Executive Director
Janice Kay Peterson Professor of Applied Ministry
About Dr. Jodi G. Hunt, Ph.D.
For more than fifteen years, Dr. Hunt has been engaged in teaching at the secondary and higher education levels, alongside active service in parish ministry, particularly in youth ministry and catechesis..Her primary research interests are grounded in a framework she has developed at the intersection of Catholicism and the human experience, through which she explores meaningful approaches to understanding what it means to be fully human in the digital age.In her free time, Outside of her academic work and serving as the Executive Director of the Neuhoff Institute for Ministry and Evangelization at the University of Dallas,, Dr. Hunt enjoys spending time with her husband and three children, participating in 4-H livestock shows and other family activities, occasionally writing devotional reflections for the Catholic mothers' ministry Mighty Is Her Call, and spending time on her family's farm in south-central Texas.
- Ph.D., Fordham University Graduate School of Religion and Religious Education (New York City)
- M.A. in Theology, Oblate School of Theology
- B.A. Anthropology, Texas A&M University
- Catholic Education (models and pedagogy)
- Catholic Evangelization and Catechesis
- Digital Theology
- Family Life and the Domestic Church
- Higher Education Administration (at Catholic/faith based institutions)
- Practical Theology
- Religious Education
- Youth Ministry
University of Dallas
- Affiliate Assistant Professor of Ministry, Theology Department
- Instructor, Neuhoff Institute for Ministry & Evangelization
Fordham University
- Director of Admissions (Graduate School of Religion and Religious Education)
- Admissions Administrator and Events Coordinator (Graduate School of Religion and Religious Education)
- Instructor, Religion and Religious Education
Fordham Preparatory
- Instructor, Religious Studies
Antonian College Preparatory
- Instructor, Theology
- "The Digital Way: Re-imagining Digital Discipleship in The Age of Social Media", Journal
of Youth and Theology 18, 2: 91-112, doi: https://doi.org/10.1163/
24055093-01802003 (2019) - Echoing the Mystery: Unlocking the Deposit of Faith in Catechesis, Morgan, Barbara, and Athanasius Munroe. Edited by Sr. John Dominic, O.P. Ann Arbor, MI: Lumen Ecclesiae Press, 2018.696 pp. ISBN 978-1-7323200-1-7. NZ$54.99, International Journal of Evangelization and Catechesis (book review, published Spring 2020)
- How Youth Ministry Can Change Theological Education – If We Let It. Edited by Kenda Creasy Dean and Christy Lang Hearlson. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2016. 309 pp., $22.00 (paperback) Religious Education Journal (book review, published Spring 2020)
- Ave Maria Press (Webinar): “(Re) Lighting the Digital Way: Ministering to the Cyberbullied and the Cyberbullies” (Fall 2019)
- Dallas Ministry Conference: “(Re)Lighting the Way: Addressing Cyberbullying within the Walls of Catechesis” (2017)
- Dallas Ministry Conference: “They’re Here, Now What? – Ministering to the Post Millennial Generation” (2018)
- International Conference on the Study of Youth Ministry (Durham, UK, Winter 2019): “The Digital Way: Re-Imagining Digital (Spring 2019)
- Discipleship in the Age of Social Media, National Conference on Catholic Youth Ministry (Webinar): “Here they are, now what do we do? –Unlocking the Effects of Anxiety in the Lives of Young Adults” (Fall 2019)
- National Conference on Catholic Youth Ministry biennial conference (Tampa, FL): “Here they are, now what do we do?–Unlocking the Effects of Anxiety in the Lives of Young Adults” (Fall 2018)
- Religious Education Association annual conference (Toronto): “From Roots to Wings: Recasting the ‘Wedge Model of Youth Ministry’ into a Sacred Pedagogical Form” (Fall 2019)
- Voice and Vision Conference – USCCB, National Dialogue and Franciscan University (Steubenville): “Youth Ministry and the Watering Down of Theology: Thoughts from a Practical Theologian” (Summer 2019)