#  Past Visiting Scholars 

 



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## 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**](https://seaver.pepperdine.edu/academics/faculty/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**](https://www.raymondcarr.com/)  
    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**](https://profiles.rice.edu/faculty/anthony-pinn)  
    Agnes Cullen Arnold Professor of Humanities, Rice University

## 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 Visiting Scholars

- **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](https://www.umb.edu/directory/darrenkew/)  
    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](https://www.rwu.edu/academics/schools-and-colleges/fshae/faculty/sargon-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](http://www.baylor.edu/art/index.php?id=929156) (Spring 2017)  
    Professor of Art History, Italian Renaissance & Baroque, Baylor University  
    Research project: “Illuminating John and The Art of Christian Reflection”
- [Darren Kew](https://www.umb.edu/faculty_staff/bio/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](https://theology.sewanee.edu/faculty-staff/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](http://www.baylor.edu/religion/index.php?id=931782) (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"