Cross-Appointed Faculty

Jane Abray teaches in the Department of History and has been cross appointed into the Department of Religion. She completed her B.A. in Western, M.A. in Mc Master  and M. Phil. and Ph.D. at Yale University. She is a specialist in early modern European history, working primarily in the fields of Reformation history and [...]

Barry Dov Walfish is the Judaica Specialist at the University of Toronto Libraries and Lecturer in Modern Hebrew Language in the University’s Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations. He also is on the faculty of the University’s Centre for the Study of Religion. He completed his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto and a [...]

Phyllis Airhart teaches at the U of T’s Emmanuel College and is a scholar of North American religious history. Her publications include Serving the Present Age: Revivalism, Progressivism, and the Methodist Tradition in Canada (1992); Faith Traditions and the Family (ed., 1996); Christianizing the Social Order: A Founding Vision of the United Church of Canada [...]

Pablo Argarate is an Associate Professor of Patristics and Historical Theology and the Director of the Eastern Christian Studies Program. His areas of research include Early Christian Studies; languages, cultures, and rituals of Eastern Christianities (Syriac, Armenian, Ethiopian, Coptic, Byzantine). He is the author of such works as “ ‘Car mes iniquités dépassèrent ma tête.’ [...]

Andreas Bendlin teaches Roman History in the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Toronto at Mississauga and the Department of Classics at the University of Toronto. Bendlin’s current research focuses on religion in Greco-Roman antiquity, with a particular emphasis on the religions of Rome and the Roman Empire. He is also working on Roman [...]

Janice Boddy is a Professor, Graduate Chair and St. George Undergraduate Chair in the Department of Anthropology. She is cross appointed into the Department of Religion. She completed her Bachelor of Arts at McGill, her Master’s at Calgary and her PhD at University of British Columbia. Her current research areas include women, Islam, and colonialism, [...]

Michael Cobb teaches courses in American literature, queer literature, queer theory, literary theory, and critical race theory.  In addition to his primary appointment in the Department of English, he is also cross-appointed to University College, the Centre for the Study of Religion, the Drama Centre, and the Women and Gender Studies [...]

Isabelle Cochelin teaches in the Department of History. Professor Cochelin’s work investigates medieval monasticism from a socio-religious point of view. Her publications deal with the internal structure, daily life, ideals, and external relationships of medieval monasteries, especially in the 10th and 11th centuries. She is presently working on various collaborative and inter-disciplinary projects with scholars [...]

John Corbett teaches in the Division of Humanities at University of Toronto, Scarborough. He is also cross appointed to the Department of Religion, St. George Campus.  He completed his B.A. at Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. He received his Degree in M.A. and PhD from the University of Toronto. His research focuses on achieving a [...]

Hilary Cunningham is an associate professor of anthropology at University of Toronto. She completed a Bachelor of Arts and Master’s at U of T and a PhD at Yale. Professor Cunningham’s research investigates borders and boundary-making, worldviews, religious values and land ethics, human territoriality, and environmental politics. Her recent book chapter, for example, “The state [...]

David J. Dixon completed his Bachelor of Science, Master’s,  Doctorate in Medicine and FRCPC  at University of Toronto. Dixon completed his D.Phil at Oxford University, England. His current research areas are Christian theology and antisemitism, fundamentalism, religion and racism, and the interface between religion and psychiatry. His published works include “Religious Altruism and the Living [...]

After completing his doctorate in 1982 (Wycliffe and U of Toronto), Terry Donaldson taught for seventeen years in Saskatoon at the College of Emmanuel and St. Chad, with a cross-appointment to the Department of Religious studies at the University of Saskatchewan. In 1999, he returned to Toronto where he took up his present position in [...]

Ann Dooley is Professor with the Center for Medieval Studies and the Celtic Studies Program at St. Michaels College at the University of Toronto, where she specializes in Irish literature. She completed her BA and MA in University College Dublin, and her PhD at Toronto. Her research focuses on medieval Irish secular and religious literature in Irish and Latin, and [...]

Konrad Eisenbichler teaches in the Department of Renaissance Studies. He completed his B.A and M.A at McMaster University and received his PhD at U of T. Eisenbichler’s work focuses on the intersection of literature, politics and religion in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Italy; lay religious confraternities; and religious theatre and poetry. His work can be seen [...]

Anver M. Emon is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law, specializing in Islamic law and teaching first-year torts. He is cross appointed (status only) to the Faculty of Social Work and the Centre for the Study of Religion. Anver’s research focus is on medieval and modern Islamic legal theory [...]

Nicholas Everett is an associate professor of history and religion at the University of Toronto. He is one of the first Canadians to receive the highly competitive New Directions Fellowship from the Mellon Foundation to pursue cross-disciplinary research. His research interests include history of medicine and science, with a special interest in pharmacology and toxicology. [...]

Mohammad H. Fadel is the professor of Religion and the Liberal State: The Case of Islam. He joined the Faculty of Law in January 2006. He received his B.A. in Government and Foreign Affairs (1988), a Ph.D. in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago (1995) and his J.D. [...]

Yiftach Fehige is a philosopher and a theologian with an appointment for Christianity and science at the University of Toronto. His home units are the IHPST and St. Michael’s College. He is cross-appointed to the Centre for the Study of Religion, and associated faculty member of the collaborative graduate program at the Bonham Centre for [...]

Paul Franks is the Professor of Continental Philosophy and holds the Senator Jerahmiel S. and Carole S. Grafstein Chair in Jewish Philosophy. He has taught at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor (1993-6), Indiana University Bloomington (1996-2000), the University of Notre Dame (2000-2004) and the University of Chicago (Spring 2003).  His research [...]

Robert Gibbs is Director of the Jackman Humanities Institute and a Professor of Philosophy. His areas of research include Jewish thought, German idealism, French postmodern literary theory, social theory, existentialism, pragmatism, and the phenomenological tradition. He has published Suffering Religion (with Elliot Wolfson); Why Ethics? Signs of Responsibilities; and Reasoning after Revelation.  In 2006 he [...]

Professor Goering teaches in the Department of History. His primary research and teaching interests are in medieval church history and institutions, intellectual history, history of education (especially the schools of law and theology) and popular religion. He has published work on twelfth and thirteenth-century issues, including papal/episcopal politics, parish priests, pastoral [...]

Willi Goetschel is professor of German and Philosophy and is cross-appointed to the Departments for the Study of Religion, Philosophy and German. He completed his Ph.D. in 1989 at Harvard University and Lic.phil (M.Phil) in 1982 at Universität Zürich. He teaches 18th to 20th century German Literature and Thought, Enlightenment, German Jewish Culture, Critical Theory. His current project is on [...]

Paul W. Gooch is President of Victoria University in the University of Toronto. President Gooch is a graduate of Bishop’s University, Lennoxville, Quebec, who did a master’s degree in the Philosophy of Religion and a doctorate in Greek Philosophy at the University of Toronto. He has taught at the University of Toronto since 1967, where [...]

Amir Harrak completed his Masters and PhD at the University of Toronto in Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations. He is interested in Aramaic and Syriac languages and literatures, the history of Syriac Christianity, and relations between Syriac Christianity and Islam. His published works include The Acts of Mar Mari the Apostle (2005); “Ah! The Assyrian [...]

Marsha Hewitt is Professor of Ethics and Contemporary Theology in the Faculty of Divinity. Professor Hewitt also teaches in the Arts Faculty, where she is the co- ordinator of Ethics, Society and the Law, a Trinity College undergraduate Arts programme. Her current teaching and research work is on religions and violence from [...]

Chelva Kanaganayakam has been cross appointed into the Department of Religion.  Kanaganayakam, a scholar of post-colonial literature, is a Professor in the Department of English at the University of Toronto. He is the Director of the Centre of South Asian Studies. He completed his Bachelor of Arts in Sri Lanka and his PhD in British [...]

Malavika Kasturi teaches in the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Toronto at Mississauga.  She finished her B.A. and M.A at Jawaharlal Nehru University in India and received her PhD at Cambridge University. Professor Kasturi’s areas of research include women in South Asia; Hindu, colonial, and post-colonial law; and popular religion and the [...]

Abrahim H. Khan, professor in the Faculty of Divinity at Trinity College, is Director of its Advanced Degree Studies program. He is cross-appointed to the Centre for the Study of Religion at the University of Toronto. He completed his BS at Howard University, BD at Yale University,  and MA and PhD at McGill University. His current areas [...]

Professor Kingwell teaches in the Department of Philosophy. He specializes in political and cultural theory, especially justice and citizenship, and related topics in the philosophy of art, architecture, and design. His recent graduate courses have included seminars on political and cultural theory as well as contemporary continental philosophy. For [...]

Professor Kivimäe teaches in the Department of History. He is interested in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Europe, focusing on economic, social and cultural history of the Baltic sea region and especially on medieval Livonia. He has published in the fields of Hanseatic trade, history of Lutheran Reformation, everyday life and late medieval urban [...]

Michael Lambek holds a Canada Research Chair in Social Sciences in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Toronto at Scarborough. His areas of research include spirit possession, mythopraxis, and Islam in the Western Indian Ocean; transnational expansion of ‘ancestral’ religious practice; anthropological approaches to philosophical questions, especially in ethics; and medico-religious heterodoxy in [...]

Professor Todd Lawson’s area of research is the Qur’an, Islamicate Apocalypsis, Qur’an Commentary, Shi’ism, Sufism, Theology, Philosophy, and Messianism. Some of his publications include, Gnostic Apocalypse in Islam (December 2009) The Crucifixion and the Qur’an: A Study in the History of Muslim Thought (March 2009), “Divine Wrath and Divine Mercy in Islam: Their  Reflection in [...]

Reid B. Locklin is Associate Professor of Christianity and the Intellectual Tradition at the University of Toronto, a joint appointment with the St. Michael’s College Christianity and Culture Programme and the Centre for the Study of Religion.  His research focuses on a range of issues in Comparative Theology and Hindu-Christian Studies, particularly the engagement [...]

John Magee studied at the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Toronto, and he has taught at Columbia University (1986-92) and at the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies and University of Toronto (since 1992). He is a member of the Classics Department, the Collaborative Program in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy, and the Centre [...]

Mark McGowan is a specialist in the religious, social, migration, and educational history of Canada. He is co-editor of the award-winning books Catholics at the Gathering Place: Historical Essays on the Archdiocese of Toronto (1992) and The Waning of the Green: Catholics, the Irish and Identity in Toronto, 1887-1922 (McGill-Queen’s 1999); Michael Power: The Struggle to [...]

Sarianna Metso is Associate Professor in the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations and the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Toronto. Her area of scholarship is Hebrew Bible with special focus on the Dead Sea Scrolls. She is the author of The Textual Development of the Qumran Community Rule (Brill, 1997) [...]

Professor Meyerson’s research interests centre on the history of medieval and early modern Spain, particularly social history and Christian-Muslim-Jewish relations. He is the author of The Muslims of Valencia in the Age of Fernando and Isabel: Between Coexistence and Crusade (1991), Jews in An Iberian Frontier Kingdom (2004), and A Jewish Renaissance in Fifteenth-Century Spain [...]

Professor Mills is a historian of colonial Latin America whose research and teaching engages with the late medieval and early modern Spanish world. Principal interests include the social and anthropological history of religion and cultural dynamism, Catholic Christian evangelisation and its aftermaths, and interactive indigenous responses and histories. He is [...]

Andrea Most is Associate Professor of American Literature and Jewish Studies in the Department of English at the University of Toronto.  She completed her Bachelor of Arts at Yale University, and her Masters and PhD Degree at Brandeis.  Professor Most’s research areas cover 20th-century literature and culture, American theater and drama, American literature, American Jewish [...]

Amy Mullin has been cross appointed from the Department of Philosophy in University of Toronto, Mississauga to Department of Religion at U of T, St. George campus. She completed her Bachelor of Arts at Harvard University and her PhD at Yale University. Her research interests lie in the area of aesthetics and feminist philosophy. Her [...]

Linda Northrup is Chair of the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations. She received her M.A and PhD at Mc Gill University. Northrup’s areas of research include the history of the medieval Arab Islamic world; Mamluk history and historiography; political, economic and social history and institutions, including medicine and culture; and landholding patterns and [...]

Roger O’Toole teaches in the Division of Social Sciences at the University of Toronto at Scarborough. His areas of research include sociology of religion, religious movements, sectarianism, religion and politics, Roman Catholicism, and religion in Canada. He is the author of “William James and the Varieties of Contemporary Religion” (2004); “Durkheim and the Problem of [...]

Jennifer Purtle, in the Department of Art, is cross-appointed to the Department of Religion, the Department of East Asian Studies, and the Department of Textiles and Costume, Royal Ontario Museum (as a Research Associate). She completed her Bachelor of Arts at Amherst and her PhD at Yale. Her currents academic interests include Chinese art and [...]

Enrico Giuseppe Raffaelli was born in Rome, Italy. He completed his Bachelor of Arts in Rome and his PhD at Naples. His teaching experiences in the History of Zoroastrianism include the cooperation, from 2005 on, with the chair of Religious History of Iran of the University La Sapienza, as a member of the examining panels and [...]

Stella Sandahl, in the Department of East Asian Studies, is a traditionally trained European Indologist with interests that are many and varied, covering literature, art, language, politics, social and cultural history of Classical, Medieval and Modern India. Her interest in contemporary Indian is focused on Hindu-Muslim relations leading up to the Partition in 1947 and [...]

Stephen Scharper teaches in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Toronto at Mississauga. His areas of research include religious ethics and the environment, religion and social movements, biotechnology, human rights, and globalization. He has a BA and MA from the University of Toronto, and a PhD from McGill. His publications include “Option for [...]

Vincent Shen holds the Richard Charles and Esther Yewpick Lee Chair in Chinese Thought and Culture in the Department of East Asian Studies. His  primary research interest is in the area of Chinese philosophy, specifically Daoism and Confucianism. His secondary research interests include comparative philosophy, phenomenology, and philosophical [...]

Dr. Ingrid Leman Stefanovic is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto.  She was the Director of the Centre for Environment (2005 – 2010). Her research interests relate to how taken for granted values and perceptions affect environmental decision making.  She has served as Executive Co-Director of the International Association for Environmental Philosophy and is [...]

Maria Subtelny is cross appointed from the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilization.  She finished her B.A in University of  Toronto and PhD in Harvard University at Cambridge, Massachusetts. Subtelny has on the reasearch fields of the history and culture of medieval Islamic Iran and Central Asia; classical Persian literature, especially mystical poetry, and [...]

Glen comes from Calgary where he acquired an early mentoring in preaching and a passion for a career in Old Testament studies. He is Wycliffe’s Associate Professor of Old Testament and Biblical Proclamation, as well as being cross-appointed to the Centre for the Study of Religion and in the Department of [...]

Professor Terpstra is a specialist in the social history of Renaissance and early modern Italy.  He has published extensively on urban society, charitable institutions, and confraternities. His books include Abandoned Children of the Italian Renaissance: Orphan Care in Florence and Bologna (Johns Hopkins: 2005) and Lay Confraternities and Civic Religion in Renaissance Bologna (Cambridge University [...]

Mark G. Toulouse’s interest in religious studies came early. He was born in Des Moines, Iowa, Toulouse grew up in the church and, in the Pilgrim Holiness, Independent Bible Church and Baptist circles that his family frequented, the language of a divine call on one’s life was rather routine. At the age of 16, following [...]

Leif Vaage completed his B.A in Valparaiso, MDiv at Trinity Lutheran and received his PhD at Claremount University. During the last 20 years, since completing doctoral studies at the Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, California, his scholarly interests have revolved around the following four issues: i) the social practices of biblical interpretation, [...]

Richard Paul Vaggione is in Trinity College’s Divinity Faculty. His publications include ‘Creeds and Consensus’ in The Cambridge Companion to Early Christianity; Eunomius of Cyzicus and the Nicene Revolution (2000); and Eunomius: The Extant Works (1987). He has a BA from University of Santa Clara, a Licence de Philologie Biblique from the Université Catholique [...]

Donald Wiebe’s primary areas of research interest are philosophy of the social sciences, epistemology, philosophy of religion, the history of the academic and scientific study of religion, and method and theory in the study of religion. He is the author of Religion and Truth: Towards and Alternative Paradigm for the Study [...]

Girish Daswani
B.Sc. (NUS), M.Sc. (LSE), Ph.D. (LSE)
Anthropology of Religion, Pentecostal Christianity
Girish Daswani’s areas of research include the anthropology of religion, anthropology of diaspora and transnationalism, Pentecostal Christianity in Ghana and the Ghanaian Pentecostal diaspora in London.  His recent publications include: Ghanaian Pentecostal Prophets: Travel and (Im)-Mobility, In Kristine Krausse and Gertrud Huewelmeier (eds) Travelling Spirits. Migrants, Markets, And [...]

Dan Bahat is a scholar of Biblical Archaeology.

Research interests: Classical Arabic philosophy; Medieval Latin
philosophy, especially epistemology, metaphysics, and philosophy of
mind.
 
 
Selected Publications
Logic and Aristotle’s “Rhetoric” and “Poetics” in Medieval Arabic
Philosophy (1990); ?Consciousness and Self-Knowledge in Aquinas?s
Critique of Averroes?s Psychology” (1993); ?Mental Existence in Thomas
Aquinas and Avicenna” (1999); ?Estimation and Imagination: Western
Divergences from an Arabic Paradigm? (2000);  “Models of the Mind:
Metaphysical Presuppositions of the [...]

Michael Stoeber teaches courses in the areas of spirituality and philosophy of religion at Regis College.  His work has focused on the nature of religious experience, issues in comparative mysticism, the problems of evil and suffering, and theodicy.  He is also currently interested in exploring the intersections of spirituality and art. His Areas of Research [...]