Luis Sales

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Luis J. Sales

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Mount Holyoke College - Religion


Resume

  • 2015

    Fordham College

    Lincoln Center

    Courses Taught: Faith and Critical Reason; Byzantine Christianity

    Graduate Teaching Fellow

    Fordham University

    Wheaton

    IL

    Led one of six teams responsible for removing snow from Wheaton College premises by calling workers out at approximately 4:30 am and throughout the day as needed

    personally ensuring snow posed no reasonable liability to students

    faculty

    staff

    and visitors.

    Snow Removal Route Leader

    Wheaton College

    Wheaton

    IL

    Helped research and file claims and pleadings in Immigration

    Family

    and Bankruptcy Law.\nAssisted in teaching and grading diverse law courses

    including Public Health Law

    International Trade and Commerce Law

    and Law and Ethics.

    Legal Assistant

    Mirabile Law Firm

    Brookline

    MA

    I served as Patristics Teaching Fellow at Holy Cross during the summer session of the Pappas Patristics Institute in the courses \"Creation and the Divine Economia\" and \"The Formation of Christian Identity in the Second Century.\"

    Patristics Teaching Fellow

    Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology

    Wheaton

    IL

    Worked for Prof. Alejandro Roop researching diverse subjects of Spanish literature

    helped write a number of pieces

    and undertook a full English translation of Rubén Darío's rather extensive poem \"El salmo de la pluma

    \" partially published

    for his project on Poetry and Kabalah.\nTaught a number of classes when the professor was indisposed.\nGraded essays

    assignments

    exams

    and homework.\nTutored students in the class at their need.

    Spanish Teaching Assistant

    Wheaton College

    Fordham Department of Theology

    I conducted research for Aristotle Papanikolaou (Archbishop Demetrios Chair in Orthodox Theology and Culture) and Barbara Hilkert Andolsen (James and Nancy Buckman Chair in Applied Christian Ethics).

    Graduate Research Assistant

    Fordham University

    Fordham University Department of Theology

    Doctoral Student in Early Christianity

    Fordham University

    Brookline

    MA

    Taught Spanish literature and language courses to middle school

    high school

    and working adults.\nEstablished the fundamental library of Spanish classical literature for the Center's resource database.\nCo-wrote and implemented the curriculum for varying age groups.\nMarketed the Center and oversaw the enrollment of the first classes.

    Spanish Professor

    Spanish Cultural Center of America

    South Hadley

    MA

    Visiting Assistant Professor of Religious Studies

    Mount Holyoke College

    Claremont

    CA

    Visiting Assistant Professor of Religious Studies

    Scripps College

    Lincoln Center Campus

    Attending class

    grading materials

    and occasionally lecturing or leading class discussion for \"Early Christian Writings\" and \"The Ethics of Life: Jewish

    Christian

    and Muslim Perspectives.\"

    Graduate Teaching Assistant

    Fordham University

    Classical Syriac

    Spanish

    Arabic

    German

    Greek

    Ancient (to 1453)

    Italian

    Russian

    Latin

    German

    Middle High (ca.1050-1500)

    French

    Catalan

    Portuguese

    French

    Middle (ca.1400-1600)

    A.G. Leventis Foundation Award for Medieval Greek Summer Session at the Gennadius Library

    Athens

    I received an award to cover my expenses and tuition at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens for the Medieval Greek Summer Session at the Gennadius Library.

    A.G. Leventis Foundation

    Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Summer Fellowship

    I received the GSAS summer research fellowship to study Christian-Muslim relationships during the 'Abbasid caliphate.

    Fordham University

    Han Scholarship Recipient

    Recipient of the Paul and Katherine Han Scholarship (3 years)

    Paul and Katherine Han Scholarship Committee

    Chicagolands Champion: Distance Medley Relay

    1st place at the Chicagolands Championships in the Distance Medley Relay

    Chicagolands Track Association

    Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Travel Award

    I received a competitive travel award to present my research at the Sewanee Medieval Colloquium.

    Fordham University

    Prestigious Awards Division

    Presidential Scholarship

    Fordham University

    Holodny Prize for Most Outstanding Pre-Professorial Publication

    Sophia Institute

    CCIW Conference Champion: Distance Medley Relay

    1st place at CCIW Track Conference Championships in the Distance Medley Relay

    College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin

    Full Tuition Graduate Fellowship

    Full tuition graduate fellowship for the duration of my degree.

    Boston College

    Three Holy Hierarchs Essay Writing Competition Winner

    Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology

  • 2013

    Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)

    I studied the formation of Christian identity through normative and quotidian ethics from the New Testament era to the mid-Abbasid era (ca. 10th c.) across a geopolitical spectrum spanning the intersection of Africa

    Asia

    and Eastern Europe. I wrote a dissertation on the relationship between the virtues and deification according to the Byzantine monk

    Maximos the Confessor (580-662).

    Early Christianity

    Fordham University

  • 2012

    Master of Theology

    I spent the majority of my time working on advanced Greek and Latin texts

    including histories and Jewish writings in Greek and Augustine's works

    along with in-depth study of Proklos Diadochos

    Dionysios

    and Maximos

    on whom I wrote my ThM thesis.

    Patristics

    Th.M. Thesis: \"On the Cosmic Mystery of the Virtues in Saint Maximos the Confessor.\"

    Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology

  • 2011

    Master of Theological Studies

    I combined the study of modern virtue ethics and historical theology

    particularly Patristics

    in order to begin creating a relevant and helpful synthesis of the two.

    Ethics and Patristics

    M.T.S. Thesis: \"Free Will in the Cappadocian Fathers.\"

    Boston College

  • 2010

    Master of Arts (M.A.)

    I spent most of my time becoming immersed in the Church Fathers

    particularly those who lived in Alexandria for a significant span of time. I began to be interested in the free will dilemma in the pre-Augustinian Christian tradition and wrote a thesis on four figures who predated Augustine by centuries.

    Systematic and Historical Theology

    M.A. Thesis: \"Free Will in Clement of Alexandria

    Origen of Alexandria

    Methodios of Olympos

    and Athanasios of Alexandria.\" |\nJoint Leader: Wheaton College's Catholic-Orthodox Dialogue Student Group.

    Wheaton College

    Free Will in Gregory of Nyssa

    Augustine and his Heretics (Harvard XR)

    Greco-Roman Contexts of Christianity

    Byzantine Christianity: History and Theology

    Advanced Greek: Cappadocians

    Cappadocian Fathers

    Contemporary Theology of the Trinity

    Ancient Psychology

    Alexandrian Theology

    Church History II (Holy Cross XR)

    Christology and Trinity in the Early Church

    Cultural Hermeneutics

    Ethics

    Religion

    and International Politics

    Catholic Social Ethics

    Advanced Latin Readings: Augustine (unofficial

    Harvard XR)

    Advanced Greek: Writing History (Harvard XR)

    Eucharistic Theology

    First Christian Histories

    Graeca: Jewish Writings in Greek (Boston College XR)

  • 2006

    Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)

    cum laude

    English Writing (Poetry)

    Political Science

    Biblical Studies (minor)

    NCAA varsity track (4 seasons): 400m hurdles

    400m

    200m

    Distance Medley Relay.

    Wheaton College

  • Ministered to inmates to reestablish a sense of self-worth by discovering the meaning of being made in God's image.

    Orthodox Christian Prison Ministry

    Teacher/Tutor

    I tutored and taught at-risk children from low-income families in order to bring their scholastic aptitudes in line with basic ones required by the state for public schools.

    Puente del Niño--West Chicago

    GRE

    Verbal: 163/170\nWriting: 6/6

    Virtue Ethics

    Public Speaking

    Legal Research

    Community Outreach

    Medical Ethics

    Nonprofits

    Neurobiology

    Systematic Theology

    Teaching

    Copy Editing

    Editing

    Byzantine Law

    Writing

    Historical Theology

    Research

    Historiography

    Historical Research

    Historical Linguistics

    Litigation

    Patrology

    \"Virtue Will Bind the Wounds of Your Soul: Yahya ibn 'Adi and the Love of All Humans under the 'Abbasids.\"

    \"Virtue Will Bind the Wounds of Your Soul: Yahya ibn 'Adi and the Love of All Humans under the 'Abbasids.\"

    Spiritual Fatherhood

    Gabriel Bunge

    Saint Vladimir's Seminary Press

    A translation of Gabriel Bunge's \"Geistliche Vaterschaft\" from German to English.

    Spiritual Fatherhood

    The Psalm of the Quill (translation from Spanish)

    A partial publication of Rubén Darío's \"El salmo de la pluma\" in English translation.

    The Psalm of the Quill (translation from Spanish)

    Saint Maximos the Confessor

    Saint Vladimir's Seminary Press: Popular Patristics Series

    A bilingual book edition with an all-new translation of one of Maximos' most eclectic and difficult texts

    including an introduction to the translation and the structure of the work.

    Saint Maximos the Confessor: Two Hundred Chapters on Theology and the Incarnate Economy of the Son of God

    \"Maximos and Neurobiology: A Neurotheological Investigation of Asceticism as Erosion of the Passions and the Gnomic Will\"

    Ed.: John A. McGuckin

    \"Maximos and Neurobiology: A Neurotheological Investigation of Asceticism as Erosion of the Passions and the Gnomic Will\"

    \"Divine Incarnation through the Virtues: The Central Soteriological Role of Maximos the Confessor’s Aretology\"

    God's Many-Splendored Image (Book Review)

    Luis

    Salés

    Spanish Cultural Center of America

    Wheaton College

    Mount Holyoke College

    Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology

    German International School Boston

    Scripps College

    Fordham University

    Mirabile Law Firm

    Wheaton

    IL

    I tutored approximately 250 students for their Spanish and/or German competency exams with a 100% passing rate.

    Spanish and German Tutor

    Wheaton College

    Served as head Spanish teacher for grades 7--12

    Latin teacher for grades 6--10

    and ESL teacher for Spanish and German speakers

    grades 1--4.\nFounded and coached the track and debate teams.\nCo-wrote and established the Internal School Spanish Curriculum on the basis of the Thüringer Lehrplan.

    Spanish

    Latin

    and ESL Teacher

    Greater Boston Area

    German International School Boston