Trauma-Informed Spiritual Care: A conversation with the author
Join the Chaplaincy Innovation Lab and chaplaincy educator and practitioner Danielle Tumminio Hansen for a conversation on her new book Trauma-Informed Spiritual Care: Interventions for Safety, Meaning, Reconnection, and Justice.
CIL community members can order the book at a 30% discount here by using the code TISC30 between November 1 and January 1.
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From Candler School of Theology: The Rev. Dr. Danielle Tumminio Hansen centers her work at the intersection of practical theology, trauma studies, feminist philosophy, and psychology, and employs a feminist, intersectional, and anti-racist lens in her scholarship. She is the author of five books, including Trauma-Informed Spiritual Care: Interventions for Safety, Meaning, Reconnection and Justice (Fortress, 2024), Speaking of Rape: The Limits of Language in Sexual Violations (Fortress, 2024), and Conceiving Family: A Practical Theology of Surrogacy and Self (Baylor University Press, 2019). Her research interests include the theological dimensions of trauma, theological issues related to sex and reproduction, narrative theories of the self, epistemic injustice, restorative justice, and social epistemology.
Tumminio Hansen was awarded the Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry Presidential Fellowship for the 2024-5 academic year. She has also been the recipient of a Wabash Center Early Career Fellowship Grant; a Conant Grant for the study of spirituality, intersectionality, and sexual violations; and the Dwight-Hooker Prize from Yale Divinity School.
Tumminio Hansen has appeared as a guest on major national and international news outlets including NPR, CBC, Al Jazeera America, and BBC Australia to discuss the intersection of religion and popular culture. She has also written articles for The Guardian, CNN, Huffington Post, and Sojourners.
Tumminio Hansen holds a B.A. in English from Yale University, a Master of Divinity and Master of Sacred Theology from Yale Divinity School, and a Ph.D. in Practical Theology from Boston University. Prior to arriving at Candler, she was assistant professor of pastoral theology and director of field education at Seminary of the Southwest. Tumminio Hansen has been a lecturer at Yale and Tufts universities, in addition to serving as chaplain at Groton School and as an Episcopal parish priest in Lexington, Lincoln, and Quincy, Massachusetts. She has also served as a member of the Yale Divinity School Alumni Board and The Episcopal Church’s Board of Examining Chaplains.