Christine Jeske

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ABOUT ME

Helping people walk humbly in areas of injustice.

As a professor of cultural anthropology, I believe that practicing social and cultural analysis along with community engagement can be an act of reciprocal transformation, respect, and love. Learn with me in my newsletter Just Learning, as a speaker at your event, or in my numerous books and articles.

“The more we know about how society works, the better we can foster diverse transformative communities where everybody flourishes.”

My current vocation is a mix of teaching, hospitality, and learning to live well in community. After a decade working in microfinance, refugee resettlement, community development, and teaching while living in Nicaragua, China, and South Africa, I returned to the Midwest where I grew up. I have an MBA in International Economic Development from Eastern University and a PhD in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and have been teaching at Wheaton College for nearly a decade. I live in an old Wisconsin farm named the Sanctuary, home to an ever-shifting combination of weeds, chickens, sheep, pigs, guests, two grown children, and one wonderful husband. I am the author of three books, including The Laziness Myth, which explores what goes wrong with work and what people do about it. Currently I am researching how Christians develop lasting pursuits of racial justice.

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