Dr. Olson serves as Interim Director of the Kegley Institute of Ethics. Previously, he served as KIE Associate Director from 2017 to 2023.
He is also the Chair of the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies and . Dr. Olson teaches courses in both ethical theory and practical ethics, with a particular emphasis on ethical issues in professional life and the sciences. He believes ethics education works best when conversations cross disciplinary and community boundaries and enjoys fostering such conversations through his work with the KIE.
Much of Dr. Olson鈥檚 research has addressed issues in bioethics, including both research and clinical ethics. He serves on 糖心Vlog视频鈥檚 and is a member of the Dignity Health Memorial Hospital Ethics Committee.
Dr. Olson received his PhD in philosophy from , and prior to coming to 糖心Vlog视频, was a post-doctoral teaching fellow in the Thinking Matters program at Stanford University, where he also worked with the
Contact: nolson@csub.edu
Education
A.B., Harvard University
M.T.S., Harvard Divinity School
Ph.D., University of Cambridge
Teaching
Latinx and Latin American Religions
Evangelicalism
Social Justice
Research
Latinx and Latin American History
Evangelicalism/Pentecostalism
Memory Studies
Lived Religion
Publications
Giving Life to the Faith: Lived Religion, Pentecostalism, and Social Activism in Authoritarian
Chile. (Leiden: Brill, 2021).
w/ Pedro Feitoza (eds.), Evangelicalism in Latin America: Historical Documents in
Context. (Forthcoming, Cambridge University Press).
鈥淚ndigenization and Believers鈥� Accounts of Pentecostal Faith in Chile, 1910-1920鈥�
in The Gospel in Latin America. Edited by David Bebbington (Waco, TX: Baylor University
Press, 2022)
鈥淧entecostal Eschatology, Public Discourse, and Political Engagement in Chile.鈥� Studies
in World Christianity, 30, 3 (2024): 306-326.
鈥淎 Prohibited History of Pentecostal Social Engagement: la Misi贸n Iglesia Pentecostal
and Authoritarian Chile,鈥� Pneuma: The Journal of the Society for Pentecostal Studies,
40, 3 (2018): 287-305.
鈥淐ontinuity and Rupture: Pentecostal Practice, Community, and Memory in Pinochet鈥檚
Chile,鈥� Journal of Religion and Society, 19 (2017): 1-22.
Contact: jflorez1@csub.edu
