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Faculty Fellows: Jay Phillips Center for Interreligious Studies

Bringing their scholarly expertise to the Jay Phillips Center for Interreligious Studies (JPC) as a resource, Faculty Fellows contribute to the guidance of programmatic and collaborative initiatives that foster intellectual understanding of interreligious relations and interfaith understanding. An aim of the program is to integrate esteemed faculty into the center's activities, leveraging their scholarly expertise and leadership to help shape future directions.

Current Faculty Fellows

 

Associate Professor, Department of History

Areas of Expertise: Modern histories of Iran and Iraq


 

Adjunct Faculty, Department of Theology

Coordinator, Encountering Judaism Initiative

Areas of Expertise: Jewish Studies, Judaism, Midrash, and Scriptural Interpretation


 

Adjunct Faculty, Department of Theology

Areas of Expertise: Justice and Peace Studies, World Religions


 

Professor, Department of Ethics and Business Law

Opus Distinguished Professor of Principled Leadership

Areas of Expertise: Business ethics, humanities and business, meaningful work


 

Assistant Professor, Department of Theology

Area of Expertise: Islam


 

Assistant Professor, Department of Theology

Areas of Expertise: Latin American Catholicism and liberation theology, decolonial studies, comparative theology and method


 

Professor, Department of Theology

Areas of Expertise: Hinduism, Hindu-Christian relations, comparative theology, Mahatma Gandhi, Aurobindo Ghose


 

Director of the Jay Phillips Center for Interreligious Studies

Adjunct Faculty, Departent of Theology

Field: Interreligious Studies, Study of Religion(s), Theology

Areas of Expertise: Lived interreligious relations, religious identity, leadership, approaches to religious diversity, methods of dialogue