AAR-WR Unit Chairs
Updated April 24, 2018
Master Record
UNIT
CHAIR(S)
EMAIL ADDRESS
INSITITIONAL
AFFILIATION
YEA
R
American Asian
Religious
Studies
Thien-Huong T.
Ninh, PhD
Cosumnes River College
2019
Claremont School of
Theology
2019
U of Arizona, Tucson
2021
UC Santa Barbara
2019
UC Santa Barbara
2019
Justin Claravall*
(needs rector
approval, Jul
’18)
GTU, Berkeley
2021
Sarah RobinsonBertoni, PhD
m
Santa Clara University
2019
Mathew
Hartman, PhD
student
Graduate Theological Union,
Berkeley
2021
Melissa James,
PhD
Independent scholar
2019
Philip Riley,
PhD
Santa Clara University
2019
Chad Bogosian,
PhD
Grand Canyon University
2020
Joshua Beckett,
PhD student
Fuller Theological Seminary
2021
Meridian University,
Petaluma
2021
Graduate Theological Union,
Berkeley
2019
Jeongyun April
Hur, PhD student
Buddhist Studies Alison Jameson,
PhD
Jake Nagasawa,
PhD student
Catholic Studies Eva Braunstein,
PhD student
Ecology and
Religion
Education and
Pedagogy
Ethics
Goddess Studies Angela Sells,
PhD
Emily
Silverman, PhD
Graduate
Student
Professional
Development
History of
Christianity
Indigenous
Religions
Islamic Studies
Jewish Studies
Latina, Latino,
and Latin
American
Religion
Nineteenth
Century
Jonathan Lee,
PhD
San Francisco State
University
2021
Joseph Paxton,
PhD student
Claremont School of
Theology
2021
Dyron
Daughrity, PhD
Pepperdine University
u
2021
David M.
Houghton,
PhD student
Fuller Theological Seminary
2020
Brian
Clearwater,
PhD
Occidental College
2021
Cecilia Titizano,
PhD cand.
Graduate Theological Union
2021
Kevin
Whitesides, PhD
student
u
UC Santa Barbara
m
Souad Ali,
PhD
Arizona State University,
Tempe
2019
Sophia Pandya,
PhD
CSU Long Beach
2019
Roberta Sabbath,
PhD
University of Nevada
2020
Victoria
Ballmes,
PhD candidate
UC Santa Barbara
2019
Leigh Ann
Hildebrand,
PhD student
Graduate Theological Union
2019
Daisy Vargas,
PhD candidate
UC Riverside
2019
Lauren Frances
Guerra, PhD
UC Los Angeles
2020
Christina
Littlefield, PhD
Christina.Littlefield@pepperdin
e.edu
Pepperdine University
2019
2019
Pagan Studies
Philosophy of
Religion
Psychology,
Culture, and
Rel.
Queer Studies
in Religion
Religion,
Science, and
Technology
Religion and
Social Sciences
Religion and
the Arts
Religion in
America
Dorothea
Kahena Viale,
PhD
Cal Poly Pomona
2019
Michelle Mueller
Santa Clara University
2020
Dane Sawyer,
PhD
University of LaVerne
2021
Olga
LouchakovaSchwartz, PhD
UC Davis/Jesuit School of
Theology
2021
Casey Crosbie
PhD student
Claremont School of
Theology/Claremont
Graduate University
2020
Yuria Celidwen,
PhD student
Pacific Graduate Institute
2019
Marie Cartier,
PhD
Adjunct UCI and CSUN
2020
John Erickson,
PhD candidate
Claremont Graduate
University
2020
Enrico
Beltramini, PhD
Notre Dame de Namur
University
Proba
tion
ends
2019;
1
panel
Marianne
Delaporte, PhD
Notre Dame de Namur
University
Proba
tion
ends
2019;
1
panel
Rebecca Sager,
PhD
Pepperdine University
2021
Valentina
Cantori, PhD
USC
2021
Roy Whitaker,
PhD
San Diego State University
2019
Tamisha Tyler
Fuller Theological Seminary
2021
Konden R.
Smith, PhD
Arizona State University
2021
Religion,
Literature,
and Film
Nathan
Fredrickson,
PhD candidate
UC Santa Barbara
2019
Cristina Rosetti,
PhD candidate
University of California,
Riverside
2020
Emmanuela
Patrice, PhD
CSU Long Beach
2019
Jon R. Stone,
PhD
CSU Long Beach
2019
Visiting Scholar, Institute of
Buddhist Studies
2019
Anna Hennessey,
Religions of Asia PhD
Womanist/PanAfrican
Women and
Religion
Michael
Reading, PhD
student
Claremont School of
Theology
2019
Valerie MilesTribble, DMin
PhD
American Baptist Seminary
of the West
2020
Ineda Adesanya,
PhD student
Graduate Theological Union
2020
Sakina YoungScaggs, PhD
candidate
ASU Tempe
2019
Sara Frykenberg,
PhD
Mount St. Mary’s University
2021
Jenny Matheny,
PhD candidate
University of Kent
2021
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