Email Address: raguila@drew.edu Program Area: Theological and Philosophical Study of Religion Research Interests: Ecclesiology; Theological Methods; Contemporary Philosophical Hermeneutics; Diaspora Studies; Religion and the Arts; Public Theology; Liturgical Theology Professional Website:https://www.linkedin.com/mwlite/in/renaguila
Biography: Ren’s philosophical and psychological background led him on a long and winding path to theology. After several years working in various fields, including cultural journalism, he studied at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, CA. There, he became familiar with the history and experience of diaspora Filipinos in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Gonzalo Alers
Email Address: galers@drew.edu Program Area: Bible and Cultures Research Interests: The Gospels; The Book of Revelation; Early Christianity; Non-Canonical Literature; Postcolonial and Decolonial Biblical Criticism
Michael Anderson
Email Address: manderson3@drew.edu Program Area: Theological and Philosophical Study of Religion, ABD Dissertation Title: “Becoming Friends, Becoming Gods: Friendship as an Everyday Mysticism” Research Interests: Philosophies of friendship, desire, and intimacy; Ethics; Popular Culture, esp. television and game studies; Queer Theory; Letters and letter-writing; Mysticism
Lisa Asedillo
Email Address: lisasedillo@gmail.com Program Area: Religion and Society, ABD 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
Gum Jat Awng
Email Address: gawng@drew.edu Program Area: Theological and Philosophical Studies in Religion Research Interests: Postcolonial Theory; Liberation Theologies; Process Philosophy; New Materialism
Hunter Bragg
Email Address: hbragg@drew.edu Program Area: Theological and Philosophical Study of Religion ABD Dissertation Title: “Condemning Whom We Do Not Know: A Political Theology of Plea Bargaining in American Criminal Justice” Research Interests: Political Theology; Theologies and Practices of Christian Confessor; Apophatic Theology; Theological Anthropology; the American Prison-Industrial Complex; American Plea Bargaining Professional Website: https://drew.academia.edu/HBragg
Benjamin Bixler
Email Address: bbixler@drew.edu Program Area: Bible and Cultures Research Interests: Identity formation in the Hebrew Bible; Gospels; Popular Culture; Critical Race Theory; Masculinity; Anabaptist/Mennonite Theology; Pedagogy Professional Website:https://drew.academia.edu/BenjaminBixler
Weizhen Chen
Email Address: wchen1@drew.edu Program Area: Theological and Philosophical Study of Religion Research Interests: Political Theology; Liberation Theology; Black Theology; Process Philosophy; Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies; Mohism; Politics of China
Andrew Deeb
Email Address: adeeb@drew.edu Program Area: Bible and Cultures Research Interests: Hebrew Bible; Wisdom Literature; Trans Studies; Affect Theory; Bible and Popular Media
Damien Pascal Domenack
Email Address: ddomenack@drew.edu Program Area: Religion and Society Research Interests: Black Atlantic; Dance and Performance; Christian Sexual Ethics; Decoloniality, Critical Theory, Liberation Theology; LGBTQI+ Ministry; Pastoral Theology; Queer/Trans Theory
Brigid Dwyer
Email Address: bdwyer@drew.edu Program Area: Bible and Cultures Research Interest: New Testament Studies; Pauline Studies; Spirit-Flesh Binary; Feminist and Queer Theories
Hunter Edwards
Email Address: hedwards@drew.edu Program Area: Bible and Cultures Research Interests: Hebrew Bible; Queer Theory; Interplay of Narrative and Legal Code; Characterizations of God; Social Identity in Texts
Luke Grote
Email Address: wlgrote@gmail.com Program Area: Theological and Philosophical Studies in Religion, ABD 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
Eun Han
Email Address: ehan@drew.edu Program Area: Bible and Cultures Research Interests: Postcolonial Biblical Criticism; Memory Theory
Simeiqi He 何斯美琪
Email Address: she1@drew.edu Program Area: Religion and Society, ABD 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
Wren Hillis
Email Address: lhillis@drew.edu Program Area: Theological and Philosophical Study of Religion Research Interests: Political Theology; Religion, Politics and Economics; Methodist and Wesleyan Studies
Esther Inuwa
Email Address: einuwa@drew.edu Program Area: Bible and Cultures Research Interests: New Testament Studies; African/a studies; Womanist/Gender Hermeneutics; Postcolonial and Decolonial Theory; Revelation; Empire; Apocalyptic Studies
Nicholas A. Johnson
Email Address: njohnson2@drew.edu Program Area: Bible and Cultures, ABD Dissertation Title: “Idolatry in Romans and Revelation: Toward An Africana-Decolonial Hermeneutic of Images” Research Interests: Pauline epistles; Revelation; Early Christian history; Intersections of Africana, postcolonial, and New Testament studies
Eunchul Jung
Email Address: ejung@drew.edu Program Area: Theological and Philosophical Study of Religion Dissertation Title: Phenomenology of Eros: Deconstruction of the Self and the Experience of Salvation Research Interests: Free will; Subjectivity; German Idealism; Psychoanalysis; Critique of civilization; Phenomenology
Ha Young Kang
Program Area: Theological and Philosophical Study of Religion Research Interests: Political Theology; Process Philosophy; Postcolonial Theory; Women’s and Gender Studies; Confucianism; Daoism; Methodist and Wesleyan Studies
Jung Ae Kim
Email Address: jkim19@drew.edu Program Area: Bible and Cultures, ABD Research Interests: Hebrew Bible; Ecological Hermeneutics; Animal Studies; Feminist Studies
Shin-Young Kim
Program Area: Theological and Philosophical Study of Religion Research Interests: Eco-Theology; Political Theology; New Materialism
Patrick A. Kelly
Email Address: pkelly1@drew.edu Program Area: Theological and Philosophical Study of 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 and Cultures, ABD Research Interests: Afro-pessimism; Afro-futurism; Literary Theory; Africana Biblical Hermeneutics; Aesthetics of Violence; Queer Theory; Marxism
Tsz Him Lai
Email Address: tlai@drew.edu Program Area: Religion and Society Research Interests: Liberation and Postcolonial theologies; Christian Social Ethics; Asian and Hong Kong Christianities
Tzu Yu Lin
Email Address: tlin1@drew.edu Program Area: Bible and Cultures Research Interests: Gospels; Decolonial Theory; Taiwanese Contextual Interpretation; Postcolonial Theory; Political Activism; De-Chinization in Taiwan
Jennifer Maidrand
Email Address: jmaidrand@drew.edu Program Area: Bible and Cultures Research Interests: Hebrew Bible; Ecological Hermeneutics and Theology; Womanist and Feminist Hermeneutics; Geo-politics of Israel/Palestine
Hilary McKane
Email Address: hfloyd@drew.edu Program Area: Bible and Cultures Research Interests: Economics and the New Testament; Parables; Women in the Greco-Roman world
J.D. R. Mechelke
Email Address: jmechelke@drew.edu Program Area: Theological and Philosophical Study of Religion Research Interests: Political theology; Anthropocene; Queer Theories and Theologies; Continental Philosophy; Information and Technology Studies; Negative and Radical Theologies; Lutheran Theologies Professional Website:https://jdmechelke.academia.edu/
abby mohaupt
Email Address: amohaupt@drew.edu Program Area: Religion and Society, ABD Research Interests: Climate Change; Social Movements; Religious leadership in the public sphere; Public Action; Critical Race Theory; Gender; Ecology; Reformed Theology Professional Website: www.abbymohaupt.com
Isabella Novsima
Email Address: inovsima@drew.edu Program Area: Theological and Philosophical Study of Religion Research Interests: Theology of Disability, Feminist Theology, Mental Health Studies, Disability Studies, Constructive Theology, Ecotheology, Theology of Trauma, Transpersonal Psychology, Christian Mystics
Janet Okang (Jane)
Email Address: jokang@drew.edu Program Area: Bible and Cultures 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
D. Scott Ostlund
Email Address: dostlund@drew.edu Program Area: Theological and Philosophical Study of Religion Research Interests: Christian Theological Ethics; Critical White Studies; U.S. Evangelical Studies; Liberation Theologies; Wesleyan-Methodist Studies
Erin Parks
Email Address: eparks@drew.edu Program Area: Theological and Philosophical Study of Religion Research Interests: Affect Theory; Racism and Whiteness; New Materialisms; Pantheologies; Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies
Brock Perry
Email Address: bperry@drew.edu Program Area: Theological and Philosophical Study of Religion, ABD Dissertation Title: Critical Spirituality Research Interests: Continental Philosophy; Gender and Sexuality Studies; History and Theories of the Secular and Critique; History of Christian Theology; Spirituality; Epistemologies of Truth; Activism and Social Change
Beth Quick
Email Address: bquick@drew.edu Program Area: Religion and Society Research Interests: Animal Studies; Christianity and Ecology; Ecogrief; Social Movements; Ecofeminism; Ecowomanism; Food Ethics
Dawrell Rich
Email Address: drich@drew.edu 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/
Brandan J. Robertson
Email Address: brobertson@drew.edu Program Area: Bible and Cultures Research Interests: Sexuality and Gender in the New Testament; Masculinity Studies; Queer Theology; the Greco-Roman World Professional Website:https://www.brandanrobertson.com
Kenia Vanessa Rodriguez
Email Address: krodriguez1@drew.edu Program Area: Religion and Society Research Interests: Liberation and Postcolonial Theologies; Decoloniality; Decolonial Feminist Theology; Mujerista Theology; Christian Social Ethics; Cultural Studies; Critical Race Theory; Bioethics in Latino/a communities
Rose Sharon
Email Address: rsharon@drew.edu Program Area: Theological and Philosophical Study of Religion 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 Professional Website:https://ingoodfaith.vision/
Dan Siedell
Email Address: dsiedell@drew.edu Program Area: Theological and Philosophical Study of Religion Research Interests: Theological implications of images and artistic practices; negative theology; theopoetics and creativity; new materialism; and the potential of curatorial practices for theological discourses.
Sin Lung Tong
ProgramArea: Bible and Cultures Research Interests: Hebrew Bible; Narrative Criticism; Affect Theory; Poststructuralism; Postcolonialism
AJ Turner
Email Address: aturner1@drew.edu Program Area: Theological and Philosophical Study of Religion Research Interests: Psychology of Religion; Epistemology; William James; Religious Naturalism; Sociocultural Psychoanalysis
Min Um
Email Address: mum@drew.edu Program Area: Theological and Philosophical Study of Religion Research Interests: Ecotheology; The Theology of Karl Barth; Process Thought; Liberation Theologies; Animal Ethics
Kelsey Erin Wallace
Email Address: kwallace1@drew.edu Program Area: Bible and Cultures, ABD 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 Professional Website:http://www.kelseyerinwallace.com/
Amiel H. Wayne
Program Area: Theological and Philosophical Study of Religion Research Interests: Philosophy of Religion; Phenomenology; Religion and Ecology; Aesthetics; Queer Theory Professional Website:https://amielhartwayne.wordpress.com/
Susan Woolever
Email Address: swoolever@drew.edu Program Area: Religion and Society, ABD Research Interests: Christian Social Ethics; Religious Ethic; Childist and Feminist Theory; Sexual Ethics; Trauma Theory; Mental Health
Yajenlemla
Email Address: yyajenlemla@drew.edu Program Area: Bible and Cultures Research Interests: New Testament Studies; Purity Culture; Postcolonial Biblical Criticism; Cultural Studies
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Elyse Ambrose
Email Address: eambrose@drew.edu 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 Professional Website:elyseambrose.com
Desmond D. Coleman
Email Address: dcoleman@drew.edu Program Area: Theological and Philosophical Studies in Religion Research Interests: Philosophical and Political Idealism; Africana Studies; Performance Studies
Gabriel C. Crooks
Email Address: gcrooks@drew.edu 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
Email Address: edunbar@drew.edu Program Area: Bible and 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 discourses; the role and impact of religion on individual and collective/cultural identities
Alice Kim
Email Address: akim5@drew.edu 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
Email Address: 777slee@gmail.com Program Area: Religion and Society Dissertation Title: “The Power of Communal Empathy: Moral Implications of Empathy from Psychological 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 Professional Website:www.linkedin.com/in/seong-hyun-rohe-lee
Rory McEntee
Email Address: rmcentee21@gmail.com 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
Austin Roberts
Email Address: aroberts2@drew.edu 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
Email Address: lsawyer@drew.edu Program Area: Religion and Society Research Interests: Feminist and Womanist social ethics; Sexual ethics; Youth and young adults; Evangelical purity culture; History of sexuality Professional Website:http://laurendsawyer.com/
Elizabeth Siegelman
Email Address: esiegelman@drew.edu Program Area: Bible and 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
Email Address: EThomas623@gmail.com Program Area: Bible and 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
Email Address: mthornton@drew.edu 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:maxthornton.me
O’neil Van Horn
Email Address: ovanhorn@drew.edu 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 Professional Website:http://ovanhorn.com