Geoffrey Bateman

Geoffrey Bateman is Professor in the Department of Peace and Justice Studies in Regis College. He teaches courses on a range of social justice issues, including sexual citizenship, queer vocations, nonviolent resistance, gender and homelessness, queer justice, and research and writing in the community. In addition to serving as one of the faculty advisors for the Queer Student Alliance, he also chairs the Queer Resource Alliance. His recent scholarship focuses on vocation and includes the essays, “Queer Vocation and the Uncommon Good,” and “Queer Callings: LGBTQ Literature and Vocation.” He is currently working on a book-length study of queer nonviolence, exploring the philosophy of nonviolence and nonviolent resistance in the U.S. through the legacy of LGBTQIA+ movements, thinkers, and activists. Previous publications include Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell: Debating the Gay Ban in the Military, and essays on queer theory and peace and justice studies, Horatio Alger and the history of sexuality in the American West, and the history of Women’s and Gender Studies as an interdisciplinary field. He is currently the editor of Vocation Matters, a blog of the Network for Vocation in Undergraduate Education.