Staff

Ph.D. University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill  1985
M.A.  San Francisco State University - 1979
B.A.  University of Nebraska at Omaha  1977

Office Location
College Hall 416J

Office Hours
Tuesday/Thursday 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

large@gonzaga.edu

Dr. Ron Large is Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Religious Studies. His area of specialization is Christian Ethics with an emphasis on Christian Social Ethics and peace studies. Dr. Large took his Bachelor's degree from the University of Virginia where he majored in Religious Studies. He received his Master of Divinity degree from Princeton Theological Seminary. His M.Div. thesis examined violence and nonviolence as methods of social change. Dr. Large received his doctorate from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, CA. His dissertation was on the connection between virtue and social change in the thought of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Mohandas Gandhi. He teaches classes in Nonviolence, Christian Morality, Death and Dying, Sexual Morality, Religion and Film, and the Vietnam War. For the academic year 2000-2001, he was named Teacher of the Year at Gonzaga University. In the summer of 2006, Dr. Large was invited to attend a week long seminar on Global Peace and Security at the United States Institute of Peace in Washington DC. Dr. Large received a Fulbright Scholar Award in the Fall of 2009. He taught in the International Peace Studies Program at the Irish School of Ecumenics in Trinity College Dublin. He received Gonzaga University's Exemplary Faculty Award for 2009-2010.

Office Location
College of Arts & Sciences, CG 416D

Office Hours
by appt.

Ph.D.  University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1989
Emphasis: 20th Century American Literature, Composition and Rhetoric