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Welcome! I’m Nick (he/him).

I am a spiritual care practitioner and researcher, with interests in nonreligious spiritual care and mental health chaplaincy. I am presently a chaplain resident at UCSF Medical Center. I have completed prior clinical training in spiritual care at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and McLean Hospital.

Before entering spiritual care, I worked as a scholar of religion and of religious ethics, with expertise in Africana and African American religions, the history of Black religious thought, and the dynamics of racial formation and self-fashioning.

I earned my PhD in the Department of Religious Studies at Brown University, where I also held fellowships at the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women, the Cogut Institute for the Humanities, and the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America. I completed my postdoctoral fellowship and taught at the Center for the Humanities at Tufts University. My work in religious studies was supported by grants and fellowships from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Lilly Endowment, among other organizations.

Please feel free to connect with me via LinkedIn at the link below.