2020–21 Visiting Scholars
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Paul Conn
Lee University
Faculty Sponsor: David Hempton
Research Project: “Breaking Away: Political and Spiritual Desatellization in Evangelical College Students”
2019–20
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Hessam Dehghani
Boston University
Faculty Sponsor: Ousmane Kane
Research Project: The Political Physics of al-Ghazālī
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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
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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
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Erwan Dianteill (Spring 2017)
Professor, Université Paris Descartes-Sorbonne
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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”
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Heidi J. Hornik (Spring 2017)
Professor of Art History, Italian Renaissance & Baroque, Baylor University
Research project: “Illuminating John and The Art of Christian Reflection”
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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”
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Robert MacSwain
Associate Professor of Theology, The School of Theology, University of the South
Research project: “Incarnate Arguments: Human Lives as Evidence for God”
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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”
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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
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Outi Lehtipuu
Senior Research Fellow at the Academy of Finland
Research Project: "Women and the Legacy of Paul"
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Erman Gören
Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Istanbul, Turkey
Research Project: "The Synthesis of Apophatic and Kataphatic Theological Approaches"
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Alexander Görlach
Publisher and Editor-in-Chief, The European
Research Project: "Religious Identities As Origin of Today’s Global Conflicts"
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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"
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Andrew Poe
Assistant Professor of Political Sciences at Amherst College
Research Project: "The Border of Enthusiasm"
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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
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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"
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Leigh Gilmore
Independent Scholar
Research Project: "'How to Live in a Damaged Body': Mysticism, Gendered Embodiment, and Chronic Pain Memoirs"
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Dongsoo Kim
Professor of New Testament at Pyeongtaek University, Korea
Research Project: Research on the prophecy in the apocryphal writings
2013–14
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Leigh Gilmore
Independent Scholar
Research Project: " 'How to Live in a Damaged Body': Mysticism, Gendered Embodiment, and Chronic Pain Memoirs"
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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"
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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"
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Jerome C. Regier
Professor,Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research & Department of Entomology, University of Maryland
Research Project: "Religion and Science"
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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"
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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"