Staff

Kaitlyn M. Dugan

Director

Kaitlyn Dugan is the Director of the Center for Barth Studies. She is grant co-author for two $300,000 Scholarly Editions and Scholarly Translations grants awarded to the center by the National Endowment for the Humanities to the Karl Barth Translator’s Seminar in 2019 and 2023. Dugan is also a project partner on a Swiss National Science Foundation research grant titled “Die Krise der Wirklichkeit. Zur Leistungskraft (post-)apokalyptischer Theologie in Zeiten kognitiv-existenzieller Unsicherheit am Beispiel Karl Barths.” She is co-editor (with Philip G. Ziegler) of The Finality of the Gospel: Karl Barth and the Tasks of Eschatology (Brill, 2022) and (with Paul Dafydd Jones) of Karl Barth and Liberation Theology (T&T Clark, 2023). Dugan is also the English language editor for Zeitschrift für Dialektische Theologie, and the Operations Manager for The Other Journal at the Seattle School of Theology and Psychology. In the summer of 2024, Dugan was the first Scholar-in-Residence of the Karl Barth Center for Reformed Theology at the University of Basel, Switzerland.

Dugan earned a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy and political science from Taylor University, a Master of Arts in theology from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, a Master of Divinity from Princeton Theological Seminary, and a Doctor of Philosophy in systematic theology from the University of Aberdeen. Dugan’s research and writing focus on Pauline apocalyptic theology, eschatology, Karl Barth, Christian liberation theologies, and theologies of death. She is currently writing her first book manuscript.


Henry Spaulding

Editorial Assistant

Henry (Hank) Walter Spaulding III is the Pastor at Hope United Methodist Church in Columbus, Ohio. He is also an adjunct professor of Christian Ethics at Ashland University, Ashland Theological Seminary, and George Fox University. Hank received his PhD in Theology and Ethics from Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary and his MTS from Duke University Divinity School. He is the author of several articles and two books: Iconoclastic Sex: Christian Sexual Ethics and Human Trafficking and The Just and Loving Gaze of God with Us: Paul’s Apocalyptic Political Theology. He lives in Columbus with his wife Michaela.


Gavin Chase

Associate Editor

Gavin (he/him) is a content developer and editor from Chicago, Illinois. He is currently an M.Div. candidate at Princeton Theological Seminary, where he researches the intersections of Indigenous ecologies, post-supersessionist hermeneutics, and decolonial creation theologies that aim toward a flourishing ecological habitation for both humans and non-humans. Gavin and his wife, Katie, reside in Princeton, NJ, with their daughter, Robin.


Yanan Rahim N. Melo

Managing Editor

Yanan (he/him) is a theologian and composer from Cagayan de Oro, Philippines, who works at the intersections of theology, politics, and the arts. His writing has appeared in Sojourners, Christianity Today, Geez Magazine, and Bittersweet Monthly, among other outlets. In 2021, he released a piano-based record called After Supper, a set of musings on eucharistic decay and the poetic nature of faith.