Past Visiting Scholars

2022-23 Visiting Scholars

Susan Farist Butler
Laboratory for Probabilistic Reasoning, Psychology Department, Tufts University
Research projects: Climate and Morality in readings of contemporary and historical theology and thought; risks and ethics of climate stabilization methodologies; research on Rev. John Bishop (Balliol College Oxford, AB 1632, AM 1635) including his work as Minister, Stamford CT, 1644-1694 and his sermons preserved at Beinecke Rare Books Library, Yale.
Joi Carr
Professor of English and Film and Blanche E. Seaver Professor of Humanities and Teacher Education, Seaver College, Pepperdine University
Research project: the Codex Charles H. Long Papers Project
Raymond Carr
Research project: the Codex Charles H. Long Papers Project
Paul Conn
Research project: “Breaking Away: Political and Spiritual Desatellization in Evangelical College Students”
Anthony Pinn
Agnes Cullen Arnold Professor of Humanities, Rice University

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

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

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

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.

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"

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

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"