Faculty & Staff

Department Chair

James B. Bennett
Associate Professor
American Religious History

Academic Department Manager

Vicky Gonzalez
Academic Department Manager
408-554-4547 | Kenna Hall 323F

Faculty

Pearl Maria Barros
Assistant Professor
Christian Theology; Feminist and Decolonial Theories; Latinx Cultural Studies
Kevin Chaves
Lecturer
Modern Western Religious Thought and Continental Philosophy
Cathleen Chopra-McGowan
Assistant Professor
Bible and the Ancient Near East: languages (Hebrew, Greek, Akkadian), history, archaeology, literary theory, gender studies; Sacred Indian Epics: gender and politics
William Dohar
Teaching Professor
Medieval Church History
Elizabeth Drescher
Lecturer
Lived Religion/Spirituality
Diana Gibson
Lecturer
Scripture and Theology Using Liberation and Feminist Approaches
David Gray
Bernard J. Hanley Professor
Tantric Buddhism; Asian Religions
Nicholas Hayes-Mota
Assistant Professor
Social ethics; Christian ethics; Public theology; Catholic social thought; Religion & politics; community organizing
Eric Haynie
Quarterly Lecturer
Buddhism, Tibetan Buddhism
Rick Heller
Lecturer
American religious history, sociology of religion, religion and politics.
Lynn Hillberg
Lecturer
Contextual & Liberation Christian Theologies; Ethnography as theological method; and Celtic religions
Karl W. Lampley
Lecturer
Akiba J. Lerner
Associate Professor
Modern Jewish Thought, Religious & Political Philosophy, Ethics & Hope
Roberto Mata
Associate Professor
Gaurika Mehta
Assistant Professor
Daniel Morgan
Assistant Professor
Islamic reform, Sufism, political philosophy of the Mughal Empire, occult sciences in the Islamic world.
Claudia Moutray
Lecturer
Catherine M. Murphy
Associate Professor & Associate Provost for Faculty Personnel and Policy
New Testament & Early Christianity
Thao Nguyen, S.J.
Associate Professor
Karen Peterson-Iyer
Associate Professor
Sexual Ethics, Bioethics, Christian Ethics
Ana María Pineda, R.S.M., S.T.D.
Associate Professor
Hispanic Theology, Religiosity, Salvadoran Martyrs
Elyse Raby
Assistant Professor
Systematic Theology; Ecclesiology; Theological Anthropology; social issues and questions concerning embodiment.
Philip Boo Riley
Associate Professor
Religion in Silicon Valley
Eugene R. Schlesinger
Assistant Professor
Systematic Theology; Sacramental Theology; Ecclesiology; Liturgical Theology
Rob Scholla, S.J.
Associate Teaching Professor
Fundamental Theology, Christology, and Christian Spirituality
Paul J. Schutz
Associate Professor
Religion & Ecology; Theology & Science; Catholic Systematic Theology
Sarita Stella Tamayo-Moraga
Teaching Professor
Aron Tillema
Lecturer
Bible and the Ancient Near East, Reception History of the Bible, Ancient Judaism, Social-Scientific Approaches to Religion, Comparative Religion, Religion and Nature
Christopher D. Tirres
Michael J. Buckley, S.J. Endowed Chair;
Strategic Advisor to the Dean for Mission Integration
Philosophy of Religion, Latin American Liberation Theology, US Latine Theology, Pragmatism, Critical Pedagogy, Feminism
Haruka Umetsu Cho
Assistant Professor
Christian theology, East Asian literature, feminist and queer theories, decolonial studies
Sally Vance-Trembath
Teaching Professor
Ecclesiology, Vatican II in particular
Bryson White
Assistant Professor
Race and U.S. Religion, Carceral Studies, American Religious Histories, Tupac Shakur
Jaime Wright
Lecturer
Religion and social theory, religion and health/medicine, religion and bodies/embodiment, religion and social movements, theories of ideology, power, and identity

Department Chair

Academic Department Manager

Faculty

Emeriti Faculty