JDP Faculty Across Disciplines

Many JDP faculty members who trained in a variety of disciplines and are based in diverse departments 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:
- Cerón, Alejandro and Goldstein, Gila, "Mortalidad por accidente cerebrovascular en Guatemala 2018: patrones e inequidades" (2021). Anthropology: Faculty Scholarship. 35.
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- 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.
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- 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
Assistant 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:
- "Engendering threat in the guise of protection: Orientalism and Sikh vulnerability," in Journal of Multicultural Discourses, 12(4), 366-381.
- "The 'One Percent': De'naturalizing' Tech Worker Discourses of Unfairness," in Departures in Critical Qualitative Research (Forthcoming).
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

Professor
Department of Media, Film and Journalism Studies
University of Denver
Director, 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

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Lauren DeCarvalho, Media, Film, and Journalism Studies
Assistant 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

Associate Professor/Director, 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

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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
Associate 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

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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. (2007). The Teotihuacan Trinity: The Sociopolitical Structure of an Ancient Mesoamerican City. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press.
- 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. (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: https://www.spdbooks.org/Products/9781584981411/archive-and-artifact-susan-howes-factual-telepathy.aspx
- 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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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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Laleh Mehran, Emergent Digital Practices
Professor, Emergent Digital Practices
University of Denver

Specializations: Artworks focused on complex intersections between politics, religion, and science; Dissent and Exile

Publications/Performances:
- Chanzit, G. L., & Mehran, L. (2017). All In: Laleh Mehran's Inherent Control Ciphers. Inherent Control Ciphers. Bucknell University.
- Mehran, L. (2018). The Interstitium. Mattress Factory Museum, Pittsburgh, PA.
- Mehran, L. (2017). Inherent Control Cyphers . Samek Art Museum, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA, USA.
Email: laleh.mehran@du.edu
Phone: 303-871-7716
Office: DU, Sturm Hall 216 (EDP Program)

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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

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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:
- "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

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Marco J. Nathan, Philosophy
Associate 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 21^st Century Africa, eds. Sabella Abidde and Emmanuel Matambo (New York: Springer, 2021).
- “From the Subcontinent with Love: India and Activist Diplomacy in 20^th 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://tinyurl.com/5dt4artb.
- “‘Two Separate Societies, Divided by Color’: Race, Colonialism, and Bridgerton,” Perspectives on History 60, no. 6 (2022): https://t.co/0SyMC0V9j3.
- “Feeling Like an Interloper, But Claiming Space Anyway: The Minority Graduate Experience,” Perspectives on History 59, no. 4 (2021): https://tinyurl.com/5m5k3jbb
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
Associate Professor, 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

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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

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Lisa Miracchi Titus, Philosophy
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Department of Philosophy, University of Denver

Specializations: Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, Philosophy of Mind, Epistemology, Philosophy of Cognitive Science, Philosophy of Action, Ethics of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics

Publications:
- Read, Hannah, Javier Gomez-Lavin, Andrea Beltrama, and Lisa Miracchi Titus. “A Plea for Integrated Empirical and Philosophical Research on the Impacts of Feminized AI Workers.” Analysis, December 15, 2022, anac050. https://doi.org/10.1093/analys/anac050.
- Miracchi Titus, Lisa. “Embodied Cognition and the Causal Roles of the Mental.” In Mental Action and the Conscious Mind, edited by Michael Brent and Lisa Miracchi Titus, 1st ed., 205–27. New York: Routledge, 2022. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429022579-11.
- Miracchi, Lisa. “A Case for Integrative Epistemology.” Synthese 198, no. 12 (December 2021): 12021–39. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-020-02848-0.
- Miracchi, Lisa. “Updating the Frame Problem for AI Research.” Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Consciousness 07, no. 02 (September 2020): 217–30. https://doi.org/10.1142/S2705078520500113.
Courses:
Artificial Intelligence and Robotics

Professional Label: Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, Philosophy of Mind, Epistemology, Philosophy of Cognitive Science, Philosophy of Action, Ethics of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics

Email: lisa.titus@du.edu
Office: DU, Sturm 263

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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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Dennis Wittmer, Business Management
Professor, Department of Management, Daniels School of Business
University of Denver

Specializations: Business Ethics, Social Responsibility and Business, Organizational Ethics, Public Policy and Business, Ethical Leadership, Ethics and Artificial Intelligence

Publications:
- Allen, D. B., Fukami, C. V., & Wittmer, D. P. (2021). A course on the future of work: Building the scaffold while standing on it. Journal of Management Education, https://doi.org/10.1177/1052562920983839
- Wittmer, D.P. (2018). “Descriptive Ethics.” In R. Kolb (ed.), The SAGE Encyclopedia of Business Ethics and Society, 2nd ed., Sage Publishers.
- Wittmer, D.P. (2018). “Social Capital.” In R. Kolb (ed.), The SAGE Encyclopedia of Business Ethics and Society, 2nd ed., Sage Publishers.
- O’Brien, K., Wittmer, D.P, & Ebrahimi, B. (2017). “Behavioral Ethics in Practice: Integrating Service Learning into a Business Ethics Course.” Journal of Management Education, 41(4), 599-616.
- Wittmer, D.P. & Fukami, C.V. (2017). “Educating Future Business Leaders To Be Practically Wise: Designing and MBA Curriculum to Strengthen Good Decision Making.” In Wedelin Kupers & Olen Gunnlaugson (Eds.), Wisdom Learning: Perspectives on ‘Wising-up’ Management Education. 1st ed., pp. 229-247). New York, N.Y.: Routledge. 978-1-4724-6393-7.
- Wittmer, D., McGowan, R., & Simon, G. (2015) “Bahia Aventuras: Ecotourism in Central America-- Staying Alive.” Emerging Markets Case Studies, 5 (8), 1-24.
- D.P. Wittmer (2014) “The Virtue of ‘Virtue Ethics’ in Business and Business Education,” Journal of Business Ethics Education, Vol. 11, online version.
Courses: Organizational Ethics (PhD), Ethical Leadership (MS), Leading in the Digital Age (Grad/Undergrad)

Professional Label: Business Management, Business Ethics.

Email: dwittmer@du.edu
Phone: 303-871-2431
Office: DU, Daniels 462

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