faculty_and_staff

Rev. Patrick J. Lynch, S.J.
Chair and associate professor
Email: lynchp@canisius.edu
Phone: (716) 888-2831

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

  • Teaches Christian social ethics and religion, and politics and liberation theologies
  • Teaches course on Jesuit history and spirituality
  • Published in the areas of ecclesiology, secularization, and war and peace
  • Works to integrate material from Internet into research and teaching
  • Serves as rector of the Canisius Jesuit Community


Dennis C. Duling, PhD

Professor
Email: duling@canisius.edu
Phone: (716) 888-2821

PhD, University of Chicago 
MA, Bible, University of Chicago 
M.Div, New Testament, Theology, McCormick Seminary  
New Testament, Theology, Heidelberg University (Germany)
BA, Religion, History, College of Wooster
  • Areas of interest: synoptic Gospels, the historical Jesus, the historical and social context of the New Testament times  
  • Author of The New Testament: History, Literature, and Social Context (2003)


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

PhD, Vanderbilt University
MT, Centre-Sèvres Seminary (Paris)
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
Assistant 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
M.Div, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary
BA, State University of New York at Buffalo

  • Specializes in archeology and the Bible, the Dead Sea Scrolls, early Jewish-Christian relations
  • Author of forthcoming book on the archeology and practice of Jewish ritual immersion as precursor to Christian Baptism.


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.


Rev. Martin X. Moleski, S.J.
Associate professor
Email: moleski@canisius.edu
Phone: (716) 888-2383

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



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

PhD, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, CA
M.Div., Trinity Evangelical Divinity School
BA, San Jose State University

  • Specializes in the History of Christianity and the English Reformation. 
  • Currently working with anti-Catholic English writings of the 17th Century.
  • Chair of the Center for the Global Study of Religion.


Trevor L. Watt, PhD
Professor
Email: wattt@canisius.edu
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.