Department of Religious Studies

http://www.religiousstudies.mcmaster.ca
Faculty as of January 15, 2014

CHAIR

James Benn

PROFESSORS

Ellen Badone/B.A., M.A. (Toronto), Ph.D. (California-Berkeley)
P. Travis Kroeker/B.A. (Winnipeg), M.A. (Manitoba), Ph.D. (Chicago)
Eileen Schuller/B.A. (Alberta), M.A. (Toronto), Ph.D. (Harvard)
Liyakat Takim/B.Sc. (City University, London), M.A. (Virginia), Ph.D. (London)
Stephen R. Westerholm/B.A., M.A. (Toronto), D.Th. (Lund)

ASSOCIATE PROFESSORS

James Benn/B.A., M.A. (Cambridge), M.A. (London), Ph.D. (California-Los Angeles)
Shayne Clarke/B.A., M.A. (Canterbury), Ph.D. (California-Los Angeles)
Dana Hollander/B.A. (Oberlin College), M.A., Ph.D. (Johns Hopkins)
Daniel Machiela/B.A. (Grand Valley State), M.A. (Jerusalem University College), Ph.D. (Notre Dame)
Zdravko Planinc/B.A., M.A. (York), A.M., Ph.D. (Harvard)
Celia Rothenberg/B.A. (Wellesley College), M.S. (Oxford), Ph.D. (Toronto)
Mark Rowe/B.A. (McGill), M.A., Ph.D. (Princeton)
Anders Runesson/B.A., M.Div., M.A., Lic.Theol., Ph.D. (Lund)
Peter Widdicombe/B.A. (Manitoba), M.Phil. (Oxford), M.Div. (Toronto), D.Phil. (Oxford)

ASSISTANT PROFESSORS

Philippa Carter/B.A. (Toronto), M.A., Ph.D. (McMaster)

LECTURER

Joseph LaRose/ B.A., M.A. (McMaster), B.Ed. (Brock)

ASSOCIATE MEMBER

Virginia Aksan/(History) B.A. (Allegheny College), M.L.S. (California-Berkeley), M.A., Ph.D. (Toronto)

Programs

• Combined Honours in Religious Studies and Another Subject (B.A.)
• Honours Religious Studies (B.A.)

• Religious Studies (B.A.)

• Minor in Japanese Studies
• Minor in Religious Studies