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Rev. Patrick J. Lynch, S.J. (sabbatical Fall 2008)
Chair and associate professor Coordinator, Interdisciplinary Minor in Catholic Studies
Email: lynchp@canisius.edu
Phone: (716) 888-2831

PhD, Christian Theology, University of Chicago
STM, History of Ethics, Yale Divinity School
MDiv, Woodstock College
MA, Classics, Fordham University
BA, Classics, Fordham University

  • Carnegie Scholar 2008
  • Current research is on the presence of Jesuit values in the Core Curriculum and the impact of Jesuit education on Canisius graduates
  • Teaches courses on Catholic Social Ethics and Religion & Politics
  • Published in the areas of ecclesiology, secularization, and war and peace

Timothy H. Wadkins, PhD
Interim Chair and professor
Email: wadkins@canisius.edu
Phone: (716) 888-2824

PhD, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, CA
MDiv, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School
BA, San Jose State University
  • Specializes in the History of Christianity, especially modern third world
  • Currently engaged in a book project on Pentecostalism in El Salvador: Getting Saved in El Salvador: The Preferential Option of the Poor
  • Director, Institute for the Global Study of Religion

Daniel P. Jamros, S.J.
Associate professor
Email: jamros@canisius.edu
Phone: (716) 888-2827

PhD, Vanderbilt University
MT, Centre-Sèvres Seminary (Paris) MA, Philosophy, Boston College
MA, English Literature, Boston College
BA, English, Holy Cross
  • Specializes in systematic theology, contemporary Catholic belief and Hegel’s philosophy of Religion
  • Published The Human Shape of God: Religion in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit (1994) 
  • Currently working on the Eschatology and Trinity in Hegel’s thought

Rebecca Krawiec, PhD
Associate professor
Email: krawiecr@canisius.edu
Phone: (716) 888-2822

PhD, Religious Studies, Yale University
MA, MPhil, Yale University
AB, Ancient Studies, Brown University

  • Specializes in Early Christian history, monasticism, women and religion
  • Author of Shenoute and the Women of the White Monastery: Egyptian Monasticism in Late Antiquity

Jonathan D. Lawrence, PhD
Assistant professor
Email: lawrenc7@canisius.edu
Phone: (716) 888-2825

PhD, University of Notre Dame
MDiv, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary
BA, Haverford College

  • Specializes in archeology and the Bible, the Dead Sea Scrolls, early Jewish-Christian relations
  • Author of Washing in Water: Trajectories of Ritual Bathing in the Hebrew Bible and Second Temple Literature (2006)

Christopher R. Lee, PhD
Associate professor
Email: Lee4@canisius.edu
Phone: (716) 888-2874

PhD, MA, Anthropology, Syracuse University
BA, Humanities, State University of New York College at Oneonta

  • Specializes in the anthropology of religion, religion in South Asia, Islam, Hinduism
  • In final stages of book Banaras, Urdu, Poetry, Poets; on Muslim weaver poets in the Hindu pilgrimage city of Banaras, India

Matthew W. Mitchell,  PhD
Assistant professor
E-mail: mitchelm@canisius.edu
Phone: (716) 888-2828

PhD, Religion, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
MA, Religious Studies, Memorial University, St. Johns, NL, Canada
BA, Religious Studies, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada
  • Research: publications on Paul, Ignatius of Antioch, the book of Hosea, Psalms, rhetorical criticism
  • Teaching: Bibical languages and literature, New Testament and Christian Origins, Western and World Religions

Rev. Martin X. Moleski, S.J.
Professor
Email: moleski@canisius.edu
Phone: (716)888-2383
Web site: http://www3.canisius.edu/~moleski/

PhD, Theology, Catholic University of America
MDiv, STB, Theology, Regis College at the University of Toronto
MA, Philosophy, Fordham University
BA, English, Boston College


Nancy M. Rourke, PhD
Assistant professor
E-mail: rourken@canisius.edu
Phone: (716) 888-2460

PhD, Moral Theology, St. Patrick's College Maynooth
STM, Theological Ethics, Boston University School of Theology
MDiv, Boston University School of Theology
BA, English and Russian, Union College
  • Specializes in the principle of double effect, in the proportioniate reason/deontology debates, and in the applied ethics areas of "just war" theories, moral theology of health care and sexual ethics
  • Currently working in areas of environmental ethics and Catholic feminist approaches to moral discourse
  • Has taught courses in Christian marriage, in Christian thought about war and in bioethics

Eric Stenclik, PhD
Assistant Professor
E-mail: stenclie@canisius.edu
Phone: (716) 888-2836

PhD, University of Toronto
MA, Yale University
BA, Columbia University
  • Areas of interest include: Religion and literature, Catholic mysticism, Biblical imagery in American poetry, Spiritual tensions in American Literature
  • Currently working on book about Hart Crane's mystical poetry

Trevor L. Watt, PhD
Professor
Phone: (716) 888-2823

PhD, Union Theological Seminary, New York City
MA, Oxford University, England
BD, Melbourne College of Divinity, Australia
BA, University of Sydney, Australia

  • Specializes in psychology of religion, Christian spirituality
  • Currently working on the union of Psychology and Spirit in the interconnection of forgiveness and in the relationship of emotions on spiritual discernment
  • Named Kenneth L. Koessler Distinguished Professor in 2007