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Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture

Philip Goff (Executive Director)

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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Arthur Emery Farnsley, II (Associate Director)

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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Peter J. Thuesen (Director of Research)

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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Thomas J. Davis (Journal Managing Editor)

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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Rachel M. Wheeler (Program Director)

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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Rebecca Vasko (Program Coordinator)

Campus Address: CA 417
Phone: 274-3759
Fax: 317-278-3354
Email: ravasko@iupui.edu
Appointments: Program Coordinator, Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture
Website: www.iupui.edu/~raac

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Joy Sherrill (Secretary)

Campus Address: CA417
Phone: (317)274-8409
Fax: 278-3354
Email: mjsherri@iupui.edu
Appointments: Part-time Secretary

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