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Department of Humanities & Religious Studies College of Arts & Letters

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Staff

Harvey Stark

Sabbatical Fall 2025, Associate Professor, Chair of the Humanities & Religious Studies Department

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  • Specialty & Interests: Islam, American Religion, Chaplaincy

Katrina Roose

Budget & Personnel Analyst

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Joel Dubois

Professor, Interim Chair Fall 2025

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Alexis Garcia

Scheduler and Instructional Resources Coordinator

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Brittany Gooley-Carson

ASA II

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Faculty

Kengo Akiyama

Lecturer

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  • Specialty & Interests: Bible; Judaism: Christianity

Marnie Binder

Lecturer

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Jeffrey Brodd

Professor

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Jillian Coleman

Lecturer

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Mary Doyno

Associate Professor

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  • Specialty & Interests: Medieval Europe; Church History; Sanctity

Peter Gough

Lecturer

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Maria Jaoudi

Professor

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  • Specialty & Interests: Mysticism; World Religions & Cultures; Spiritual Approaches to Ecology

Steven Karnes

Lecturer

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  • Specialty & Interests: Ancient Greece, Mythology

Brad Nystrom

Professor - Retired

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Amelia Ying Qin

Assistant Professor

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  • Specialty & Interests: China, East Asia

Josh Shahryar

Lecturer

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Scott Spitzer

Lecturer

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  • Specialty & Interests: Early Christian Art

Victoria Shinbrot

Professor, Graduate Coordinator

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Allison Solso

Lecturer

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Amna Salameh

Lecturer

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Renee St. Louis

Lecturer

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  • Specialty & Interests: Film and Television, American Studies, Violence

Mathias Warnes

Lecturer

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  • Specialty & Interests: Continental Philosophy, Classical & World Mythology, Spiritual Ecology

Brian Young

Lecturer

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Total Members: 23