Aminah Al-Attas Bradford

Dr. Bradford is an Arab-American theologian and research scholar at NCSU where she is appointed as a research affiliate in the Public Science Lab for Ecology, Evolution and Biodiversity of Humans and Food, blending issues of science and religion and hosting cross-disciplinary conversations. Dr. Bradford is also Assistant Professor of Systematic and Moral Theology at Church Divinity School of the Pacific where she prepares graduate students for Episcopal priesthood. She is a fellow at the Berggruen Institute where she serves as an ethics and religion consultant on projects related to the future of humanity and non-anthropocentric ways of governing and a permanent appointed research affiliate and scientific committee member, serving as expert in Societal Issues and Microbiomes, in the GDR REVMICNAT, Sorbonne University, Paris. She is currently writing her book on a symbiotic theology of the microbiome. In her spare time Dr. Bradford loves to walk in the woods, work in her ceramics studio, co-labor in her mini farmstead, practice yoga, make things alongside her daughters and start reading books, which lately include Adichie’s We Should All be Feminists, Chodron’s When Things Fall Apart, Heyward’s She Flies On, Kaishian’s Forest Euphoria and a Literary Field Guide to Southern Appalachia. She will not finish any of these…but she will try.