Faculty and Staff
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Denise Carmody, Ph.D.Jesuit Community Professor
Dr. Carmody holds the Jesuit Community Chair of Religious Studies. From 2000 until 2006 she served as provost of the university. Read the full profile »
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Gerald Coleman, S.S., Ph.D.Adjunct Professor
Dr. Coleman is a member of the American Province, Society of St. Sulpice (Sulpicians). His recent course focused on ethics and moral theology. Read the full profile »
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Elizabeth Drescher, Ph.DLecturer (Academic Quarter)
Elizabeth Drescher earned an MA in Systematic Theology from Duquesne University as well as an MFA in writing from the University of Pittsburgh and a masters in Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon University. Her PhD was earned at the Graduate Theological Union in Christian Spirituality. Read the full profile »
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Mark Francis, C.S.V., S.L.D.Adjunct Professor
Dr. Francis has written numerous articles on liturgical topics and is especially interested in the relationship between liturgy and culture. Read the full profile »
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Bob Hurd, Ph.D.Adjunct Professor
Dr. Hurd has lectured and presented workshops across the country, composed numerous songs for liturgical worship, and published multiple articles. Read the full profile »
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Lizette Larson-Miller, Ph.D.Adjunct Professor
Dr. Larson-Miller is the Professor of Liturgical Leadership and the Dean of the Chapel at the Church Divinity School of the Pacific. Read the full profile »
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Michael Lee, S.J.Adjunct Professor
Fr. Lee earned a B.S. from the University of Nebraska prior to earning an M.A. in Philosophy from St. Louis University. He then completed an M.Div. and a Th.M from the Weston Jesuit School of Theology prior to an Ed.D. from Union Theological Seminary. Read the full profile »
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Jeannine Leichner, M.A.Adjunct Professor
Professor Leichner earned a B.S. from St. Mary's College in Notre Dame, Indiana prior to earning an M.S. in Mathematics from the University of Illinois and an M.A. in Religious Education from the University of San Francisco. Read the full profile »
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Fred Moleck, Ph.D.Summer Adjunct Professor
Dr. Moleck's courses at Santa Clara University range from History of Sacred Music, Ritual Music, Keyboard Improvisation, to Music for the Eucharist and Liturgy of the Hours. Read the full profile »
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Catherine M. Murphy, Ph.D.Associate Professor
Dr. Murphy's research focuses on the economic context of Second Temple and New Testament texts and the impact of that context visible in the surviving literature. Read the full profile »
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James B. Nickoloff, Ph.D.Adjunct Professor
Dr. Nickoloff is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. Read the full profile »
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Lucinda A. Nolan, Ph.D.Adjunct Professor
Dr. Lucinda A. Nolan is assistant professor of Religious Education and Catechesis at the Catholic University of America where she teaches courses in history of catechesis, adult faith formation and youth ministry. Read the full profile »
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Frederick J. Parrella, Ph.D.Professor
Dr. Parrella is long-known at Santa Clara for excellence in teaching. His professional interests include the work of the great Protestant theologian Paul Tillich, Christian eschatology, and the theology of marriage. Read the full profile »
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Francis Smith, S.J., S.T.DProfessor
Fr. Smith is a graduate of Santa Clara University and has taught at SCU since 1974. Fr. Smith also teaches in the Religious Studies Department. Read the full profile »
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Jean Ponder Soto, Ph.D.Adjunct Professor
Jean Ponder Soto teaches in the Graduate Program in Pastoral Ministries as well as in the Religious Studies Department at Santa Clara University. Read the full profile »
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Donald St. Louis, D.Min.Adjunct Professor
Dr. St. Louis is the Founder and Director of The California Institute for Sexual Recovery in San Francisco and maintains a private practice in psychotherapy in San Francisco and Santa Clara. Read the full profile »
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Faculty Profile 
Catherine M. Murphy, Ph.D.Dr. Murphy earned a B.A. in History and an M.A. in Catechetics from Santa Clara University. After Santa Clara, she went to the University of Notre Dame for an M.A. and a Ph.D. |
