Director of General Education
Coordinator of Integrative Seminars and LCSR

434.544.8268
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Education

• PhD, Hebrew Bible — Emory University
• MDiv — Union Theological Seminary in Virginia
• BA,  Bible/Religion and English majors, Philosophy minor, summa cum laude — Erskine College

Awards

• Faculty Engagement Program (a grantee of the AAC&U), Gonzaga University, 2009-2010
• Washington State Campus Compact Learn and Serve America Leadership Fellow, 2009
• Gonzaga Service-Learning Junior Faculty of the Year, 2009
• Nomination for Service-Learning Faculty of the Year, 2008
• Emory University, Graduate Scholarship and Stipend, 1995-1999
• Union Theological Seminary Faculty Fellowship for further Graduate Study, 1994
• Mildred Sullivan Award, Erskine College, 1990
• Adjunct faculty: Xavier University, Cincinnati, Ohio (Jan 2000- May 2001): Old Testament Theology; Theological Foundations
• Teaching Associate: Candler Theological Seminary, Emory University, Ga. (Spring 1997): History of Israel and Judah with Dr. J. Maxwell Miller

What are you passionate about?

Primary Hebrew Bible: Literature, Methods, Criticism, and Historical Contexts; Early Jewish Apocalyptic Literature, Movements, Theology; Theological Interpretations of the Hebrew Bible; Feminist Criticism of the Hebrew Bible. Secondary New Testament; Early Christian Apocalyptic Literature; Comparative Approaches to Biblical and ANE Myth (especially Canaanite Myth); The Dead Sea Scrolls; Theological Foundations; The Bible and Popular Culture; Religion: Comparative approaches to Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.