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Katherine Karam McCray teaches religious ethics, specializing in Eastern Orthodox social ethics. She is currently a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Aberdeen and teaching faculty at 91大神 Faculty of Divinity.

Her research investigates constructions of personhood and disability in global virtue traditions. She is currently working under John Swinton on a grant project entitled 鈥淭heology, Mental Health and Dementia Across and Within Cultures,鈥� funded by the McDonald Agape Foundation. Previously, McCray contributed research to the Templeton Foundation grant project, 鈥淪cience and Orthodoxy Around the World,鈥� which has recently been published in the Zygon Journal of Religion and Science. Her research has been funded by the Louisville Institute, the National Endowment for the Humanities through the Orthodox Studies Center at Fordham University, and by the Redemptorists of Canada.

In addition to her academic work, McCray also holds two ecclesiastical appointments, serving both as the Facilitator of Mental Health Ministries of the Assembly of Orthodox Bishops of the Unites States and as the representative of the Orthodox Church in America, Archdiocese of Canada to governing board of the Canadian Council of Churches.

Recent Publications:
鈥淎lternative Virtue Ethics for Disability Inclusion: St. Maximus on the Nature of Agency,鈥� Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics 46, no. 1, (forthcoming Spring/Summer 2026).

鈥淒ependency as Ontology: Eastern Orthodox Reflections on Disability, Dependency, and Care,鈥� Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 60, no. 1 (May 2025).

鈥淣otes Toward an Eastern Orthodox Disability Ethic,鈥� in A Chorus of Faith: A Festschrift in Honor of Vigen Guroian, ed. Carrie Frederick Frost, Wipf and Stock, March 2025.

Conference Presentations:
鈥淓pistemic Injustice, Orthodox Tradition, and the Ethics of Interpretation,鈥� University of Oslo, (invited Jan 2025) December 2025.

鈥淗ow We Choose: Christian Representations of Psychosocial Disability and the Foundations of Moral Choice,鈥� American Academy of Religion, Religion and Disability Studies Unit, (accepted March 2024) November 2025.

鈥淓astern Orthodox Approaches to Psychosocial Disability,鈥� Huffington Ecumenical Institute, Holy Cross Hellenic College, Boston, May 2025.

鈥淎lternative Virtue Ethics for Disability Inclusion: Maximus the Confessor on the Nature of Agency,鈥� The Society of Christian Ethics, Chicago, Illinois, January 2025.

鈥淢ultigenerational Trauma and Suicidality in the Eastern Orthodox Moral Tradition,鈥� American Academy of Religion, Ethics Unit, San Diego, California, November 2024.

鈥淒istributed Agency in St. Maximus as Social Model of Disability,鈥� American Academy of Religion, Orthodox Christianity Unit, San Diego, California, November 2024.

鈥淚ncarnating Disability: Reconsidering Nancy Eiesland鈥檚 Account of Embodiment Through Eastern Orthodox Creation Narrative,鈥� American Academy of Religion, Systematic Theology Unit, San Antonio, Texas, November 2023.