Faculty & Staff
Announcements
Spring 2025 Faculty Office Hours
Important Contacts
Drew Thomases - Department Chair & Advisor
Associate Professor
Office: AL-662B
Email: [email protected]
Cindy Tu - Administrative Coordinator
Office: AL-662 | Phone: (619) 594-1003
Email: [email protected]
Current Faculty
Rebecca Bartel
Associate Professor
Office: AL-665
Email: [email protected]
Areas of interest: Christianity, religion and political economy, Latin American and Latino/a religions
Angela Feres
Lecturer
Office: AL-636
Email: [email protected]
Areas of interest: Reformations, History of Christianity, Medieval Christianity, World Religions
Brad Kirkegaard
Lecturer
Office: AL-664
Email: [email protected]
Areas of interest: Bible, Early Christianity, archaeology of religion
Scott Meltzer
Lecturer
Office: AL-636
Email: [email protected]
Areas of interest: Judaism, Bible
Kirk Sandvig
Lecturer
Office: AL-664
Email: [email protected]
Areas of interest: World Religions, Japanese Religions, Christianity in Japan
Drew Thomases
Associate Professor
Office: AL-662B
Email: [email protected]
Areas of interest: Anthropology of religion, South Asian religions, globalization
Esra Tunc
Assistant Professor
Office: AL-672
Email: [email protected]
Areas of interest: Islamic studies; religion and economy; anthropology of religion
Roy Whitaker - On Sabbatical (Spring 2025)
Associate Professor
Office: AL-670
Email: [email protected]
Areas of interest: Africana and European Philosophy of Religion; Existentialism; Emergent and Alternative Religions and Spiritualities; Humanism; Black Religious Pluralism; Comparative Religion and Philosophy; Theory and Method
Emeriti Faculty
Christine R. Downing
Professor Emerita, Ph.D., Drew University
Email: [email protected]
Christopher J. Frost
Professor Emeritus, Ph.D., Boston University
Email: [email protected]
John L. Gillman
Lecturer Emeritus
Email: [email protected]
Wilburn Hansen
Associate Professor Emeritus, Ph.D. Stanford
Email: [email protected]
Linda D. Holler
Professor Emerita, Ph.D., Vanderbilt University
Email: [email protected]
Risa Levitt
Professor Emerita, Ph.D., University of California, San Diego
Email: [email protected]
Pam Fox Kuhlken
Lecturer Emerita, Ph.D., U.C. Riverside
Email: [email protected]
Rebecca Moore
Professor Emerita, Ph.D., Marquette University
Email: [email protected] | Website
Irving Alan Sparks
Professor Emeritus, Ph.D., Claremont Graduate University
Email: [email protected]
Lori Stewart
Lecturer Emerita
Email: [email protected]
Sthaneshwar Timalsina
Professor Emeritus, Ph.D., Martin Luther University