- Kirk A. VanGilder - Gallaudet University

Department
Philosophy and Religion

Program
Religion

Office Location
Hall Memorial Building (HMB) S 136B

Office Hours
Wed 1-3 p.m., Thurs 10:00-11:30 a.m.

Email Address
kirk.vangilder@gallaudet.edu

Kirk A. VanGilder

Presidential Fellow

Ph.D. Cand., Practical Theology and Mission Studies, Boston University, 2003
M. Div., Masters of Divinity, Iliff School of Theology, 1997
B.S., Sociology, Ball State University, 1993

SHORT BIOGRAPHY

Kirk VanGilder, M.Div, Ph.D Cand., was born hard-of-hearing before losing more hearing in late adolescence and transitioning into the Deaf world. He is an ordained United Methodist clergyperson and has served as a minister in Deaf churches in Baltimore and Pasadena, MD as well as campus minister to Gallaudet University from 1997-2002. Kirk has also traveled to Kenya, Zimbabwe, and Turkey to work with Deaf community development and support. He is currently working on his Ph.D dissertation titled, Traversing Boundaries: A Hermeneutical Reorientation of Practical Theological Method Toward Developing Self-Theologizing Agency with Reference to Deaf Zimbabwean Women. Kirk hopes to continue his travels and research in other countries as well as present his findings and experiences to a wide variety of scholarly and non-scholarly audiences.

SPECIALIZATIONS

Practical theology, missiology, global Christianity, Deaf theologies, theologies of liberation, cross-cultural theologies, theological methodologies