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Rev. Patrick J. Lynch, S.J.
Chair and associate professor (sabbatical Fall 2012)
Chair Faculty Senate (2009-2012)
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

  • Recent publications "Catholic/Jesuit Values in an Introductory Religious Studies Course" with Dr. J. Patrick Mizak, in Teaching Theology & Religion (forthcoming)
  • Carnegie Scholar 2008
  • Member, Board of Directors, College Theology Society
  • 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, Religion & Politics, the Jesuits, and an online Core Capstone course, Liberation Theologies
  • Recipient of the Faculty Service Award for outstanding service to his department, the college, the community and his profession in 2009

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

PhD, Vanderbilt University
MTh, 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 Eschatology and the 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

  • Courses taught regularly: Introduction to Religious Studies; Introduction to the New Testament; Early Christian History; Portraits of Jesus; Women, Gender and Religion
  • Areas of Research: Early Christianity and monasticism, with a particular focus on gender
  • Author of Shenoute and the Women of the White Monastery: Egyptian Monasticism in Late Antiquity

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

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

  • Specializes in interactions between religious communities - in Biblical and modern times
  • Author of Washing in Water: Trajectories of Ritual Bathing in the Hebrew Bible and Second Temple Literature (2006)
  • Taught as a visiting faculty member at Pacific Theological College in Fiji in Fall 2011 (see link: http://www,sbl-site.org/assets/pdfs/ICI FijiFinal.pdf)
  • Currently researching religious diversity in the Buffalo area (see link: http://religionwny.blogspot.com/)
  • Has taught courses on the Hebrew Bible, Spiritual Autobiography, and is developing a course examining "Spirituality, Travel, and Justice" 

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
  • Recipient of a Fulbright-Hays fellowship to study how the globalization and transnational processes impact the Urdu language mushaira (poetry recital) in two South Asian Muslim communities. Click here to learn more.
  • In final stages of book Banaras, Urdu, Poetry, Poets; on Muslim weaver poets in the Hindu pilgrimage city of Banaras, India
  • Is the recipient of a fellowship from the American Institute of Indian Studies/National Endowment for the Humanities for the 2009-2010 academic year. His project is an ethnographic study of the effect of globalization on the lives of Muslim traditional artisans in Varanasi, India.

Matthew W. Mitchell,  PhD
Associate 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
  • Author of Abortion and the Apostolate: A Study in Pauline Conversion, Rhetoric, and Scholarship


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
Associate professor
Coordinator Catholic Studies Program
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E-mail: rourken@canisius.edu
Phone: (716) 888-2460
Curriculum Vitae (Adobe Acrobat PDF)

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

  • Serves on the Buffalo area Catholic Health System's Long-term & Continuing Care Ethics Committee
  • Currently working in areas of environmental ethics and end-of-life ethics
  • 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

Timothy H. Wadkins, PhD
Professor (interim chair Fall 2012)
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