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Past Visiting Scholars

2020–21 Visiting Scholars

  • Paul Conn
    Lee University
    Faculty Sponsor: David Hempton
    Research Project: “Breaking Away: Political and Spiritual Desatellization in Evangelical College Students”

2019–20

  • Hessam Dehghani
    Boston University
    Faculty Sponsor: Ousmane Kane
    Research Project: The Political Physics of al-Ghazālī
  • Ilona Nord
    Institut für Evangelische Theologie und Religionspädagogik Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (Germany)
    Faculty Sponsor: Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza
    Research Project: Skimmed Diversity. Essays on Diversity/Inclusion and Religion in a Mediatized World

2017–18

  • Darren Kew
    Associate Professor and Chair, UMASS Boston Department of Conflict Resolution, Human Security, and Global Governance & Executive Director, Center for Peace, Democracy, and Development
    Research project: Assessing Interfaith Peacebuilding in Nigeria and Other Divided Societies

2016–17

  • Erwan Dianteill (Spring 2017)
    Professor, Université Paris Descartes-Sorbonne
  • Sargon George Donabed
    Associate Professor, Department of History and America Studies, Roger Williams University
    Research Project: “Of transcendence and immanence: Assyrian narratives of omnipresence, animals, endangered existence and hope”
  • Heidi J. Hornik (Spring 2017)
    Professor of Art History, Italian Renaissance & Baroque, Baylor University
    Research project: “Illuminating John and The Art of Christian Reflection”
  • Darren Kew
    Associate Professor and Chair, UMASS Boston Department of Conflict Resolution, Human Security, and Global Governance & Executive Director, Center for Peace, Democracy, and Development
    Research project: “Assessing Interfaith Peacebuilding in Nigeria and Other Divided Societies”
  • Robert MacSwain
    Associate Professor of Theology, The School of Theology, University of the South
    Research project: “Incarnate Arguments: Human Lives as Evidence for God”
  • Mikeal C. Parsons (Spring 2017)
    Professor and Macon Chair in Religion, Baylor University
    Research project: “Illuminating John and Rhetorical Criticism and the New Testament: A Primer”
  • Jennifer Schirmer
    Research Project: Mentalités of armed actors on both sides of conflicts—state security forces and non-state insurgents—with firsthand experience in Latin America, South Africa and the Philippines.

2015–16

  • Outi Lehtipuu
    Senior Research Fellow at the Academy of Finland
    Research Project: "Women and the Legacy of Paul"
  • Erman Gören
    Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Istanbul, Turkey
    Research Project: "The Synthesis of Apophatic and Kataphatic Theological Approaches"
  • Alexander Görlach
    Publisher and Editor-in-Chief, The European
    Research Project: "Religious Identities As Origin of Today’s Global Conflicts"
  • John H. Morgan
    Karl Mannheim Professor of the History and Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Graduate Theological Foundation
    Research Project: "The Spiritual Journey of a Solitary People: The Free Quakers of America"
  • Andrew Poe
    Assistant Professor of Political Sciences at Amherst College
    Research Project: "The Border of Enthusiasm"
  • Marie-Luise Raters
    Professor in Applied Ethics, Normative Ethics, Didactics and Methods of Ethics, and Philosophy of Religion at the University of Potsdam, Germany
    Research Project: "American Philosophy, Pluralism, and Ethics"

2014–15

  • Archbishop Francis Chullikatt (Fall)
    Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the United Nations
    Research Project: "Human Rights, Humanitarian Law, and Their Implementation on the Humanitarian Level"
  • Leigh Gilmore
    Independent Scholar
    Research Project: "'How to Live in a Damaged Body': Mysticism, Gendered Embodiment, and Chronic Pain Memoirs"
  • Dongsoo Kim
    Professor of New Testament at Pyeongtaek University, Korea
    Research Project: Research on the prophecy in the apocryphal writings

2013–14

  • Leigh Gilmore
    Independent Scholar
    Research Project: " 'How to Live in a Damaged Body': Mysticism, Gendered Embodiment, and Chronic Pain Memoirs"
  • Renate Jost (fall 2013)
    Professorin für feministische Theologie/Theologische Frauenforschung
    Augustana—Theologische Hochschule der evangelisch-lutherischen Kirche in Bayern
    Research Project: "The Christ Child: Customs, Religion, and Utopia; A Feminist Perspective"
  • Adele Reinhartz (spring 2014)
    Professor, Département des études anciennes et des sciences de religion, Université d'Ottawa/Department of Classics and Religious Studies, University of Ottawa
    Research Project: "The Gospel of John and the Parting of the Ways"
  • Jerome C. Regier
    Professor,Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research & Department of Entomology, University of Maryland
    Research Project: "Religion and Science"
  • Kuo-Yu (Teresa) Tsui
    Assistant Professor,Department of History and Graduate Institute of Religious Studies, National Chengchi University, Taiwan
    Research Project: "Asceticism in Early Christianity"
  • Ching Wah (Francis) Yip
    Associate Professor, Divinity School of Chung Chi College, Department of Cultural and Religious Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
    Research Project: "Christian Discourse with Chinese Characteristics: Protestant Theology in the Political and Cultural Context of China; 1980-2010"