J. J. Carney

J.J. (Jay) Carney is Associate Professor of Theology and Director of the Christian Spirituality Program at Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska, USA, where he has taught since 2011. His scholarship lies at the intersection of history and theology with a particular focus on Catholicism in eastern and central Africa. He especially engages questions of modern church history, political theology, the theology of reconciliation, public religious leadership, church and state, and sport and theology. In 2015, his first book, Rwanda Before the Genocide, won the African Studies Association's Bethwell Ogot book prize for best book in East African studies. During the 2018-19 academic year, he served as a U.S. Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Professor at Uganda Martyrs University in Nkosi, Uganda. Carney holds a B.A. in History and Political Science from the University of Arkansas (Fayetteville), a Masters of Divinity from Duke University, and a PhD in Church History from the Catholic University of America (Washington, DC).