited two books with them including Theology and the Political (Duke, 2005), and The Monstrosity of Christ (MIT, 2009). He coedits two academic book series, Insurrections (with Clayton Crockett,Jeffrey Robbins, and Slavoj Zizek) published by Columbia University Press and New Slant (with Philip Goodchild and Kenneth Surin) published by Duke University Press. He is a book review editor of the journal, Political Theology (published by Equinox).

Main Menu

See Also

Main Menu