Geoffrey Bateman

Geoffrey Bateman is the director of strategic communications and editor of NetVUE’s blog Vocation Matters. In this role, he develops and executes communication strategies that support NetVUE’s programmatic goals and oversees all facets of the blog, recruiting and coordinating writers, editing the work, as well as writing the occasional post himself. He works from Regis University in Denver, Colorado, where he is professor of criminology, sociology and justice studies. In 2017, he participated in the inaugural NetVUE faculty seminar on Teaching Vocational Exploration. He is also a NetVUE Scholar, and his essay, “Queer Vocation and the Common Good,” appears in the fourth volume of the NetVUE Scholarly Resources Project, Called Beyond Ourselves: Vocation and the Common Good (Oxford, 2024). He also contributed “Queer Callings: LGBTQ Literature and Vocation” to Cultivating Vocation in Literary Studies (Edinburgh, 2022). All of Geoffrey’s degrees are in English. He earned his BA from the University of Puget Sound, MA from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and PhD from the University of Colorado, Boulder.