IU School of Liberal Arts at IUPUI: Faculty & Staff Directory

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Religious Studies

Peter J. Thuesen (Chair)

Campus Address: CA 417D
Phone: (317)274-5942
Fax: (317)278-3354
Email: pthuesen@iupui.edu
Appointments: Professor of Religious Studies
Chair, Department of Religious Studies
Co-Editor, Religion and American Culture
Academic Interests: United States religious history, the Bible in American culture, history of Christian thought since the Reformation, history of the book in colonial British America, race and religion in American history

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Deborah Dale (Administrative Secretary)

Campus Address: CA 335
Phone: (317)274-1465
Fax: 317-278-1325
Email: ddale@iupui.edu
Appointments: Administrative Secretary

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David M. Craig (Undergraduate Advisor)

Campus Address: CA 335A
Phone: 274-3689
Email: davcraig@iupui.edu
Appointments: Associate Professor of Religious Studies
Adjunct Faculty in Philanthropic Studies
Academic Interests: History of religious and secular traditions of moral thought in the west, economic and environmental ethics, religion and politics, religion and social theory, health care ethics, comparative religious ethics

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C. Conrad Cherry (Retired)

Campus Address: CA 341
Appointments: Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies
Academic Interests: American religious history, and the teaching and practice of religion in American colleges and universities
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Matthew G. Condon

Campus Address: CA 335
Phone: (317) 278-1326
Fax: (317) 278-1325
Email: mgcondon@iupui.edu
Appointments: Lecturer
Academic Interests: Religion and Violence, Religious Identity and Ethics, Religion and Literature, Modern Religious Thought

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Edward E. Curtis, IV

Campus Address: CA 335
Phone: (317)278-1683
Fax: (317) 278-1325
Email: ecurtis4@iupui.edu
Appointments: Millennium Chair of the Liberal Arts; Professor of Religious Studies; Adjunct Professor of American Studies.
Website: http://liberalarts.iupui.edu/rel/curtisweb/curtishome.htm
Academic Interests: Muslim American and African American history; Islam in the African Diaspora; modern Middle East; religion and politics.

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Thomas J. Davis

Campus Address: CA 417
Phone: (317)274-8297
Fax: (317)278-3354
Email: iock100@iupui.edu
Appointments: Professor of Religious Studies
Managing Editor of Religion and American Culture: A Journal of Interpretation
Professor of Philanthropic Studies

Academic Interests: History of Christianity, Reformation history and thought, the Eucharist and exegesis in sixteenth-century Europe, images of John Calvin in American culture, Religion and Philanthropy

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Arthur Emery Farnsley, II

Campus Address: CA 417
Phone: (317)278-6491
Email: afarnsle@iupui.edu
Appointments: Research Professor of Religious Studies
Associate Director of the Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture
Website: http://www.artfarnsley.com
Academic Interests: Religious organizations and religion's impact on other organizations
Faith-based welfare reform
Religion and Politics

Teaching: Comparative Religion

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Johnny P. Flynn

Email: jopflynn@iupui.edu
Appointments: Assistant Professor of Religious Studies
Director of Native American Programs
Academic Interests: Colonial American History; Native American Religions

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Philip Goff

Campus Address: CA 417G
Phone: (317)274-8410
Fax: (317)278-3354
Email: pgoff@iupui.edu
Appointments: Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Programs
Director of the Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture
Professor of Religious Studies and American Studies
Website: http://www.iupui.edu/~raac/
Academic Interests: American Religious History

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Kelly E. Hayes

Campus Address: CA 335E
Phone: (317) 278-2639
Fax: (317)278-3354
Email: keehayes@iupui.edu
Appointments: Associate Professor of Religious Studies
Adjunct Associate Professor of Women's Studies
Adjunct Associate Professor of Africana Studies

Academic Interests: Afro-Brazilian and Afro-diasporan religions; Women & religion; Gender/Sexuality and religion; Possession religions; Ritual studies.

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William J. Jackson (Retired)

Campus Address: CA 335 B
Phone: (317)274-7643
Fax: 317-278-3354
Appointments: Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies
Academic Interests: Comparative study of religion, Asian arts and literature, South Indian bhakti (devotion) in the lives and works of singer-saints; and Fractal Geometry in the Humanities - recursive patterns in music, literature, art, and architecture.

Hindu Temple Fractals
For All Fractal Purposes
Gandhi's Art of Nonviolently Transforming Evil

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Andrea R. Jain

Campus Address: CA 335E
Phone: (317)274-1721
Fax: 317-278-1325
Email: andrjain@iupui.edu
Appointments: Assistant Professor of Religious Studies
Academic Interests: Primary areas of research and teaching are South Asian religions and the social-scientific study of religion, with a focus on religion and the body. More specifically, research interests include the transnational construction and global dissemination of Hindu and Jain schools of modern yoga, as well as the comparative study of ascetic dimensions of yoga, especially with regard to food and sexuality.
Teaching: Teaching areas include Asian religions, social-scientific methods and theories in the study of religion, as well as sexuality and religion. Course offerings for the 2010-2011 academic year include Introduction to Religion, Hinduism and Buddhism, and Asian Religions in America.

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Stephan N Kory

Campus Address: CA335
Phone: (317)274-1465
Email: skory@indiana.edu
Appointments: Visiting Lecturer in Religious Studies Part-time Lecturer (IUB)
Academic Interests: East Asian religious and cultural history; Chinese religion; classical Chinese literature; medieval Chinese history; divination and mantic culture
Teaching: Introduction to Religion (REL R133) Modern East Asia (EALC E252)

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E. Theodore Mullen, Jr.

Campus Address: UC 3140D/CA 335B
Phone: (317) 274-5941
Fax: 274-2365
Email: emullen@iupui.edu
Appointments: Professor of Religious Studies
Academic Interests: biblical studies with special emphasis upon Hebrew bible, ancient Near Eastern cultures, languages, and religion,religious literature and ethnic identity, and social world formation and maintenance

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Jan Shipps (Retired)

Appointments: Professor Emerita of History and Religious Studies and
Senior Research Associate for the POLIS Center 1995-present
Academic Interests: history of American religion, religions in the making, religion in urban America, and Mormonism
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Joseph Lennis Tucker Edmonds

Campus Address: CA504E
Phone: (317)274-7366
Fax: (317)278-9942
Email: jtuckere@iupui.edu
Appointments: Assistant Professor of Africana Studies and Religious Studies
Academic Interests: African and African American Religions, Religion and Globalization, Liberation Theology, Womanist Theology, Alternative Christianities, New Religious Movements in the African Diaspora
Teaching: Religion and the Politics of Dissent in the African American Experience, Comparative Liberation Theologies, Comparative Religions

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Rachel M. Wheeler

Campus Address: CA 417
Phone: (317)274-7394
Fax: (317)278-3354
Email: wheelerr@iupui.edu
Appointments: Associate Professor of Religious Studies
Academic Interests: American religious history, colonial American history, Native American religions

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