Keith Menhinick
Lecturer Religious Studies- Education
Ph.D. Emory University, 2022
M.Div. Wake Forest University School of Divinity, 2015
B.A. Gardner-Webb University, 2011
- Specializations
Trauma and Resilience, Gender and Sexuality, Lived Religion, Practical Theology, Spiritual Care, Chaplaincy Studies
- Biography
Dr. Keith A. Menhinick is Lecturer in Religious Studies at Georgia State University. Keith is also a certified teacher of the Community Resiliency Model (CRM)®, a trauma-informed and resiliency-focused approach to care which he has taught to educators, ministers, healthcare workers, social workers, and local faith and community leaders. Keith’s research focuses on lived religion, spiritual care, and trauma resiliency in marginalized communities, particularly LGBTQ+. Prior to joining the GSU faculty, he taught pastoral and spiritual care at Candler School of Theology at Emory University. He has also worked as a Managing Editor of Practical Matters journal, a pediatric healthcare chaplain, children’s home chaplain, progressive church minister, and high school English teacher. Outside of work, Keith enjoys poetry, cartoons, dancing, back porches, and an active, outdoors life.
- Publications
Selected Journal Articles
“LGBTQ+ Stress, Trauma, Time, and Care.” with Cody Sanders. Pastoral Psychology 72 (2023): 367-384. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11089-023-01073-z
“Searching, not Leaving: Exclusion, Belonging, and Becoming in Religious Communities.” Practical Matters Journal 14 (2021): 5-11.
“Confronting Racist Habits: Practical Theological Implications of William James’s View of Habit Change.” Pastoral Psychology 68.6 (2019): 667-680.
"A White Politics of Providence on this Bloody Little Planet." Perspectives in Religious Studies 46.2 (2019): 207-214.