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2017-2018 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2017-2018 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies Faculty


George Bailey, Associate Professor and Chair
(BA, MA, PhD, University of Miami)
Gerald Beaulieu, Assistant Teaching Professor
(BA, University of Manitoba; MA, University of Manitoba; PhD, McGill University)
John Collins, Associate Professor
(BA, Carleton College; MA, CPHIL, PhD, University of California at Santa Barbara)
Kathy Barrett Dawson, Teaching Assistant Professor 
(BA, Mercer University in Atlanta; MDivBL, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary; ThM, Duke Divinity School; PhD, Duke University)
Kenneth Ferguson, Associate Professor
(BA, West Virginia Wesleyan; MA, Louisiana State University; MA, PhD, University of Rochester)
Nicholas Georgalis, Professor
(BA, University of Minnesota; MA, Lehigh University; PhD, University of Chicago)
Henry Jacoby, Teaching Professor
(BA, MA, Ohio State University; PhD, University of Southern California)
Lee Johnson, Associate Professor
(BS, Kansas State University; BS, Manhattan Christian College; MA, Moravian Theological Seminary; PhD, University of St. Michael’s College, University of Toronto)
Derek Maher, Associate Professor and Associate Dean, Harriot College of Arts and Sciences
(BA, BS, The Evergreen State College, Olympia, Washington; MA, PhD, University of Virginia)
Richard McCarty, Professor
(BA, Northwest Nazarene College; MA, PhD, University of Missouri)
Calvin R. Mercer, Jr., Professor
(BA, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; MA, East Carolina University; MDiv, ThM, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary; PhD, Florida State University)
Richard Miller, Associate Professor
(BA, Villanova University; MPhil, PhD, Rutgers University)
Jay Newhard, Associate Professor
(BA, University of California at Santa Barbara; MS, Pennsylvania State University; AM, PhD, Brown University)
Mary Nyangweso, Associate Professor and Director, Religious Studies Program
(BA, Kenyatta University; MPhil, Moi University; ThM, Candler School of Theology, Emory University; PhD, Drew University)
Rodney C. Roberts, Associate Professor
(AA, Leeward Community College (Hawaii); BGS, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis; MA, PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison)
James LeRoy Smith, Professor
(BA, MA, Pennsylvania State University; PhD, Tulane University)
Michael L. Veber, Associate Professor
(BA, University of North Florida; MA, University of South Florida; PhD, University of Miami)
Edmund Wall, Associate Professor
(BA, Brandeis University; MA, Boston College; PhD, University of California, Santa Barbara)
Umit D. Yalcin, Associate Professor
(BA, Bosphorus University; MA, PhD, University of California, Berkeley)