Resume

• 2012

  Lecturer - Undergraduate Department of Religious Studies

  Greater Nashville Area

  TN

  Vanderbilt University

  Athletic Department tutor for Student Athletes

  Tutor (Athletics Department)

  Greater Nashville Area

  TN

  Vanderbilt University

• 2011

  Montgomery Bell Academy

  Greater Nashville Area

  TN

  Montgomery Bell Academy

• 2009

  Served as teaching assitant in the Graduate Department of Religion and the Undergraduate Department of Religion (Fall 2011

  RLST 210/Div 3152 Interpreting the Gospels: Matthew (Daniel Patte); Sring 2011

  RLST 109 Themes in the New Testament (Susan Hylen); Fall 2010

  RLST 210/Div 3152 Interpreting the Gospels: Mark (Daniel Patte); Spring 2010

  DIV 2511 Intro to the New Testament (Amy-Jill Levine); Fall 2009

  RLST 210/DIV 3152 Interpreting the Gospels: Mark (Daniel Patte)

  Graduate Teaching Fellow (GDR and UDRS)

  Greater Nashville Area

  TN

  Vanderbilt University

• 2008

  Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)

  New Testament and early Christian literature with an interdisciplinary minor in Diaspora Studies

  Vanderbilt University

• 2007

  University of Manchester

  Brite Divinity School

  Vanderbilt University

  Manchester

  UK

  Worked in the University of Manchester's Widening Participation program and events. Talked with Mancunian youth ages 9-13 about goal setting

  planning

  school and the benefits of academic achievement.

  Counselor at Widening Participation Program

  University of Manchester

  Ft. Worth

  TX

  Brite Divinity School

  Adjunct Professor of Religious Studies

  Greater Nashville Area

  TN

  American Baptist College

  The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG)

  Visiting Assistant Professor of Religious Studies

  Greensboro/Winston-Salem

  North Carolina Area

  Currey Tennis Center Desk Staff

  Greater Nashville Area

  TN

  Vanderbilt University

  NA

  Bible/Biblical Studies

  Brite Divinity School

• 2006

  German (research)

  Spanish

  Biblical Hebrew (reading & research)

  Attic & Koine Greek (reading & research)

  French (speaking)

  English

  French (reading and research)

  Master of Arts (M.A.)

  Bishop Lee Greek Testament Prize (2006)\nThesis: \"Reflecting Discourse of a Social-World: Images of 'Africa' in Luke-Acts\"

  Biblical Studies

  The University of Manchester

  with Distinction

• 2005

  Mt. Olivet Baptist Church

  Mendon Tennis Club

  Pittsford

  NY

  formerly Tennis Heaven Swim and Tennis Club

  \nDesk Manager (responsible for customer relations

  opening and closing

  stocking and inventory

  payroll

  facilities upkeep

  and vendor liaison)

  Tennis Instructor (clinic and private instruction)

  Desk Manager and Tennis Instructor

  Mendon Tennis Club

  Rochester

  New York Area

  Mt. Olivet Baptist Church

• 2004

  Walter Hines Page High School

  Master of Divinity (M.Div.)

  Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School

• 2001

  Penn State University

  Harold Moore Tennis

  American Baptist College

  Winston-Salem

  NC

  Provided private and clinic lessons to students ages 4-60+ (specialized in ages 5-18)

  worked with owner to maintain private program

  while also working with churches

  schools

  and other local organizations to provide affordable programming and instruction throughout the city.

  Instructor and Programmer

  Harold Moore Tennis

  Innovation Park Nanofabrication facility (S. Fonash)

  NSF research grant (Biological Applications for Nanotechnology)

  REU Intern

  Penn State University

• 1999

  Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)

  Joseph G. Gordon Scholar

  National Science Foundation NNUN Research Intern (Penn. State Nanofabrication Facility)

  Physics

  Omega Psi Phi Fraternity (Lambda Eta)

  Black Student Alliance

  Biochemistry Research Assistant (Rebecca Alexander

  2000-2001)

  Novel State Physics Lab Researcher (Jeremy Qualls

  2001-2003)

  Wake Forest University

• Student Affairs

  Community Outreach

  Higher Education

  Editing

  Program Evaluation

  University Teaching

  College Teaching

  Public Speaking

  Religion

  Teaching

  Research

  Diaspora Poetics & (re)Constructions of Differentness: Conceiving Acts 6.1 - 8.40 as Diaspora

  This dissertation serves as an invitation and critical prolegomena to diaspora-centered re-readings of Acts of the Apostles. Through Contextual Biblical criticism

  Carter privileges his Black American context to i) (re)assess and (re)construct a contextual theory of diaspora within the Humanities and Social Sciences; ii) outline a poetics of diaspora discourse; and iii) utilize these (re)visions of diaspora and diaspora poetics to reframe historical (re)constructions of Luke-Acts and exegeses of Acts 6.1 - 8.40.\nTransliterated from the Greek noun διασπορά (diaspora)

  the modern meaning and scholarly use of the term diaspora has developed disparate and tangential meanings across the Humanities and Social Sciences

  often through sparse critical reflection and paradigmatic projections of sameness. Through a reassessment of the term's etymology and historical development

  Carter (re)presents diaspora as a form of relatedness-amidst-difference that presumes the multidimensionality of identity and privileges differentness over sameness. This theory of diaspora undergirds a poetics characterized by the figurative negotiations of i) ethno-cultural/geopolitical difference

  ii) Empire

  iii) intra-communal debate and iv) (re)narrations of the past. \n\nModeled on Black American discourse

  this diaspora poetics generates alternative readings of ancient texts across various imperial settings. When applied to Acts 6.1 – 8.40 and its ancient imperial context

  diaspora poetics highlights Acts’ recurrent validation of geopolitical particularity and thematic focus on interactions between Palestinian and non-Palestinian Jews. Diaspora is integral in Luke’s negotiation of the diverse and tenuous world of early imperial Rome. Consequently

  this (re)reading of diaspora calls for (re)interpreting Acts 6.1 – 8.40 among ancient Diaspora contexts by contextually (re)conceiving difference and (re)evaluating Black American poetics.

  Diaspora Poetics & (re)Constructions of Differentness: Conceiving Acts 6.1 - 8.40 as Diaspora

  Review of Identity and Loyalty in the David Story: A Postcolonial Reading

  by Uriah Y Kim.

  Arthur Francis

  Carter

  The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG)