• Mel founded and currently is the Program Director of聽The Philosophy and Literature Circle at the Dominguez State Jail and the Torres Unit.

    Mel Webb is a theological social ethicist whose work is broadly concerned鈥 with political, theological, and philosophical constructs of flourishing societies. They study sex, sexuality, and gender; Augustine and Augustinianisms; and methods and movements for healing and transformative justice. Mel has over a dozen years of teaching experience in prisons, seminaries, universities, and online classrooms. They pursue collaborative research opportunities with scholars across several different disciplines, including religious studies, political theory, cognitive psychology, sociology, and educational theory.

    • Princeton Theological Seminary, Ph.D. (2016)
    • Princeton Theological Seminary, Th.M. (2009)
    • Mel Webb, Danielle Allen, Chris Dean, Maggie Schein, David Kidd, Sheena Kang, and Annie Walton Doyle, 鈥,鈥 Teacher鈥檚 College Record, vol. 122, no. 8 (2020).
    • 鈥,鈥 Syndicate, Symposium in response to John Boopalan鈥檚 Memory, Grief, and Agency: A Political Theological Account of Wrongs and Rites, April 2020.
    • Mel Webb, Vincent Lloyd, Joshua Dubler, and Charles Atkins, Jr., 鈥,鈥 in Carceral Intersections: Christianity and the Crisis of Mass Incarceration, a Special Issue of Religions 2019, 10(13), edited by Douglas Campbell and Sarah Jobe.
    • 鈥,鈥 Syndicate, Symposium in response to Monica Coleman鈥檚 Bipolar Faith: A Black Woman鈥檚 Journey with Depression and Faith, August 2019.
    • 鈥Towards a 鈥楥ulture of Mercy鈥: Augustine, Incarceration, and the Transformation of Moral Imagination鈥 in Religion in the Age of Obama, eds. Juan M. Floyd-Thomas and Anthony Pinn. New York: Bloomsbury Publishing (2018): 59-72.
    • Carceral Studies
    • Healing and Transformative Justice
    • Augustine and Augustinianisms
    • Sex and Gender
    • Higher Education in Prison
    • Moral Imagination and US Incarceration
    • Peace and Justice