KIE Directors Team
Interim Director; Professor of Philosophy
Phone: 661-654-2314Email: nolson@csub.eduMore About Nate OlsonDr. Olson serves as Interim Director of the Kegley Institute of Ethics. Previously, he served as KIE Associate Director from 2017 to 2023.
He is also the Chair of the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies and Associate Professor of Philosophy. Dr. Olson teaches courses in both ethical theory and practical ethics, with a particular emphasis on ethical issues in professional life and the sciences. He believes ethics education works best when conversations cross disciplinary and community boundaries and enjoys fostering such conversations through his work with the KIE.
Much of Dr. Olson’s research has addressed issues in bioethics, including both research and clinical ethics. He serves on CSUB’s Institutional Review Board and is a member of the Dignity Health Memorial Hospital Ethics Committee.
Dr. Olson received his PhD in philosophy from Georgetown University, and prior to coming to CSUB, was a post-doctoral teaching fellow in the Thinking Matters program at Stanford University, where he also worked with the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics.
Contact: nolson@csub.edu
Associate Director; Associate Professor of Religious Studies
Email: jflorez1@csub.eduMore About Joseph FlorezEducation
A.B., Harvard University
M.T.S., Harvard Divinity School
Ph.D., University of Cambridge
Teaching
Latinx and Latin American Religions
Evangelicalism
Social Justice
Research
Latinx and Latin American History
Evangelicalism/Pentecostalism
Memory Studies
Lived Religion
Publications
Giving Life to the Faith: Lived Religion, Pentecostalism, and Social Activism in Authoritarian
Chile. (Leiden: Brill, 2021).
w/ Pedro Feitoza (eds.), Evangelicalism in Latin America: Historical Documents in
Context. (Forthcoming, Cambridge University Press).
“Indigenization and Believers’ Accounts of Pentecostal Faith in Chile, 1910-1920”
in The Gospel in Latin America. Edited by David Bebbington (Waco, TX: Baylor University
Press, 2022)
“Pentecostal Eschatology, Public Discourse, and Political Engagement in Chile.” Studies
in World Christianity, 30, 3 (2024): 306-326.
“A Prohibited History of Pentecostal Social Engagement: la Misión Iglesia Pentecostal
and Authoritarian Chile,” Pneuma: The Journal of the Society for Pentecostal Studies,
40, 3 (2018): 287-305.
“Continuity and Rupture: Pentecostal Practice, Community, and Memory in Pinochet’s
Chile,” Journal of Religion and Society, 19 (2017): 1-22.
Contact: jflorez1@csub.edu
