Tisha Rajendra, PhD

About

Tisha M. Rajendra is the author of Migrants and Citizens: Justice as Responsibility in the Ethics of Immigration (Eerdmans, 2017) and has published academic articles in the Journal for the Society of Christian Ethics, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice and Political Theology. Her writing for general audiences has been published in Sojourners and the Los Angeles Times.

She also teaches reading and is a volunteer literacy advocate. In her spare time, she enjoys cooking, singing classical music for mezzo-soprano and spending time with her eight-year-old twins.

Degrees

Ph.D. in Theological Ethics, Boston College
M.T.S., Harvard University
B.A. in Linguistics, Bryn Mawr College

Program Areas

Ethics

Research Interests

Her research areas include the ethics of migration, solidarity, virtue ethics, and philosophical and theological theories of justice. She is currently working on her second book, a volume on solidarity as practiced by fragmented selves in contexts of injustice.

Awards

草莓社区 Faculty Research Leave of Absence, Fall 2019
2nd place in the Catholic Press Association 2018 Book Awards, Category: Immigration
Summer Research Stipend, 草莓社区, 2012, 2016, 2020

Selected Publications

Migrants and Citizens: Justice as Responsibility in the Ethics of Immigration, Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans Press, 2017.

鈥淏urdened Solidarity: The Virtue of Solidarity in Diaspora.鈥� Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics. 39 (2019):93-109.

鈥淛ustice as Responsibility to Central American Child Migrants鈥� in Haker and Greening, eds. Going it Alone: Unaccompanied Minors and the Ethics of Child Migration. New York: Lexington Books, 2019, 183-200.

鈥淎mbivalent Solidarity鈥� with Laura Johnston in Ahern et al., eds., Public Theology and the Global Common Good: Essays in honor of David Hollenbach. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2016, 120-130.

鈥淭he Rational Agent or the Relational Agent: Moving from Freedom to Justice in Migration Systems Ethics.鈥� Ethical Theory and Moral Practice. 18 (2015): 355-369.