Willis Jenkins
Willis Jenkins is an Associate Professor of Religion, Ethics, and Environment at the University of Virginia. He teaches interdisciplinary ethics courses broadly located in the Environmental Humanities, most of which fulfill requirements for the Minor in Global Sustainability and the Environmental Thought & Practice major. Those courses include "Climate Ethics;" "Theology and Ecology;" and "Religion, Ethics, and Environment." At the graduate level, he leads a seminar on food ethics through the Institute for the Humanities and Global Cultures (IHGC), as well as various seminars within Religious Studies on topics and methods in social ethics. Professor Jenkins is broadly interested in interpreting the moral problems arising from changing human-environment systems, and especially in how religious traditions interpret and respond to those problems. That general interest includes inquiry into relations of science and ethics; connections between social injustice and ecological sustainability; and tensions among moral pluralism and practical reasoning. He is currently working on three book projects: (1) a monograph tentatively titled "The Moral Ecology of Food," which will take up controversies over food practices as questions about the meaning and sustainability of human ecological relations; (2) a textbook-level introduction to problems in religion, ethics, and environment; and (3) a co-edited handbook to the field of religion & ecology.
Willis Jenkins, Associate Professor of Religion, Ethics, and Environment, University of Virginia, University of Virginia, global sustainability, global sustainability minor, global sustainability major, Global Sustainability Initiative, Global Sustainability Initiative at the University of Virginia
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WILLIS JENKINS

Professor of Religion, Ethics, and Environment, University of Virginia

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Department: Religion, Ethics,

and the Environment

Topic: Ethics

Willis Jenkins is a Professor of Religion, Ethics, and Environment at the University of Virginia. He teaches interdisciplinary ethics courses broadly located in the Environmental Humanities, most of which fulfill requirements for the Minor in Global Sustainability and the Environmental Thought & Practice major. Those courses include “Climate Ethics;” “Theology and Ecology;” and “Religion, Ethics, and Environment.” At the graduate level, he leads a seminar on food ethics through the Institute for the Humanities and Global Cultures (IHGC), as well as various seminars within Religious Studies on topics and methods in social ethics.

Professor Jenkins is broadly interested in interpreting the moral problems arising from changing human-environment systems, and especially in how religious traditions interpret and respond to those problems. That general interest includes inquiry into relations of science and ethics; connections between social injustice and ecological sustainability; and tensions among moral pluralism and practical reasoning. He is currently working on three book projects: (1) a monograph tentatively titled “The Moral Ecology of Food,” which will take up controversies over food practices as questions about the meaning and sustainability of human ecological relations; (2) a textbook-level introduction to problems in religion, ethics, and environment; and (3) a co-edited handbook to the field of religion & ecology.

Website: http://religiousstudies.virginia.edu/faculty/profile/wjj2c