Kate Kelly Middleton is a Ph.D. candidate and a Teaching Fellow in Religion and Culture at the Catholic University of America’s School of Theology and Religious Studies. Her research interests focus on interreligious study and comparative theology, with her doctoral work applying a Muslim and Catholic comparative theological framework of hope and fear to analyze contemporary problem sets. As a 2021 FASPE Fellow, Middleton engaged in historical case studies of atrocity, studying religious actors and communities and the role religious traditions play in cultivating and operationalizing particular forms of hope and fear.
Middleton also studied through the Washington Theological Consortium, receiving a certificate in Muslim and Christian Studies, participating in the Institute for Islamic, Christian, and Jewish Studies` “Emerging Muslim-Christian Leaders” inaugural cohort and 2022 Faculty Seminar on Genocide and Interreligious Studies, and training through Georgetown University’s interfaith Clinical Pastoral Education program. She is a former U.S. Naval Intelligence Officer and holds degrees from the U.S. Naval Academy (BS), Marquette University (MA), and Catholic University of America (MA).