GONZALO ALERS
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Program Area: Bible & Cultures, ABD
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Research Interests: New Testament Studies (The Gospels; The Book of Revelation); Early Christianity; Non-Canonical Literature; Postcolonial and Decolonial Theory; Intersectionality between decolonial thinking and New Testament narratives.
Dissertation Title: “Delinking from Babylon’s Epistemologies: Reading Revelation for a Puerto Rican Decolonial Biblical Hermeneutic”
Michael Anderson
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Program Area: Theological and Philosophical Studies in Religion, ABD
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Research Interests: Philosophies of friendship, desire, and intimacy; Ethics; Popular culture, esp. television and game studies; Queer Theory; Letters and letter-writing; Mysticism.
Dissertation Title: “Friendship, a Heretical Practice”
Gum Jat Awng
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Program Area: Theological and Philosophical Studies in Religion
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Research Interests: Postcolonial Theory; Liberation Theologies; Process Philosophy; New Materialisms.
Juan Martínez Benavides
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Program Area: Religion & Society
Professional Website: juanmartinezbenavides.com
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Research Interests: Latina/o/x studies, Central American Religiosity, Post-conflict studies, Cultural trauma, Christian social ethics
BRYANT BURKHART
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Program Area: Theological and Philosophical Studies in Religion
Professional Website: bryantburkhart.com
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Research Interests: Political theology, political economy, and race under neoliberal modernity.
Weizhen Chen
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Program Area: Theological and Philosophical Studies in Religion
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Research Interests:
Political Theology; Liberation Theology; Black Theology; Process Philosophy; Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies; Mohism; Politics of China.
Andrew Deeb
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Program Area: Bible and Cultures
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Research Interests: Hebrew Bible; Wisdom Literature; Trans Studies; Affect Theory; Bible and Popular Media.
Damien Pascal Domenack
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Program Area: Religion and Society
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Research Interests: Black Atlantic; Dance and Performance; Christian Sexual EThics; Decoloniality, Critical Theory, Liberation Theology; LGBTQI+ Ministry; Pastoral Theology; Queer/Trans Theory.
Brigid Dwyer
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Research Interests: New Testament Studies; Pauline Studies; Spirit-Flesh Binary; Feminist and Queer Theories.
Hunter Edwards
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Research Interests: Hebrew Bible; Queer Theory; Interplay of Narrative and Legal Code; Characterizations of God; Social Identity in Texts.
Eun Han
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Program Area: Bible and Cultures
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Research Interests: Postcolonial Biblical Criticism; Memory Theory.
Daeun Hong
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Program Area: Theological and Philosophical Studies in Religion
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Research Interests: Feminist/Queer Theology, Christa themes, Minjung Theology, Constructive Theology, Body Theology, Deconstruction, De/Post-Colonialism.
Esther Inuwa
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Research Interests:
1. New Testament Studies
2. African/a studies
3. Womanist/Gender Hermeneutics
4. Postcolonial and Decolonial Theory
5. Revelation
6. Empire
7. Apocalyptic Studies.
Isaac Jarnot
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Program Area: Theological and Philosophical Studies in Religion
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Research Interests: Systematic Theology, Anthropocene, Gender Studies.
Eunchul Jung
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Program Area: Theological and Philosophical Studies in Religion, ABD
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Research Interests: will; Subjectivity; German Idealism; Psychoanalysis; Critique of civilization; Phenomenology.
Dissertation Title: “Phenomenology of Eros: Deconstruction of the Self and the Experience of Salvation”
Jung Ae Kim
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Program Area: Bible and Cultures, ABD
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Research Interests: Hebrew Bible; Ecological Hermeneutics; Animal Studies; Feminist Studies.
Shin-Young Kim
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Program Area: Theological and Philosophical Studies in Religion
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Research Interests: Ecotheology; Political Theology; New Materialism.
Tsz Him Lai
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Program Area: Religion and Society, ABD
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Research Interests: Liberation and Postcolonial Theologies; Christian Social Ethics; Asian and Hong Kong Christianities.
YoungHak Joseph Lee
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Program Area: Bible & Cultures
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Research Interests: New Testament Studies; Early Christianity; Literary and Cultural Studies; Postcolonial and Decolonial Theory; Minjung Theology; Asian American Studies..
J.D. Mechelke
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Program Area: Theological and Philosophical Studies in Religion
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Research Interests: Political Theology; Ecology and Religion; Continental Philosopy; Process Philosophy; Radical Theology; Queer Theory; Temporality and vocation in the Anthropocene.
Kenia Vanessa Mendoza
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Program Area: Religion & Society, ABD
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Research Interests: Decolonial Feminist Theory; Mujerista Theology; Latina Feminist Theoloyg, Christian Social Ethics; Critical Race Theory; and Bioethics.
Dissertation Title: “Constructing Ethics from Latina Identities: Decolonizing The Impact of Late 19th to Early 20th Century White Nationalist U.S. Protestant Missions”
Ki Hong Min
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Research Interests: Hebrew Bible; Decoloniality and Critical Theory; Space Studies; Utopian Studies; Colonized Utopias in the Hebrew Bible.
Arun Mosses
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Research Interests: Caste Studies, Dalit Theology, Black Theology, Decolonial Theory, Postcolonial Studies, and Liberation Theology.
Isabella Novsima (Sinulingga)
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Program Area: Theological and Philosophical Studies in Religion
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Research Interests: Theology of Disability; Feminist Theology; Mental Health Studies; Disability Studies; Constructive Theology; Ecotheology; Theology of Trauma; Christian Mystics.
Janet Okang (Jane)
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Program Area: Bible and Cultures
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Research Interests: New Testament Studies; Comparative Study of Mealtime Fellowship in the New Testament; Greco-Roman Antiquity and West African Mealtime Traditions; Bible and Cultural Studies; The Portrait of Children in New Testament Discourses.
Abraham Sudeep Oommen
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Research Interests: Ecology and Technology.
D. Scott Ostlund
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Research Interests: Christian Theological Ethics; Critical Whiteness Studies; U.S. Evangelical Studies; Liberation Theologies; Wesleyan-Methodist Studies.
Erin Parks
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Program Area: Theological and Philosophical Studies in Religion
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Research Interests: Affect Theory; Racism and Whiteness; New Materialisms; Pantheologies; Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies.
Fellipe dos Anjos Pereira
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Research Interests:
– Religion and Ecology;
– Environmental (Post) Humanities;
– New Materialisms;
– Decolonial and Indigenous Cosmology;
– Theory of Religion and Ritual;
– Religion and Space;
– Liberation, Process, and Political Theology
Beth Quick
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Program Area: Religion & Society, ABD
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Research Interests: Sociology of religion, denominational change, eco-feminism, eco-womanism, religion & animals, animal ethics, food ethics.
Dissertation Title: “Eco-Justice Meets Animal Rights in The United Methodist Church”
Yaheli Vargas-Ramos
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Program Area: Theological and Philosophical Studies in Religion
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Research Interests: Theological critique of capitalism; Decolonial theory; Liberation theologies; Theopoetics.
Camilla Raymond
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Program Area: Bible & Cultures
Professional Website: www.camillaraymond.com
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Research Interests: Bible, Decoloniality, and Migration.
James V. Riofrio
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Research Interests: Ecology, Extractivism, Decolonial Studies, Latin American Studies, Latin American Theologies.
Brandan J. Robertson
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Program Area: Bible and Cultures
Professional Website: https://www.brandanrobertson.com/
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Research Interests: Sexuality and Gender in the New Testament; Masculinity Studies; Queer Theology; the Greco-Roman World.
Andrew W.P. Rounds
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Program Area: Religion & Society
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Research Interests: White Christian nationalism and Christofascism; critical race and whiteness studies; Christian social ethics; political theology; histories of Christianities; post-colonial and decoloniality; liberation theologies.
Rose Sharon
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Program Area: Theological and Philosophical Studies in Religion
Professional Website: https://ingoodfaith.vision/
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Research Interests: Process, Liberation, and Death of God Theologies; Anti-Racist and Abolitionist Praxis; Queer and Trans Studies; Integral Ecology; Critical Animal Studies; Anti- and Post-Capitalism; Mysticism and the Esoteric; Heresy; Comparative Religion; Decoloniality; Posthumanism.
Dan Siedell
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Program Area: Theological and Philosophical Studies in Religion
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Research Interests: Theological implications of images and artistic practices; negative theology; theopoetics and creativity; new materialism; the potential of curatorial practices for theological discourses.
Aung Lin Than
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Program Area: Theological and Philosophical Studies in Religion
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Research Interests: Process Philosophy; Postcolonial Theory; Women and Gender Studies; Liberation Theology; Black Theology; Interreligious Theologies; Southeast Asia Studies.
AJ Turner
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Program Area: Theological and Philosophical Studies in Religion, ABD
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Research Interests: William James; Critical Theories; Ontological Pluralism; Sociocultural Psychoanalysis.
Dissertation Title: “Radical Empiricism, Critical Theories, Agonistic Solidarity”
Min Um
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Program Area: Theological and Philosophical Studies in Religion
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Research Interests: Ecotheology; the Theology of Karl Barth; Process Though; Liberation Theologies; Animal Ethics.
Tyler Heston Wolf
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Program Area: Bible & Cultures
Professional Website: tylerhestonwolf.com
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Research Interests: New Testament studies, queer studies, cultural studies.
Yajenlemla
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Program Area: Bible & Cultures, ABD
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Research Interests: New Testament Gospels and Revelation, Empire Studies, Postcolonial Biblical Criticism, Decolonial (South) Asian Feminist Studies.
Dissertation Title: “Marks of Coloniality: A Decolonial Feminist Affective Reading of Revelation”
Elyse Ambrose
Program Area: Religion and Society
Dissertation Title: “Black Queer Ethics: Integrative Communality as Liberative Christian Sexual Ethics”
Research Interests: Christian sexual ethics; Black queer ethics; Black feminism; Womanism; Black modernists; Black religious histories; Afro-diasporic spiritualities
Lisa Asedillo
Program Area: Religion and Society
Dissertation Title: “Decolonial Hope as Praxis: Pedagogical Strategies of Freedom in the Philippines”
Research Interests: Race and Decoloniality; US-Philippine Relations/US Empire History; Asian American Christian Ethics/Transpacific Studies; Postcolonial Feminist Theo-Ethics; Queer of Color Critique
Hunter Bragg
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Program Area: Theological and Philosophical Studies in Religion
Research Interests: Political Theology; Theologies and Practices of Christian Confession; Apophatic Theology; Theological Anthropology; the American Prison-Industrial Complex; American Plea Bargaining
Dissertation Title: “Condemning Whom We Do Not Know: A Political Theology of Plea Bargaining in American Criminal Justice”
Desmond C. Coleman
Program Area: Theological and Philosophical Studies in Religion
Research Interest: Philosophical and Political Idealism; Africana Studies; Performance Studies
Gabriel C. Crooks
Program Area: Theological and Philosophical Studies in Religion
Dissertation Title: “Under Control: Theology, Mastery, and the Autopoiesis of Masculine Identities”
Research Interests: Theological Imagination; Gender-based violence; Genocide and Holocaust Studies; Pedagogy; Historical Theology
Ericka Shawndricka Dunbar
Program Area: Bible & Cultures
Dissertation Title: “Trafficking Hadassah: An Africana Reading of Collective Trauma, Memory and Identity in the Book of Esther”
Research Interests: Religion and Social Change; Africana Biblical Studies; Africana Diaspora Studies; Trauma Studies; Ethics; Cultural Studies; Women’s Studies; Gender-based violence; Women and children in the Bible; Human trafficking discousrses; the role and impact of religion on individual and collective/cultural identities
Luke Grote
Program Area: Theological and Philosophical Studies in Religion
Dissertation Title: “The Self That Therefore I Am Not: Jacques Lacan, Zen Buddhism, and the Practice of Subjectivity”
Research Interests: Jacques Lacan, Zen Buddhism, Continental Philosophy, Spirituality
Simeiqi He 何斯美琪
Program Area: Religion and Society
Dissertation Title: “‘The Living Flame of Love’: A Post-Critical Moral Theology of Marriage”
Research Interests: Theological Ethics/Moral Theology/Christian Ethics; Social Ethics; Catholic Social Thought; Comparative Religious Ethics; Spirituality and Mysticism; Continental Philosophy; Chinese Thought; Literary and Cultural Theory; Critical Theory; Marriage and Family; Gender and Sexuality; Environmental Ethics; Bioethics; Peace-building; Contemporary China
Patrick A. Kelly
Program Area: Theological and Philosophical Studies in Religion
Research Interests: Environmental and Ecological Ethics; Roman Catholic Theology; Roman Catholic Social Teaching; Critical Theory; Continental Philosophy; Marxism; Feminism and Ecofeminism; Gender Studies
Minenhle Nomalungelo Khumalo
Program Area: Bible & Cultures
Research Interests: Afro-pessimism; Afro-futurism; Literary Theory; Africana Biblical Hermeneutics; Aesthetics of Violence; Queer Theory; Marxism
Alice Kim
Program Area: Theological and Philosophical Studies in Religion
Dissertation Title: “Theology of Traumatic Affect: A Transformative Religious and Political Response to Trauma”
Research Interests: Process Philosophy; Reformed Theology; Trauma Studies; Genocide and Holocaust Studies; Affect Theory; Philosophical Ethics; Political Theology
Seong Hyun Lee
Program Area: Religion and Society
Dissertation Title: “The Power of Communal Empathy: Moral Implications of Empathy from Pyschological and Care Ethics Perspectives in Responding to Sexual Violence in Faith-Based Community”
Research Interests: Pastoral Care and Counseling; Christian Social Ethics; Ethics of Care; Women’s and Gender Studies; Moral psychology and ethics of empathy; Interculturalism; Wesleyan Theology; Feminism and Digital Activism
Tzu yu Lin
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Program Area: Bible & Cultures
Research Interests: Gospels; Decolonial Theory; Taiwanese Contextual Interpretation; Postcolonial Theory; Political Activism; De-Chinization in Taiwan; CHTHONIC (Taiwanese heavy metal band).
Jennifer Maidrand
Program Area: Bible & Cultures
Dissertation Title: “Excavating Promised Land: The Geopolitics of Scripturalization in Palestine-Israel”
Research Interests: Hebrew Bible; the Bible and geopolitics; Material culture; Feminist and Womanist hermeneutics; Decolonial study of religion; Religion and ecology
Rory McEntee
Program Area: Theological and Philosophical Studies in Religion
Dissertation Title: “For the Time Being: Religion, Secularity, (Inter)Spirituality, and Democracy”
Research Interests: Democracy; Pluralism; Comparative Philosophy and Religion; Comparative Theology; Science and Religion; Spirituality and Eco-Spirituality; Contemplative Studies; Political Philosophy; Critical Theory and Race; Constructions of ‘Religion’ and the Secular; Comparative Mysticism; Buddhism; Christian Contemplative Tradition
Hilary McKane
Program Area: Bible & Cultures
Research Interests: Economics and the New Testament; Parables; Women in the Greco-Roman World
abby mohaupt
Program Area: Religion and Society
Research Interests: Climate Change; Social Movements; Religious leadership in the public sphere; Public Action; Critical Race Theory; Gender; Ecology; Reformed Theology
Dawrell Rich
Program Area: Religion and Society
Research Interests: Religion and Ecology; Sociology of Religion; Environmental Justice; Social Movement Theory; Urban Studies; Black Church Studies; Black Liberation Theology
Professional Website: https://www.dawrellrich.com/
Austin Roberts
Program Area: Theological and Philosophical Studies in Religion
Dissertation Title: “Anthropocene Imaginaries: Geophilosophy, Political Theology, and the Planetary Future”
Research Interests: Process Philosophy; Political Theology; Ecotheology; Anthropocene Studies; Religious Naturalism; New Materialisms
Lauren D. Sawyer
Program Area: Religion and Society
Research Interests: Feminist and Womanist social ethics; Sexual ethics; Youth and young adults; Evangelical purity culture; History of sexuality
Elizabeth Siegelman
Program Area: Bible & Cultures
Dissertation Title: “Whose Gotta Have It? Race, Gender, and Violence in the Song of Songs”
Research Interests: Women, Gender, and Sexuality in the ancient Near East; Reading the Bible through the Lens of Trauma; the Bible and Incarceration; the Bible and Popular Culture
Eric A. Thomas
Program Area: Bible & Cultures
Dissertation Title: “Queer of Color Biblical Criticism: Race, Sexuality and the New Testament”
Research Interests: Biblical hermeneutics; Queer theory; Africana and Black Religious Studies
Max Thornton
Program Area: Theological and Philosophical Studies in Religion
Dissertation Title: “Cyborg Trans/criptions: gender, disability, and the image of God”
Research Interests: Disability; queer theory; trans studies; STS; theological anthropology
Professional Website: https://maxthornton.me/
O’neil Van Horn
Program Area: Theological and Philosophical Studies in Religion
Dissertation Title: “On the ground: terrestrial theopoetics, environmental justice, and the anthropocene”
Research Interests: Ecotheology; Political Theology; Process Philosophy; Poststructuralism; New Materialisms; Critical Race Studies; Queer Theory
Kelsey Erin Wallace
Program Area: Bible & Cultures
Dissertation Title: “Remembering the Future: Exodus, Science Fiction, and the Strategies of Memory”
Research Interests: Science Fiction; Narratives of Violence; Grief and Cultural Memory; Gender and Sexuality; Hebrew Bible; Pop Culture
Amiel H. Wayne
Program Area: Theological and Philosophical Studies in Religion
Professional Website: https://amielhartwayne.wordpress.com/
Research Interests: Philosophy of Religion; Phenomenology; Religion and Ecology; Aesthetics; Queer Theory.
Susan Woolever
Program Area: Religion and Society
Research Interests: Christian Social Ethics; Religious Ethics; Childist and Feminist Theory; Sexual Ethics; Trauma Theory; Mental Health