College of Humanities and Fine Arts: Religious Studies

Faculty Expert Database List

College of Humanities and Fine Arts

Phone: 530-898-5351

Religious Studies

Phone: 530-898-5661

James Anderson

Lecturer, Religious Studies
EdD, Harvard University
Religion and Education, Religion and Global Issues

Phone: 530-898-5662
Email: JAnderson-at-csuchico-dot-edu

Julie Hilton Danan

Lecturer, Religious Studies
MA, University of Texas at Austin
Modern Jewish Studies, Rabbinic Literature, Judaism

Phone: 530-898-5108
Email: JDanan-at-csuchico-dot-edu

Michelle DeBeixedon

Lecturer, Religious Studies
PhD, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley
Religion and Society, Women and Religion

Phone: 530-872-5108
Email: MDebeixedon-at-csuchico-dot-edu

Andrew M. Flescher

Associate Professor, Religious Studies
PhD, Brown University
Contemporary Religious Thought, Ethics

Phone: 530-898-5534
Email: AFlescher-at-csuchico-dot-edu

Bruce Grelle

Associate Professor, Religious Studies
PhD, University of Chicago
Religion in Schools, Interfaith Dialogue, Religion and Politics, Ethics and Society

Phone: 530-898-4739
Email: BGrelle-at-csuchico-dot-edu

Donald Heinz

Professor Emeritus, Religious Studies
PhD, Graduate Theological Union
Religion in Public Life, Death and Dying, Ethics, Sociology of Religion

Phone: 530-345-9809
Email: DHeinz-at-csuchico-dot-edu

Shigeo Kanda

Professor Emeritus, Religious Studies
PhD, Claremont
Religion and Minorities, Buddhism, Japanese Religious History, New Testament Studies

Phone: 530-345-2938
Email: SKanda-at-csuchico-dot-edu

Patricia M. Lennon

Lecturer, Religious Studies
MA, Indiana University, Bloomington
American Religious History, Catholicism, Religion and Sexuality, Women and Religion

Phone: 530-898-5661
Email: PLennon-at-csuchico-dot-edu

Kate McCarthy

Associate Professor, Religious Studies
PhD, Graduate Theological Union
Feminism, Women and Religion, Interfaith Relations

Phone: 530-898-4485
Email: KMcCarthy-at-csuchico-dot-edu

Mahan Mirza

Assistant Professor, Religious Studies
PhD (ABD), Yale University
Islamic Studies (history, thought, scripture and tradition)

Phone: 530-898-3066
Email: MMirza-at-csuchico-dot-edu

Sarah Pike

Associate Professor, Religious Studies
MA, Indiana University
Women and Religion, New Religious Movements, Adolescents and Religion

Phone: 530-898-6341
Email: SPike-at-csuchico-dot-edu

Daniel Veidlinger

Assistant Professor, Religious Studies
PhD, University of Chicago
Hinduism, Buddhism, History of Writing

Phone: 530-898-4637
Email: DVeidlinger-at-csuchico-dot-edu

George Williams

Professor Emeritus, Religious Studies
PhD, University of Iowa
Hinduism, Japanese Buddhists, Transylvania

Email: GWilliams-at-csuchico-dot-edu

Jed Wyrick

Associate Professor, Religious Studies
PhD, Harvard University
Judaism, Biblical Interpretation, Classics Comparative Literature, History of Ideas
Religious Studies Chair, Humanities Program Coordinator and the Modern Jewish Israel Studies Coordinator

Phone: 530-898-6379
Email: JWyrick-at-csuchico-dot-edu

Joel Zimbelman

Interim Dean, HFA, Professor, Religious Studies
PhD, University of Virginia
Ethics, Humanities, Comparative Religion

Phone: 530-898-4741
Email: JZimbelman-at-csuchico-dot-edu