JDP Faculty Across Disciplines

Many JDP faculty members who trained in a variety of disciplines and are based in diverse departments at the 91 focus on religion in their research, publication, and teaching.

  • Alejandro Cerón, Anthropology
    Alejandro Cerón

    Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology
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    𳦾پDzԲ:Medical Anthropology, Applied Anthropology, Anthropology of Human Rights

    Publications:

    • Ceron Valdes, M. (2023). Environmental and Social Factors Associated with High Chronic Kidney Disease Mortality Rates in Municipalities of Guatemala: An Ecological Study of Municipal-Level Mortality Data. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 20(8), 5532. Retrieved from .
    • Cerón, Alejandro and Goldstein, Gila, "Mortalidad por accidente cerebrovascular en Guatemala 2018: patrones e inequidades" (2021). Anthropology: Faculty Scholarship. 35.
    • Cerón, Alejandro; Ramay, Brooke M.; Méndez-Alburez, Luis Pablo; and Lou-Meda, Randall, "Factors Associated With Chronic Kidney Disease of Non-Traditional Causes Among Children in Guatemala" (2021). Anthropology: Faculty Scholarship. 34.
    • Cerón A. (2020). Practices, knowledge, and the next pandemic: A lesson from a failed participatory public health intervention. Somatosphere: Science, Medicine, and Anthropology. Retrieved from
    • Cerón, A. & Jerome, J. (2019). Engaging with the right to health: Ethnographic explorations of the right to health in practice. Medical Anthropology, 38(6), 459-463. Doi: 10.1080/01459740.2019.1639173


    Courses:
    Medical Anthropology
    Sex, Class and Race in Latin America
    Human Rights in Latin America
    Applied Anthropology
    Ethnographic Methods
    Research Methods in Anthropology
    Global Health
    The Social Determination of Health

    ProfessionalLabel: medical anthropology, applied anthropology, anthropology of human rights, anthropology of development

    Email:alejandro.ceronvaldes@du.edu
    Phone:303-871-2683
    Office:DU, Sturm Hall 131

  • Santhosh Chandrashekar, Communication Studies
    Santhosh

    Associate Professor
    Department of Communication Studies
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    Specializations:Critical Ethnic and Race Studies; South Asian American Studies; Critical Religious Studies; Lingayat Studies; Intersectional Hindu Studies; South Asian religious traditions; Intersections of Caste, Race, and Gender; Kannada Studies

    Publications:

    • De“naturalizing” Tech Worker Discourses of Unfairness. Departures in Critical Qualitative Research 1 June 2019; 8 (2): 73–81. doi: .
    • "Engendering threat in the guise of protection: Orientalism and Sikh vulnerability," inJournal of Multicultural Discourses, 12(4), 366-381.
    • Chandrashekar, S. (2018). Not a Metaphor: Immigrant of Color Autoethnography as a Decolonial Move. Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies, 18(1), 72-79. .


    Courses:
    Modernity & Violence
    Colonialism/Race/Decolonization
    Race, Difference, & Social Struggles
    Feminist Theories
    Critical Sexuality Studies

    Professional Label:Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, South Asian American Studies; Lingayat Studies; Intersectional Hindu Studies

    Email: santhosh.chandrashekar@du.edu
    Phone: 303-871-4313
    Office: DU, Sturm Hall 292

  • Rafael Fajardo, Emergent Digital Practices
    Rafael Fajardo

    Professor
    Undergraduate Director for Emergent Digital Practices Program; Founder, SWEAT Collaborative
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    𳦾پDzԲ:Cultural Identity/Cultural Representation in Art and Digital Video Games, Socially Conscious Video Games

    Selected Exhibitions:
    2021 ReVisión: A New Look at Art in the Americas, 91 Art Museum, 91 Colorado.
    2020 “Garden del Rio Grande” In Kepler’s Gardens, Ars Electronica, Linz Austria and online.
    2019 ScreenIt Stads Triennale, Hasselt, Belgium
    2018 Deep Roots an exhibition commemorating the 300th anniversary of the founding of San Antonio, Texas.
    2018 NextNewGames, Institute of Contemporary Art, San José, California.
    2017 Rafael Fajardo: Crossings, Emmanuel Gallery, 91, Colorado.


    Courses:
    EDPX 4000 Digital Design Concepts
    EDPX 3110 Rapid Game Design & Prototyping
    EDPX 3115 Game Design: Paper to Digital
    EDPX 3120 Making Critical
    EDPX 3130 Making Educational Games
    EDPX 3710 Critical Game Cultures

    Professional Label: Critical Making; Socially Conscious Games; Games for Change; Design History; Media History

    Email:rfajardo@du.edu
    Phone:303-871-7716(EDP Program)
    Office:DU,Sturm Hall 216
    Personal website:

  • Kelly Fayard, Anthropology
    Kelly Fayard

    Assistant Professor of Anthropology
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    Specializations: Native North America, kinship, race/biology/blood quantum, museums, Indigenous feminisms

    Publications:

    • Book manuscript. Fighting to Belong: Race, Kinship, and Community Among the Poarch Band of Creek Indians (In progress)
    • Back “Poarch” Politics: States, “states,” and Indigenous Sovereignty in Alabama. The Journal of Anthropology of North America. Forthcoming Fall 2021.
    • “Decolonizing and Building Community” inThe Academic’s Handbookedited by Lori Flores and Jocelyn Olcott, 2020.
    • “Native American Dance History and Powwow Styles” inDance Pedagogy for a Diverse World: Culturally Relevant Teaching in Theory, Research and Practiceby Nyama McCarthy-Brown, 2017.
    • “Collaboration with Family: Anthropological Work with the Poarch Band of Creek Indians.”Anthropology News, 2013.


    Courses: Anthropological Theory and Context, Indigenous Feminisms, Native North America, Exhibit Design, Anthropological Kinship, Natives in Film, Anthropological Methods

    Professional Label: Native North America, Indigenous feminism

    Email:kelly.fayard@du.edu
    Phone:303-871-2679
    Office:Sturm Hall, 2000 East Asbury Avenue 91, CO 80208

  • Graham Foust, English
    Graham Foust

    Professor of English and Literary Arts, Associate Chair of English Department
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    Specializations:Poetry, Poetics, Literary Theory

    Publications:

    • Foust, Graham W. Nightingalelessness. Chicago, IL, USA: Flood Editions, 2018..
    • Foust, Graham. Time Down to Mind. Chicago, Illinois, USA: Flood Editions, 2015..
    • Foust, Graham. To Anacreon in Heaven and Other Poems. Chicago, Illinois, USA: Flood Editions, 2013: 111.
    • Foust, Graham. A Mouth in California. Chicago, Illinois, USA: Flood Editions, 2009: 96.
    • Foust, Graham. Necessary Stranger. Chicago, Illinois, USA: Flood Editions, 2007: 65.


    Courses:
    Graduate Poetry Workshop
    Emily Dickinson, Wallace Stevens, and Robert Creeley
    Fraudulence, Error, and Doubt
    Prosody and Poetic Form
    The Density of Experience: Baudelaire, Benjamin, Bishop
    Marianne Moore and Laura Riding
    Paul Celan and Ernst Meister
    Rene Char and George Oppen
    Jack Spicer's Poetry and Poetics

    Professional Label:Poetry, poetics, literary theory

    Email:graham.foust@du.edu
    Phone:303-871-2896
    Office:DU, Sturm Hall 386C

  • Joshua Hanan, Communication Studies
    Joshua Hanan

    Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies
    Department of Communication Studies
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    Specializations:Rhetorical Theory and Criticism; Political Economy of Rhetoric; Old and New Materialism; Cultural Studies; Science and Technology Studies; Neoliberalism; Governmentality; Biopolitics

    Publications:

    • Figures of Entanglement: Diffractive Readings of Barad, New Materialism, and Rhetorical Theory and Criticism. Co-edited with Chris Gamble. New York: Routledge. 2021.
    • Communication and the Economy: History, Value and Agency. Co-edited with Mark Hayward.New York: Peter Lang, 2014.
    • “Precarious Economies: Capitalism’s Creative Destruction in the Age of Neoliberal Campus Planning” Co-authored with Phillip Goodwin, Rubén Casas, Ralph Cintron, Leslie L. Rossman, and Nick J. Sciullo.Review of Communication 20.2(2020): 152-160.
    • “Critical & Rhetorical Ways of Knowing.” Co-authored with Chris Gamble. In B. H. Spitzberg, D. J. Canary, and H. E. Canary (Eds.),The Communication Capstone: The Communication Inquiry and Theory Experience (CITE)(pp. 76-91). San Diego, CA: Cognella, 2020.


    Courses:
    Critical Cultural Approaches to Rhetorical Criticism
    Rhetoric and Materialism
    Rhetoric and Affect Theory
    Rhetoric and Critical Theory
    Performativity and/as Disability
    Rhetoric and Neoliberalism
    Rhetoric and Biopolitics
    Rhetoric and Technology

    Professional Label:Rhetorical Theory, Rhetorical Theory and Criticism, Critical Theory and Cultural Studies, Rhetoric of Economics

    Email:joshua.hanan@du.edu
    Phone:303-871-4321
    Office:DU,Sturm Hall, Room 297
    Personal website:

  • Annabeth Headrick, Art History
    Annabeth Headrick

    Associate Professor, Department of Art History;Graduate Art History Advisor
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    Specializations:Mesoamerican, Native North American, and Andean Art

    Publications:

    • Headrick, A., & Hoopes, J. W. (2022). Foreign Encounters: Warfare, Trade, and Status at Chichen Itza. In G. A. Braswell (Ed.), 3,000 Years of War and Peace in the Maya Lowlands: Identity, Politics, and Violence. Abington, UK: Routledge.
    • Headrick, A. (2022). Sacrifice and the Sun: The Aztec Calendar Stone and Its Origins. In J. G. Stauffer, B. T. Giles, & S. P. Lambert (Eds.), Archaeologies of Cosmoscapes in the Americas. Oxford, UK: Oxbow Books.
    • Headrick, A. (2018). The Osario of Chichen Itza: Where Warriors Danced in Paradise. In L. Wren, K. Spencer, C. Kristan-Graham, & T. Nygard (Eds.),Landscapes of the Itza: Archaeology and Art History at Chichen Itza and Neighboring Sites(pp. 198-225). Gainesville, Florida: University of Florida Press.
    • Headrick, A. (2007).The Teotihuacan Trinity: The Sociopolitical Structure of an Ancient Mesoamerican City. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press.
    • Headrick, A. (2003). Butterfly War at Teotihuacan. In M. K. Brown & T. Stanton (Eds.),Ancient Mesoamerican Warfare(pp. 149-170). Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press.
    • Headrick, A. (1999). The Street of the Dead..It Really Was: Mortuary Bundles at Teotihuacan.Ancient Mesoamerica, 10, 69-85.


    Courses:Art of the Maya, Mesoamerican Art, Native North American Art, and Art of the Andes, contemporary Native North American art

    Professional Label: Art history, Precolumbian art

    Email:annabeth.headrick@du.edu
    Phone:303-871-3574
    Office:DU,Shwayder Art Building 111

  • W. Scott Howard, English
    Scott Howard

    Professor, English Department
    91

    Specializations:Renaissance & Early Modern Literature and Culture; Modern & Postmodern American Poetry; Poetics & Historiography; Literary & Cultural Theory; Digital Humanities

    Publications:

    • Archive and Artifact: Susan Howe’s Factual Telepathy. Greenfield, MA: Talisman House, 2019.
    • Poetics and Praxis ‘After’ Objectivism. Ed. W. Scott Howard and Broc Rossell. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2018:
    • “Katherine Philips’s Elegies and Historical Figuration.”Women’s Writing24.3 (2017): 313-331. Routledge / Taylor & Francis online (2016):
    • “WYSIWYG Poetics: Reconfiguring the Fields for Creative Writers & Scholars.” The Journal of Electronic Publishing. Ed. Aaron McCollough. 14.2 (2011):
    • “Prophecy, Power, and Religious Dissent.” A History of Early Modern Women’s Writing. Ed. Patricia Phillippy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. 315-331.


    Courses: Shakespeare, Critical Essay, Susan Howe and Vulnerability, Documentary Poetics and Praxis, Poetics Research, 'After' Objectivism, the Matter of Revolution

    Professional Label:modern and postmodern American poetry; Renaissance and early modern literature & culture; critical theory, poetics, and historiography; fine press & small press book arts; digital humanities.

    Email:showard@du.edu
    Phone:303-871-2887
    Office:DU,Sturm Hall 387E

  • Sarah Magnatta, Art and Art History
    Sarah Magnatta
    Assistant Professor of Global Contemporary Art
    School of Art and Art History, 91
    Specializations: Global contemporary art, museum studies, Buddhist art history, Tibetan art history
    Publications:
    • 2024 “Marking Impermanence: The Life of the Object (and Index) in Sonam Dolma Brauen’s Art” HIMALAYA 43 (2) Summer
    • 2023 “Resonant Presence: Materiality and Memory in the work of Suchitra Mattai” Art Journal (vol. 82 issue 1)
    • 2023 “Disrupted Bodies and Regeneration” in H.G. Masters and Elaine W. Ng, editors, Tales of Muted Spirits, Dispersed Threads, Twisted Shangri-La(catalog for Nepal Pavilion at the Venice Biennale) Hong Kong: Art Asia Pacific
    • 2022 “Tibetan Self-Immolation in the Art of Tenzing Rigdol” in Routledge Handbook of Asian Transnationalism, ed. Ajaya K. Sahoo
    • 2022 “Our Land, Our People: Reconsidering Site-Specificity in Exile” (Journal of Aesthetics & Culture, Vol. 14 no. 1)
    Courses:
    Buddhism(s) in Art
    Global Contemporary Art
    Sacred Arts of Asia
    Professional Label: Global contemporary art, museum studies, Buddhist art history, Tibetan art history
    Email: sarah.magnatta@du.edu
    Office: Shwayder room 238
    Personal Website:
  • Daniel N. McIntosh, Psychology
    Daniel McIntosh

    Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychology
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    Specializations:Social Psychology; Emotions; Coping; interested in Study of Spiritual Exercises

    Publications:

    • Van Tongeren, D. R., Pennington, A., McIntosh, D. N., Newton, A. T., Green, J. D., Davis, D. E., & Hook, J. N. (2017). Where, O death, is thy sting? The meaning-providing function of beliefs in literal immortality.Mental Health, Religion, and Culture, 20, 413-427. doi 10.1080/13674676.2017.1355358
    • McIntosh, D. N., & Newton, A. (2013). An explicit request for minitheories in the psychology of religion and spirituality.International Journal for the Psychology of Religion, 23(4), 261-270. doi:10.1080/10508619.2013.795805
    • Van Tongeren, D. R., McIntosh, D. N., Raad, J. M., & Pae, J. (2013). The existential function of intrinsic religiousness: Moderation of effects of priming religion on intercultural tolerance and afterlife anxiety,Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 52,508-523
    • McIntosh, D. N., Poulin, M. J., Silver, R. C., & Holman, E. A. (2011). The distinct roles of spirituality and religiosity in physical and mental health after collective trauma: A national longitudinal study of responses to the 9/11 attacks. Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 34, 497–507. DOI: 10.1007/s10865-011-9331


    Courses:
    Courses on Social Psychology with a focus on emotions and the psychology of religion

    Professional Label:Social Psychology; Psychology of Religion

    Email:daniel.mcintosh@du.edu
    Phone:303-871-2112
    Office:DU,Nagel Hall 064

  • Bilha Moor, Art History
    Bilha Moor

    Assistant Professor of Islamic Art History
    School of Art and Art History
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    Specializations: Islamic art history, Islamic figurative painting, early Islamic Arabic inscriptions in architectural, historical, and religious contexts

    Publications:

    • “Early Qur’anic Epigraphy in Public Shrines.” In Encyclopaedia of the Qur’an Online. Edited by Johanna Pink, Anne-Sylvie Boisliveau, Suleyman Dost, Saqib Hussain and Nimet Şeker. Leiden: Brill, 2024.
    • “Shah ‘Abbas I, the Safavid Concourse of the Birds, and the Reception of Ming One Hundred BirdsCompositions in Persian Painting.” Artibus Asiae82, no. 1 (2022): 51–99.
    • "The Jew, the Orthodox Christian, and the European in Ottoman Eyes, ca. 1550-1700." InDisliking Others: Loathing, Hostility and Distrust in Pre-Modern Ottoman Lands. Edited by Hakan T. Karateke, H. Erdem Çıpa and Helga Anetshofer. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2018, pp. 75-106.
    • "Mosque and Church: Arabic Inscriptions at Shivta in the Early Islamic Period."Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam (JSAI) 40(2013), pp. 73-141.
    • “Shahnama Kings And Heroes In 'Aja'ib Al-Makhluqat Illustrated Manuscripts.” InShahnama Studies Ii. The Reception Of Firdausi’s Shahnama. edited by Charles Melville and Gabrielle van den Berg. 267-80, and plates 23-26 Leiden: Brill. 2012.


    Courses:
    Graduate Seminar on Islamic Illustrated Manuscripts
    History and Fantasy in Islamic Painting
    Mosques and Aniconism: Islamic Art & Architecture 650-1250
    Dragons and Sultans: Islamic Art & Architecture 1250-1700

    Professional Label:Islamic Art History

    Email:bilha.moor@du.edu
    Phone:303-871-2451
    Office:DU,Shwayder Art Building

  • Debora Ortega, Social Work
    Debora Ortega

    Professor;Director, 91 Latino Center for Community Engagement and Scholarship
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    Specializations:culturally responsive practice, disparities, families and family systems, latina/latino populations, LGBTQIA, marginalized populations, race and ethnicity, racial justice, research methods, social justice

    Publications:

    • Co-authored withJennifer Propp and Forest NewHeart, "Independence or interdependence: Rethinking the transition from "ward of the court" to adulthood"Families in SocietyVol. 84 (2), 2003, 295-266.
    • Co-authored with Yolanda Anyon, et.al., "An exploration of the relationships between student racial background and the school sub-contexts of office discipline referrals: A critical race theory analysis"Race Ethnicity and EducationVol. 21 (3), 2018, 390-406.
    • Co-authored with Lilia Cervantes, "The illness experience of undocumented immigrants with end-stage renal disease"JAMA Internal MedicineVol.177 (4), 2017, 529-535.
    • "How much support is too much? Parenting efficacy and social support"Children and Youth Services Review, 2002.


    Email:debora.ortega@du.edu
    Phone:303-871-3359
    Office:DU, Craig Hall 477

  • Trishula R. Patel, History
    Patel

    Assistant Professor, Department of History
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    Specializations: African history, legal history, race and colonialism, South Asian history

    Publications:

    • “Colonial Pasts and African Futures: Indian Participation in Civil Society in Eastern and Southern Africa in the Twentieth Century,” Georgetown Journal of International Affairs 23, no. 2 (2022): 161-168.
    • “Three Times a State, Never a Nation: Indians in Rhodesia/Zimbabwe” in Xenophobia, Nativism, and Pan-Africanism in 21st Century Africa, eds. Sabella Abidde and Emmanuel Matambo (New York: Springer, 2021).
    • “From the Subcontinent with Love: India and Activist Diplomacy in 20th Century Central Africa,” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East 41, no. 3 (2021): 455-468, .
    • “Played out on the Edges of the Cricket Boundary: The History of an Indian Cricket Team in Rhodesia/Zimbabwe, 1934-1995,” Journal of Southern African Studies 45, no. 3 (2019): 465-483, .
    • “It’s Always Time for a Cheeky Nando’s: The Global Journey of an African Cuisine,” Perspectives on History 61, no. 6 (2023): .
    • “‘Two Separate Societies, Divided by Color’: Race, Colonialism, and Bridgerton,” Perspectives on History 60, no. 6 (2022): .
    • “Feeling Like an Interloper, But Claiming Space Anyway: The Minority Graduate Experience,” Perspectives on History 59, no. 4 (2021): .


    Courses:

    ASEM 2504: Land and Law in Africa
    FSEM 1111: Pop Culture in Africa
    HIST 1260: Modern South Asian History
    HIST 1705: Modern African History
    HIST 2885: Migration, Mobility, and Movement in Africa
    HIST 2940: Sports and Empire
    HIST 2998: Issues in Comparative History
    HIST 3275: The Past and Afterlives of Apartheid

    Email: trishula.patel@du.edu
    Phone:303-871-2955
    Office:Sturm Hall 370

  • Trace Reddell, Emergent Digital Practices
    Trace Reddell

    Professor
    Director of Emergent Digital Practices
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    Specializations:Sound Studies, Digital Media Studies, Critical Theory, Popular Cosmology, Science Fiction Studies, Audiovisual Performance, Analog Synthesizers

    Publications/Performances:

    • Reddell, T. (2018).The Sound of Things to Come: An Audible History of the Science Fiction Film. Minneapolis, MN, United States: University of Minnesota Press. Retrieved from
    • “Ethnoforgery and Outsider Afrofuturism,” inDancecult: The Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture, Vol. 5, No. 2 (2013).
    • “Cyborg Ritual and Sentic Technology in the Vortex Concerts,” inThe Poetics of Space: Spatial Explorations in Art, Science, Music & Technology(Sonic Acts Press, Paradiso, 2010).
    • Reddell, T. E. (2018).Linguistic Programming of Sonic Psychotechnologies @ Lafayette Electronic Arts Festival.Lafayette, CO, USA.


    Courses:
    Emergent Digital Cultures
    Pharmakomedia
    Sonic Science

    Professional Label:Emergent Digital Practices

    Email:treddell@du.edu
    Phone:303-871-3874
    Office:DU, Sturm Hall 216B

  • Susan Schulten, History
    Susan Schulten

    Professor, Department of History; Department Chair
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    Specializations:Nineteenth and Twentieth-century U.S. History; History of Maps.

    Publications:

    • A History of America in 100 Maps(British Library Press/University of Chicago Press, October 2018).
    • “’Make the Map All White:’ The Meaning of Maps in the Suffrage and Prohibition Campaigns,”Colorado Law Reviewv.92 n.3 (2021): 876-941.
    • “How Place Became Process: The Origins of Time Mapping in the United States,” inTime in Maps: from the age of discovery to our digital era, edited by Karen Wigen and Caroline Winterer (University of Chicago Press, 2020)
    • “Map Drawing, Graphic Literacy and Pedagogy in the Early Republic,”History of Education Quarterlyv.57 n.2 (May 2017)


    Courses:
    American Thought and Culture

    Professional Label:U.S. History, American political and cultural history, the history of mapping.

    Email:sschulte@du.edu
    Phone:303-871-2970
    Office:DU, Sturm Hall 361

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  • Marquisha Lawrence Scott, Social Work
    Marquisha Lawrence Scott

    Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Social Work
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    Specializations:religious congregations and community engagement, congregational impact on youth outcomes, clergy continued education (e.g., globalization, climate change)

    Publications:

    • Scott, M.L. (in press). A well society: Embracing religious tenets in social welfare. In Neil Wollman & C.J. Love (Eds.), Is that Any Way to Run a Country. Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
    • Park, I.* & Scott, M.L. (2022). Understanding the ethnic self: A qualitative study of 1.5-generation Korean American adult immigrants. Journal of Ethnic and Cultural Studies, 9(2), 171-198.
    • Cnaan, R.A. & Scott, M.L. (2020). Personality, prosperity, priority, productivity, and piety: Selecting congregational valued lay leaders. Journal of Health & Human Services Administration, 43 (4), 382-405.
    • Scott, M.L. & Cnaan, R. (2020). Youth and religion in an age of global citizenship identification: An 18-country study of youth. Children and Youth Service Review.
    • Scott, M. L. & Cnaan, R. (2018). Religious congregations and poverty alleviation in the age of New Public Governance. Nonprofit Policy Forum, 8(4), 391-410.


    Courses:Spirituality and Social Work (SOWK 4555); Community and Organizational Change Theory (SOWK 4370); Critical Approaches to Facilitating and Teaching: Anti-Racist, Feminist, and Queer Pedagogies (SOWK TBD)

    Professional Label: social work, religious congregations, community engagement.

    Email:Marquisha.Scott@du.edu
    Office:DU,Craig Hall
    Personal website:

  • Elizabeth Sperber, Political Science
    Elizabeth Sperber

    Associate Professor of Political Science, Department of Political Science
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    𳦾پDzԲ:Religion and Politics (especially New Religious Movements); Political Economy of Development; Global Social Policy; Mixed Methods Research Design; democratization and democratic backsliding in sub-Saharan Africa

    Publications:

    • Deus ex Machina: The Politics of New Christian Movements in sub-Saharan Africa
    • Sperber, E., Hern, E. (2018) “Pentecostal Identity and Citizen Engagement in Sub-Saharan Africa: New Evidence from Zambia.”Politics and Religion11(4): 830-862
    • Sperber, E. “Democratic Backsliding, Religious Institutions and the Constitution of Citizenship in Sub-Saharan Africa,” in B. Bompani and C. Valois (Eds.) Christian Citizens and the moral regeneration of the African State: The relationship between religion, society and political transformation in Africa. Abingdon, UK: Ashgate, 2017.
    • Sperber, E., Sensoy Bahar, O., Ssewamala, F. (2018) Implications of Race and Concentrated Poverty for Asset Development Policy.The Journal of Race and Policy, 13(1), 20-40.


    Courses:
    Democratic Erosion; Identity Politics in Comparative Perspective; Politicized "Ethnicity" In Comparative Perspective; Political Inquiry; Political Economy of Development; Comparing Politics Around the World

    Professional Label:Religion and Politics in Sub-Saharan Africa; Political Economy of Development

    Email:Elizabeth.Sperber@du.edu
    Phone:303-871-2138
    Office:DU, Sturm Hall 471
    Personal website:

  • Robert Urquhart, Economics
    Robert Urquhart

    Associate Professor, Department of Economics
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    Biography: Dr. Urquhart has been teaching at the 91 since 1989. He teaches courses on the History of Economic Thought and Economic History, as well as an advanced seminar on Marx’s Capital. In research he has written extensively on 18th-century political economy, especially the work of James Steuart and Adam Smith. His current work focusses on the concept of the individual. It adopts the inter-disciplinary approach of Critical Social Theory, which sees society as a totality that must be understood through critique of the structures of domination that sustain it. In this view – as opposed to the isolated individual of mainstream, neoclassical economic theory – the individual is seen as constituted through autonomy in relation: that is, to be an autonomous individual is to stand in relation to other individuals.

    Specializations:History of Economic Thought; Economic History; Political Economy; Social Theory

    Email:Robert.Urquhart@du.edu
    Phone:303-871-2258
    Office:DU,Sturm Hall 231

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