Areas of Study

Program Strengths for In-Depth Study

The JDP does not have majors or concentrations. Students are free to take their interests in many different directions. The important thing is that there are faculty with the expertise to support their work. Like any PhD program, the JDP has resources to offer specialized study in a limited number of subject areas. The expertise of JDP faculty determines the most productive opportunities for study and for directed research, such as dissertation projects. The areas below represent general areas of strength for the faculty.

Before applying for the JDP, prospective students are encouraged to read faculty publications as they explore the academic areas listed below:
1. Bible, Ancient Judaism, Early Christianity
2. Religion, Art, and Media
3. Social Justice, Race, and Identity
4. Religion and Politics
5. Theories of Religion
6. Religion and Human Experience.

Bible, Ancient Judaism, Early Christianity

  • Christy Cobb
    Christy Cobb

    Assistant Professor of Christianity
    Department of Religious Studies
    91

    Specializations: New Testament (Luke-Acts); Early Christianity; Enslavement; Gender and Sexuality; Ancient Fiction (Greco-Roman, Jewish, and Christian)

    Publications:

    • Cobb, Christy. “Enslaved Women, Women Enslavers: Kyriarchy And Intersectionality In The New Testament.” Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion 40, no. 1, (2024).
    • Sex, Violence, And Early Christian Texts. Edited by Christy Cobb and Eric Vanden Eykel. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. 2022.
    • “Entangled Tongues: A Poststructuralist and Postcolonial Reading of Acts 2:1-13” inJournal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies(Vol.4.1, Summer 2022), pgs. 1-16.
    • Slavery, Gender, Truth, and Power in Luke-Acts and Other Ancient Narratives. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2019.
    • “Madly in Love: The Motif of Lovesickness in the Apocryphal Acts of Andrew” in Reading and Teaching Ancient Fiction: Jewish, Christian, and Greco-Roman Narratives. Sara Johnson, Rubén René Dupertuis, and Chris Shea, Editors.Writings from the Greco-Roman World Supplement Series, Number 11 (Atlanta: SBL Press, 2018), pgs. 27-40.
    • “Hidden Truth in the Body of Euclia: Page duBois’ Torture and Truth and the Acts of Andrew” in Biblical Interpretation (Volume 25.1, 2017), pgs. 19-38.


    Courses:
    Christian Classics
    Introduction to Christianity

    Professional Label:Biblical Studies; Ancient Judaism, and Early Christianity

    Email:christy.cobb@du.edu
    Office:270 Sturm Hall, DU

  • Pamela Eisenbaum
    Pamela Eisenbaum

    Professor of Biblical Studies and Christian Origins
    Iliff School of Theology

    Specializations: Paul; Epistle to the Hebrews; Jewish-Christian relations; biblical manuscripts; history of biblical interpretation; formation of the canon; the Bible and technology; comparative scripture

    Publications:

    • Paul Was Not a Christian: The Original Message of a Misunderstood Apostle.San Francisco: HarperOne, 2009.
    • Invitation to Romans.Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2006.
    • The Jewish Heroes of Christian History: Hebrews 11 in Literary Context.Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1997.

    Courses:
    Formation of the Bible
    New Testament Language and Text
    Epistle to the Romans

    Professional Label:Biblical Studies; Early Judaism; New Testament and Christian Origins

    Email:peisenbaum@iliff.edu
    Phone:(303) 765-3167
    Office:Iliff School of Theology

  • Amy Erickson
    Amy Erickson

    Professor of Hebrew Bible
    Iliff School of Theology

    Specialization:Hebrew Bible; Biblical Interpretation; Theories of identity and constructions of the self; Poetic and mythological texts in ancient Near Eastern literature; religion and body; Poetry and metaphor (Hebrew Bible)

    Publications:

    • Jonah: Introduction and Commentary. Illuminations Series. Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2021.
    • “Recent Research on the Megilloth (Song of Songs, Ruth, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes, Esther).” With Andrew R. Davis. Currents in Biblical Research. June 2016: 1-21.
    • “God’s Birthing and Begetting Body in Job 38:28-30.” Pages 98-113 in Imagination, Ideology, and Inspiration: Exploring Walter Brueggemann’s Influence in Biblical Studies. Edited by Robert Williamson, Jr. and Jonathan Kaplan. Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix, 2015.
    • “Jonah and the Scribal Habitus,” inMethods, Theories, Imagination: Social Scientific Approaches in Biblical Studies, eds. David J. Chalcraft, Frauke Uhlenbruch, and Rebecca S. Watson (Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2014)
    • “‘Without My Flesh I Will See God’: Job’s Rhetoric of the Body,”Journal of Biblical Literature132.2 (2013): 295-313


    Courses:
    Identity and the Hebrew Bible
    The Body and Sexuality in the Ancient Near East and Hebrew Bible
    Jonah and Its Afterlives

    Professional Label: Hebrew Bible

    Email:aerickson@iliff.edu
    Phone:(303) 744-1287
    Office:Iliff School of Theology

  • Alison Schofield
    Alison Schofield

    Associate Professor of Hebrew Bible and Judaic Studies
    Department of Religious Studies
    91

    Specialization:HebrewBible and Judaic Studies; Dead Sea Scrolls; Religious and cultural influences of ancient Israel, Egypt and Babylonia

    Publications:

    • Schofield, Alison. “Reading Sectarian Spaces: Critical Spatial Theory and the Case of the Yahad” in The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Study of the Humanities. Proceedings from the 2013 IOQS Meeting in Munich. E. Tichgelaar, A. Schofield, S. Thomas, eds. Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah 125. Leiden: Brill, 2018, pp. 176–194.
    • Schofield, Alison. “Re-Placing Priestly Space: The Wilderness as Heterotopia in the Dead Sea Scrolls” in A Teacher for All Generations: Essays in Honor of James C. VanderKam, vol. 1, E. Mason, K. C. Bautch, A.K. Harkins, D. Machiela, A. Schofield, S. I. Thomas, E. Ulrich, eds. Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism, Volume: 153. Leiden: Brill, 2011, pp. 469-490.

    Email:aschofie@du.edu
    Phone:303-871-2752
    Office:DU, Sturm Hall 271
    Personal website:

  • Eric C. Smith
    Eric C. Smith

    Associate Professor of Early Christian Texts and Traditions
    Iliff School of Theology

    Specializations:Christian origins; New Testament and other early Christian literature; Jewish-Christian relations in antiquity; Materialist theories of religion; religion and spatial theory; Biblical reception and exegesis

    Publications:

    • Paul the Progressive? : The Compassionate Christian’s Guide to Reclaiming the Apostle as an Ally(Chalice Press, 2019)
    • Jewish Glass and Christian Stone: A Materialist Mapping of the "Parting of the Ways"(Routledge: 2018)
    • Foucault’s Heterotopia in Christian Catacombs: Constructing Spaces and Symbols in Ancient Rome(Palgrave Macmillan: 2014)

    Courses:
    New Testament
    Biblical Exegesis
    History of Christianity
    Ancient Christian Practices

    Professional Label:Biblical Studies; New Testament; and History of Christianity

Religion, Art, and Media

  • Santhosh Chandrashekar
    Santhosh

    Associate Professor
    Department of Communication Studies
    91

    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

  • Amy Erickson
    Amy Erickson

    Professor of Hebrew Bible
    Iliff School of Theology

    Specialization:Hebrew Bible; Biblical Interpretation; Theories of identity and constructions of the self; Poetic and mythological texts in ancient Near Eastern literature; religion and body; Poetry and metaphor (Hebrew Bible)

    Publications:

    • Jonah: Introduction and Commentary. Illuminations Series. Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2021.
    • “Recent Research on the Megilloth (Song of Songs, Ruth, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes, Esther).” With Andrew R. Davis. Currents in Biblical Research. June 2016: 1-21.
    • “God’s Birthing and Begetting Body in Job 38:28-30.” Pages 98-113 in Imagination, Ideology, and Inspiration: Exploring Walter Brueggemann’s Influence in Biblical Studies. Edited by Robert Williamson, Jr. and Jonathan Kaplan. Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix, 2015.
    • “Jonah and the Scribal Habitus,” inMethods, Theories, Imagination: Social Scientific Approaches in Biblical Studies, eds. David J. Chalcraft, Frauke Uhlenbruch, and Rebecca S. Watson (Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2014)
    • “‘Without My Flesh I Will See God’: Job’s Rhetoric of the Body,”Journal of Biblical Literature132.2 (2013): 295-313


    Courses:
    Identity and the Hebrew Bible
    The Body and Sexuality in the Ancient Near East and Hebrew Bible
    Jonah and Its Afterlives

    Professional Label: Hebrew Bible

    Email:aerickson@iliff.edu
    Phone:(303) 744-1287
    Office:Iliff School of Theology

  • Rafael Fajardo
    Rafael Fajardo

    Professor
    Undergraduate Director for Emergent Digital Practices Program; Founder, SWEAT Collaborative
    91

    Specializations: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 and 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:

  • Annabeth Headrick
    Annabeth Headrick

    Associate Professor, Department of Art History;Graduate Art History Advisor
    91

    Specialization: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
    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
    Sarah Magnatta

    Ph.D, The Ohio State University

    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:
  • Bilha Moor
    Bilha Moor

    Assistant Professor of Islamic Art History
    School of Art and Art History
    91

    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

  • Benjamin Nourse
    Ben Nourse

    , Ph.D., University of Virginia, Religious Studies

    Assistant Professor
    Department of Religious Studies, 91

    Specializations: Asian Religions;Buddhist Studies; Tibetan Studies; History of the Book in Asia.

    Publications:

    • Nourse, Benjamin J. “Translating The Cult Of The Book: Publishing And Performing The Fifth Dalai Lama's The Wish-Fulfilling King From Lhasa To Beijing.” East Asian Publishing and Society 11, no. 1, (2021): 34–67. .
    • Nourse, Benjamin James. “Zhuchen Tsultrim Rinchen (B. 1697 - D. 1774)” The Treasury of Lives. 2019. .
    • Nourse, Benjamin James. “Revolutions Of The Dharma Wheel: Uses Of Tibetan Printing In The Eighteenth Century.” In Tibetan Printing: Comparison, Continuities, And Change. edited by Hildegard Diemberger, Franz-Karl Ehrhard, and Peter Kornicki. 524-550 Leiden, Netherlands: Brill. 2016. .
    • Nourse, Benjamin James. “Makzor Gönpo And The Choné Kangyur.” In Sources Of Tibetan Tradition. edited by Kurtis R. Schaeffer, Gray Tuttle, and Matthew T. Kapstein. 596-600 New York, NY, USA: Columbia University Press. 2013.

    Email:Benjamin.Nourse@du.edu
    Phone:303-871-3539
    Office:DU, Sturm Hall 482

  • Trace Reddell
    Trace Reddell

    Professor, Director of Emergent Digital Practices
    91

    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

  • Andrea Stanton
    Andrea L. Stanton

    Professor of Islamic Studies
    Department of Religious Studies, 91

    Specializations:Islamic Studies; Middle Eastern history; media and politics; nationalism and sovereignty

    Publications:

    • Kaneva, Ndezhda S., and Andrea Stanton. “An Alternative Vision Of Statehood: Islamic State's Ideological Challenge To The Nation-State.” Studies in Conflict & Terrorism 46, no. 5, (2023): 640-658. .
    • Stanton, Andrea. The Wireless World: Global Histories Of International Radio Broadcasting. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. 2022.
    • Stanton, Andrea. “Sober Masculinity And Nurturing Femininity: A Gendered Analysis Of The Syrian Presidency Instagram Account.” Place Branding and Public Diplomacy 18, no. 4, (2022): 346-356. .
    • Stanton, Andrea. “From Mecca With Love: Muslim Religious Apps And The Centering Of Sacred Geography.” In Cyber Muslims: Mapping Islamic Digital Media In The Internet Age. 161-175 London: Bloomsbury. 2022.
    • Stanton, Andrea L. “Can Imperial Radio Be Transnational? British-Affiliated Arabic Radio Broadcasting In The Interwar Period.” History Compass 18, no. 1, (2020): .
    • Stanton, Andrea L. “Saudi Arabia's Ministry Of Hajj Apps: Managing The Operations And Piety Of The Hajj.” Journal of Religion, Media, and Digital Culture, (2020).
    • Stanton, Andrea. “Locating Palestine's Summer Residence: Mandate Tourism And National Identity.” Journal of Palestine Studies 47, no. 2, (2018): 44-63.
    • Stanton, Andrea. “The Search For A Young Imam Begins Now: Imam Muda And Civilizational Islam In Malaysia.” In Religion And Reality Tv Faith In Late Capitalism. Routledge. 2018. .
    • Stanton, Andrea. “Islamic Emoticons And Religious Authority: Emerging Practices, Shifting Paradigms.” Journal of Contemporary Islam, (2017).
    • Stanton, Andrea. This Is Jerusalem Calling: State Radio In Mandate Palestine. Austin, USA: University of Texas Press. 2013. 260.


    Courses:
    Contemporary Islam
    Qur’an and Hadith
    Islamic Fundamentalisms

    Professional Label:Islamic Studies

    Email:andrea.stanton@du.edu
    Phone:303-871-3503
    Office:DU, Sturm Hall 272

  • Dheepa Sundaram

    Dheepa Sundaram

    Assistant Professor of Hindu Studies
    Department of Religious Studies
    University 91

    Specializations:South Asian Religious Traditions; Rituals, Praxis, Media and Performance; Gender, Caste and Performance in South Asia; Sanskrit and Tamil Poetics; Literature and Performance; Digital/Virtual Religion

    Publications:

    • "Social media, hashtags and state-sponsored cultural marketing 1"inDigital Hinduism(Routledge, 2019)
    • Current monograph project Globalizing Darśan: Virtual Soteriology and Hindu Branding


    Courses:
    Modern Hinduism
    "Woman as the Gateway to Hell": Gender and Identity in South Asia
    History of Yoga
    Religion in the Virtual Space
    Performing India

    Professional Label:South Asian Studies; South Asian Religious Traditions; Hindu Studies

    Email: dheepa.sundaram@du.edu
    Phone: 303.871.2888
    Office: Sturm Hall 487F
    Website:

Social Justice, Race, and Identity

  • Antony Alumkal

    Antony Alumkal

    Associate Professor of Sociology of Religion
    Iliff School of Theology

    Specializations:Effects of race, ethnicity and immigration on religion in the United States; cultural and institutional aspects of American mainline and evangelical Protestantism; dynamics of congregations

    Publications:

    • Paranoid Science: The Christian Right's War on Reality(New York: New York University Press, 2017)
    • “Racial Justice in the Protestant Mainline: Liberalism and Its Limits,” inFaith and Race in American Political Life, eds. Robin Jacobson and Nancy Wadsworth (University of Virginia Press, 2012)
    • “American Evangelicalism in the Post-Civil Rights Era: A Racial Formation Theory Analysis,”Sociology of Religion65 (2004): 195-213


    Courses:
    Race and Religion in the United States
    Science and the Christian Right

    Professional Label:Sociology of Religion

    Email:aalumkal@iliff.edu
    Phone:(303) 765-3131
    Office:Iliff School of Theology

  • Philip R. Butler

    , Ph.D., Claremont School of Theology

    Phillip Butler

    Associate Professor of Theology and Black Posthuman Artificial Intelligence Systems
    Director of the AI Institute
    Iliff School of Theology

    Specialization:the intersections of neuroscience, technology, spirituality and Blackness

    Publications:

    • “Beyond the Zoomiverse” in Ecclesiology for a Digital Church: Theological Reflections on a New Normal, ed. by Heidi Campbell and John Dyer (London: SCM Press, 2022), 155-166.
    • “Blackness: Spectres and Monsters are the Future of Theological Subjectivity." Concilium 3 (2021): 21-30.
    • “Aime Césaire” Political Theology Network: Critical Theory for Political Theology 2.0, ed. by Alex Dubliet and Vincent LLoyd, June 15, 2021.
    • “A Black Tetratic Future: Blackness and the Age of Hyper-Exponentiation (Hyper-4)” Critical Black Futures: Volume I, ed. by Philip Butler, Springer Nature (2021): 37-60.
    • Black Transhuman Liberation Theology: Technology and Spirituality (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019).


    Courses:
    Decolonizing AI
    Data Storytelling
    Black Theology
    Post-/Transhumanism & Process Thought
    Black Posthumanism
    Neuroscience, Spirituality & Blackness

    Professional Labels: Black posthumanism, artificial intelligence, and pluriversal future realities.

    Email:preed-butler@iliff.edu
    Phone:303.765.3124
    Office:Iliff School of Theology

  • Santhosh Chandrashekar

    Santhosh

    Associate Professor
    Department of Communication Studies
    91

    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

  • Miguel De La Torre

    Miguel De La Torre

    Professor of Social Ethics and Latinx Studies
    Iliff School of Theology

    Specializations:Social and Political Ethics in the U.S.; Effects of religion on race, gender, and class; Liberationist ethics; Postmodern/postcolonial social theory; critical race theory; gender studies

    Publications:

    • Reading José Martí from the Margins (Rowman & Littlefield, 2024)
    • Doing Christian Ethics from the Margins(3rd ed.; Orbis Books, 2023)
    • Decolonizing Christianity: Becoming Badass Believers (Eerdmans: 2021)
    • Embracing Hopelessness(Fortress Press, 2017)
    • Genesis: Belief, A Theological Commentary on the Bible(Westminster John Knox Press, 2011)
    • Encyclopedia on Hispanic American Religious Culture, Vols. 1 and 2 (ABC-CLIO Publishers, 2009)


    Courses:
    Fanon, Foucault, and Friends
    Formative White Male Figures in Christian Ethics
    Biblical Ethics

    Professional Label:Social Ethics, Latinx Studies

    Email:mdelatorre@iliff.edu
    Phone:(303) 765-3133
    Office:Iliff School of Theology
    Personal website:

  • Kelly Fayard
    Kelly Fayard

    Assistant Professor of Anthropology
    91

    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

  • Albert Hernández
    Albert Hernandez

    Associate Professor of the History of Christianity
    Iliff School of Theology

    Specializations: History of Christianity from Medieval to Early Modern Periods (c. 1100-1650); Religious diversity in Medieval Spain; Mysticism and Pneumatology in Christian History

    Publications:

    • Subversive Fire: The Untold Story of Pentecost(Emeth Press, 2010)
    • The Quest for the Historical Satanco-authored with Miguel A. De La Torre,(Fortress Press 2011)


    Courses:
    Introduction to the History of Christianity
    The Holy Spirit: History and Traditions
    Violence and Toleration in Medieval Europe
    Sixteenth Century Mystics and Reformers
    Happiness: A History
    Christianity in the Middle Ages

    Email:ahernandez@iliff.edu
    Phone:303-765-3180
    Office:Iliff School of Theology

  • Kristina Lizardy-Hajbi
    Kristina Lizardy-Hajbi

    , Ph.D., University of Colorado

    Associate Professor of Leadership and Formation;Director of the Office of Professional Formation
    Iliff School of Theology

    Specializations:Leadership theory and praxis; congregational and community formation and change; applied research methods; U.S. Christianities; critical approaches for ministry praxis

    Publications:

    • Unraveling Religious Leadership: Power, Authority, and Decoloniality (Fortress Press, 2024)
    • Explore: Vocational Discovery in Ministry(Rowman & Littlefield, 2022)
    • “Latino Congregations: Trends from the Faith Communities Today (FACT) and Exploring the Pandemic Impact on Congregations (EPIC) Studies” (Hartford Institute for Religion Research, 2023)
    • “How Can We Learn Across Difference? A Conversation about Ethical Research and Writing vis-a-vis Identity and Positionality,” Journal of Religious Leadership21.2 (2022): 123-42
    • “Theological Field Education as a Bridge across Disciplines,” Religions 12.1 (2021)
      “Processes toward Post/Decolonial Pastoral Leaderships,” Journal of Religious Leadership 20.1 (Spring 2021): 136-67
    • “Frameworks toward Post/Decolonial Pastoral Leaderships,” Journal of Religious Leadership 19.2 (Autumn 2020): 100-30
    • “Engaging Young Adults: American Congregations 2015,” Faith Communities Today (Hartford Institute for Religion Research, 2016)
    • “Kirkwood United Church of Christ,” in How Religious Congregations Are Engaging Young Adults in America, eds. M. Sahlin and D. Roozen (Hartford Institute for Religion Research, 2015): 111-36.


    Courses:
    Research Methods and Ethics in Lived Religion/Practical Theology
    Leadership and Organizational Development
    Decolonizing Congregational Leadership

    Professional Label: Social Science and Religion; Practical/Praxis Theology; Leadership and Education

    Email:klizardy@iliff.edu
    Phone:303-765-3116
    Office:Iliff School of Theology

  • April M. Mack
    April Mack

    , Ph.D., 91/Iliff School of Theology

    Assistant Professor of Religion and Social Justice
    Iliff School of Theology

    Specializations:Black and Womanist Theologies, Christian Ethics, Religious Studies, Religious Violence, African American Identity/Experience in the US

    Publications:

    • Mack, April, “Womanist Ethics as a Contribution to Bioethics,” in A Critical Moment in Bioethics: Reckoning with Anti-Black Racism through Intergenerational Dialogue, ed. Fletcher, Faith E. et al., special report, Hastings Center Report 52, no. 2 (2022): S69– S71. DOI: 10.1002/hast.1376.
    • Woodson, April, “I Can’t Breathe”: Neocolonial Geotrauma and Violence in the Age of Trump. De La Torre, Miguel A. (2021). Faith and Reckoning after Trump. Orbis Books.
    • Woodson, April Michelle, "“Dialogical Offense:” A Postcolonial Womanist Deconstruction of the Colonial Experience of African American Women Through U.S. Institutional Apparatus Known as Criminal Justice Policy" (2020). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 1870.


    Courses:
    Black Theology: From Cone to Warnock
    Womanist Theoethics
    Social Issues, Social Ethics
    Public Policy: Design, Intersectionality, and Praxis
    Feminist Theoethics
    God, Religion, and Violence
    Race, Religion, and Public Policy as Colonial Tools

    Professional Labels:
    A decolonial Black feminist scholar and theo-ethicist concerned with ethics related to complex social issues, structural inequality, and holistic justice for marginalized peoples.

    Email:april.mack@du.edu

  • Debora Ortega
    Debora Ortega

    , Ph.D., University of Washington

    Professor;Director, 91 Latino Center for Community Engagement and Scholarship

    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 with Jennifer 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
    Patel

    , Ph.D., Georgetown University

    Assistant Professor, Department of History
    91

    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

  • Dheepa Sundaram
    Dheepa Sundaram

    Assistant Professor of Hindu Studies
    Department of Religious Studies
    University 91

    Specializations:South Asian Religious Traditions; Rituals, Praxis, Media and Performance; Gender, Caste and Performance in South Asia; Sanskrit and Tamil Poetics; Literature and Performance; Digital/Virtual Religion

    Publications:

    • "Social media, hashtags and state-sponsored cultural marketing 1"inDigital Hinduism(Routledge, 2019)
    • Current monograph project Globalizing Darśan: Virtual Soteriology and Hindu Branding


    Courses:
    Modern Hinduism
    "Woman as the Gateway to Hell": Gender and Identity in South Asia
    History of Yoga
    Religion in the Virtual Space
    Performing India

    Professional Label:South Asian Studies; South Asian Religious Traditions; Hindu Studies

    Email: dheepa.sundaram@du.edu
    Phone: 303.871.2888
    Office: Sturm Hall 487F
    Website:

  • Ted Vial
    Ted Vial

    , Ph.D., University of Chicago

    Professor of Theology and Modern Western Religious Thought
    Iliff School of Theology

    Specializations:Modern Theology; Enlightenment andPost-Enlightenment Theories of Religions; Religion in the Public Square; Gender in Early German Romanticism

    Publications:

    • Modern Religion, Modern Race(Oxford, 2016)
    • Schleiermacher: A Guide for the Perplexed(T & T Clark, 2013)
    • Liturgy Wars: Ritual Theory and Protestant Reform in Nineteenth-Century Zurich(Routledge, 2004)
    • Ethical Monotheism, Past and Present: Essays in Honor of Wendell S. Dietrich,co-editor(Brown Judaic Studies, 2001)


    Courses:
    Race and Religion
    Religion, Gender, and Judaism
    The Pantheism Controversy
    The Atheism Controversy
    Theory and Methods in the Study of Religion
    Religion in the Public Square

    Professional Label:Modern theology

    Email:tvial@iliff.edu
    Phone:(303) 765-3166
    Office:Iliff School of Theology

Religion and Politics

  • Santhosh Chandrashekar

    Santhosh Chandrashekar

    Santhosh

    Associate Professor
    Department of Communication Studies

    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

  • Miguel De La Torre
    Miguel De La Torre

    Professor of Social Ethics and Latinx Studies
    Iliff School of Theology

    Specializations:Social and Political Ethics in the U.S.; Effects of religion on race, gender, and class; Liberationist ethics; Postmodern/postcolonial social theory; critical race theory; gender studies

    Publications:

    • Reading José Martí from the Margins (Rowman & Littlefield, 2024)
    • Doing Christian Ethics from the Margins(3rd ed.; Orbis Books, 2023)
    • Decolonizing Christianity: Becoming Badass Believers (Eerdmans: 2021)
    • Embracing Hopelessness(Fortress Press, 2017)
    • Genesis: Belief, A Theological Commentary on the Bible(Westminster John Knox Press, 2011)
    • Encyclopedia on Hispanic American Religious Culture, Vols. 1 and 2 (ABC-CLIO Publishers, 2009)


    Courses:
    Fanon, Foucault, and Friends
    Formative White Male Figures in Christian Ethics
    Biblical Ethics

    Professional Label:Social Ethics, Latinx Studies

    Email:mdelatorre@iliff.edu
    Phone:(303) 765-3133
    Office:Iliff School of Theology
    Personal website:

  • Joshua Hanan
    Joshua Hanan

    Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies
    Department of Communication Studies
    91

    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:

  • April M. Mack
    April Mack

    , Ph.D., 91/Iliff School of Theology

    Assistant Professor of Religion and Social Justice
    Iliff School of Theology

    Specializations:Black and Womanist Theologies, Christian Ethics, Religious Studies, Religious Violence, African American Identity/Experience in the US

    Publications:

    • Mack, April, “Womanist Ethics as a Contribution to Bioethics,” in A Critical Moment in Bioethics: Reckoning with Anti-Black Racism through Intergenerational Dialogue, ed. Fletcher, Faith E. et al., special report, Hastings Center Report 52, no. 2 (2022): S69– S71. DOI: 10.1002/hast.1376.
    • Woodson, April, “I Can’t Breathe”: Neocolonial Geotrauma and Violence in the Age of Trump. De La Torre, Miguel A. (2021). Faith and Reckoning after Trump. Orbis Books.
    • Woodson, April Michelle, "“Dialogical Offense:” A Postcolonial Womanist Deconstruction of the Colonial Experience of African American Women Through U.S. Institutional Apparatus Known as Criminal Justice Policy" (2020). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 1870.


    Courses:
    Black Theology: From Cone to Warnock
    Womanist Theoethics
    Social Issues, Social Ethics
    Public Policy: Design, Intersectionality, and Praxis
    Feminist Theoethics
    God, Religion, and Violence
    Race, Religion, and Public Policy as Colonial Tools

    Professional Labels:
    A decolonial Black feminist scholar and theo-ethicist concerned with ethics related to complex social issues, structural inequality, and holistic justice for marginalized peoples.

    Email:april.mack@du.edu

  • Carl Raschke
    Carl Raschke

    , Ph.D., Harvard University

    Professor of Philosophy of Religion
    Department of Religious Studies, 91

    Specializations:Continental Philosophy/Philosophy of Religion; Political Philosophy/Political Theology; Globalization Theory

    Publications:

    • Neoliberalism and Political Theology: From Kant to Identity Politics.Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019.
    • Postmodern Theology: A Biopic. Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock, 2017. ISBN 1498203892.
    • Critical Theology: Introducing an Agenda for an Age of Global Crisis. Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2016. ISBN 9780830851294.
    • Force of God: Political Theology and the Crisis of Liberal Democracy. New York: Columbia University Press, 2015. ISBN 9780231539623.
    • Postmodernism and the Revolution in Religious Theory: Toward a Semiotics of the Event. Studies in Religion and Culture. Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 2012. ISBN 9780813933085.


    Courses:
    Globalization and Religion
    Political Theory
    Theory of the Subject
    Kant on Religion

    Email:carl.raschke@du.edu
    Phone:303-871-3117
    Office:DU, Sturm Hall 273
    Personal website:

  • Elizabeth Sperber
    Elizabeth Sperber

    Associate Professor of Political Science, Department of Political Science
    91

    Specializations: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:

  • Andrea L. Stanton
    Andrea L. Stanton

    Professor of Islamic Studies,
    Department of Religious Studies, 91

    Specializations:Islamic Studies; Middle Eastern history; media and politics; nationalism and sovereignty

    Publications:

    • Kaneva, Ndezhda S., and Andrea Stanton. “An Alternative Vision Of Statehood: Islamic State's Ideological Challenge To The Nation-State.” Studies in Conflict & Terrorism 46, no. 5, (2023): 640-658. .
    • Stanton, Andrea. The Wireless World: Global Histories Of International Radio Broadcasting. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. 2022.
    • Stanton, Andrea. “Sober Masculinity And Nurturing Femininity: A Gendered Analysis Of The Syrian Presidency Instagram Account.” Place Branding and Public Diplomacy 18, no. 4, (2022): 346-356. .
    • Stanton, Andrea. “From Mecca With Love: Muslim Religious Apps And The Centering Of Sacred Geography.” In Cyber Muslims: Mapping Islamic Digital Media In The Internet Age. 161-175 London: Bloomsbury. 2022.
    • Stanton, Andrea L. “Can Imperial Radio Be Transnational? British-Affiliated Arabic Radio Broadcasting In The Interwar Period.” History Compass 18, no. 1, (2020): .
    • Stanton, Andrea L. “Saudi Arabia's Ministry Of Hajj Apps: Managing The Operations And Piety Of The Hajj.” Journal of Religion, Media, and Digital Culture, (2020).
    • Stanton, Andrea. “Locating Palestine's Summer Residence: Mandate Tourism And National Identity.” Journal of Palestine Studies 47, no. 2, (2018): 44-63.
    • Stanton, Andrea. “The Search For A Young Imam Begins Now: Imam Muda And Civilizational Islam In Malaysia.” In Religion And Reality Tv Faith In Late Capitalism. Routledge. 2018. .
    • Stanton, Andrea. “Islamic Emoticons And Religious Authority: Emerging Practices, Shifting Paradigms.” Journal of Contemporary Islam, (2017).
    • Stanton, Andrea. This Is Jerusalem Calling: State Radio In Mandate Palestine. Austin, USA: University of Texas Press. 2013. 260.


    Courses:
    Contemporary Islam
    Qur’an and Hadith
    Islamic Fundamentalisms

    Professional Label:Islamic Studies

    Email:andrea.stanton@du.edu
    Phone:303-871-3503
    Office:DU, Sturm Hall 272

  • Dheepa Sundaram
    Dheepa Sundaram

    Assistant Professor of Hindu Studies
    Department of Religious Studies
    University 91

    Specializations:South Asian Religious Traditions; Rituals, Praxis, Media and Performance; Gender, Caste and Performance in South Asia; Sanskrit and Tamil Poetics; Literature and Performance; Digital/Virtual Religion

    Publications:

    • "Social media, hashtags and state-sponsored cultural marketing 1"inDigital Hinduism(Routledge, 2019)
    • Current monograph project Globalizing Darśan: Virtual Soteriology and Hindu Branding


    Courses:
    Modern Hinduism
    "Woman as the Gateway to Hell": Gender and Identity in South Asia
    History of Yoga
    Religion in the Virtual Space
    Performing India

    Professional Label:South Asian Studies; South Asian Religious Traditions; Hindu Studies

    Email: dheepa.sundaram@du.edu
    Phone: 303.871.2888
    Office: Sturm Hall 487F
    Personal website:

  • Ted Vial
    Ted Vial

    , Ph.D., University of Chicago

    Professor of Theology and Modern Western Religious Thought
    Iliff School of Theology

    Specializations:Modern Theology; Enlightenment andPost-Enlightenment Theories of Religions; Religion in the Public Square; Gender in Early German Romanticism

    Publications:

    • Modern Religion, Modern Race(Oxford, 2016)
    • Schleiermacher: A Guide for the Perplexed(T & T Clark, 2013)
    • Liturgy Wars: Ritual Theory and Protestant Reform in Nineteenth-Century Zurich(Routledge, 2004)
    • Ethical Monotheism, Past and Present: Essays in Honor of Wendell S. Dietrich,co-editor(Brown Judaic Studies, 2001)


    Courses:
    Race and Religion
    Religion, Gender, and Judaism
    The Pantheism Controversy
    The Atheism Controversy
    Theory and Methods in the Study of Religion
    Religion in the Public Square

    Professional Label:Modern theology

    Email:tvial@iliff.edu
    Phone:(303) 765-3166
    Office:Iliff School of Theology

Theories of Religion

  • Santhosh Chandrashekar

    Santhosh

    Associate Professor
    Department of Communication Studies
    91

    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

  • Pamela Eisenbaum
    Pamela Eisenbaum

    Professor of Biblical Studies and Christian Origins
    Iliff School of Theology

    Specializations: Paul; Epistle to the Hebrews; Jewish-Christian relations; biblical manuscripts; history of biblical interpretation; formation of the canon; the Bible and technology; comparative scripture

    Publications:

    • Paul Was Not a Christian: The Original Message of a Misunderstood Apostle.San Francisco: HarperOne, 2009.
    • Invitation to Romans.Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2006.
    • The Jewish Heroes of Christian History: Hebrews 11 in Literary Context.Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1997.


    Courses:
    Formation of the Bible
    New Testament Language and Text
    Epistle to the Romans

    Professional Label:Biblical Studies; Early Judaism; New Testament and Christian Origins

    Email:peisenbaum@iliff.edu
    Phone:(303) 765-3167
    Office:Iliff School of Theology

  • Joshua Hanan
    Joshua Hanan

    Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies
    Department of Communication Studies
    91

    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:

  • W. Scott Howard
    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

  • Carl A. Raschke
    Carl Raschke

    , Ph.D., Harvard University

    Professor of Philosophy of Religion
    Department of Religious Studies, 91

    Specializations:Continental Philosophy/Philosophy of Religion; Political Philosophy/Political Theology; Globalization Theory

    Publications:

    • Neoliberalism and Political Theology: From Kant to Identity Politics.Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019.
    • Postmodern Theology: A Biopic. Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock, 2017. ISBN 1498203892.
    • Critical Theology: Introducing an Agenda for an Age of Global Crisis. Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2016. ISBN 9780830851294.
    • Force of God: Political Theology and the Crisis of Liberal Democracy. New York: Columbia University Press, 2015. ISBN 9780231539623.
    • Postmodernism and the Revolution in Religious Theory: Toward a Semiotics of the Event. Studies in Religion and Culture. Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 2012. ISBN 9780813933085.


    Courses:
    Globalization and Religion
    Political Theory
    Theory of the Subject
    Kant on Religion

    Email:carl.raschke@du.edu
    Phone:303-871-3117
    Office:DU, Sturm Hall 273
    Personal website:

  • Dheepa Sundaram
    Dheepa Sundaram

    Assistant Professor of Hindu Studies
    Department of Religious Studies
    University 91

    Specializations:South Asian Religious Traditions; Rituals, Praxis, Media and Performance; Gender, Caste and Performance in South Asia; Sanskrit and Tamil Poetics; Literature and Performance; Digital/Virtual Religion

    Publications:

    • "Social media, hashtags and state-sponsored cultural marketing 1"inDigital Hinduism(Routledge, 2019)
    • Current monograph project Globalizing Darśan: Virtual Soteriology and Hindu Branding


    Courses:
    Modern Hinduism
    "Woman as the Gateway to Hell": Gender and Identity in South Asia
    History of Yoga
    Religion in the Virtual Space
    Performing India

    Professional Label:South Asian Studies; South Asian Religious Traditions; Hindu Studies

    Email: dheepa.sundaram@du.edu
    Phone: 303.871.2888
    Office: Sturm Hall 487F
    Personal website:

  • Ted Vial
    Ted Vial

    , Ph.D., University of Chicago

    Professor of Theology and Modern Western Religious Thought
    Iliff School of Theology

    Specializations:Modern Theology; Enlightenment andPost-Enlightenment Theories of Religions; Religion in the Public Square; Gender in Early German Romanticism

    Publications:

    • Modern Religion, Modern Race(Oxford, 2016)
    • Schleiermacher: A Guide for the Perplexed(T & T Clark, 2013)
    • Liturgy Wars: Ritual Theory and Protestant Reform in Nineteenth-Century Zurich(Routledge, 2004)
    • Ethical Monotheism, Past and Present: Essays in Honor of Wendell S. Dietrich,co-editor(Brown Judaic Studies, 2001)


    Courses:
    Race and Religion
    Religion, Gender, and Judaism
    The Pantheism Controversy
    The Atheism Controversy
    Theory and Methods in the Study of Religion
    Religion in the Public Square

    Professional Label:Modern theology

    Email:tvial@iliff.edu
    Phone:(303) 765-3166
    Office:Iliff School of Theology

Religion and Human Experience

  • Antony Alumkal
    Antony Alumkal

    Associate Professor of Sociology of Religion
    Iliff School of Theology

    Specializations:Effects of race, ethnicity and immigration on religion in the United States; cultural and institutional aspects of American mainline and evangelical Protestantism; dynamics of congregations

    Publications:

    • Paranoid Science: The Christian Right's War on Reality(New York: New York University Press, 2017)
    • “Racial Justice in the Protestant Mainline: Liberalism and Its Limits,” inFaith and Race in American Political Life, eds. Robin Jacobson and Nancy Wadsworth (University of Virginia Press, 2012)
    • “American Evangelicalism in the Post-Civil Rights Era: A Racial Formation Theory Analysis,”Sociology of Religion65 (2004): 195-213


    Courses:
    Race and Religion in the United States
    Science and the Christian Right

    Professional Label:Sociology of Religion

    Email:aalumkal@iliff.edu
    Phone:(303) 765-3131
    Office:Iliff School of Theology

  • Philip R. Butler

    , Ph.D., Claremont School of Theology

    Phillip Butler

    Associate Professor of Theology and Black Posthuman Artificial Intelligence Systems
    Director of the AI Institute
    Iliff School of Theology

    Specialization:the intersections of neuroscience, technology, spirituality and Blackness

    Publications:

    • “Beyond the Zoomiverse” in Ecclesiology for a Digital Church: Theological Reflections on a New Normal, ed. by Heidi Campbell and John Dyer (London: SCM Press, 2022), 155-166.
    • “Blackness: Spectres and Monsters are the Future of Theological Subjectivity." Concilium 3 (2021): 21-30.
    • “Aime Césaire” Political Theology Network: Critical Theory for Political Theology 2.0, ed. by Alex Dubliet and Vincent LLoyd, June 15, 2021.
    • “A Black Tetratic Future: Blackness and the Age of Hyper-Exponentiation (Hyper-4)” Critical Black Futures: Volume I, ed. by Philip Butler, Springer Nature (2021): 37-60.
    • Black Transhuman Liberation Theology: Technology and Spirituality (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019).


    Courses:
    Decolonizing AI
    Data Storytelling
    Black Theology
    Post-/Transhumanism & Process Thought
    Black Posthumanism
    Neuroscience, Spirituality & Blackness

    Professional Labels: Black posthumanism, artificial intelligence, and pluriversal future realities.

    Email:preed-butler@iliff.edu
    Phone:303.765.3124
    Office:Iliff School of Theology

  • Santhosh Chandrashekar

    Santhosh

    Associate Professor
    Department of Communication Studies
    91

    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

  • Sandra L. Dixon
    Sandra Dixon

    , Ph.D., University of Chicago

    Associate Professor in Psychology of Religion
    Department of Religious Studies
    91

    Specializations:Religion and the Human Sciences; Religion and Psychology; Moral Reasoning

    Publications:

    • Dixon, S. L., Doody, J., & Paffenroth, K. (Eds.). (2013). Augustine and Psychology. Lanham, MD, USA: Lexington Books.
    • Dixon, S. L. (2013). Reading Augustine, Monica, Milan with Attention to Cultural Interpretation and Psychological Theory. In S. L. Dixon, J. Doody, & K. Paffenroth (Eds.), Augustine and Psychology (pp. 39-67). Lanham, MD, USA: Lexington Books.
    • Dixon, S. L. (2013). Teaching Freud and Interpreting Augustine's CONFESSIONS. (S. L. Dixon, J. Doody, & K. Paffenroth, Eds.), Augustine and Psychology. Lanham, MD, USA: Lexington Books.
    • Dixon, S. L. (2013). Ethics. Encyclopedia of Sciences and Religions. Heidelberg, Germany: Encyclopedia of Sciences and Religions.
    • Dixon, S. L. (1999). Augustine: The Scattered and Gathered Self. St. Louis, MO, United States : Chalice Press.
    Professional Labels: psychology of religion, moral psychology, cultural psychology, St. Augustine, religion and moral psychology

    Email:sdixon@du.edu
    Phone:303-871-2753
    Office:DU, Sturm Hall 488

  • Joshua Hanan
    Joshua Hanan

    Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies
    Department of Communication Studies
    91

    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:

  • Albert Hernández
    Albert Hernandez

    Associate Professor of the History of Christianity
    Iliff School of Theology

    Specializations: History of Christianity from Medieval to Early Modern Periods (c. 1100-1650); Religious diversity in Medieval Spain; Mysticism and Pneumatology in Christian History

    Publications:

    • Subversive Fire: The Untold Story of Pentecost(Emeth Press, 2010)
    • The Quest for the Historical Satanco-authored with Miguel A. De La Torre,(Fortress Press 2011)


    Courses:
    Introduction to the History of Christianity
    The Holy Spirit: History and Traditions
    Violence and Toleration in Medieval Europe
    Sixteenth Century Mystics and Reformers
    Happiness: A History
    Christianity in the Middle Ages

    Email:ahernandez@iliff.edu
    Phone:303-765-3180
    Office:Iliff School of Theology

  • W. Scott Howard
    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

  • Kristina Lizardy-Hajbi
    Kristina Lizardy-Hajbi

    , Ph.D., University of Colorado

    Associate Professor of Leadership and Formation;Director of the Office of Professional Formation
    Iliff School of Theology

    Specializations:Leadership theory and praxis; congregational and community formation and change; applied research methods; U.S. Christianities; critical approaches for ministry praxis

    Publications:

    • Unraveling Religious Leadership: Power, Authority, and Decoloniality (Fortress Press, 2024)
    • Explore: Vocational Discovery in Ministry(Rowman & Littlefield, 2022)
    • “Latino Congregations: Trends from the Faith Communities Today (FACT) and Exploring the Pandemic Impact on Congregations (EPIC) Studies” (Hartford Institute for Religion Research, 2023)
    • “How Can We Learn Across Difference? A Conversation about Ethical Research and Writing vis-a-vis Identity and Positionality,” Journal of Religious Leadership21.2 (2022): 123-42
    • “Theological Field Education as a Bridge across Disciplines,” Religions 12.1 (2021)
    • “Processes toward Post/Decolonial Pastoral Leaderships,” Journal of Religious Leadership 20.1 (Spring 2021): 136-67
    • “Frameworks toward Post/Decolonial Pastoral Leaderships,” Journal of Religious Leadership 19.2 (Autumn 2020): 100-30
    • “Engaging Young Adults: American Congregations 2015,” Faith Communities Today (Hartford Institute for Religion Research, 2016)
    • “Kirkwood United Church of Christ,” in How Religious Congregations Are Engaging Young Adults in America, eds. M. Sahlin and D. Roozen (Hartford Institute for Religion Research, 2015): 111-36.


    Courses:
    Research Methods and Ethics in Lived Religion/Practical Theology
    Leadership and Organizational Development
    Decolonizing Congregational Leadership

    Professional Label: Social Science and Religion; Practical/Praxis Theology; Leadership and Education

    Email:klizardy@iliff.edu
    Phone:303-765-3116
    Office:Iliff School of Theology

  • Daniel N. McIntosh
    Daniel McIntosh

    Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychology
    91

    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

  • Benjamin Nourse
    Ben Nourse

    , Ph.D., University of Virginia, Religious Studies

    Assistant Professor
    Department of Religious Studies, 91

    Specializations: Asian Religions;Buddhist Studies; Tibetan Studies; History of the Book in Asia.

    Publications:

    • Nourse, Benjamin J. “Translating The Cult Of The Book: Publishing And Performing The Fifth Dalai Lama's The Wish-Fulfilling King From Lhasa To Beijing.” East Asian Publishing and Society 11, no. 1, (2021): 34–67. .
    • Nourse, Benjamin James. “Zhuchen Tsultrim Rinchen (B. 1697 - D. 1774)” The Treasury of Lives. 2019. .
    • Nourse, Benjamin James. “Revolutions Of The Dharma Wheel: Uses Of Tibetan Printing In The Eighteenth Century.” In Tibetan Printing: Comparison, Continuities, And Change. edited by Hildegard Diemberger, Franz-Karl Ehrhard, and Peter Kornicki. 524-550 Leiden, Netherlands: Brill. 2016. .
    • Nourse, Benjamin James. “Makzor Gönpo And The Choné Kangyur.” In Sources Of Tibetan Tradition. edited by Kurtis R. Schaeffer, Gray Tuttle, and Matthew T. Kapstein. 596-600 New York, NY, USA: Columbia University Press. 2013.

    Email:Benjamin.Nourse@du.edu
    Phone:303-871-3539
    Office:DU, Sturm Hall 482
  • Marquisha Lawrence Scott
    Marquisha Lawrence Scott

    , Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania

    Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Social Work
    91

    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:

  • Andrea L. Stanton
    Andrea L. Stanton

    Professor of Islamic Studies
    Department of Religious Studies
    91

    Specializations:Islamic Studies; Middle Eastern history; media and politics; nationalism and sovereignty

    Publications:

    • Kaneva, Ndezhda S., and Andrea Stanton. “An Alternative Vision Of Statehood: Islamic State's Ideological Challenge To The Nation-State.” Studies in Conflict & Terrorism 46, no. 5, (2023): 640-658. .
    • Stanton, Andrea. The Wireless World: Global Histories Of International Radio Broadcasting. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. 2022.
    • Stanton, Andrea. “Sober Masculinity And Nurturing Femininity: A Gendered Analysis Of The Syrian Presidency Instagram Account.” Place Branding and Public Diplomacy 18, no. 4, (2022): 346-356. .
    • Stanton, Andrea. “From Mecca With Love: Muslim Religious Apps And The Centering Of Sacred Geography.” In Cyber Muslims: Mapping Islamic Digital Media In The Internet Age. 161-175 London: Bloomsbury. 2022.
    • Stanton, Andrea L. “Can Imperial Radio Be Transnational? British-Affiliated Arabic Radio Broadcasting In The Interwar Period.” History Compass 18, no. 1, (2020): .
    • Stanton, Andrea L. “Saudi Arabia's Ministry Of Hajj Apps: Managing The Operations And Piety Of The Hajj.” Journal of Religion, Media, and Digital Culture, (2020).
    • Stanton, Andrea. “Locating Palestine's Summer Residence: Mandate Tourism And National Identity.” Journal of Palestine Studies 47, no. 2, (2018): 44-63.
    • Stanton, Andrea. “The Search For A Young Imam Begins Now: Imam Muda And Civilizational Islam In Malaysia.” In Religion And Reality Tv Faith In Late Capitalism. Routledge. 2018. .
    • Stanton, Andrea. “Islamic Emoticons And Religious Authority: Emerging Practices, Shifting Paradigms.” Journal of Contemporary Islam, (2017).
    • Stanton, Andrea. This Is Jerusalem Calling: State Radio In Mandate Palestine. Austin, USA: University of Texas Press. 2013. 260.


    Courses:
    Contemporary Islam
    Qur’an and Hadith
    Islamic Fundamentalisms

    Professional Label:Islamic Studies

    Email:andrea.stanton@du.edu
    Phone:303-871-3503
    Office:DU, Sturm Hall 272

  • Katherine Turpin
    Katherine Turpin

    , Ph.D., Emory University

    Professor of Practical Theology and Religious Education
    Iliff School of Theology

    Specializations:Religious education; Practical theology; Teaching about difference, social location, and structural inequality; Relationships between education and social change; Vocational development in youth and young adults

    Publications:

    • Drama Tweens: Engaging the Bible with Younger Adolescents(Wipf and Stock, 2016)
    • Nurturing Different Dreams: Youth Ministry Across Lines of Difference, co-authored with Anne Carter Walker(Pickwick Press, 2014)
    • Branded: Adolescents Converting from Consumer Faith(Pilgrim Press, 2006)


    Courses:
    Teaching and Learning in the Community of Faith
    Practical Theology
    Education and Social Change
    Children in the Community of Faith
    Pedagogy and the Teaching of Religion

    Professional Label: Religious education

    Email:kturpin@iliff.edu
    Phone:(303) 765-3139
    Office:Iliff School of Theology

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