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MIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY (2013-present)

Religious Studies Courses

RS 4800: Directed Study Courses – available with special permission

  • Religion and Science (Fall 2014)
  • Religion, Hybridity and Ancient Mythologies (Fall 2014)
  • Historical Jesus (Spring 2014)
  • Religion, Economics and Critical Theory (Spring 2015)
  • Religion and the Body (Spring 2015)
  • The Ante-Nicene Period in Christian History (Spring 2015)
  • Religion, Identity, and Travel in Israel-Palestine (Summer 2015)
  • Religion and Queer Theory (Fall 2015)
  • Reimagining Jesus in History and Place (Fall 2017)
  • Philosemitism (Fall 2018)
  • Global Religions (Spring 2019)
  • Implicit Religion (Spring 2019)
  • Religion and Healing in Global Christianity( Fall 2022)
  • Critical Pedagogies in Religion and Film (Fall 2023)
  • Other

Master of Liberal Arts Program, College of Liberal Arts

Graduate Student Supervisor

  • Keven Lewis, “Relentless Pursuit: The Search for Authenticity among American Christians.” Master of Liberal Arts (2017-2021)
  • Gina Logue, “Ladies and Gentlemen and Frenchmen: The Ethnocentrism Behind the Richard Riot of 1955,” Masters of Liberal Arts (2021-2022)

Women and Gender Studies Program

Jewish and Holocaust Studies

  • JHS 3010: Jewish Culture and Civilization
  • JHS 4950: Jewish Feminist Responses to Text and Practice

University Honor’s College

  • UH 3000: Honor’s Lecture Series – Friendship (Fall 2022)
  • UH 3000: Honor’s Lecture Series – Icons and Images (Fall 2020)

Undergraduate Honor’s Theses Advisor

  • Matthew Pierce, “An Exploration in Evangelical Film.” (2023-2024)
  • Deanna Lack, “Prison Abolitionist Movements among Progressive Religious Communities.”
  • (2023-2024)
  • Eli Ward, “Co-memorabilia in Christian Healing: How Modern Material Religion Remembers the Intersections of Health and Holiness.” (2022-2023)
  • Jessikah Riley, “(dis)Connected: A Series of Interviews on Society and Spirituality.” (2021)
  • Hanan Beyene, “Never Again: Analysis of the Rohingya Crisis and the Role of Religion in Conflict.” (2020-2021)
  • Skyla Weyrich, “Reimaging Miriam’s Cult: How Miriamic Worship and Devotion Presents Itself in Abrahamic Religions.” (2020-2021)
  • Ansley Pearson, “Religion in and of Zelda: Myths, Meaning, and Morality.” (2018-2019)
  • Noah Fryman, “Creationist Discourse as Lived Religion.” (2018-2019)
  • Melody Cook, “Young Single Adult Mormon Women in Tennessee: A Brief Ethnography” (2014-2015)
  • Cheyenne Plott, “The Tennessean Jewish Perspective on Twenty-First Century Judaism, American Society, and the State of Israel.” (2013-2014)

Honor’s Thesis – Second Reader:

  • Timothy Wales, “Perspectives of Pilgrimage: An Ethnographic Survey of the Transformative Aspects of the Pilgrimage of the Way of St. James.” (2022-2023)
  • Jennifer Crow, “Mormon Feminist Activism and Ordain Women: Social Responses to Religious Norm Defection in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints” (2016-2017)

EMORY UNIVERSITY, CANDLER SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY (2012-2013)

UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO, DEPARTMENT FOR THE STUDY OF RELIGION (2008-2012)

FORMAL TEACHING TRAINING

Participant, Teaching Against Islamophobia Workshop, American Academy of Religion and Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion (2018-2020)

Participant, Wabash Teaching and Learning Workshop for Pre-Tenure Religion Faculty at Colleges and Universities, Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion (2015-2016)

Middle Tennessee State University, Learning, Teaching, and Innovative Technologies Center, Teaching Fellow (2013-2014)

Certificate of Distinction, THE500: Teaching in Higher Education, University of Toronto, Office for Teaching Advancement (Winter 2010)

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