Joshua Rumbaoa Jerome Garcia is a Ph.D. candidate at The Graduate Theological Union at Berkeley studying Asian American theologies and religions, specializing in biblical hermeneutics. His dissertation project, entitled “Peril! In the House of Omri: The Asiatic Racial Form and Biblical Hermeneutics,” engages Asian and Asian American literary and cultural studies to formalize critical theories of racial formation as interpretive analytics and illuminates how the intellectual viability of contextual theology is inherently tied to the material and political commitments of ethnic studies.
Joshua’s affinity for theoretical discourses serves as foundation to his pedagogical strategy which emphasizes practical application and draws on his experiences in youth ministry and hospital chaplaincy. When not struggling through dense theory, he tries to consume pour over coffee, romcoms, and world football as unpretentiously as possible.
