{"id":340,"date":"2025-12-13T17:01:53","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T17:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gcas.ie\/?post_type=faculty&#038;p=340"},"modified":"2026-08-04T12:40:03","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T12:40:03","slug":"creston-davis","status":"publish","type":"faculty","link":"https:\/\/gcas.ie\/de\/faculty\/creston-davis\/","title":{"rendered":"Creston Davis, PhD"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>\n.gcas-bio {\n  max-width: 780px;\n  margin: 0 auto;\n  padding: 3rem 1.25rem 4rem;\n  font-family: inherit;\n  color: #1a1a1a;\n  line-height: 1.75;\n}\n.gcas-bio__name {\n  font-size: clamp(2rem, 4vw, 2.75rem);\n  line-height: 1.15;\n  margin: 0 0 .5rem;\n  font-weight: 600;\n  letter-spacing: -0.01em;\n}\n.gcas-bio__title {\n  font-size: 1rem;\n  letter-spacing: .06em;\n  text-transform: uppercase;\n  color: #5a6270;\n  margin: 0 0 .35rem;\n  font-weight: 500;\n}\n.gcas-bio__programs {\n  font-size: .95rem;\n  color: #7a828e;\n  margin: 0;\n}\n.gcas-bio__rule {\n  border: 0;\n  border-top: 1px solid #d9dde3;\n  margin: 2rem 0 2.25rem;\n}\n.gcas-bio p {\n  font-size: 1.075rem;\n  margin: 0 0 1.4rem;\n}\n.gcas-bio__lead {\n  font-size: 1.2rem;\n  color: #2b3038;\n}\n.gcas-bio__figure {\n  margin: 2.75rem 0;\n  text-align: center;\n}\n.gcas-bio__figure img {\n  width: 100%;\n  height: auto;\n  display: block;\n  border-radius: 6px;\n}\n.gcas-bio__figure figcaption {\n  font-size: .875rem;\n  color: #6b7280;\n  font-style: italic;\n  margin-top: .75rem;\n  line-height: 1.5;\n}\n@media (max-width: 600px) {\n  .gcas-bio { padding: 2rem 1rem 3rem; }\n  .gcas-bio p { font-size: 1rem; }\n}\n<\/style>\n\n<article class=\"gcas-bio\">\n\n  <header>\n    <h1 class=\"gcas-bio__name\">Creston Davis, PhD<\/h1>\n    <p class=\"gcas-bio__title\">Founding Chancellor and Director<\/p>\n    <p class=\"gcas-bio__programs\">Continental Philosophy &middot; Political Theology &middot; Critical Theory<\/p>\n  <\/header>\n\n  <hr class=\"gcas-bio__rule\">\n\n  <p class=\"gcas-bio__lead\">Creston Davis works at the intersection of continental philosophy and theology, with sustained attention to political theology, critical theory, Girardian accounts of violence and mimesis, and the question of what a genuinely emancipatory institution might look like. He is the founder of the Global Centre for Advanced Studies.<\/p>\n\n  <p>He earned his PhD in philosophical theology from the University of Virginia, following graduate work at Duke and Yale and study at Oxford, and before that served in the United States Army with the elite Long Range Surveillance Detachment (Airborne, former LRRP-Ranger). He was Associate Professor of Philosophy and Religion at Rollins College, and resigned that position &mdash; liquidating his retirement to fund the venture &mdash; to build an alternative to a higher education system he had come to see as structurally dependent on student debt.<\/p>\n\n  <!-- Optional photo. 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As a graduate student he founded and co-edited the <em>New Slant<\/em> series at Duke University Press with Philip Goodchild and Kenneth Surin; he went on to create <em>Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture<\/em> at Columbia University Press, which he co-edits with &#381;i&#382;ek, Clayton Crockett, and Jeffrey Robbins.<\/p>\n\n  <p>He has taught and convened seminars with Alain Badiou, Luce Irigaray, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Lewis R. Gordon, Michael Hardt, Antonio Negri, and Oliver Stone, and lectures widely across Europe and North America.<\/p>\n\n<\/article>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Creston Davis, PhD Founding Chancellor and Director Continental Philosophy &middot; Political Theology &middot; Critical Theory Creston Davis works at the intersection of continental philosophy and theology, with sustained attention to political theology, critical theory, Girardian accounts of violence and mimesis, and the question of what a genuinely emancipatory institution might look like. 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