Austin Campbell is a PhD candidate in Religion. At intersections of ethics and aesthetics, his research concerns itself with everyday questions about how to craft a good life. Before beginning doctoral studies (and for a long while during them), he worked as an interfaith chaplain in oncology and cardiology at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Tufts Medical Center in Boston. From this experience emerged the particular questions that occupy his dissertation: How ought we to face our mortality? What would constitute an attitudinal excellence toward one's own death, and how may it be cultivated? Provisionally titled Consolation's Afterlife, the project develops an interdisciplinary exploration through modern philosophy, theology, psychoanalytic theory, and poetry. Once finished, Campbell will be a two-time graduate from Harvard--having also earned a master's degree from the Divinity School, where he was a Presidential Scholar.

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