CURRICULUM VITAE (short version)
TODD DAVID WHITMORE
Whitmore.1@nd.edu; (574) 302-5651
Associate Professor, Department of Theology, University of Notre Dame
Concurrent Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Notre Dame
Fellow, Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame
Affiliate, William J. Shaw Center for Children and Families, University of Notre Dame
Dr. Whitmore has been conducting ethnographic research and writing for nineteen years, focusing on the opioid crisis since 2017. He has conducted over 300 hours of field interviews.
Dr. Whitmore is also a Certified Addiction Peer Recovery Coach in the State of Indiana with seven years of experience, and a specific focus on coaching single mothers in the last year.
Education:
B.A. (Philosophy, magna cum laude) 1979 Wabash College
M.Div. 1985 Harvard Divinity School
Ph.D. 1990 The Divinity School
University of Chicago
Professional Experience:
2023- : Group Leader/Facilitator, Peer Support Group for Single Mothers in Recovery, William J. Shaw Center for Children and Families, University of Notre Dame
2023- : Next-of-Kin Interviewer, Suicide and Overdose Fatality Review Team, St. Joseph County, Indiana
2023- : Advisor, The “Ethical Substance” Project, University of Notre Dame, funded by the John Templeton Foundation
2019- : Member, Suicide and Overdose Fatality Review Team, St. Joseph County
2019-2020: Member, Marshall County Opioid Recovery Coalition
2020: Addiction Recovery Coach Consultant for Oaklawn Psychiatric Center
2018-2019: Grant writer and Consultant for $100,000 “21st Century Cures” grant from the Division of Mental Health and Addiction of the Family and Social Services Association of the State of Indiana to train Addiction Recovery Coaches to serve in the Memorial Hospital Emergency Room to work with people who come in as overdose cases, 2018-2019. The emergency room is a key fieldwork site for my research on the opioid epidemic.
2018- : Certified Trainer for Addiction Peer Recovery Coaches
2017- : Certified Addiction Peer Recovery Coach, State of Indiana
2017- : Member, Michiana Opioid Task Force
Select Publications:
Imitating Christ in Magwi: An Anthropological Theology (London/New York: Bloomsbury/T&T Clark, 2019).
“Infernal Anamnesis: Dante, Theology, and the Writing of Addiction,” Ecclesial Practices (forthcoming, Spring 2024).
“Fostering the Impossible in a World Marked by Sin: Bringing the New Christian Realism into Conversation with the Opioid Crisis,” in Dallas Gingles, Joshua Mauldin and, Rebekah Miles eds., The Future of Christian Realism: International Political Decay, and the Crisis of Democracy (Lexington Books, 2023).
“Learning from Zora Neale Hurston: Implications for Anthropology and Theology,” Political Theology Network (May 19, 2022).
“Bringing the Mess that is Life into Theology: The Role of Ethnographic Representation,” Ecclesial Practices 8/2 (December 2021), 142-164.
“From Sister and Brother to Patient and Client: Is the ‘Therapeutic Frame’ Dehumanizing?” Annual of the College Theology Society (April 2, 2021).
“Holy Deviance: Christianity, Race, and Class in the Opioid Crisis,” The Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics 40/1 (Spring/Summer 2020): 145-162.
“A Perspective from the Field: Five Interventions to Combat the Opioid Epidemic and Ending the Dichotomy of Harm-reduction Versus Abstinence-Based Programs,” with John Robert Gallagher, et al, Alcoholism Treatment Quarterly (January 2019).
“The Askēsis of Fieldwork: Practices for a Way of Inquiry, A Way of Life,” in Mary Moschella and Susan Wilhauck, eds., Qualitative Research in Theological Education: Pedagogy in Practice (SCM Press, 2018).
“Traditional Devotion, Radical Witness: Insights from Fieldwork in Conflict Northern Uganda,” Annual of the College Theology Society (2017).
“Sequela Comboni: Mission Anthropology in the Context of Empire,” Practical Matters: A Transdisciplinary Multimedia Journal of Religious Practices and Practical Theology (Spring 2013): 1-39.
“Bridging Jesus’ Missions to the Poor and the Wicked: Contributions from an Anthropological Theology,” Annual of the College Theology Society (2012).
“Uganda’s ‘War in the North’: How Clashing Religious Views Created an Armed Conflict, How Reconciling Them May End It,” in Mary Ellen O’Connell, ed., What is War?: An Investigation in the Wake of 9/11 (Koniinklijke Brill, 2012).
“Whiteness Made Visible: A Theo-Critical Ethnography in Acoliland,” in Christian Scharen and Ana Marie Vigen, eds., Ethnography as Theology and Ethics (New York: Continuum, 2011): 184-206.
“Whiteness Made Visible: A Theo-Critical Ethnography in Acoliland,” in Christian Scharen and Ana Marie Vigen, eds., Ethnography as Theology and Ethics (New York: Continuum, 2011): 184-206.
“’My Tribe is Humanity’: An Interview with Archbishop Jean Baptist Odama,” Journal of Peace and Justice Studies (Fall 2010): 61-75.
“’If They Kill Us, At Least the Others Will Have More Time to Get Away’: The Ethics of Risk in Ethnographic Practice.” Practical Matters 3 (Spring 2010):1-28.
“Peacebuilding and Its Challenging Partners: Justice, Human Rights, Development, and Solidarity.” Peacebuilding: Catholic Theology, Ethics, and Praxis, R, Scott Appleby, Gerard Powers, and Robert Schreiter, eds. (Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books, 2010): 155-189.
“Ethical Dimensions of Health Care Rationing: A Response,” in Margaret Monahan Hogan and David Solomon, eds, Medical Ethics at Notre Dame (Notre Dame, Indiana: The Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture, 2008): 183-193.
“Crossing the Road: The Case for Ethnographic Fieldwork in Christian Ethics.” Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics 27/2 (Fall-Winter 2007): 273-294.
“The Reception of Catholic Approaches to Peace and War in the United States,” in Kenneth Himes, OFM, ed., Modern Catholic Social Teaching: Commentaries and Interpretations (Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2005): 493-521.
"Catholic Social Teaching: Starting With the Common Good," in Kathleen Maas Weigert and Alexia K. Kelley, eds., Living the Catholic Social Tradition (New York: Sheed and Ward, 2004): 59-85.
“In the Mission or On the Margins?: A White Paper on the Teaching Catholic Social Teaching Project,” Current Issues in Catholic Higher Education (Winter 2003).
"Michael Novak, John Paul II, and the Differences Between Them," Annual of the Society of Christian Ethics (2001): 1-18.
"Teaching and Living Practical Reasoning: The Role of Catholic Social Thought in a Catholic University Curriculum," Journal of Peace and Justice Studies, vol 11, no. 2 (2001): 1-36.
"Practicing the Common Good: The Pedagogical Implications of Catholic Social Teaching," Teaching Theology and Religion 3, no. 1 (February 2000): 3-19.
"The Roles of Churches in Relationship to Government on Behalf of Families," in Herbert Anderson, Don S. Browning, Ian S. Evison, and Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen, eds, The Family Handbook (Westminster/John Knox, 1998): 96-100.
Editor, with Maura A. Ryan, The Challenge of Global Stewardship: Roman Catholic Responses (University of Notre Dame Press, 1997).
"Children: An Undeveloped Theme in Catholic Teaching" (with Tobias Winright), in Ryan and Whitmore, eds., The Challenge of Global Stewardship.
Editor, with J. Leon Hooper, The Growing End: Retrieving and Renewing the Project of John Courtney Murray. Sheed and Ward, 1996.
"The Growing End: John Courtney Murray and the Shape of Murray Studies," in Hooper and Whitmore, eds., The Growing End, v-xxvii.
Editor, with Christine Firer Hinze, "Professional Resource Section: Families and the Social Order," Annual of the Society of Christian Ethics (1995): 245-297.
"Children and the Problem of Formation in American Families," Annual of the Society of Christian Ethics (1995): 263-274.