AAR-WR Unit Chairs
Updated June 1, 2017
Master Record
UNIT
CHAIR(S)
EMAIL ADDRESS
INSITITIONAL
AFFILIATION
YEA
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American Asian
Religious Studies
Thien-Huong T.
Ninh, PhD
Cosumnes River College
2019
Jeongyun April
Hur, PhD student
Claremont School of Theology
2019
Alison Jameson,
PhD
University of Arizona, Tucson
2018
Jake Nagasawa,
PhD student
UC Santa Barbara
2019
Eva Braunstein,
PhD student
UC Santa Barbara
2019
Kolby Knight,
PhD student
UC Santa Barbara
2018
Sarah RobinsonBertoni, PhD
Santa Clara University
2018
Kimberly Carfore,
PhD student
California Institute of Integral
Studies
2018
Melissa James,
PhD
Independent scholar
2019
Philip Riley
Santa Clara University
2018
Chad Bogosian,
PhD
Grand Canyon University
2020
Gregory Bock,
PhD
University of Texas at Tyler
2019
Angela Sells,
PhD
Meridian University, Petaluma
2018
Lauri Ramey, PhD
CSU Los Angeles
2018
San Diego State University
2017
Chase Laurelle
Way,
PhD candidate
Claremont Graduate University
2018
David M.
Houghton,
PhD student
Fuller Theological Seminary
2020
Buddhist Studies
Catholic Studies
Ecology and
Religion
Education and
Pedagogy
Ethics
Goddess Studies
Graduate Student Roy Whitaker,
Professional
PhD
History of
Christianity
Indigenous
Religions
Islamic Studies
Jewish Studies
Latina, Latino,
and Latin
American
Religion
Nineteenth
Century
Pagan Studies
Philosophy of
Religion
Psychology,
Culture, and Rel.
Queer Studies
in Religion
Brian Clearwater,
PhD
Occidental College
2018
Kevin Whitesides,
PhD student
UC Santa Barbara
2018
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
Tom Evans,
PhD candidate
Claremont Graduate University
2019
Christina
Littlefield, PhD
du
Pepperdine University
2019
Matthew Crabb,
PhD student
Graduate Theological Union
2018
Dorothea Kahena
Viale, PhD
Cal Poly Pomona
2019
Michelle Mueller
Santa Clara University
2020
Dane Sawyer, PhD
University of LaVerne
2018
Paul Rodriguez,
Ph.D. candidate
Claremont Graduate University
2018
Zayin Cabot, PhD
CSU East Bay
2020
Casey Crosbie
PhD student
Claremont School of
Theology/Claremont Graduate
University
2020
Yuria Celidwen,
PhD student
Pacific Graduate Institute
2019
Phillip Butler,
PhD candidate
Claremont School of Theology
2020
Marie Cartier,
PhD
Adjunct UCI and CSUN
2020
Religion, Science,
and Technology
Religion and
Social Sciences
Religion and
the Arts
Religion in
America
Religion,
Literature,
and Film
Religions of Asia
Womanist/PanAfrican
Women and
Religion
John Erickson,
PhD candidate
Claremont Graduate University
2020
Enrico Beltramini,
PhD
Notre Dame de Namur
University
2 year
probat
ion; 1
panel
Marianne
Delaporte, PhD
Notre Dame de Namur
University
Hester Oberman,
PhD
U of Arizona, Tucson
2018
Joseph Paxton,
PhD student
Claremont School of Theology
2018
Roy Whitaker,
PhD
San Diego State University
2019
Albert Silva, PhD
student
UC Santa Barbara
2019
Konden R. Smith,
PhD
Arizona State University
2018
Nathan
Fredrickson, PhD
student
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
Anna Hennessey,
PhD
Independent Scholar
SF/Visiting Scholar UC
Berkeley
2019
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
2018
Emily Silverman,
PhD
Visiting Scholar GTU
2018
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