Faculty & Staff
Core Faculty

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, PhD
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, PhD
Associate Director, Honors Program
Associate Professor of Theology
Teaching and research interests
- Eschatology
- Creation
- The Eucharist
- Late scholasticism

Jay David Miller, PhD
Assistant Professor of English
Interim Director, Honors Program
Teaching and Research Interests
- Early American literature
- The Atlantic World
- Theology and literature
- Literature and the environment
- Quakerism

Jesse Peterson, PhD
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

Dana Robinson, PhD
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, PhD
Associate Provost, Division of Humanities, Honors, and Education
Professor of Theology and Culture
Teaching and research interests
- Christian thought and ethics
- The role of religion in public life

Caitlin Corning, PhD
Chair, Department of History and Politics
Professor of History
Teaching & Research Interests
- Early Medieval church history
- Late Antiquity
- Sub-Roman Britain

Ryan Dearinger, PhD
Professor of History
Faculty Fellow, ºÚÁÏÍø 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, PhD
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Director, ºÚÁÏÍø Apologetics Initiative
Faculty Fellow, ºÚÁÏÍø Honors Program
Teaching and research interests
- Philosophy of Religion and Apologetics
- Epistemology
- Ethics
- Philosophy of Science
- Analytic Philosophical Theology

Brian Doak, PhD
Vice President, ºÚÁÏÍø Digital
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

Joel Mayward, PhD
Assistant Professor of Christian Ministries, Theology and the Arts
Teaching and research interests
- Christian ministry and leadership
- Contextual and liberation theologies
- Theological aesthetics
- Theology, philosophy, and popular culture
- Continental philosophical theology

Travis Pickell, PhD
Assistant Professor of Theology and Ethics
Director, Cornerstone Core and Character Virtue Initiative
Faculty Fellow, ºÚÁÏÍø Honors Program
Research and teaching interests
- Ethics
- Theology
- Religion and Medicine
- Technology
- Pluralism and Public Life

Rebecca Sandberg, MFA
Assistant Director, Division of Humanities, Honors, & Education
Faculty Fellow, ºÚÁÏÍø Honors Program
Teaching and Research Interests
- Liberal arts and culture
- Great Books
- Writing and rhetoric pedagogy (fiction)
- Organizational leadership/human development