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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
Jay David Miller

Assistant Professor of English

Associate Director, Honors Program

Teaching and Research Interests

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

Faculty Fellows

Joseph Clair

Associate Provost, Division of Humanities & Honors

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
  • Public History
Ryan Dearinger

Professor of History

Faculty Fellow, ÄÛ²ÝÊÓÆµ 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, ÄÛ²ÝÊÓÆµ Fox University Apologetics Initiative

Faculty Fellow, ÄÛ²ÝÊÓÆµ 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 of Digital Programs & Academic Innovation

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

Teaching and Research Interests

  • Poetry Writing
  • World Literature
  • Literary Modernism
  • Aesthetic Theory
David Martinez

Associate Professor of Spanish

Director, Center for Study Abroad

Joel Mayward

Assistant Professor of Christian Ministries, Theology and the Arts

Faculty Fellow, ÄÛ²ÝÊÓÆµ Fox University Honors Program

Teaching and research interests

  • Christian ministry and leadership
  • Theology and the arts
  • Theology, philosophy, and popular culture
  • Youth ministry
  • Spiritual formation
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
Travis Pickell

Assistant Professor of Theology and Ethics

Chair, Department of Theology

Co-Director, Program for Leadership & Formation

Faculty Fellow, ÄÛ²ÝÊÓÆµ 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

Program Manager, First-Year Experience

Faculty Fellow, ÄÛ²ÝÊÓÆµ Fox University Honors Program

Teaching and Research Interests

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

Staff

Jasper Gerhardt

Jasper Gerhardt

Admissions Specialist, Honors Program

Helen Morse

Helen Morse

Administrative Assistant, Honors Program