Biography

Hall was named a Henry Luce III Fellow in Theology for 2004-2005 and has received funding from the Lilly Foundation, the Josiah Trent Memorial Foundation, the American Theological Library Association, the Child in Religion and Ethics Project, the Pew Foundation and, most recently, the Arete Project at the University of Chicago (pdf).

At Duke University, Professor Hall has served on the Steering Committee of the Genome Ethics, Law, and Policy Center and as a faculty member for the FOCUS program of the Institute on Genome Sciences and Policy. She has served on the Duke Medical Center’s Institutional Review Board and as an Ethics Consultant to the V.A. Center in Durham.

Hall served on the Bioethics Task Force of the United Methodist Church, and has spoken to academic and ecclesial groups across the U.S. and Europe. In 2009-2010, for example, she presented on social-Darwinism at the American Academy for the Advancement of the Sciences, served as a consultant to the World Council of Churches meeting on bioethics in Volos, Greece, presented keynote lectures at the Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity and Point Loma Nazarene, and gave the Phillip Wogaman Lecture (pdf) at Foundry UMC.

An ordained elder in the United Methodist Church, Hall is a member of the Southwest Texas Annual Conference. She has served both urban and suburban parishes.

Amy Laura Hall is the author of Kierkegaard and the Treachery of Love, Conceiving Parenthood: The Protestant Spirit of Biotechnological Reproduction (pdf), and numerous scholarly articles in theological and biomedical ethics.

Hall has recently received a grant from the Virginia Seminar in Lived Theology for her current book project Erecting the Pulpit: Muscular Christianity from Victoria to Viagra.

Curriculum Vitae

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