External Faculty Affiliates

Faculty Affiliate

Research Interests

Dr. Matthew Anderson
St. Francis Xavier University, Religious Studies
New Testament, gender studies
Dr. Jonathan Barron
University of Maine, Department of English
Jewish American literature
Dr. Todd Berzon
Bowdoin College, Department of Religion
ancient religious communities
Dr. Fiona Black
Mount Allison University, Religious Studies
Hebrew Bible literature, biblical reception history, gender, sexuality, and the body in Hebrew Bible texts
Dr. Michele Byers
Saint Mary's University, Women & Gender Studies
Jewish cultural studies, media and popular culture, feminist theory, queer theory
Dr. Alexander Chantziantoniou
Crandall University, Religious Studies
materiality, embodiment, ancient Mediterranean religion
Dr. Scott Edgar
Saint Mary's University, Philosophy
History of philosophy, critical thinking
Dr. Daniel Driver
Atlantic School of Theology
Hebrew Bible
Dr. Kirrily Freeman
Saint Mary's University, History
European history
Dr. David Freidenreich
Colby College, Jewish Studies
relations between premodern Christians, Jews, and Muslims, history of Jewish life in Maine, 
Dr. Roni Gechtman
Mount Saint Vincent University, History
eastern European Jewish politics, modern European history
Dr. Jillian Gould
Memorial University of Newfoundland, Folklore
Jewish expressive culture, foodways, public folklore, ethnography and fieldwork, family folklore, and the culture of aging
Dr. Jennifer Hart Weed
University of New Brunswick, Philosophy
Medieval philosophy, metaphysics, philosophy of religion, Jewish philosophy
Dr. Syed Adnan Hussain
Saint Mary's University, Religious Studies
Islamic studies, law, Jewish-Muslim relations
Dr. Andrew Keenan
Crandall University, Religious Studies
the Septuagint (Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible), the cultural identity of Greek-speaking Jews in the Hellenistic world
Dr. Jamie Levin
St. Francis Xavier University, Political Science
the role of weapons in the resolution of civil wars
Dr. Daphna Levit
Saint Mary's University, Religious Studies
Modern Jewish philosophy, Modern Hebrew fiction and poetry, history of Zionism 
Dr. Lindsay Macumber
Saint Mary's University, Religious Studies
Jewish religious tradition, religion and popular culture, Holocaust studies
Dr. Robert Morrison
Bowdoin College, department of Religion
the role of science in Islamic and Jewish texts, history of Islamic science, comparative religious studies
Dr. Solomon Nagler
NSCAD University, Film
film and memory studies
Dr. Sara Parks
St. Francis Xavier University, Religious Studies
ancient Jewish insider and outsider polemics, ancient Mediterranean religions, biblical studies
Dr. Ken Penner
St. Francis Xavier University, Religious Studies & Classical Studies
Early Judaism, early Christianity
Dr. Trevor Pomeroy
Memorial University of Newfoundland, Religion & Culture
Christian thought and history, Hebrew Bible, the ancient Near East, the sociology of warfare and violence
Dr. Kerry Sonia
Colby College, Religious Studies
history of biblical interpretation, material culture studies, theories of gender and ritual
Dr. Matthew Walsh
Acadia Divinity College
Dead Sea Scrolls, the use of the Old Testament in the New Testament, religious identity in early Judaism & Christianity
Dr. Andrew Wilson
Mount Allison University, Religious Studies
Christianity and contemporary culture