Areas of Study

Assistant Professor of Christianity
Department of Religious Studies
University of Denver

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” in Journal 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

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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

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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,” in Methods, 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 Literature 132.2 (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

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Professor of Bible and Ancient Systems of Thought
Iliff School of Theology

Specialization: Hebrew Bible: Pentateuch and Narrative Texts; Subjectivities and Societies in Ancient Systems; spatial studies; critical theory; aniconism; religion and political theory

Publications:

• Religious Representation in Place: Exploring Meaningful Space and the Intersection of the Humanities and Sciences, ed. with Daria Pezzoli-Olgiati, Religion and Spatial Studies 1 (Palgrave, 2014)
• “Israelite Aniconism and the Visualization of the Tabernacle,” Journal of Religion & Society Supplement Series 8 (2012): 40-54
• Israel’s Tabernacle as Social Space, Society of Biblical Literature Ancient Israel and Its Literature 2 (SBL Press, 2009)

Courses:
Sacred Space in Comparative Perspective (with Jacob Kinnard)
Deuteronomy
Methods and Theories of Biblical Interpretation

Professional Label: Hebrew Bible

Email: mgeorge@iliff.edu
Phone: (303) 765-3168 
Office: Iliff School of Theology

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Professor of Philosophy and Jewish Thought, Department of Philosophy; Hecht Interfaith Chair; Center for Judaic Studies
University of Denver

Specialization: Jewish philosophy; Neoplatonisms; Comparative Jewish, Islamic and Christian medieval philosophy; Modern Jewish philosophy; post-Holocaust theology (esp. Levinas); philosophical theology; philosophy of religion

Publications:

• Pessin, S. (2021). Emanationist Powers: Plotinus, Theology of Aristotle, and Ibn Gabirol. In J. Jorati (Ed.), Powers: A History (pp. 56-81). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
• Pessin, S. (2019). The Jewish Tradition. (B. Foltz, Ed.), Medieval Philosophy: A Multicultural Reader. London: Bloomsbury Academic.
• Pessin, S. (2018). America’s Love Problem: How Oprah’s Call to Friendship Feeds Bannon’s Call to Racism (or: On Three Strains of Liberal Lovesickness). Political Theology Network. Retrieved from https://politicaltheology.com/americas-love-problem/
• Pessin, S. (2017). Khoric Apophasis: Matter and Messianicity in Islamo-Judeo-Greek Neoplatonism. In M. Fagenblat (Ed.), Negative Theology as Jewish Modernity. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
• Pessin, S. (2014). Islamic and Jewish Neoplatonisms. In P. Remes & S. Slaveva-Griffin (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Neoplatonism (pp. 541-58). Durham: Acumen Press/ Routledge.
• Pessin, S. (2013). Ibn Gabirol's Theology of Desire: Matter and Method in Jewish Medieval Neoplatonism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Courses:
Jewish Philosophy
Levinas
Neoplatonism
Maimonides
Philosophy of Religion
Religious Existentialism
Medieval Philosophy (Islamic, Jewish, Christian)
 
Professional Label: Comparative Neoplatonisms; Jewish Philosophy; Comparative Medieval Philosophy; Philosophical Theology; Post-Holocaust Theology; Levinas

Email: spessin@du.edu
Phone: 303-871-7731
Office: DU, Sturm Hall 265
Personal website: https://sarahpessin.com/ 

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Associate Professor of Hebrew Bible and Judaic Studies
Department of Religious Studies
University of Denver

Specialization: Hebrew Bible 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: https://www.alisonschofield.com/ 

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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

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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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Associate Professor 
Media, Film, and Journalism Studies
University of Denver

Specialization: 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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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,” in Methods, 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 Literature 132.2 (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

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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 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, 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: http://rafaelfajardo.com/links.html

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Professor of Bible and Ancient Systems of Thought
Iliff School of Theology

Specialization: Hebrew Bible: Pentateuch and Narrative Texts; Subjectivities and Societies in Ancient Systems; spatial studies; critical theory; aniconism; religion and political theory

Publications:

• Religious Representation in Place: Exploring Meaningful Space and the Intersection of the Humanities and Sciences, ed. with Daria Pezzoli-Olgiati, Religion and Spatial Studies 1 (Palgrave, 2014)
• “Israelite Aniconism and the Visualization of the Tabernacle,” Journal of Religion & Society Supplement Series 8 (2012): 40-54
• Israel’s Tabernacle as Social Space, Society of Biblical Literature Ancient Israel and Its Literature 2 (SBL Press, 2009)

Courses:
Sacred Space in Comparative Perspective (with Jacob Kinnard)
Deuteronomy
Methods and Theories of Biblical Interpretation

Professional Label: Hebrew Bible

Email: mgeorge@iliff.edu
Phone: (303) 765-3168 
Office: Iliff School of Theology

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Associate Professor, Department of Art History; Graduate Art History Advisor
University of Denver

Specialization: Mesoamerican, Native North American, and Andean Art

Publications:

• 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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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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Assistant Professor, Religious Studies
University of Denver

Specialization: African American Religions; Religion and Popular Culture; Embodiment and Religion; Critical Race Theory; Black Mythology; Psychology of Religion; Black Sacred Rhetoric and Religion; Black Pentecostalism 

Phone: 303-871-4713
Office: University of Denver

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Ph.D, The Ohio State University

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

Assistant Professor
Department of Religious Studies, University of Denver

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

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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/9780816683130/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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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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Professor of Islamic Studies
Department of Religious Studies, University of Denver

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

Publications:

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

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Dheepa Sundaram

Assistant Professor of Hindu Studies
Department of Religious Studies
University Denver

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" in Digital 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: https://globalizingdharma.com/ 

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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,” in Faith 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 Religion  65 (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

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Philip R. Butler, Ph.D., Claremont School of Theology

Assistant Professor of Theology and
Black Posthuman Artificial Intelligence Systems
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

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Santhosh Chandrashekar

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

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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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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: http://drmigueldelatorre.com/ 

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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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Albert Hernández

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 Satan co-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

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Assistant Professor, Religious Studies
University of Denver

Specialization: African American Religions; Religion and Popular Culture; Embodiment and Religion; Critical Race Theory; Black Mythology; Psychology of Religion; Black Sacred Rhetoric and Religion; Black Pentecostalism 

Email: jason.jeffries@du.edu 
Phone: 303-871-4713
Office: University of Denver

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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 Leadership 21.2 (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

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April M. Mack, Ph.D., University of Denver/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. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/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. https://digitalcommons.du.edu/etd/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

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Paul Michalec, Ph.D., University of Colorado at Boulder

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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Marco J. Nathan, Ph.D., Columbia University

Professor, Chair of Department of Philosophy
University of Denver

Specialization: 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, Ph.D., University of Washington

Professor; Director, University of Denver 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 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, Ph.D., Georgetown University

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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Dheepa Sundaram

Assistant Professor of Hindu Studies
Department of Religious Studies
University Denver

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" in Digital 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: https://globalizingdharma.com/ 

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Ted Vial, Ph.D., University of Chicago

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

Specializations: Modern Theology; Enlightenment and Post-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

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Santhosh Chandrashekar

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: 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

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: http://drmigueldelatorre.com/ 

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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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Assistant Professor, Religious Studies
University of Denver

Specialization: African American Religions; Religion and Popular Culture; Embodiment and Religion; Critical Race Theory; Black Mythology; Psychology of Religion; Black Sacred Rhetoric and Religion; Black Pentecostalism 

Email: jason.jeffries@du.edu 
Phone: 303-871-4713
Office: University of Denver
 

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April M. Mack, Ph.D., University of Denver/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. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/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. https://digitalcommons.du.edu/etd/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

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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, Ph.D., Columbia University 

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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Carl A. Raschke, Ph.D., Harvard University 

Professor of Philosophy of Religion
Department of Religious Studies, University of Denver

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: https://carlraschke.com/

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Professor of Islamic Studies,
Department of Religious Studies, University of Denver 

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

Publications:

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

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Dheepa Sundaram

Assistant Professor of Hindu Studies
Department of Religious Studies
University Denver

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" in Digital 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: https://globalizingdharma.com/ 

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Ted Vial, Ph.D., University of Chicago

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

Specializations: Modern Theology; Enlightenment and Post-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

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Santhosh Chandrashekar

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

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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

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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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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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Assistant Professor, Religious Studies
University of Denver

Specialization: African American Religions; Religion and Popular Culture; Embodiment and Religion; Critical Race Theory; Black Mythology; Psychology of Religion; Black Sacred Rhetoric and Religion; Black Pentecostalism 

Email: jason.jeffries@du.edu 
Phone: 303-871-4713
Office: University of Denver

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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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Professor of Philosophy and Jewish Thought, Department of Philosophy; Hecht Interfaith Chair; Center for Judaic Studies
University of Denver

Specialization: Jewish philosophy; Neoplatonisms; Comparative Jewish, Islamic and Christian medieval philosophy; Modern Jewish philosophy; post-Holocaust theology (esp. Levinas); philosophical theology; philosophy of religion

Publications:

• Pessin, S. (2021). Emanationist Powers: Plotinus, Theology of Aristotle, and Ibn Gabirol. In J. Jorati (Ed.), Powers: A History (pp. 56-81). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
• Pessin, S. (2019). The Jewish Tradition. (B. Foltz, Ed.), Medieval Philosophy: A Multicultural Reader. London: Bloomsbury Academic.
• Pessin, S. (2018). America’s Love Problem: How Oprah’s Call to Friendship Feeds Bannon’s Call to Racism (or: On Three Strains of Liberal Lovesickness). Political Theology Network. Retrieved from https://politicaltheology.com/americas-love-problem/
• Pessin, S. (2017). Khoric Apophasis: Matter and Messianicity in Islamo-Judeo-Greek Neoplatonism. In M. Fagenblat (Ed.), Negative Theology as Jewish Modernity. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
• Pessin, S. (2014). Islamic and Jewish Neoplatonisms. In P. Remes & S. Slaveva-Griffin (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Neoplatonism (pp. 541-58). Durham: Acumen Press/ Routledge.
• Pessin, S. (2013). Ibn Gabirol's Theology of Desire: Matter and Method in Jewish Medieval Neoplatonism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Courses:
Jewish Philosophy
Levinas
Neoplatonism
Maimonides
Philosophy of Religion
Religious Existentialism
Medieval Philosophy (Islamic, Jewish, Christian)
 
Professional Label: Comparative Neoplatonisms; Jewish Philosophy; Comparative Medieval Philosophy; Philosophical Theology; Post-Holocaust Theology; Levinas

Email: spessin@du.edu
Phone: 303-871-7731
Office: DU, Sturm Hall 265
Personal website: https://sarahpessin.com/ 

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Carl A. Raschke, Ph.D., Harvard University

Professor of Philosophy of Religion
Department of Religious Studies, University of Denver

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: https://carlraschke.com

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Professor; Department of Philosophy; Former JDP Assistant Director
University of Denver

Specializations: Ancient Greek Philosophy; Plato; Aristotle; Philosophy of Mind; Metaphysics; Epistemology

Publications:

• 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.
• Reshotko, Naomi. Socratic Virtue: Making the Best of the Neither Good nor Bad. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2006.

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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Dheepa Sundaram

Assistant Professor of Hindu Studies
Department of Religious Studies
University Denver

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" in Digital 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: http://globalizingdharma.com 

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Ted Vial, Ph.D., University of Chicago

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

Specializations: Modern Theology; Enlightenment and Post-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

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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,” in Faith 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 Religion  65 (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

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Philip R. Butler, Ph.D., Claremont School of Theology

Assistant Professor of Theology and
Black Posthuman Artificial Intelligence Systems
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

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Santhosh Chandrashekar

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

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Sandra L. Dixon , Ph.D., University of Chicago

Associate Professor in Psychology of Religion
Department of Religious Studies
University of Denver

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

Publications:

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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Albert Hernández

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 Satan co-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

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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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Assistant Professor, Religious Studies
University of Denver

Specialization: African American Religions; Religion and Popular Culture; Embodiment and Religion; Critical Race Theory; Black Mythology; Psychology of Religion; Black Sacred Rhetoric and Religion; Black Pentecostalism 

Email: jason.jeffries@du.edu 
Phone: 303-871-4713
Office: University of Denver

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Assistant Professor of Pastoral and Spiritual Care
Iliff School of Theology

Specializations: Pastoral Theology; Pastoral Care & Counseling; Womanist Theology & Practice; Womanist Practical Theology; Childhood Studies; Womanist Ethnography; Qualitative Research

Lectures & Paper Presentations: 

• Being Womanish: Revisiting and Reimagining Black Girlhood 
• Embodiment, Spirituality, and Self Care in Social Activist Work 
• A Kaleidoscope Analysis: Toward a Womanish/st Theology 

Courses: 

Intro to Pastoral & Spiritual Care and Counseling
Womanist Pastoral Theology & Care
Practical Theology
Psychodynamic Perspectives in Pastoral Care

Professional Label: Womanist Pastoral & Practical Theologian; Religion, Psychology, & Culture

Email: kking@iliff.edu
Phone: (303) 765-3192
Office: Iliff School of Theology

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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 Leadership 21.2 (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

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Daniel N. McIntosh

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, Ph.D., University of Colorado at Boulder

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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Marco J. Nathan, Ph.D., Columbia University

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

Assistant Professor
Department of Religious Studies, University of Denver

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

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Marquisha Lawrence Scott, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania

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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Andrea L. Stanton

Professor of Islamic Studies
Department of Religious Studies
University of Denver 

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

Publications:

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

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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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