Geoffrey Bateman

Geoffrey Bateman is the director of strategic communications. In this position, he 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 peace and justice studies, and teaches courses on a range of social justice issues, including queer vocations, sexual citizenship, nonviolent resistance, gender and homelessness, and research and writing in the community. He also serves as one of the faculty co-advisors for the Queer Student Alliance and co-chairs the university’s Queer Resource Alliance. 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.