Molly Greening PhD
Instructor
Molly Greening is a musician, activist, and academic living on the ancestral homelands of the Potawatomi Nation in Skokie, Illinois. They are an instructor in the department of Theology and a faculty affiliate of the Institute for Racial Justice at Loyola University Chicago. Molly's upcoming publications address topics such as neurodiversity and intersectional coalition building, challenging the church industrial complex through decolonial historical critique, the globalization of "gender ideologies," and the viability of doing something called "queer ethics."
Education
PhD, Loyola University Chicago, Integrative Studies in Ethics and Theology
MA/MA, Loyola University Chicago, Theology/Women’s Studies/Gender Studies
BA, Global College of Long Island University, Global Studies, Concentration in Comparative Religions
Research Interests
Decolonial ethics, Catholic colonial histories, transnational feminisms, coalitional social movements, queer/trans theory
Professional/Community Affiliations
Faculty Affiliate, Institute for Racial Justice
Publications/Research Listings
2024 – “Ideologías de género: ¿globales o coloniales? Criticando la comprensión católica romana de la colonización ideológica a través del pensamiento feminista decolonial” in Mysterium Liberationis Queer: Ensayos sobre teologías queer de la liberación en las Américas, eds. Hugo Córdova Quero, Miguel H. Díaz, Anderson Fabían Santos Meza, and Cristián Mor, 2024.
2024 – “You Blows Who You Is/Blow Yourself” Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion Blog, 2024.
Forthcoming – “Mediatrix Methodologies: Queering Ecclesiology through Spiritual Activism” in DARE Primer on Global Queer Theologies, eds. Lisa Isherwood and Hugo Córdova Quero. Council for World Mission, 2025.
Forthcoming – “Challenging the Church Industrial Complex: Historical Lessons from Francisco de Vitoria” in The Business of God: Theological and Ethical Reflections on the Church-Industrial Complex, eds. Dannis Matteson and Sheryl Johnson. Wipf & Stock, 2025.
Awards
2024 – Gratias Award, Delta Alpha Pi Honors Society for Students with Disabilities, Loyola University Chicago
2023 – Building Bridges Award, Loyola University Chicago