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Adam Hollowell, Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Program in Education  

Office Location: 2024 West Main Street, Durham, NC 27705
Office Phone: +1 919 613 1465
Duke Box: 90974
Email Address: adam.hollowell@duke.edu

Areas of Expertise

    Education:
    Ph.D., University of Edinburgh (United Kingdom), 2009

    Teaching (Spring 2024):

    • Phil 163.01, Ethics for robertson scholars Synopsis
      Old chem 201, W 04:55 PM-07:25 PM
    • Pubpol 435.01, Global inequality research Synopsis
      East duke 209, W 10:20 AM-12:50 PM
    • Pubpol 645.01, Global inequality research Synopsis
      East duke 209, W 10:20 AM-12:50 PM
    • Managemt 898.301, Special topics Synopsis
      Tba, W 10:20 AM-12:50 PM

    Recent Publications   (More Publications)

    1. Hollowell, A. "Paul Ramsey." Just War Thinkers From Cicero to the 21st Century. Ed. O'Driscoll, C; Brunstetter, D Routledge, August, 2017  [abs]
    2. Hollowell, AE. Power and Purpose Paul Ramsey and Contemporary Christian Political Theology. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, January, 2015. 240 pages pp.  [abs]
    3. Hollowell, A. "Tablet and Sword: Religion and Violence in Recent Popular Scholarship on the Muslim World." Journal of Inter-Religious Dialogue 11 (February, 2013): 61-70.
    4. Hollowell, A. "Just War and Statecraft in Paul Ramsey’s Reading of Luke 14:28-33." The Journal of Scriptural Reasoning 11.1 (August, 2012).
    5. Hollowell, AE; Burk, JK. "Paul Ramsey and Reinhold Niebuhr on a Public Theology of Tragedy and the Problem of Dirty Hands." International Journal of Public Theology 5.4 (May, 2011): 458-475. [doi]  [abs]

    Curriculum Vitae

    Highlight:
    Adam Hollowell serves as Senior Research Associate at the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity and Faculty Director of the Benjamin N. Duke Memorial Scholarship Program. He completed his Ph.D. and M.Th. in theological ethics at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland and his A.B. at Duke University, where he was a B.N. Duke Scholar. His teaching and research focus broadly on ethics, religion, race, and public policy. His courses include Ethics in an Unjust World (PUBPOL 283) and Race and Public Policy (PUBPOL 190FS). He is the author of Power and Purpose: Paul Ramsey and Contemporary Christian Political Theology, which was recommended for Best First Book Award, Society of Christian Ethics. Follow him on Twitter at @aehollowell. 

    Adam Hollowell