Paul Houston Blankenship has served as an adjunct professor of religion and theology at Fordham University and Seattle University and a visiting scholar at the University of Washington. His doctoral dissertation at the Graduate Theological Union (Berkeley) provided an ethnographic account of the spiritual lives of people experiencing homelessness in Seattle. Prior to entering the academy, Blankenship was a social worker in San Diego and Santa Ana, California. His scholarship has appeared in collected volumes like Street Homelessness and Catholic Theological Ethics (Orbis, 2019).