Tom is currently a post-doctoral fellow in Emory University's initiative in Religion, Conflict and Peacebuilding, part of the "Religions and Human Spirit" initiative undertaken in the Graduate Division of Religion. Tom's research interests lay within the intersection of Religion and Conflict, Inter-religious Dialogue, Restorative Justice and Peacebuilding. Tom's further research and practice include Male Violence Studies, as well as Strategic Arts-based Peacebuilding, Peace Museums and Peace Education.

Tom has taught or co-taught in the areas of Religion, Conflict and Inter-religious Peacebuilding; Mediation and Conflict Transformation; Theology and Ethics of Reconciliation; and Religious Practices of Peace and Violence, at the undergraduate, seminary and doctoral level. His research focus centers around applicable scholarship and on the ground experience.

As a post-doctoral fellow, Tom has been heavily involved in an emerging doctoral concentration in Religion, Conflict and Peacebuilding at Emory, as well as the principle organizer of the lecture series Humanity at the Crossroads (06/07) and Reconstructing Self and Community: Arts, Religion and Reconciliation in Post-conflict Societies (07/08) presented at Emory University.

In addition to presenting workshops on Conflict Transformation, Tom has been a community-based mediator in Berkeley, California and a Program Director for the Family Creative Response to Conflict nonprofit organization in San Antonio, Texas. Tom has been a professional musican and frequently integrates performance into his public scholarship.

Tom will be serving as Visiting Assistant Professor of Peacebuilding and Conflict Transformation Practices in the Candler School of Theology beginning Fall 2008.