Matthew S. Bahr, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Gonzaga University received his Ph.D. in Sociology from Purdue University (2002). Dr. Bahr’s research interests include sociology of religion, political sociology, public policy and social movements. His most recent project, appearing in Social Science Research (2006), explores correlates of financial giving to religious organizations. He teaches courses in research methods, sociology of religion, and political sociology.

Ph.D. in Sociology,  Loyola University Chicago, 2003
M.A. in Sociology, Loyola University Chicago, 1999
B.A. in Sociology and Spanish, Gonzaga University, 1996

Areas of interest: medical sociology, women's health, the environment, power and inequality, statistical methods and social justice.

Office Location
Hughes Hall 208

Office Location
AD 335

Professor Betsy Downey is an American Historian whose interests, in keeping with her American Studies degree, are wide-ranging. In addition to her work in American History and American Literature at the University of Denver, she has also studied the Cold War, the New Deal, women in American Literature, and women in European History in post- doctoral seminars at Stanford University and the University of Connecticut. She has published on the Cold War, domestic violence on the frontier, and the works of Mari Sandoz. She has given numerous papers on these topics and also on preservation of the buffalo, the Cascade Crest Trail, and women in ski patrolling. A serious photographer, she has used photography in many of her presentations, and her photographs were used in a book on early childhood by faculty in the School of Education.

Office Location
RB 10

Office Hours

Ph.D., Fordham University (2003)
M.Phil., Fordham University (2002)
M.A., Fordham University (2001)
B.A., Seattle University, Summa Cum Laude (1998)

Brian Henning's scholarship and teaching focuses on the interconnections among ethics, metaphysics, and aesthetics. His first systematic exploration of these interconnections was developed in: The Ethics of Creativity: Beauty, Morality, and Nature in a Processive Cosmos. He teaches courses on environmental philosophy, moral philosophy, American philosophy, metaphysics, and the history of philosophy.

Office Location
Hughes 218

Associate Professor of Biology, 1999
Ph.D., Oregon State University, 1993
B.A., University of Washington, 1985

Office Location
AD 306B

Ph.D., Saint Louis University
Social Psychology
Research Projects and Interests:
Attitude change and gender issues related to study habits.

Office Location
Schoenberg Center, Room 010

Office Hours
Variable

Office Location
Robinson House 014

Dr. Linda S. Schearing is Professor of Hebrew Scriptures at Gonzaga University, where she has taught since 1993.  Before coming to Gonzaga she taught at Luther College (Decorah, IA), Rhodes College (Memphis, TN), and Emory University (Atlanta, GA). She has co-authored two books, Eve & Adam:  Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Readings on Genesis and Gender (Indiana University Press, 1999) and Those Elusive Deuteronomists: The Phenomenon of Pan-Dueteronomism (JSOT, 268; 1999), authored several articles, and has been a contributing writer for the Anchor Bible Dictionary, Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible,  The New Interpreters Bible Dictionary,  and to Women in Scripture: A Dictionary of Named and Unnamed Women in the Hebrew Bible, The apocryphal/Deuterocanoncial Books and the New Testament. In addition to these publication activities, she has served as a consultant for various presses as well as a speaker in both local and national venues.  Her research interests are Hebrew Scriptures, Biblical Interpretation, the Bible and popular cultures, and women’s studies.

Office Location
Hughes 237

Office Hours
Fall 2008
Monday         2:30 - 4:00
Wednesday  10:00 - 11:50
Friday            9:00 - 9:50

B. A., Chemistry, College of St. Thomas, 1982
Ph. D., Inorganic Chemistry, University of Minnesota, 1986

Office Location
HU 230A

Office Hours
Spring 2008
Mon. 1:10 - 3:00 PM
Thur 8:30 -10:30 AM

Office Location
Hughes 104

Dr. Michael Woods, SJ, is currently Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Gonzaga University. Father Woods is a Jesuit of the Maryland Province, having been ordained in 2004. He received his doctorate from The Catholic University of America in Liturgical Studies. His dissertation examined the intersection of the American liturgical movement and the National Catholic Rural Life Conference, noting the ways Catholic agrarians made the liturgy the spiritual foundation of its social agenda. He has authored “Cultivating Soil and Soul,” a chapter in an edited volume to be published in spring 2008 by Eerdmann. His general academic interests focus on the relationship between liturgy and life. He is a member of the North American Academy of Liturgy and Societas Liturgica. Fr. Woods is also deeply interested in issues of sustainability especially as they pertain to rural communities. He ministers in several rural parishes in the Diocese of Spokane, in addition to other pastoral work such as retreats and giving the Spiritual Exercises. He is a native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and enjoys a variety of outdoor activities.