Faculty in the department of religious studies travel the globe carrying out original research to advance the field and enhance their courses. They have published numerous books and articles, and regularly present their work at national and international conferences. They are committed to acquiring and disseminating knowledge for the benefit of their students, professional colleagues and community. Check out the recent faculty accomplishments.
Associate Professor
Research and professional interests: Second Temple Judaism and early Christianity; New Testament; Jewish and Christian apocalyptic literature; Enoch; Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity and literature; C. S. Lewis
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Assistant Professor
Research and professional interests: Jewish culture in late antiquity, with a particular focus on rabbinic literature and the Talmud; intersection of religion and ecology, with an interest in Jewish environment ethics and Jewish eco-theology
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Department Head
Research and professional interests: Buddhist studies; Theravada Buddhism; Sinhala and Pali literature; South Asian religions; religion and colonialism
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Associate Professor
Research and professional interests: American religious history, early New England studies, religion and the body, ritual studies, food and religion, religion and dress
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Associate Professor
Graduate Director
Research and professional interests: Biblical Studies; Early Christian History and Literature; Paul; Apocalypticism; Greco-Roman Philosophy and Rhetoric; Postmodern Biblical Criticism
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Research and professional interests: Women in religions; scholarship of teaching (student motivation; teacher’s role in student engagement, autonomy and competence; student motivation and success as face-to-face time decreases and technology increases)
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Professor
Professor
Research and professional interests: South Asian religions, contemporary Hinduism, women in Hinduism, fundamentalism in world religions
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Dean
Professor
Research and professional interests: Hebrew Bible, Social World of Ancient Israel, Ancient Law
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Research and professional interests: Old Testament/Hebrew Bible especially Psalms and Wisdom Literature, History of Israel, Archaeology and the Bible
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Research and professional interests: Women and religion (Evangelicals and Stone-Campbell movement); relationships between religion, culture, and politics
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Senior Instructor
Research and professional interests: Philosophy of religion especially continental thought, theodicy and meaning construction; gender studies with attention given to women and fundamentalism
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Associate Professor
Research and professional interests: German Reformation; various genres of German Lutheran preaching in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
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Associate Professor
Blanche Gorman Strong Chair in Protestant Studies
Research and professional interests: Religion and American culture, Evangelicalism, religion in higher education, popular culture and religion, campus ministry, Ozarks religion
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Associate Professor
Research and professional interests: Prophetic literature of the Hebrew bible; Syro/Palestinian archaeology
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Academic Administrative Assistant II
Research and professional interests: Old Testament/Hebrew Bible, Poetry in the Hebrew Bible
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