JDP Faculty Across Disciplines

Many JDP faculty members who trained in a variety of disciplines and are based in diverse departments at the 快活app focus on religion in their research, publication, and teaching.

  • Alejandro Cer贸n, Anthropology
    Alejandro Cer贸n

    Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology
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    厂辫别肠颈补濒颈锄补迟颈辞苍蝉:听Medical Anthropology, Applied Anthropology, Anthropology of Human Rights
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    Publications:

    • Ceron Valdes, M. (2023). Environmental and Social Factors Associated with High Chronic Kidney Disease Mortality Rates in Municipalities of Guatemala: An Ecological Study of Municipal-Level Mortality Data. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 20(8), 5532. Retrieved from .听
    • Cer贸n, Alejandro and Goldstein, Gila, "Mortalidad por accidente cerebrovascular en Guatemala 2018: patrones e inequidades" (2021). Anthropology: Faculty Scholarship. 35.
    • Cer贸n, Alejandro; Ramay, Brooke M.; M茅ndez-Alburez, Luis Pablo; and Lou-Meda, Randall, "Factors Associated With Chronic Kidney Disease of Non-Traditional Causes Among Children in Guatemala" (2021). Anthropology: Faculty Scholarship. 34.
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    • Cer贸n A. (2020). Practices, knowledge, and the next pandemic: A lesson from a failed participatory public health intervention. Somatosphere: Science, Medicine, and Anthropology. Retrieved from听听
    • Cer贸n, A. & Jerome, J. (2019). Engaging with the right to health: Ethnographic explorations of the right to health in practice. Medical Anthropology, 38(6), 459-463. Doi: 10.1080/01459740.2019.1639173


    Courses:
    Medical Anthropology
    Sex, Class and Race in Latin America
    Human Rights in Latin America
    Applied Anthropology
    Ethnographic Methods
    Research Methods in Anthropology
    Global Health
    The Social Determination of Health

    Professional听Label: medical anthropology, applied anthropology, anthropology of human rights, anthropology of development

    Email:听alejandro.ceronvaldes@du.edu 听
    Phone:听303-871-2683听
    Office:听快活app, Sturm Hall 131

  • Santhosh Chandrashekar, Communication Studies

    Associate Professor
    Department of Communication Studies
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    Specializations:听Critical Ethnic and Race Studies; South Asian American Studies; Critical Religious Studies; Lingayat Studies; Intersectional Hindu Studies; South Asian religious traditions; Intersections of Caste, Race, and Gender; Kannada Studies

    Publications:

    • De鈥渘aturalizing鈥 Tech Worker Discourses of Unfairness. Departures in Critical Qualitative Research 1 June 2019; 8 (2): 73鈥81. doi: .
    • "Engendering threat in the guise of protection: Orientalism and Sikh vulnerability," in听Journal of Multicultural Discourses, 12(4), 366-381.
    • Chandrashekar, S. (2018). Not a Metaphor: Immigrant of Color Autoethnography as a Decolonial Move. Cultural Studies 鈫 Critical Methodologies, 18(1), 72-79. .


    Courses:
    Modernity & Violence
    Colonialism/Race/Decolonization
    Race, Difference, & Social Struggles
    Feminist Theories
    Critical Sexuality Studies

    Professional Label:听Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, South Asian American Studies; Lingayat Studies; Intersectional Hindu Studies

    Email: santhosh.chandrashekar@du.edu 听
    Phone: 303-871-4313听
    Office: 快活app, Sturm Hall 292

  • Lynn Schofield Clark, Media, Film, and Journalism Studies
    Lynn Schofield Clark

    Distinguished Professor and Chair
    Department of Media, Film and Journalism Studies
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    Director of the Estlow International Center for Journalism and New Media

    Specializations:听Media; religion and culture; ethnography; community engaged research; social sciences and religion; journalism; U.S. families and digital media

    Publications:

    • co-authored with Regina Marchi, Young People & the Future of News听(Cambridge U Press, 2017).
    • The Parent App: Understanding Families in a Digital Age听(Oxford University Press, 2014)
    • Religion, Media and the Marketplace听(Rutgers University Press, 2007)
    • From Angels to Aliens: Teenagers, the Media, and the Supernatural听(Oxford University Press, 2005)


    Courses:
    Qualitative Research Methods
    Digital Media Studies
    Multicultural Journalism

    Professional Label:听Critical/Cultural Media Studies; Media, Religion, and Culture

    Email: lynn.clark@du.edu 听听
    Phone: 303-871-3984听
    Office: 快活app, Media, Film & Journalism Studies, Room 128
    Personal Website: 听

  • Lauren DeCarvalho, Media, Film, and Journalism Studies
    Lauren DeCarvalho

    Associate Professor
    Media, Film, and Journalism Studies
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    厂辫别肠颈补濒颈锄补迟颈辞苍蝉:听Film theory and criticism, pop culture/film/tv; intersection of gender, race, and other identity markers within television and film; media depiction of gender and economic issues in the workplace; on-screen and off-screen听 听 narratives of incarcerated women

    Publications:

    • DeCarvalho, L. J., & Mart峤穘ez-Carrillo, N. I. (2021). Crims and crooks: Automatization, communicative capitalism, fandom, and promotional campaigns for Wentworth. Critical Studies in Media Communication, 38(3), 211-224. Retrieved from听
    • DeCarvalho, L. J. (2021). Visible only behind bars: How indigenous Australian women reframe and reclaim their experiences on Wentworth. Women's Studies in Communication, 44(1), 65-80. Retrieved from听


    Courses:听film history, theory and criticism courses

    Professional Label:听feminist media studies, critical/cultural studies,
    film theory and criticism

    Email:听 lauren.decarvalho@du.edu听
    Phone:听303-871-3832
    Office:听快活app Mass Communications Building, 2490 S. Gaylord St. Denver, CO 80208

  • Rafael Fajardo, Emergent Digital Practices
    Rafael Fajardo

    Professor
    Undergraduate Director for Emergent Digital Practices Program; Founder, SWEAT Collaborative
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    厂辫别肠颈补濒颈锄补迟颈辞苍蝉:听Cultural Identity/Cultural Representation in Art and Digital Video Games, Socially Conscious Video Games

    Selected Exhibitions:
    2021 ReVisi贸n: A New Look at Art in the Americas, Denver Art Museum, Denver Colorado.
    2020 鈥淕arden del Rio Grande鈥 In Kepler鈥檚 Gardens, Ars Electronica, Linz Austria and online.
    2019 ScreenIt Stads Triennale, Hasselt, Belgium
    2018 Deep Roots an exhibition commemorating the 300th anniversary of the founding of San Antonio, Texas.
    2018 NextNewGames, Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jos茅, California.
    2017 Rafael Fajardo: Crossings, Emmanuel Gallery, Denver, Colorado.


    Courses:
    EDPX 4000 Digital Design Concepts
    EDPX 3110 Rapid Game Design & Prototyping
    EDPX 3115 Game Design: Paper to Digital
    EDPX 3120 Making Critical
    EDPX 3130 Making Educational Games
    EDPX 3710 Critical Game Cultures

    Professional Label: Critical Making; Socially Conscious Games; Games for Change; Design History; Media History

    Email:听rfajardo@du.edu 听听
    Phone:听303-871-7716听(EDP Program)
    Office:听快活app,听Sturm Hall 216
    Personal website: 听

  • Kelly Fayard, Anthropology
    Kelly Fayard

    Assistant Professor of Anthropology
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    Specializations: Native North America, kinship, race/biology/blood quantum, museums, Indigenous feminisms

    Publications:

    • Book manuscript. 听Fighting to Belong: Race, Kinship, and Community Among the Poarch Band of Creek Indians (In progress)
    • Back 鈥淧oarch鈥 Politics: States, 鈥渟tates,鈥 and Indigenous Sovereignty in Alabama. 听The Journal of Anthropology of North America. 听Forthcoming Fall 2021.
    • 鈥淒ecolonizing and Building Community鈥 in听The Academic鈥檚 Handbook听edited by Lori Flores and Jocelyn Olcott, 2020.
    • 鈥淣ative American Dance History and Powwow Styles鈥 in听Dance Pedagogy for a Diverse World: Culturally Relevant Teaching in Theory, Research and Practice听by Nyama McCarthy-Brown, 2017.
    • 鈥淐ollaboration with Family: Anthropological Work with the Poarch Band of Creek Indians.鈥澨Anthropology News, 2013.听听


    Courses: Anthropological Theory and Context, Indigenous Feminisms, Native North America, Exhibit Design, Anthropological Kinship, Natives in Film, Anthropological Methods

    Professional Label: Native North America, Indigenous feminism

    Email:听kelly.fayard@du.edu听
    Phone:听303-871-2679
    Office:听Sturm Hall, 2000 East Asbury Avenue Denver, CO 80208

  • Graham Foust, English
    Graham Foust

    Professor of English and Literary Arts, Associate Chair of English Department
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    Specializations:听Poetry, Poetics, Literary Theory

    Publications:

    • Foust, Graham W. Nightingalelessness. Chicago, IL, USA: Flood Editions, 2018.听.
    • Foust, Graham. Time Down to Mind. Chicago, Illinois, USA: Flood Editions, 2015.听.
    • Foust, Graham. To Anacreon in Heaven and Other Poems. Chicago, Illinois, USA: Flood Editions, 2013: 111听.
    • Foust, Graham. A Mouth in California. Chicago, Illinois, USA: Flood Editions, 2009: 96听.
    • Foust, Graham. Necessary Stranger. Chicago, Illinois, USA: Flood Editions, 2007: 65听.听


    Courses:
    Graduate Poetry Workshop
    Emily Dickinson, Wallace Stevens, and Robert Creeley
    Fraudulence, Error, and Doubt
    Prosody and Poetic Form
    The Density of Experience: 听Baudelaire, Benjamin, Bishop
    Marianne Moore and Laura Riding
    Paul Celan and Ernst Meister
    Rene Char and George Oppen
    Jack Spicer's Poetry and Poetics

    Professional Label:听Poetry, poetics, literary theory

    Email:听graham.foust@du.edu听
    Phone:听303-871-2896
    Office:听快活app, Sturm Hall 386C

  • Joshua Hanan, Communication Studies
    Joshua Hanan

    Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies
    Department of Communication Studies
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    Specializations:听Rhetorical Theory and Criticism; Political Economy of Rhetoric; Old and New Materialism; Cultural Studies; Science and Technology Studies; Neoliberalism; Governmentality; Biopolitics

    Publications:

    • Figures of Entanglement: Diffractive Readings of Barad, New Materialism, and Rhetorical Theory and Criticism. Co-edited with Chris Gamble. New York: Routledge. 2021.听
    • Communication and the Economy: History, Value and Agency. Co-edited with Mark Hayward.听New York: Peter Lang, 2014.
    • 鈥淧recarious Economies: Capitalism鈥檚 Creative Destruction in the Age of Neoliberal Campus Planning鈥 Co-authored with Phillip Goodwin, Rub茅n Casas, Ralph Cintron, Leslie L. Rossman, and Nick J. Sciullo.听Review of Communication 20.2听(2020): 152-160.
    • 鈥淐ritical & Rhetorical Ways of Knowing.鈥 Co-authored with Chris Gamble. In B. H. Spitzberg, D. J. Canary, and H. E. Canary (Eds.),听The Communication Capstone: The Communication Inquiry and Theory Experience (CITE)听(pp. 76-91). San Diego, CA: Cognella, 2020.


    Courses:
    Critical Cultural Approaches to Rhetorical Criticism
    Rhetoric and Materialism
    Rhetoric and Affect Theory
    Rhetoric and Critical Theory
    Performativity and/as Disability
    Rhetoric and Neoliberalism
    Rhetoric and Biopolitics
    Rhetoric and Technology

    Professional Label:听Rhetorical Theory, Rhetorical Theory and Criticism, Critical Theory and Cultural Studies, Rhetoric of Economics

    Email:听joshua.hanan@du.edu 听
    Phone:听303-871-4321
    Office:听快活app,听Sturm Hall, Room 297
    Personal website: 听

  • Annabeth Headrick, Art History
    Annabeth Headrick

    Associate Professor, Department of Art History;听Graduate Art History Advisor
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    Specializations:听Mesoamerican, Native North American, and Andean Art

    Publications:

    • Headrick, A., & Hoopes, J. W. (2022). Foreign Encounters: Warfare, Trade, and Status at Chichen Itza. In G. A. Braswell (Ed.), 3,000 Years of War and Peace in the Maya Lowlands: Identity, Politics, and Violence. Abington, UK: Routledge.
    • Headrick, A. (2022). Sacrifice and the Sun: The Aztec Calendar Stone and Its Origins. In J. G. Stauffer, B. T. Giles, & S. P. Lambert (Eds.), Archaeologies of Cosmoscapes in the Americas. Oxford, UK: Oxbow Books.
    • Headrick, A. (2018). The Osario of Chichen Itza: Where Warriors Danced in Paradise. In L. Wren, K. Spencer, C. Kristan-Graham, & T. Nygard (Eds.),听Landscapes of the Itza: Archaeology and Art History at Chichen Itza and Neighboring Sites听(pp. 198-225). Gainesville, Florida: University of Florida Press.
    • Headrick, A. (2007).听The Teotihuacan Trinity: The Sociopolitical Structure of an Ancient Mesoamerican City. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press.
    • Headrick, A. (2003). Butterfly War at Teotihuacan. In M. K. Brown & T. Stanton (Eds.),听Ancient Mesoamerican Warfare听(pp. 149-170). Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press.
    • Headrick, A. (1999). The Street of the Dead..It Really Was: Mortuary Bundles at Teotihuacan.听Ancient Mesoamerica, 10, 69-85.


    Courses:听Art of the Maya, Mesoamerican Art, Native North American Art, and Art of the Andes, contemporary Native North American art

    Professional Label: Art history, Precolumbian art

    Email:听annabeth.headrick@du.edu听
    Phone:听303-871-3574
    Office:听快活app,听Shwayder Art Building 111

  • W. Scott Howard, English
    Scott Howard

    Professor, English Department
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    Specializations:听Renaissance & Early Modern Literature and Culture; Modern & Postmodern American Poetry; Poetics & Historiography; Literary & Cultural Theory; Digital Humanities

    Publications:

    • Archive and Artifact: Susan Howe鈥檚 Factual Telepathy. Greenfield, MA: Talisman House, 2019.听听
    • Poetics and Praxis 鈥楢fter鈥 Objectivism. Ed. W. Scott Howard and Broc Rossell. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2018:听听听
    • 鈥淜atherine Philips鈥檚 Elegies and Historical Figuration.鈥澨Women鈥檚 Writing听24.3 (2017): 313-331. Routledge / Taylor & Francis online (2016):听听听
    • 鈥淲YSIWYG Poetics: Reconfiguring the Fields for Creative Writers & Scholars.鈥 The Journal of Electronic Publishing. Ed. Aaron McCollough. 14.2 (2011):听听听
    • 鈥淧rophecy, Power, and Religious Dissent.鈥 A History of Early Modern Women鈥檚 Writing. Ed. Patricia Phillippy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. 315-331.


    Courses: Shakespeare, Critical Essay, Susan Howe and Vulnerability, Documentary Poetics and Praxis, Poetics Research, 'After' Objectivism, the Matter of Revolution

    Professional Label:听modern and postmodern American poetry; Renaissance and early modern literature & culture; critical theory, poetics, and historiography; fine press & small press book arts; digital humanities.听

    Email:听showard@du.edu 听
    Phone:听303-871-2887
    Office:听快活app,听Sturm Hall 387E

  • Sarah Magnatta, Art and Art History
    Sarah Magnatta
    Assistant Professor of Global Contemporary Art
    School of Art and Art History, 快活app
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    Specializations: Global contemporary art, museum studies, Buddhist art history, Tibetan art history
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    Publications:
    • 2024听听听听 鈥淢arking Impermanence: The Life of the Object (and Index) in Sonam Dolma Brauen鈥檚 Art鈥 HIMALAYA 43 (2) Summer
    • 2023听听听听 鈥淩esonant Presence: Materiality and Memory in the work of Suchitra Mattai鈥 Art Journal (vol. 82 issue 1)
    • 2023听听听听 鈥淒isrupted Bodies and Regeneration鈥 in H.G. Masters and Elaine W. Ng, editors, Tales of Muted Spirits, Dispersed Threads, Twisted Shangri-La听(catalog for Nepal Pavilion at the Venice Biennale) Hong Kong: Art Asia Pacific听
    • 2022听听听听 鈥淭ibetan Self-Immolation in the Art of Tenzing Rigdol鈥 in Routledge Handbook of Asian Transnationalism, ed. Ajaya K. Sahoo
    • 2022听听听听 鈥淥ur Land, Our People: Reconsidering Site-Specificity in Exile鈥 (Journal of Aesthetics & Culture, Vol. 14 no. 1)
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    Courses:
    Buddhism(s) in Art听
    Global Contemporary Art听
    Sacred Arts of Asia
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    Professional Label: Global contemporary art, museum studies, Buddhist art history, Tibetan art history
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    Email: sarah.magnatta@du.edu
    Office: Shwayder room 238
    Personal Website: 听
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  • Daniel N. McIntosh, Psychology
    Daniel McIntosh

    Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychology
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    Specializations:听Social Psychology; Emotions; Coping; interested in Study of Spiritual Exercises

    Publications:

    • Van Tongeren, D. R., Pennington, A., McIntosh, D. N., Newton, A. T., Green, J. D., Davis, D. E., & Hook, J. N. (2017). Where, O death, is thy sting? The meaning-providing function of beliefs in literal immortality.听Mental Health, Religion, and Culture, 20, 413-427. doi 10.1080/13674676.2017.1355358 听
    • McIntosh, D. N., & Newton, A. (2013). An explicit request for minitheories in the psychology of religion and spirituality.听International Journal for the Psychology of Religion, 23(4), 261-270. doi:10.1080/10508619.2013.795805听
    • Van Tongeren, D. R., McIntosh, D. N., Raad, J. M., & Pae, J. (2013). The existential function of intrinsic religiousness: Moderation of effects of priming religion on intercultural tolerance and afterlife anxiety,听Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 52,508-523
    • McIntosh, D. N., Poulin, M. J., Silver, R. C., & Holman, E. A. (2011). The distinct roles of spirituality and religiosity in physical and mental health after collective trauma: A national longitudinal study of responses to the 9/11 attacks. 听Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 34, 497鈥507. DOI: 10.1007/s10865-011-9331


    Courses:
    Courses on Social Psychology with a focus on emotions and the psychology of religion

    Professional Label:听Social Psychology; Psychology of Religion

    Email:听daniel.mcintosh@du.edu听
    Phone:听303-871-2112
    Office:听快活app,听Nagel Hall 064

  • Paul Michalec, Education
    Paul Michalec

    Clinical Professor, Curriculum and Instruction
    Morgridge College of Education, 快活app

    Specializations:听Spirituality in education;听The inner life of educators;听Effective forms of instruction;听Foundations of education;听Educator coaching and mentoring

    Publications:

    • Michalec, P. (2016-2022). IN:SIGHT 听听 In this blog I explore the inner life of teaching as a profession and personally.
    • Michalec, P. (2022). Expanding the Landscape of Wholeness: The Spirituality of Teacher Preparation. Democracy and Education, volume 30, Number 2, pp. 1-7.听听
    • Riordan, D.; Michalec, P. & Newburgh, K. (2022). Kierkegaard and the Power of Existential Doubt in Teaching: Transformation of Self and Profession. In A. Zimmerman (Editor), Problematizing the Profession of Teaching from an Existential Perspective, Information Age Publishing.
    • Michalec, P. (2020). Disrupting the Disimagination Machine: Reflections on Courage in the Classroom. Professing Education. 18 (1&2); spring and summer.
    • Michalec, P. &. Newburgh, K. (2018). Deep Practices: Advancing Equity by Creating a Space and Language for the Inner Core of Teaching. Teacher Education & Practice. 31(1).
    • Michalec, P. & Brower, G. (2012).听 Soul and Role Dialogues in Higher Education: Healing the Divided Self.听 New Directions in Teaching and Learning, 130, 15-25.听
    • Michalec, P. (2002).听 A Calling to Teach: Faith and the Spiritual Dimensions of Teaching.听Encounter: Education for Meaning and Social Justice, 15, 5-14.


    Courses:听Introduction to Curriculum,听History of American Education,听Philosophy of Education,听Spirituality in Education,听Curriculum Theory Into Practice,听The Practice of Teaching,听Analysis of Teaching,听Transformational Teaching and Learning.

    Professional Label:听Education,听Holistic/prophetic tradition,听Professional development,听Courage to teach

    Email: Paul.Michalec@du.edu
    Phone: 303-871-7952
    Office: KRH-343, College of Education
    Personal website: 听

  • Bilha Moor, Art History
    Bilha Moor

    Assistant Professor of Islamic Art History
    School of Art and Art History
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    Specializations:听 Islamic art history, Islamic figurative painting, early Islamic Arabic inscriptions in architectural, historical, and religious contexts

    Publications:听

    • 鈥淓arly Qur鈥檃nic Epigraphy in Public Shrines.鈥 In Encyclopaedia of the Qur鈥檃n Online. Edited by Johanna Pink, Anne-Sylvie Boisliveau, Suleyman Dost, Saqib Hussain and Nimet 艦eker. Leiden: Brill, 2024.听
    • 鈥淪hah 鈥楢bbas I, the Safavid Concourse of the Birds, and the Reception of Ming One Hundred Birds听Compositions in Persian Painting.鈥 Artibus Asiae听82, no. 1 (2022): 51鈥99.
    • "The Jew, the Orthodox Christian, and the European in Ottoman Eyes, ca. 1550-1700." In听Disliking Others: Loathing, Hostility and Distrust in Pre-Modern Ottoman Lands. Edited by Hakan T. Karateke, H. Erdem 脟谋pa and Helga Anetshofer. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2018, pp. 75-106.
    • "Mosque and Church: Arabic Inscriptions at Shivta in the Early Islamic Period."听Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam (JSAI) 40听(2013), pp. 73-141.
    • 鈥淪hahnama Kings And Heroes In 'Aja'ib Al-Makhluqat Illustrated Manuscripts.鈥 In听Shahnama Studies Ii. The Reception Of Firdausi鈥檚 Shahnama. edited by Charles Melville and Gabrielle van den Berg. 267-80, and plates 23-26 Leiden: Brill. 2012.


    Courses:听
    Graduate Seminar on Islamic Illustrated Manuscripts
    History and Fantasy in Islamic Painting
    Mosques and Aniconism: Islamic Art & Architecture 650-1250
    Dragons and Sultans: Islamic Art & Architecture 1250-1700

    Professional Label:听Islamic Art History

    Email:听bilha.moor@du.edu 听
    Phone:听303-871-2451
    Office:听快活app,听Shwayder Art Building 听

  • Thomas Nail, Philosophy
    Thomas Nail

    Professor of Philosophy
    Department of Philosophy
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    Specializations:听European Philosophy; Political Philosophy; Environmental Philosophy, Process Philosophy, New Materialism

    Publications:

    • Theory of the Earth听(Stanford University Press, 2021)
    • Marx in Motion: A New Materialist Marxism (Oxford University Press, 2020)
    • Theory of the Image听(Oxford University Press, 2019)
    • Being and Motion听(Oxford University Press, 2018)
    • Theory of the Border听(Oxford University Press, 2016)


    Courses:
    Marxism
    Great Thinkers: Virginia Woolf
    Philosophy of Movement
    Between Deuluze and Foucault

    Professional Label:听Philosophy of Movement, Kinetic Philosophy

    Email:听thomas.nail@du.edu听
    Phone:听303-871-3272
    Office:听快活app,听Sturm Hall 261
    Personal website: 听

  • Marco J. Nathan, Philosophy
    Marco Nathan

    Professor听
    Chair of Department of Philosophy
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    厂辫别肠颈补濒颈锄补迟颈辞苍蝉:听Phil. of Science, Phil. of Biology, Phil. of Neuroscience, Psychology and Cognitive Science, Phil. of Mind and Language, Logic, Phil. of Economics, Metaphysics, Epistemology

    Publications:

    • Black Boxes: How Science Turns Ignorance into Knowledge (New York: Oxford University Press, 2021)
    • Rethinking Publications: Aging, Special Issue of History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences.听Co-edited with A. Blasimme and G. Boniolo, 2021.
    • `Prediction, Explanation, and the Toolbox Problem,' In J. Bickle, C. Craver, & A. Barwich,听The Tools of Neuroscience Experiment: Philosophical and Scientific Perspectives, New York: Routledge, in press.
    • `Mob Rules: Towards a Causal Account of Social Structure'听American Philosophical Quarterly, 59(1), pp. 11-26, 2022 (with A. Borghini)
    • `Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is? From Biological Age to Biological Time,'听History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences听43: 26, 2021.


    Courses:
    The Specter of Scientism; Topics in Metaphysics: Universals; Logic, Language, and Metaphysics; Philosophy of Economics; Philosophy of Mind; Philosophy of Science

    Professional Label:听Philosophy of science, philosophy of mind, metaphysics.

    Email:听marco.nathan@du.edu 听
    Phone:听303-871-2767听听
    Office:听快活app, Sturm Hall 264

  • Debora Ortega, Social Work
    Debora Ortega

    Professor;听Director, 快活app Latino Center for Community Engagement and Scholarship
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    Specializations:听culturally responsive practice, disparities, families and family systems, latina/latino populations, LGBTQIA, marginalized populations, race and ethnicity, racial justice, research methods, social justice

    Publications:

    • Co-authored with听Jennifer Propp and Forest NewHeart, "Independence or interdependence: Rethinking the transition from "ward of the court" to adulthood"听Families in Society听Vol. 84 (2), 2003, 295-266.
    • Co-authored with Yolanda Anyon, et.al., "An exploration of the relationships between student racial background and the school sub-contexts of office discipline referrals: A critical race theory analysis"听Race Ethnicity and Education听Vol. 21 (3), 2018, 390-406.
    • Co-authored with Lilia Cervantes, "The illness experience of undocumented immigrants with end-stage renal disease"听JAMA Internal Medicine听Vol.177 (4), 2017, 529-535.
    • "How much support is too much? Parenting efficacy and social support"听Children and Youth Services Review, 2002.听


    Email:听debora.ortega@du.edu 听
    Phone:听303-871-3359
    Office:听快活app, Craig Hall 477

  • Trishula R. Patel, History
    Patel

    Assistant Professor, Department of History
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    Specializations: African history, legal history, race and colonialism, South Asian history

    Publications:

    • 鈥淐olonial Pasts and African Futures: Indian Participation in Civil Society in Eastern and Southern Africa in the Twentieth Century,鈥 Georgetown Journal of International Affairs 23, no. 2 (2022): 161-168.
    • 鈥淭hree Times a State, Never a Nation: Indians in Rhodesia/Zimbabwe鈥 in Xenophobia, Nativism, and Pan-Africanism in 21st Century Africa, eds. Sabella Abidde and Emmanuel Matambo (New York: Springer, 2021).
    • 鈥淔rom the Subcontinent with Love: India and Activist Diplomacy in 20th Century Central Africa,鈥 Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East 41, no. 3 (2021): 455-468, .
    • 鈥淧layed out on the Edges of the Cricket Boundary: The History of an Indian Cricket Team in Rhodesia/Zimbabwe, 1934-1995,鈥 Journal of Southern African Studies 45, no. 3 (2019): 465-483, .
    • 鈥淚t鈥檚 Always Time for a Cheeky Nando鈥檚: The Global Journey of an African Cuisine,鈥 Perspectives on History 61, no. 6 (2023): . 听
    • 鈥溾楾wo Separate Societies, Divided by Color鈥: Race, Colonialism, and Bridgerton,鈥 Perspectives on History 60, no. 6 (2022): . 听
    • 鈥淔eeling Like an Interloper, But Claiming Space Anyway: The Minority Graduate Experience,鈥 Perspectives on History 59, no. 4 (2021): .听


    Courses:

    ASEM 2504: Land and Law in Africa听听
    FSEM 1111: Pop Culture in Africa听
    HIST 1260: Modern South Asian History听
    HIST 1705: Modern African History听
    HIST 2885: Migration, Mobility, and Movement in Africa听
    HIST 2940: Sports and Empire听
    HIST 2998: Issues in Comparative History听
    HIST 3275: The Past and Afterlives of Apartheid听

    Email:听 trishula.patel@du.edu听
    Phone:听303-871-2955听
    Office:听Sturm Hall 370

  • Trace Reddell, Emergent Digital Practices
    Trace Reddell

    Professor听
    Director of Emergent Digital Practices
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    Specializations:听Sound Studies, Digital Media Studies, Critical Theory, Popular Cosmology, Science Fiction Studies, Audiovisual Performance, Analog Synthesizers

    Publications/Performances:

    • Reddell, T. (2018).听The Sound of Things to Come: An Audible History of the Science Fiction Film. Minneapolis, MN, United States: University of Minnesota Press. Retrieved from听
    • 鈥淓thnoforgery and Outsider Afrofuturism,鈥 in听Dancecult: The Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture, Vol. 5, No. 2 (2013).
    • 鈥淐yborg Ritual and Sentic Technology in the Vortex Concerts,鈥 in听The Poetics of Space: Spatial Explorations in Art, Science, Music & Technology听(Sonic Acts Press, Paradiso, 2010).听
    • Reddell, T. E. (2018).听Linguistic Programming of Sonic Psychotechnologies @ Lafayette Electronic Arts Festival.听Lafayette, CO, USA.


    Courses听:
    Emergent Digital Cultures
    Pharmakomedia
    Sonic Science

    Professional Label:听Emergent Digital Practices

    Email:听treddell@du.edu
    Phone:听303-871-3874
    Office:听快活app, Sturm Hall 216B

  • Naomi Reshotko, Philosophy
    Naomi Reshotko

    Professor; Department of Philosophy
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    Specializations:听Ancient Greek Philosophy; Plato; Aristotle; Philosophy of Mind; Metaphysics; Epistemology

    Publications:

    • Reshotko, Naomi.听Socratic Virtue: Making the Best of the Neither Good nor Bad.听Cambridge , UK: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
    • Reshotko, Naomi. 鈥淥pining Beauty Itself in Republic V.鈥澨International Journal of the Platonic Tradition听14.1 (2020): 5-22.听.
    • Reshotko, Naomi. 鈥淧lato's Middle Period Epistemology.鈥澨The History Of Epistemology听Volume 1. Ed. Smith, Nicholas D. I. London/New York, UK/USA: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018.
    • Reshotko, Naomi. 鈥淧lato on the Ordinary Person and the Form.鈥澨Apeiron听47.2 (2014): 266-292.
    • Reshotko, Naomi. 鈥淎 Philosophical Model for the Assessing the Value of the Tamarisk.鈥澨Tamarix: A Case Study Of Ecological Change In The American West. Ed. Sher, Anna and Martin Quigley. Vol. 1. Oxford, UK: N.p., 2013: 308-315.


    Courses:听
    Plato's Metaphysics
    Great Thinkers: Aristotle
    Socratic Ethics

    Professional Label:听Ancient Greek Philosophy

    Email:听nreshotk@du.edu 听
    Phone:听303-871-2765
    Office:听快活app, Sturm Hall 489

  • Susan Schulten, History
    Susan Schulten

    Professor, Department of History; Department Chair
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    Specializations:听Nineteenth and Twentieth-century U.S. History; History of Maps.

    Publications:

    • A History of America in 100 Maps听(British Library Press/University of Chicago Press, October 2018).
    • 鈥溾橫ake the Map All White:鈥 The Meaning of Maps in the Suffrage and Prohibition Campaigns,鈥澨Colorado Law Review听v.92 n.3 (2021): 876-941.
    • 鈥淗ow Place Became Process: The Origins of Time Mapping in the United States,鈥 in听Time in Maps: from the age of discovery to our digital era, edited by Karen Wigen and Caroline Winterer (University of Chicago Press, 2020)
    • 鈥淢ap Drawing, Graphic Literacy and Pedagogy in the Early Republic,鈥澨History of Education Quarterly听v.57 n.2 (May 2017)


    Courses:
    American Thought and Culture

    Professional Label:听U.S. History, American political and cultural history, the history of mapping.

    Email:听sschulte@du.edu 听
    Phone:听303-871-2970
    Office:听快活app, Sturm Hall 361

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  • Marquisha Lawrence Scott, Social Work
    Marquisha Lawrence Scott

    Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Social Work
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    Specializations:听religious congregations and community engagement, congregational impact on youth outcomes, clergy continued education (e.g., globalization, climate change)

    Publications:

    • Scott, M.L. (in press). A well society: Embracing religious tenets in social welfare. In Neil Wollman & C.J. Love (Eds.), Is that Any Way to Run a Country. Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
    • Park, I.* & Scott, M.L. (2022). Understanding the ethnic self: A qualitative study of 1.5-generation Korean American adult immigrants. Journal of Ethnic and Cultural Studies, 9(2), 171-198.
    • Cnaan, R.A. & Scott, M.L. (2020). Personality, prosperity, priority, productivity, and piety: Selecting congregational valued lay leaders. Journal of Health & Human Services Administration, 43 (4), 382-405.
    • Scott, M.L. & Cnaan, R. (2020). Youth and religion in an age of global citizenship identification: An 18-country study of youth. Children and Youth Service Review.
    • Scott, M. L. & Cnaan, R. (2018).听 Religious congregations and poverty alleviation in the age of New Public Governance. Nonprofit Policy Forum, 8(4), 391-410.


    Courses:听Spirituality and Social Work (SOWK 4555); Community and Organizational Change Theory (SOWK 4370); Critical Approaches to Facilitating and Teaching: Anti-Racist, Feminist, and Queer Pedagogies (SOWK TBD)

    Professional Label: social work, religious congregations, community engagement.

    Email:听Marquisha.Scott@du.edu听
    Office:听快活app,听Craig Hall
    Personal website: 听

  • Elizabeth Sperber, Political Science
    Elizabeth Sperber

    Assistant Professor of Political Science, Department of Political Science
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    厂辫别肠颈补濒颈锄补迟颈辞苍蝉:听Religion and Politics (especially New Religious Movements); Political Economy of Development; Global Social Policy; Mixed Methods Research Design; democratization and democratic backsliding in sub-Saharan Africa

    Publications:

    • Deus ex Machina: The Politics of New Christian Movements in sub-Saharan Africa
    • Sperber, E., Hern, E. (2018) 鈥淧entecostal Identity and Citizen Engagement in Sub-Saharan Africa: New Evidence from Zambia.鈥澨Politics and Religion听11(4): 830-862
    • Sperber, E. 鈥淒emocratic Backsliding, Religious Institutions and the Constitution of Citizenship in Sub-Saharan Africa,鈥 in B. Bompani and C. Valois (Eds.) Christian Citizens and the moral regeneration of the African State: The relationship between religion, society and political transformation in Africa. Abingdon, UK: Ashgate, 2017.
    • Sperber, E., Sensoy Bahar, O., Ssewamala, F. (2018) Implications of Race and Concentrated Poverty for Asset Development Policy.听The Journal of Race and Policy, 13(1), 20-40.


    Courses:
    Democratic Erosion; Identity Politics in Comparative Perspective; Politicized "Ethnicity" In Comparative Perspective; Political Inquiry; Political Economy of Development; Comparing Politics Around the World

    Professional Label:听Religion and Politics in Sub-Saharan Africa; Political Economy of Development听

    Email:听Elizabeth.Sperber@du.edu 听
    Phone:听303-871-2138
    Office:听快活app, Sturm Hall 471
    Personal website: 听

  • Robert Urquhart, Economics
    Robert Urquhart

    Associate Professor, Department of Economics
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    Specializations:听History of Economic Thought; Economic History; Political Economy; Social Theory

    Email:听Robert.Urquhart@du.edu 听
    Phone:听303-871-2258
    Office:听快活app,听Sturm Hall 231

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