Christine Jeske
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.
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.