JDP Faculty Across Disciplines

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

• Alejandro Cerón, Anthropology
  

  Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology
  University of Denver
  
  Specializations: 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 https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20085532. 

  • Cerón, Alejandro and Goldstein, Gila, "Mortalidad por accidente cerebrovascular en Guatemala 2018: patrones e inequidades" (2021). Anthropology: Faculty Scholarship. 35. https://digitalcommons.du.edu/anthropology_faculty/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.
    https://digitalcommons.du.edu/anthropology_faculty/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 http://somatosphere.net/2020/covid19-publichealth.html/ 
  • 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
  
  Professional Label: 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

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• Santhosh Chandrashekar, Communication Studies

  Associate Professor
  Department of Communication Studies
  University of Denver
  
  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: https://doi.org/10.1525/dcqr.2019.8.2.73.
  • "Engendering threat in the guise of protection: Orientalism and Sikh vulnerability," in Journal 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. https://doi.org/10.1177/1532708617728953.

  
  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

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• Lynn Schofield Clark, Media, Film, and Journalism Studies
  

  Lynn Schofield Clark

  Distinguished Professor and Chair
  Department of Media, Film and Journalism Studies
  University of Denver
  Director of the Estlow International Center for Journalism and New Media
  
  Specializations: Media; religion and culture; ethnography; community engaged research; social sciences and religion; journalism; U.S. families and digital media
  
  Publications:

  • co-authored with Regina Marchi, Young People & the Future of News (Cambridge U Press, 2017).
  • The Parent App: Understanding Families in a Digital Age (Oxford University Press, 2014)
  • Religion, Media and the Marketplace (Rutgers University Press, 2007)
  • From Angels to Aliens: Teenagers, the Media, and the Supernatural (Oxford University Press, 2005)

  
  Courses:
  Qualitative Research Methods
  Digital Media Studies
  Multicultural Journalism
  
  Professional Label: Critical/Cultural Media Studies; Media, Religion, and Culture
  
  Email: lynn.clark@du.edu   
  Phone: 303-871-3984 
  Office: DU, Media, Film & Journalism Studies, Room 128
  Personal Website: https://www.lynnschofieldclark.com/ 
  
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• Lauren DeCarvalho, Media, Film, and Journalism Studies
  

  Associate Professor
  Media, Film, and Journalism Studies
  University of Denver
  
  Specializations: Film theory and criticism, pop culture/film/tv; intersection of gender, race, and other identity markers within television and film; media depiction of gender and economic issues in the workplace; on-screen and off-screen    narratives of incarcerated women
  
  Publications:

  • DeCarvalho, L. J., & Martίnez-Carrillo, N. I. (2021). Crims and crooks: Automatization, communicative capitalism, fandom, and promotional campaigns for Wentworth. Critical Studies in Media Communication, 38(3), 211-224. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1080/15295036.2021.1893775
  • DeCarvalho, L. J. (2021). Visible only behind bars: How indigenous Australian women reframe and reclaim their experiences on Wentworth. Women's Studies in Communication, 44(1), 65-80. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1080/07491409.2020.1781314

  
  Courses: film history, theory and criticism courses
  
  Professional Label: feminist media studies, critical/cultural studies,
  film theory and criticism
  
  Email:  lauren.decarvalho@du.edu 
  Phone: 303-871-3832
  Office: DU Mass Communications Building, 2490 S. Gaylord St. Denver, CO 80208
  
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• Rafael Fajardo, Emergent Digital Practices
  

  Professor
  Undergraduate Director for Emergent Digital Practices Program; Founder, SWEAT Collaborative
  University of Denver
  
  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, Denver Art Museum, Denver 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, Denver, 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: https://rafaelfajardo.com/links.html 
  
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• Kelly Fayard, Anthropology
  

  Kelly Fayard

  Assistant Professor of Anthropology
  University of Denver
  
  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” in The Academic’s Handbook edited by Lori Flores and Jocelyn Olcott, 2020.
  • “Native American Dance History and Powwow Styles” in Dance Pedagogy for a Diverse World: Culturally Relevant Teaching in Theory, Research and Practice by 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 Denver, CO 80208
  
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• Graham Foust, English
  

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

  • Foust, Graham W. Nightingalelessness. Chicago, IL, USA: Flood Editions, 2018. https://www.floodeditions.com/foust-nightingalelessness.php.
  • Foust, Graham. Time Down to Mind. Chicago, Illinois, USA: Flood Editions, 2015. https://www.floodeditions.com/foust-time-down-to-mind.php.
  • Foust, Graham. To Anacreon in Heaven and Other Poems. Chicago, Illinois, USA: Flood Editions, 2013: 111 https://www.floodeditions.com/foust-anacreon-in-heaven.php.
  • Foust, Graham. A Mouth in California. Chicago, Illinois, USA: Flood Editions, 2009: 96 https://www.floodeditions.com/foust-a-mouth-in-california.php/.
  • Foust, Graham. Necessary Stranger. Chicago, Illinois, USA: Flood Editions, 2007: 65 https://www.floodeditions.com/foust-necessary-stranger.php. 

  
  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
  
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• Joshua Hanan, Communication Studies
  

  Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies
  Department of Communication Studies
  University of Denver
  
  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: https://udenver.academia.edu/JoshHanan 

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• Annabeth Headrick, Art History
  

  Associate Professor, Department of Art History; Graduate Art History Advisor
  University of Denver
  
  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
  
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• W. Scott Howard, English
  

  Professor, English Department
  University of Denver
  
  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: https://www.uipress.uiowa.edu/books/9781609385927/poetics-and-praxis-%E2%80%98after%E2%80%99-objectivism  
  • “Katherine Philips’s Elegies and Historical Figuration.” Women’s Writing 24.3 (2017): 313-331. Routledge / Taylor & Francis online (2016): http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09699082.2016.1179396  
  • “WYSIWYG Poetics: Reconfiguring the Fields for Creative Writers & Scholars.” The Journal of Electronic Publishing. Ed. Aaron McCollough. 14.2 (2011): http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/3336451.0014.204  
  • “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
  
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• Sarah Magnatta, Art and Art History
  

  Assistant Professor of Global Contemporary Art

  School of Art and Art History, University of Denver

   

  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) https://doi.org/10.1080/00043249.2023.2180276
  • 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) https://doi.org/10.1080/20004214.2022.2082159

   

  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: https://www.magnattaart.com/ 

   

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• Daniel N. McIntosh, Psychology
  

  Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychology
  University of Denver
  
  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
  
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• Paul Michalec, Education
  

  Clinical Professor, Curriculum and Instruction
  Morgridge College of Education, University of Denver
  
  Specializations: Spirituality in education; The inner life of educators; Effective forms of instruction; Foundations of education; Educator coaching and mentoring
  
  Publications:

  • Michalec, P. (2016-2022). IN:SIGHT https://mcespeaks.wixsite.com/insight   In this blog I explore the inner life of teaching as a profession and personally.
  • Michalec, P. (2022). Expanding the Landscape of Wholeness: The Spirituality of Teacher Preparation. Democracy and Education, volume 30, Number 2, pp. 1-7.  
  • Riordan, D.; Michalec, P. & Newburgh, K. (2022). Kierkegaard and the Power of Existential Doubt in Teaching: Transformation of Self and Profession. In A. Zimmerman (Editor), Problematizing the Profession of Teaching from an Existential Perspective, Information Age Publishing.
  • Michalec, P. (2020). Disrupting the Disimagination Machine: Reflections on Courage in the Classroom. Professing Education. 18 (1&2); spring and summer.
  • Michalec, P. &. Newburgh, K. (2018). Deep Practices: Advancing Equity by Creating a Space and Language for the Inner Core of Teaching. Teacher Education & Practice. 31(1).
  • Michalec, P. & Brower, G. (2012).  Soul and Role Dialogues in Higher Education: Healing the Divided Self.  New Directions in Teaching and Learning, 130, 15-25. 
  • Michalec, P. (2002).  A Calling to Teach: Faith and the Spiritual Dimensions of Teaching. Encounter: Education for Meaning and Social Justice, 15, 5-14.

  
  Courses: Introduction to Curriculum, History of American Education, Philosophy of Education, Spirituality in Education, Curriculum Theory Into Practice, The Practice of Teaching, Analysis of Teaching, Transformational Teaching and Learning.
  
  Professional Label: Education, Holistic/prophetic tradition, Professional development, Courage to teach
  
  Email: Paul.Michalec@du.edu
  Phone: 303-871-7952
  Office: KRH-343, College of Education
  Personal website: https://mcespeaks.wixsite.com/insight 
  
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• Bilha Moor, Art History
  

  Assistant Professor of Islamic Art History
  School of Art and Art History
  University of Denver
  
  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 Birds Compositions in Persian Painting.” Artibus Asiae 82, no. 1 (2022): 51–99.
  • "The Jew, the Orthodox Christian, and the European in Ottoman Eyes, ca. 1550-1700." In Disliking 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.” In Shahnama 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  
  
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• Thomas Nail, Philosophy
  

  Professor of Philosophy
  Department of Philosophy
  University of Denver
  
  Specializations: European Philosophy; Political Philosophy; Environmental Philosophy, Process Philosophy, New Materialism
  
  Publications:

  • Theory of the Earth (Stanford University Press, 2021)
  • Marx in Motion: A New Materialist Marxism (Oxford University Press, 2020)
  • Theory of the Image (Oxford University Press, 2019)
  • Being and Motion (Oxford University Press, 2018)
  • Theory of the Border (Oxford University Press, 2016)

  
  Courses:
  Marxism
  Great Thinkers: Virginia Woolf
  Philosophy of Movement
  Between Deuluze and Foucault
  
  Professional Label: Philosophy of Movement, Kinetic Philosophy
  
  Email: thomas.nail@du.edu 
  Phone: 303-871-3272
  Office: DU, Sturm Hall 261
  Personal website: https://philosophyofmovementblog.com/ 

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• Marco J. Nathan, Philosophy
  

  Professor 
  Chair of Department of Philosophy
  University of Denver
  
  Specializations: Phil. of Science, Phil. of Biology, Phil. of Neuroscience, Psychology and Cognitive Science, Phil. of Mind and Language, Logic, Phil. of Economics, Metaphysics, Epistemology
  
  Publications:

  • Black Boxes: How Science Turns Ignorance into Knowledge (New York: Oxford University Press, 2021)
  • Rethinking Publications: Aging, Special Issue of History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences. Co-edited with A. Blasimme and G. Boniolo, 2021.
  • `Prediction, Explanation, and the Toolbox Problem,' In J. Bickle, C. Craver, & A. Barwich, The Tools of Neuroscience Experiment: Philosophical and Scientific Perspectives, New York: Routledge, in press.
  • `Mob Rules: Towards a Causal Account of Social Structure' American Philosophical Quarterly, 59(1), pp. 11-26, 2022 (with A. Borghini)
  • `Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is? From Biological Age to Biological Time,' History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 43: 26, 2021.

  
  Courses:
  The Specter of Scientism; Topics in Metaphysics: Universals; Logic, Language, and Metaphysics; Philosophy of Economics; Philosophy of Mind; Philosophy of Science
  
  Professional Label: Philosophy of science, philosophy of mind, metaphysics.
  
  Email: marco.nathan@du.edu  
  Phone: 303-871-2767  
  Office: DU, Sturm Hall 264

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• Debora Ortega, Social Work
  

  Professor; Director, University of Denver Latino Center for Community Engagement and Scholarship
  University of Denver
  
  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 Society Vol. 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 Education Vol. 21 (3), 2018, 390-406.
  • Co-authored with Lilia Cervantes, "The illness experience of undocumented immigrants with end-stage renal disease" JAMA Internal Medicine Vol.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
  
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• Trishula R. Patel, History
  

  Assistant Professor, Department of History
  University of Denver
  
  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, https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-9408002.
  • “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, https://doi.org/10.1080/03057070.2019.1642041.
  • “It’s Always Time for a Cheeky Nando’s: The Global Journey of an African Cuisine,” Perspectives on History 61, no. 6 (2023): https://www.historians.org/perspectives-article/its-always-time-for-a-cheeky-nandos-the-global-journey-of-an-african-cuisine-september-2023/.  
  • “‘Two Separate Societies, Divided by Color’: Race, Colonialism, and Bridgerton,” Perspectives on History 60, no. 6 (2022): https://www.historians.org/perspectives-article/two-separate-societies-divided-by-color-race-colonialism-and-bridgerton-september-2022/.  
  • “Feeling Like an Interloper, But Claiming Space Anyway: The Minority Graduate Experience,” Perspectives on History 59, no. 4 (2021): https://www.historians.org/perspectives-article/feeling-like-an-interloper-but-claiming-space-anyway-the-minority-graduate-student-experience-april-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
  
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• Trace Reddell, Emergent Digital Practices
  

  Professor 
  Director of Emergent Digital Practices
  University of Denver
  
  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 https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/the-sound-of-things-to-come
  • “Ethnoforgery and Outsider Afrofuturism,” in Dancecult: The Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture, Vol. 5, No. 2 (2013).
  • “Cyborg Ritual and Sentic Technology in the Vortex Concerts,” in The 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
  
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• Naomi Reshotko, Philosophy
  

  Professor; Department of Philosophy
  University of Denver
  
  Specializations: Ancient Greek Philosophy; Plato; Aristotle; Philosophy of Mind; Metaphysics; Epistemology
  
  Publications:

  • Reshotko, Naomi. Socratic Virtue: Making the Best of the Neither Good nor Bad. Cambridge , UK: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
  • Reshotko, Naomi. “Opining Beauty Itself in Republic V.” International Journal of the Platonic Tradition 14.1 (2020): 5-22. https://doi.org/10.1163/18725473-12341454.
  • Reshotko, Naomi. “Plato's Middle Period Epistemology.” The History Of Epistemology Volume 1. Ed. Smith, Nicholas D. I. London/New York, UK/USA: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018.
  • Reshotko, Naomi. “Plato on the Ordinary Person and the Form.” Apeiron 47.2 (2014): 266-292.
  • Reshotko, Naomi. “A Philosophical Model for the Assessing the Value of the Tamarisk.” Tamarix: A Case Study Of Ecological Change In The American West. Ed. Sher, Anna and Martin Quigley. Vol. 1. Oxford, UK: N.p., 2013: 308-315.

  
  Courses: 
  Plato's Metaphysics
  Great Thinkers: Aristotle
  Socratic Ethics
  
  Professional Label: Ancient Greek Philosophy
  
  Email: nreshotk@du.edu  
  Phone: 303-871-2765
  Office: DU, Sturm Hall 489
  
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• Susan Schulten, History
  

  Professor, Department of History; Department Chair
  University of Denver
  
  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 Review v.92 n.3 (2021): 876-941.
  • “How Place Became Process: The Origins of Time Mapping in the United States,” in Time 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 Quarterly v.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
  

  Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Social Work
  University of Denver
  
  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. doi.org/10.29333/ejecs/1006
  • 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. doi.org/10.37808/jhhsa.43.4.4
  • 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. doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2020.104754
  • 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. doi.org/10.1515/npf-2017-0013

  
  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: https://www.marquishalawrencescott.com/ 
  
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• Elizabeth Sperber, Political Science
  

  Assistant Professor of Political Science, Department of Political Science
  University of Denver
  
  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 Religion 11(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: https://du.digication.com/sperber/home 
  
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• Robert Urquhart, Economics
  

  Associate Professor, Department of Economics
  University of Denver
  
  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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