Pamela Eisenbaum

[On Sabbatical 2017-2018]

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  (HarperOne, 2009)

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

Amy Erickson

Assistant Professor of Hebrew Bible
Iliff School of Theology

Specializations: Poetry and metaphor (Hebrew Bible); history of biblical interpretation; religion and the body

Publications:

• “God’s Birthing and Begetting Body in Job 38:28-30,” in Imagination, Ideology and Inspiration: Reverberations of Brueggemann in a New Generation, eds. Robert Williamson, Jr. and Jonathan Kaplan (Sheffield Phoenix Press, forthcoming)
• “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

Mark K. George

Associate Professor of Hebrew Bible
Iliff School of Theology

Specializations: Hebrew Bible; 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

Sarah Pessin

Gregory Allen Robbins

Associate Professor and Chair
Department of Religious Studies

Specializations: Ancient Christianity; New Testament; Christian origins; history of Christianity; Christian studies; religion and film

Publications:

• “‘Number Determinate Is Kept Concealed’ (Dante, Paradiso XXX.135): Eusebius and the Transformation of the List (Hist. eccl. 3.25),” Studia Patristica LXVI.14 (Leuven: Peeters, 2013): 181-90
• Genesis 1-3 in the History of Exegesis: Intrigue in the Garden, Studies in Women and Religion 27 (Edwin Mellen Press, 1988)
• Exploring the New Testament, with John Tully Carmody and Denise Lardner Carmody (Prentice-Hall, 1986)

Courses:
Christianity
Christian Classics
Jesus on the Silver Screen

Professional Label: New Testament; Christian Origins; Ancient Christianity

Alison Schofield, Ph.D., University of Notre Dame 

University of Denver, Department of Religious Studies - Assistant Professor of Hebrew Bible and Judaic studies

Eric Smith, Ph.D., Iliff School of Theology and the University of Denver

Iliff School of Theology, Visiting Assistant Professor of the History of Christianity and New Testament Studies

Rafael Fajardo, MFA, Rhode Island School of Design

University of Denver, Emergent Digital Practices - Associate Professor and Undergraduate Director

Mark K. George

Associate Professor of Hebrew Bible
Iliff School of Theology

Specializations: Hebrew Bible; 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

Annabeth Headrick, Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin

University of Denver, School of Art and Art History - Associate Professor of Precolumbian Art

W. Scott Howard , Ph.D., University of Washington

Associate Professor, Department of English, University of Denver

Jacob Kinnard, Ph.D., University of Chicago 

Iliff School of Theology - Associate Professor of Comparative Religious Thought

Jeffrey H. Mahan

Professor of Ministry, Media and Culture
Ralph E. and Norma E. Peck Chair in Religion and Public Communication
Iliff School of Theology

Specializations: Media, religion and culture; religion and film, religion and popular culture

Publications:

• Media, Religion and Culture: An Introduction (Routledge, London, 2014)
• Religion and Popular Culture in America (2nd ed.), with Bruce David Forbes (Berkeley, 2005)

Courses:
Theories of Religion and Media
Religion and Film
Religion and Popular Culture

Professional Label: Religion and Society

Laleh Mehran, MFA, Carnegie Mellon University

University of Denver, Emergent Digital Practices - Professor and Graduate Director

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

Assistant Professor
Department of Religious Studies, University of Denver

Gregory Allen Robbins

Associate Professor and Chair
Department of Religious Studies, University of Denver

Specializations: Ancient Christianity; New Testament; Christian origins; history of Christianity; Christian studies; religion and film

Publications:

• “‘Number Determinate Is Kept Concealed’ (Dante, Paradiso XXX.135): Eusebius and the Transformation of the List (Hist. eccl. 3.25),” Studia Patristica LXVI.14 (Leuven: Peeters, 2013): 181-90
• Genesis 1-3 in the History of Exegesis: Intrigue in the Garden, Studies in Women and Religion 27 (Edwin Mellen Press, 1988)
• Exploring the New Testament, with John Tully Carmody and Denise Lardner Carmody (Prentice-Hall, 1986)

Courses:
Christianity
Christian Classics
Jesus on the Silver Screen

Professional Label: New Testament; Christian Origins; Ancient Christianity

Lynn Schofield Clark

Professor and Chair
Department of Media, Film and Journalism Studies

Specializations: Media; religion and culture; ethnography; community engaged research; social sciences and religion; journalism; U.S. families and digital media

Publications:

• 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

Professional Label: Critical/Cultural Media Studies; Media, Religion, and Culture

Andrea L. Stanton

Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies
Department of Religious Studies

Specializations: Media and politics; Middle Eastern history

Publications:

• “Celebrating Muhammad’s Birthday in the Middle East,” in Identity Discourses and Communities in International Events, Festivals, and Spectacles (Palgrave, 2014)
• “Islamic Emoticons: Pious Sociability and Community Building in Online Muslim Communities,” in Internet and Emotions, eds. Tova Benski and Eran Fisher (Routledge, 2013)
• “‘Part of Imperial Communications’: British-Governed Radio in the Middle East, 1934-1949,” Journal of Media History 19.4 (2013): 421-35
• This Is Jerusalem Calling: State Broadcasting in Mandate Palestine (University of Texas Press, 2013)

Courses:
Contemporary Islam
Qur’an and Hadith
Islamic Fundamentalisms

Professional Label: Islamic Studies

Annette Stott

Professor of Art History
School of Art and Art History

Specializations: History of American art and religions

Publications:

• Pioneer Cemeteries: Sculpture Gardens of the Old West  (University of Nebraska Press, 2008)
• Holland Mania: The Unknown Dutch Period in American Art and Culture  (Overlook, 1998)

Courses:                    
Graduate Seminar on Spirituality in Modern and Contemporary Art
American Art and Religion

Professional Label:  Art History; American Art and Religion

Jere Surber

Professor and Chair
Department of Philosophy

Specializations: Religion in German Idealism and Romanticism; phenomenology of religion; religion and postmodernity; culture theory and the critique of religion

Publications:

• What Is Philosophy? Embodiment, Signification, Ideality (re.press, 2014)
• Metacritique: The Linguistic Assault on German Idealism (Humanity Books, 2001)
• Culture and Critique: An Introduction to the Discourses of Cultural Critique (Westview Press, 1997)

Courses:
Kant and Religion
Cultural Theory and Critique Colloquium
Philosophy Colloquium
Religion and Postmodernity

Professional Label: Critical Studies; Theory of Religion; Methods of Religion; Philosophy of Religion; Arts, Literature, and Religion

Antony Alumkal

Associate Professor of Sociology of Religion
Iliff School of Theology

Specializations: Race and religion; American evangelicalism; American mainline Protestantism

Publications:

• “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

Richard O. Clemmer-Smith

Professor
Department of Anthropology

Specializations: 19th- and 20th-century Native American resistance movements with ideological components referred to as “religious”; indigenous worldviews referencing subsistence, economy, and environmental issues

Publications:

• “‘A Carnival of Promiscuous Carnal Indulgence’: Bureaucrats’ Ambivalence in Reconciling Capitalist Production with Native American Habitus,” Dialectical Anthropology 33.1 (2009): 51-70
• “Ideology and Identity: Western Shoshoni ‘Cannibal Myth’ as Ethno-National Narrative,” in Numic Mythologies: Anthropological Perspectives in the Great Basin and Beyond, ed. L. Daniel Myers (Boise State University, 2006)
• “‘. . . Then will you rise and strike my head from my neck’: Hopi Prophecy and the Discourse of Empowerment,” American Indian Quarterly 19.1(1995): 31-73

Courses:
Visions, Utopias and Messiahs
Indigenous Environments

Professional Label: Environmental Anthropology; Human Rights of Indigenous Peoples

Miguel A. De La Torre

Professor of Social Ethics and Latino/a Studies
Iliff School of Theology

Specializations: Liberation theology; critical race theory; gender studies

Publications:

• Embracing Hopelessness, (Fortress Press, 2017)
• Doing Christian Ethics from the Margins (2nd ed.; Orbis Books, 2014)
• 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:  Ethics

Albert Hernández

[On Sabbatical 2017-2018]

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

Jennifer Leath, Ph.D., Yale University

Iliff School of Theology, Assistant Professor of Religion and Social Justice

Specializations: Afro-Diasporic Women's Spiritualities and Social Activism; Sexual Ethics and Economics of Historically Black Churches; Intersection of sexualities and religions in sacred communities and spaces of African Diaspora

Courses:
G d & Tupac
Black Lives Matter
Foundations of Social Justice
Womanism: The Physics of Womanism
SJ&E Seminar: The House That Justice Built

Luís León, Ph.D., University of California-Santa Barbara

University of Denver, Department of Religious Studies - Assistant Professor

Specializations: Religions in the Americas; Postcolonialism; Latina/o Studies

Publications: 

• La Llarona's Children: Religion, Life, and Death in the United States-Mexican Borderlands (University of California Press, 2004)
• The Political Spirituality of Cesar Chavez: Crossing Religious Borders (University of California Press, 2014)

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

Assistant Professor Department of Philosophy
University of Denver

Debora Ortega, Ph.D., University of Washington

University of Denver, Graduate School of Social Work - Assiciate Professor, and Director, University of Denver Latino Center for Community Engagement and Scholarship

Ted Vial, Ph.D., University of Chicago 

Iliff School of Theology - Associate Professor of Theology

Miguel A. De La Torre

Professor of Social Ethics and Latino/a Studies
Iliff School of Theology

Specializations: Liberation theology; critical race theory; gender studies

Publications:

• Embracing Hopelessness, (Fortress Press, 2017)
• Doing Christian Ethics from the Margins (2nd ed.; Orbis Books, 2014)
• 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:  Ethics

Nader Hashemi, Ph.D., University of Toronto 

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Jennifer Leath, Ph.D., Yale University

Iliff School of Theology, Assistant Professor of Religion and Social Justice

Specializations: Afro-Diasporic Women's Spiritualities and Social Activism; Sexual Ethics and Economics of Historically Black Churches; Intersection of sexualities and religions in sacred communities and spaces of African Diaspora

Courses:
G d & Tupac
Black Lives Matter
Foundations of Social Justice
Womanism: The Physics of Womanism
SJ&E Seminar: The House That Justice Built

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

Assistant Professor Department of Philosophy
University of Denver

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

Andrea L. Stanton

Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies
Department of Religious Studies

Specializations: Media and politics; Middle Eastern history

Publications:

• “Celebrating Muhammad’s Birthday in the Middle East,” in Identity Discourses and Communities in International Events, Festivals, and Spectacles (Palgrave, 2014)
• “Islamic Emoticons: Pious Sociability and Community Building in Online Muslim Communities,” in Internet and Emotions, eds. Tova Benski and Eran Fisher (Routledge, 2013)
• “‘Part of Imperial Communications’: British-Governed Radio in the Middle East, 1934-1949,” Journal of Media History 19.4 (2013): 421-35
• This Is Jerusalem Calling: State Broadcasting in Mandate Palestine (University of Texas Press, 2013)

Courses:
Contemporary Islam
Qur’an and Hadith
Islamic Fundamentalisms

Professional Label: Islamic Studies

Ted Vial, Ph.D., University of Chicago 

Iliff School of Theology - Associate Professor of Theology

Pamela Eisenbaum

[On Sabbatical 2017-2018]

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  (HarperOne, 2009)

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

W. Scott Howard, Ph.D., University of Washington

Associate Professor, Department of English, University of Denver

Jacob Kinnard, Ph.D., University of Chicago 

Iliff School of Theology - Associate Professor of Comparative Religious Thought

Luís León, Ph.D., University of California-Santa Barbara

University of Denver, Department of Religious Studies - Assistant Professor

Specializations: Religions in the Americas; Postcolonialism; Latina/o Studies

Publications: 

• La Llarona's Children: Religion, Life, and Death in the United States-Mexican Borderlands (University of California Press, 2004)
• The Political Spirituality of Cesar Chavez: Crossing Religious Borders (University of California Press, 2014)

Sarah Pessin

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

Naomi Reshotko

Professor
Department of Philosophy

Specializations: Ancient Greek philosophy; philosophy of mind; metaphysics; epistemology

Publications:

• “Plato on the Ordinary Person and the Forms,” Apeiron 47.2 (2014): 266-92
• “Socratic Eudaimonism,” in The Bloomsbury Companion to Socrates, eds. J. Bussanich and N. Smith (Continuum, 2013)
• Socratic Virtue: Making the Best of the Neither-Good-Nor-Bad (Cambridge University Press, 2006)

Courses:
Plato’s Metaphysics
Great Thinkers: Aristotle
Socratic Ethics

Professional Label: Ancient Philosophy

Ted Vial, Ph.D., University of Chicago 

Iliff School of Theology - Associate Professor of Theology

Rubén Arjona, Ph.D., Princeton Theological Seminary 

Assistant Professor of Pastoral Theology and Care, Iliff School of Theology

Specializations: Pastoral theology; life cycle theory; pastoral care of Mexican and Latino men; pastoral care of couples and families

Courses:
Pastoral Theology and Care
Why the Church

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

University of Denver, Department of Religious Studies - Associate Professor of Psychology of Religion

Carrie Doehring

Associate Professor of Pastoral Care and Counseling
Iliff School of Theology

Specializations: Pastoral theology; intercultural spiritual care; trauma from psychological and theological perspectives; spiritually integrated care and counseling

Publications:

• The Practice of Pastoral Care: A Postmodern Approach (Revised and expanded ed., Westminster John Knox, 2015)
• “Emotions and Change in Intercultural Spiritual Care,” Pastoral Psychology 63.5 (2014): 583-96
• “An Applied Integrative Approach to Exploring How Religion and Spirituality Contribute To or Counteract Prejudice and Discrimination,” in APA Handbook of Psychology, Religion, and Spirituality Vol. 2: An Applied Psychology of Religion and Spirituality, eds. K. I. Pargament, A. Mahoney, and E. Shafranske (American Psychological Association, 2013)

Courses:
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: Pastoral, Psychological, and Theological Responses
Theodicy and Tragedy

Professional Label: Pastoral Care; Practical/Praxis Theology; Social Sciences and Religion

Albert Hernández

[On Sabbatical 2017-2018]

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

W. Scott Howard, Ph.D., University of Washington

Associate Professor, Department of English, University of Denver

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

Assistant Professor Department of Philosophy
University of Denver

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

Assistant Professor
Department of Religious Studies, University of Denver

Andrea L. Stanton

Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies
Department of Religious Studies

Specializations: Media and politics; Middle Eastern history

Publications:

• “Celebrating Muhammad’s Birthday in the Middle East,” in Identity Discourses and Communities in International Events, Festivals, and Spectacles (Palgrave, 2014)
• “Islamic Emoticons: Pious Sociability and Community Building in Online Muslim Communities,” in Internet and Emotions, eds. Tova Benski and Eran Fisher (Routledge, 2013)
• “‘Part of Imperial Communications’: British-Governed Radio in the Middle East, 1934-1949,” Journal of Media History 19.4 (2013): 421-35
• This Is Jerusalem Calling: State Broadcasting in Mandate Palestine (University of Texas Press, 2013)

Courses:
Contemporary Islam
Qur’an and Hadith
Islamic Fundamentalisms

Professional Label: Islamic Studies

Katherine Turpin, Ph.D., Emory University 

Iliff School of Theology - Associate Professor of Religious Education