AAR would like to thank the following Program Unit Chairs whose terms ended in 2019.
We are very grateful for their dedicated service to the Academy!
Gregory D. Alles
McDaniel College
Indigenous Religious Traditions Unit
Richard Amesbury
Arizona State University
Law, Religion, and Culture Unit
Shawn Arthur
Wake Forest University
Contemporary Pagan Studies Unit
Deborah Barer
Towson University
Scriptural Reasoning Unit
Chad Bauman
Butler University
Religious Conversions Unit
Whitney Bauman
Florida International University
New Materialism, Religion, and Planetary Thinking Seminar
Joseph Blankholm
University of California, Santa Barbara
Secularism and Secularity Unit
Ted A. Campbell
Southern Methodist University
Wesleyan and Methodist Studies Unit
Lucas Carmichael
University of Colorado
Transnational Religious Expression: Between Asia and North America Seminar
Travis Chilcott
Iowa State University
Cognitive Science of Religion Unit
Alexander Chow
University of Edinburgh
Chinese Christianities Seminar
Christie Chui-Shan Chow
City Seminary of New York
Chinese Christianities Seminar
Adam Clark
Xavier University
Black Theology Unit
David Clough
University of Chester
Animals and Religion Unit
Ronald S. Cole-Turner
Pittsburgh Theological Seminary
Human Enhancement and Transhumanism Unit
Jeremy V. Cruz
St. John’s University, New York
Latina/o Religion, Culture, and Society Unit
Deirdre de la Cruz
University of Michigan
New Perspectives on Religion in the Philippines Seminar
Amanullah De Sondy
University College Cork
Men, Masculinities, and Religions Unit
John-Charles Duffy
Miami University, Ohio
Religion in the American West Unit
Christopher Duncanson-Hales
University of Sudbury
International Development and Religion Unit
Karen Enriquez
Loyola Marymount University
Roman Catholic Studies Unit
Ken Estey
Brooklyn College
Class, Religion, and Theology Unit
Teresa L. Fry Brown
Emory University
Womanist Approaches to Religion and Society Unit
Warren S. Goldstein
Center for Critical Research on Religion
Sociology of Religion Unit
Marion S. Grau
MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion, and Society
Sacred Texts, Theory, and Theological Construction Unit
Gregory Grieve
University of North Carolina, Greensboro
Video Gaming and Religion Seminar
Brett Hendrickson
Lafayette College
Religion in the American West Unit
Adrian Hermann
University of Bonn
New Perspectives on Religion in the Philippines Seminar
Alexander Y. Hwang
Saint Leo University
Religions, Borders, and Immigration Seminar
Mary Jo Iozzio
Boston College
Religion and Disability Studies Unit
Slavica Jakelic
Valparaiso University
Religion and Humanism Unit
Tone Stangeland Kaufman
MF Norwegian School of Theology
Practical Theology Unit
Pamela Klassen
University of Toronto
North American Religions Unit
Timothy D. Knepper
Drake University
Global-Critical Philosophy of Religion Seminar
Naomi Koltun-Fromm
Haverford College
Traditions of Eastern Late Antiquity Unit
Gereon Kopf
Luther College
Global-Critical Philosophy of Religion Seminar
Susan Maneck
Jackson State University
Baha’i Studies Unit
Lerone Martin
Washington University, St. Louis
Afro-American Religious History Unit
AnneMarie Mingo
Pennsylvania State University
Theology of Martin Luther King Jr. Unit
Kristy Nabhan-Warren
University of Iowa
Religion and the Social Sciences Unit
Marcella Norling
Orange Coast College
Bioethics and Religion Unit
Shubha Pathak
American University
Hinduism Unit
Richard K. Payne
Graduate Theological Union
Economics and Capitalism in the Study of Buddhism Seminar
Shelli Poe
Millsaps College
Schleiermacher Unit
Leonard Norman Primiano
Cabrini University
Folklore and Religion Seminar
Kerstin Radde-Antweiler
Video Gaming and Religion Seminar
University of Bremen
Fabio Rambelli
University of California, Santa Barbara
Economics and Capitalism in the Study of Buddhism Seminar
Randall Reed
Appalachian State University
Emerging Church, Millenials, and Religion Seminar
Arthur Remillard
Saint Francis University
Religion, Sport, and Play Unit
Cynthia Rigby
Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary
Reformed Theology and History Unit
Marcia C. Robinson
Syracuse University
Kierkegaard, Religion, and Culture Unit
James Robson
Harvard University
Buddhism Unit
Mary-Jane Rubenstein
Wesleyan University
Philosophy of Religion Unit
Kevin Schilbrack
Appalachian State University
Body and Religion Unit
John Sheveland
Gonzaga University
Interreligious and Interfaith Studies Unit
Pashaura Singh
University of California, Riverside
Sikh Studies Unit
Santiago H. Slabodsky
Hofstra University
Liberation Theologies Unit
Roger A. Sneed
Furman University
Gay Men and Religion Unit
Carole Dale Spencer
George Fox University
Quaker Studies Unit
Hamsa Stainton
McGill University
Religion in South Asia Unit
Chris Tirres
DePaul University
Religions in the Latina/o Americas Unit
Mary Evelyn Tucker
Yale University
New Materialism, Religion, and Planetary Thinking Seminar
John Turner (in memoriam)
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Platonism and Neoplatonism Unit
Elena Valussi
Loyola University, Chicago
Daoist Studies Unit
Michael Waggoner
University of Northern Iowa
Religion and Public Schools: International Perspectives Unit
David Walker
University of California, Santa Barbara
Critical Theory and Discourses on Religion Unit
Stephen Wehmeyer
Champlain College
Folklore and Religion Seminar
Glenn Young
Rockhurst University
Christian Spirituality Unit
Thelathia Young
Bucknell University
Queer Studies in Religion Unit
Jason R. Zaborowski
Bradley University
Middle Eastern Christianity Unit
Michael Zbaraschuk
Pacific Lutheran University
Emerging Church, Millenials, and Religion Seminar
Michael Zogry
University of Kansas
Native Traditions in the Americas Unit