Christopher Fici, PhD is a scholar of theology/religious studies currently based in New York City.
Christopher recently completed his Ph.D with a focus on Eco-Theology and Comparative Theology at Union Theological Seminary in the city of New York. He currently teaches courses on Religion and the Natural World and The Story of the Universe at Iona College in New Rochelle, NY.
Christopher spent five years studying and living as a monk in Gaudiya Vaishnava communities in West Virginia and in New York City, where remains associated as a Vaishnava scholar-practitioner with The Bhakti Center. At the Bhakti Center he helps to facilitate the Sacred Ecology Forum.
He is a former president of the Mid-Atlantic region of the American Academy of Religion (MAR-AAR), of which he is still actively involved as the co-chair of the Comparative Religion and Ecology section. With his MAR-AAR colleagues he recently published his first edited volume Religious Studies Scholars as Public Intellectuals, published with Routledge.
An avowed follower of Thomas Merton, he also helps to run the NYC Corpus Christi chapter of The International Thomas Merton Society at Corpus Christi Church in Manhattan, where Merton was baptized into the Catholic tradition.