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Faculty & Staff

Core Faculty

Isaac Choi

Isaac Choi, PhD

Director, Honors Program

Associate Professor of Philosophy

Teaching and research interests

  • Philosophy of religion and analytic theology
  • The nature and epistemology of expertise
Jason Lepojärvi

C.S. Lewis Associate Professor of Theology & Literature

Director, C.S. Lewis Initiative

Teaching and research interests

  • The Inklings (C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, and friends)
  • Love in religion, philosophy, and literature
  • Ethics
Ross McCullough

Associate Director, Honors Program

Associate Professor of Theology

Teaching and research interests

  • Eschatology
  • Creation
  • The Eucharist
  • Late scholasticism
Jesse Peterson

Assistant Professor of Biblical Studies

Teaching and research interests

  • Biblical literature, languages, and interpretation
  • Ecclesiastes/Qoheleth and wisdom literature
  • Philosophy in dialogue with biblical texts
Dana  Robinson

Assistant Professor of History and Theology

Associate Director, Honors Program

Principal Investigator & Program Director, Liberation Scholars

Teaching and research interests

  • Ancient Mediterranean History
  • Early Christianity
  • Food, work, and everyday religion in late antiquity
Jay David Miller

Assistant Professor of English

Interim Director, Honors Program

Teaching and Research Interests

  • Early American literature
  • The Atlantic World
  • Theology and literature
  • Literature and the environment
  • Quakerism

Faculty Fellows

Joseph Clair

Associate Provost, Division of Humanities, Honors, and Education

Professor of Theology and Culture

Teaching and research interests

  • Christian thought and ethics
  • The role of religion in public life
Caitlin Corning

Chair, Department of History and Politics

Professor of History

Teaching & Research Interests

  • Early Medieval church history
  • Late Antiquity
  • Sub-Roman Britain
Ryan Dearinger

Professor of History

Faculty Fellow, Â鶹´«Ã½ Fox University Honors Program

Teaching & Research Interests

  • The American West and Pacific Northwest
  • Immigration, labor and working-class history
  • Environmental history
  • Violence in American history
Andrew del Rio

Assistant Professor of Philosophy

Director, Â鶹´«Ã½ Fox University Apologetics Initiative

Faculty Fellow, Â鶹´«Ã½ Fox University Honors Program

Teaching and research interests

  • Philosophy of Religion and Apologetics
  • Epistemology
  • Ethics
  • Philosophy of Science
  • Analytic Philosophical Theology
Brian Doak

Brian Doak, PhD

Vice President, Â鶹´«Ã½ Fox Digital

Professor of Biblical Studies

Teaching and research interests

  • Hebrew Bible/Old Testament & language
  • Archaeology of the ancient Near East
  • Comparative religion in the ancient world
  • Iconography and art history of the ancient Near East
Brooks Lampe

Associate Professor of Language and Literature

Honors Teaching Fellow

Ekaterina Lomperis

Richard B. Parker Assistant Professor of Theology and Wesleyan Thought

David Martinez

Associate Professor of Spanish

Director, Center for Study Abroad

Joel Mayward

Assistant Professor of Christian Ministries, Theology and the Arts

Teaching and research interests

  • Christian ministry and leadership
  • Contextual and liberation theologies
  • Theological aesthetics
  • Theology, philosophy, and popular culture
  • Continental philosophical theology
Travis Pickell

Assistant Professor of Theology and Ethics

Director, Cornerstone Core and Character Virtue Initiative

Faculty Fellow, Â鶹´«Ã½ Fox University Honors Program

Research and teaching interests

  • Ethics
  • Theology
  • Religion and Medicine
  • Technology
  • Pluralism and Public Life
Rebecca Sandberg

Assistant Director, Division of Humanities, Honors, & Education

Faculty Fellow, Â鶹´«Ã½ Fox University Honors Program

Teaching and Research Interests

  • Liberal arts and culture
  • Great Books
  • Writing and rhetoric pedagogy (fiction)
  • Organizational leadership/human development

Staff

Helen Morse

Helen Morse

Administrative Assistant, Honors Program

Madeleine Teel

Madeleine Teel

Admissions Specialist