Kevin Minister, PhD

Dr. Kevin Minister is an Academic Associate at Essential Partners and an Associate Professor of Religion at Shenandoah University. Kevin helps design and facilitate trainings for faculty and students on using dialogue practices in classrooms and across campus.

Beginning in 2018, Kevin collaboratively designed and implemented Shenandoah Conversations, a university-wide initiative which uses practices from reflective structured dialogue to promote student self-reflection and engagement with multiple perspectives in relation to course content. As part of the leadership team for Shenandoah Conversations, Kevin has trained and supported more than 100 undergraduate and graduate faculty in teaching through dialogue as well as more than 200 student fellows equipped to support faculty by facilitating dialogues in the classroom. Kevin is currently researching proven practices and persistent challenges to building momentum for teaching through dialogue and a campus culture of dialogue in higher education.

As a scholar of interreligious studies, Kevin teaches courses including “Navigating Religious Diversity”, “Religious Diversity and Civic Cooperation”, and “Religion and Ecology”.