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
- Recipient of the Faculty Service Award for outstanding service to his department, the college, the community and his profession
Timothy H. Wadkins, PhDInterim 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, PhDAssociate 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, PhDAssistant 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, PhDAssociate 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 Urdu language mushaira (poetry recital) impacts globalization and transnational processes on 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, PhDAssistant 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, PhDAssistant 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, PhDAssistant 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, PhDProfessor
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