Kimberly Carfore

Kimberly Carfore is an adjunct professor of environmental studies and theology and religious studies. Her research interests include gendered experiences of divinity and embodied theology, nature spiritualities, ancestral skills, and wilderness experience.
 

• Religion and ecology
• Ecotheology
• Ecofeminism
• Ecopsychology
• Outdoor education

• Co-Chair, Religion and Ecology Unit, American Academy of Religion

• California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS), PhD in Philosophy & Religion: Ecology, Spirituality & Religion, 2019
• California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS), MA in Philosophy & Religion: Philosophy, Cosmology, & Consciousness, 2012
• University of Michigan, BA in Psychology, 2004

• Coordinator, Laudato si Research Collaborative
• Research Associate, Forum on Religion and Ecology at Yale
• Wilderness Therapy Field Instructor, School of Urban Wilderness Survival

• Student Speaker, CIIS Commencement, 2019

• Carfore, Kimberly. "Ecotheology and Education" in The Routledge Handbook of Ecotheology, edited by Matthew Eaton and Timothy Harvey (forthcoming).
• Carfore, Kimberly. “Ecofeminism and Ecowomanism” in Creation section of T&T Clark Encyclopedia of Christian Theology, edited by Dr. Jana Bennett, Dr. Jason Fout, and Dr. Stephen Cone (2022).
• Carfore, Kimberly. “Ecofeminist Theology: Intersectional Justice and Plumwood’s Philosophical Animism,” SAGE Journal of Feminist Theology, 29:3 (May 2021): 234-246.
• Carfore, Kimberly. “Doing Theology with Snakes: Face to Face with the Wholly Other,” chapter in Encountering Earth: Thinking Theologically with a More-than-Human World, edited by Matthew Eaton, Timothy Harvey, and Trevor Bechtel. Eugene, Oregon: Wipf & Stock, 2018.
• Carfore, Kimberly. “Ecopsychology without Nature-Culture Dualism.” Journal of Ecopsychology, 6:1, March 2014.