Dr. Don Baker, PhD
Professor
Korean history, religion in Korea, the Kwangju (Gwangju) Democratization Movement of 1980,
Paul Burns
Professor Emeritus & Sessional Lecturer
Post-biblical Christianity to 6th century, religious tolerance, religion and literature, Augustine of Hippo, multidisciplinary approaches to the study of the Humanities
Robert Cousland
Associate Professor
Classical Greek mythology
Ross Labrie, PhD
Professor Emeritus
Catholic and American literature, Thomas Merton, Daniel Berrigan, Flannery O’Connor, Mary Gordon, Robert Lowell, Walker Percy
Daniel L. Overmyer, PhD, FRSC
Professor Emeritus
Chinese philosophy and religions, local religion in Chinese villages
Alain-Michel Rocheleau, PhD
Assistant Professor
French cinema, French and Quebecois theatre, Anglican Church and Roman Catholic Tradition
Dennis Danielson
Professor
Cosmology, science and religion, John Milton, Copernicanism
Robert Daum
Faculty Associate
Dialogue, public engagement, community engagement, conflict management,diversity, religion, Jewish law, Jewish ethics, gender, sexuality, rhetoric, equity, inclusion, religious authority, history of Judaism, Talmud, Bible, biblical interpretation, translation, cultural studies, ancient and medieval Hebrew literature, critical theory, creativity, innovation, racism
Paul G. Stanwood
Professor Emeritus
English Renaissance and 17th century literature, English Reformation and church history, Edmund Spenser, Richard Hooker, John Donne, The Metaphysical Poets, John Milton, early modern devotional poetry and prose, T.S. Eliot, opera
Ara Norenzayan, PhD
Professor
Social psychology, cultural psychology, evolutionary psychology, religion, culture, human cooperation, human universals, thinking across cultures
Jennifer Chan
Associate Professor
Transnational social movements, international and comparative education, Japanese civil society, Islam in multicultural societies
Richard Menkis
Associate Professor
Jews and Judaism in Canada, antisemitism in Canada, Canada and the Holocaust, Jewish historical memory and identity
Alex Fisher, PhD
Associate Professor
Music, religion, identity, ritual, medieval, renaissance, baroque, Germany, reformation, counter-reformation, Lutheranism, catholicism, sound
Roger Wilson
Professor Emeritus
Archaeology of the Roman world, especially Sicily, Britain and north Africa
Gage Averill, PhD
Dean
Popular music, Caribbean music, barbershop harmony, sound, music and power, music and politics, ethnomusicology, world music
Gregg E. Gardner
Assistant Professor
Diamond Chair in Jewish Law & Ethics
Judaism, Rabbinic Literature, Rabbinic Judaism, Mishnah, Talmud, Jewish Studies, Jewish Law, Jewish Ethics, Charity, Jewish Ethics, Archaeology of Israel, Archaeology and Hebrew Bible, Archaeology of Jerusalemn
Prof. Rumee Ahmed, PhD
Professor of Islamic Law
Religion, Islam, Muslims, Law, Sharia, Theology, Ethics, Human Rights,
Hani Faris, PhD
Adjunct Professor
Faculty Associate in the Institute of Asian Research
Middle East politics & governments, Arab politics & governments, Arab-Israeli conflict, Palestinian issue, politics of developing countries, Islam & Muslims
Dr Ayesha S. Chaudhry, PhD
Associate Professor
Islam, Muslims, religion, gender, human rights, intersectionality, race, family and children, discrimination, racism, Islamophobia, social justice
Edward Slingerland
Professor, Dept. of Asian Studies
Canada Research Chair in Chinese Thought and Embodied Cognition
Director, Cultural Evolution of Religion Research Consortium
Co-Director, Centre for the Study of Human Evolution, Cognition and Culture
Associate Member, Depts. of Philosophy and Psychology
Asian Studies, Chinese philosophy, philosophy, religion, religion and conflict, secularism, spontaneity, ethics, science-humanities integration, interdisciplinarity, interdisciplinary research