Courtney Haubert

theology graduate student

Education

BA Philosophy and Psychology - Baylor University, 2022

MTS Religion, Literature, and Culture - Harvard Divinity School, 2025

Biography

Courtney Haubert is a second-year PhD student in Systematic Theology at Fordham University. Her research centers around exilic and diasporic Orthodox Christian identities, especially in conversation with Orientalism, colonialism, and imperialism. One of her main interests is the reception of post-Revolutionary Russian Orthodox political theologies among Middle Eastern Christian communities. She is also interested in analyzing shifts in North American Orthodox identity as it is reflected in English-language catechetical media and pedagogy. Prior to coming to Fordham, Courtney received an MTS and Certificate in Religion and Public Life from Harvard University and a BA in Philosophy and Psychology from Baylor University. She also completed a Fulbright Grant in Bulgaria from 2022-2023. Outside of work, Courtney enjoys learning languages, cooking, folk dancing, and exploring the city with her husband, George.

Presentations:

  • (forthcoming) "The Memory of Byzantium in Russia's Colonial Encounter," International Orthodox Theological Association 2027 Conference, "National ecclesiastical tradition as an invention: universalism, ethnophyletism, and nationalism within the local ecclesiastical traditions in Southern and Eastern Europe from the Middle Ages till modern times" panel (January 2027, Kobuleti, Georgia).
  • “Violent Catechetical Pedagogy as a Conduit for Radicalism Among Orthodox Christian Converts,” American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, co-sponsored Eastern Orthodox Studies and Men, Masculinities, and Religion Unit (November 2025, Boston).
  • “With One Voice and One Heart: Orthodox Chant as a Tool of Resistance for Middle Eastern Christians,” American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, co-sponsored Eastern Orthodox Studies and Middle Eastern Christianity Unit (November 2025, Boston).
  • “Contesting Ontological Eastern-ness: Florovsky’s Neo-Patristic Synthesis as a Postmodern and Postcolonial Response to Orientalism and Slavophilia,” American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, Eastern Orthodox Studies Unit (November 2024, San Diego).