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Dr. Ardyth Bass

Adjunct Instructor

502 E Boone Ave
Religious Studies
AD Box 57
Spokane, WA 99258

Phone: (509) 313-6770

Office Location
Robinson Hall, Room 004

Office Hours
Office Hours: By appointment only. Please feel free to contact me at any time at 509-294-1173.

 
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Fr. Michael Cook
Professor of Religious Studies

Department of Religious Studies
Gonzaga University
AD Box 57
Spokane, WA 99258

Phone: 509-313-6781
Fax: 509-313-5718

Office Location
Robinson 104

 
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Dr. John Downey

Professor of Religious Studies

Department of Religious Studies
Gonzaga University
AD Box 57
Spokane, WA 99258

Phone: 509-313-6780
Fax: 509-313-5718

Office Location
Robinson House 110

John K. Downey (Ph.D., Marquette) is Professor of Religious Studies (Foundational Theology & Political Theology) at Gonzaga University where he has taught for 20 years. Before comming to Gonzaga he taught in the Program in Religious Studies at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. He also served as Director of Education and Staff Theologian at the University of Illinois Newman Foundation. Other faculty apppointments include Spokane Falls Community College, Mount Mary College, Cardinal Stritch College, and Marquette. Special interests: foundatonal theology and method, political theology, higher education and pedagogy, linguistic philosophy, human rights, interdiciplinary dialogue, liberation theologies, Wittgenstein, Lonergan, Tracy, Metz.

 
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Fr. Bob Egan
Assistant Professor of Religious Studies

Department of Religious Studies
Gonzaga University
AD Box 111
Spokane, WA 99258

Phone: 509-313-3625
Fax: 509-313-5718

Office Location
Robinson House 109

 
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Dr. Mary Garvin
Assistant Professor of Religious Studies

Department of Religious Studies
Gonzaga University
AD Box 57
Spokane, WA 99258

Phone: 509-313-6798
Fax: 509-313-5718

Office Location
Robinson House 103

 
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Fr. Patrick Hartin

Professor of Religious Studies

Department of Relgious Studies
Gonzaga University
AD Box 57
Spokane, WA 99258

Phone: 509-313-6789
Fax: 509-313-5718

Office Location
Robinson 014

 
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Dr. Robert Hauck
Asst Professor of Rel igious Studies

Gonzaga University
Religious Studies
AD Box 57
Spokane, WA 99258

Phone: 509-313-6777

Office Location
Robinson House 012

Dr. Robert Hauck, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, has a B.A. in history from Seattle Pacific University, an M.A. in Church History from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, and Ph.D. in history of Christianity from Duke University. He is the author of a book and several articles and papers on early Christianity, and is working on a project on the ways Christian apologists of the second and third centuries formulated notions of salvation in relation to Hellenistic philosophy and culture. He has taught at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, the University of Virginia, the University of Oregon, and taught for ten years at Converse College in South Carolina, where he was R.L. Maclellan Professor of Religion and chair of the Department of Religion and Philosophy. Prior to coming to Gonzaga, he was Dean of Liberal Arts at Spokane Community College. A native of the Seattle area, he is married and has two children.

 
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Fr. Steve Kuder
Associate Professor of Religious Studies

Department of Religious Studies
Gonzaga University
AD Box 57
Spokane, WA 99258

Phone: 509-313-6702

Office Location
Robinson House 015

 
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Dr. Ron Large

Associate Professor of Religious Studies

Dept. of Religious Studies
Gonzaga University
AD Box 57
Spokane, WA 99258

Phone: (509) 313-6767
Fax: (509) 313-5718

Office Location
Robinson House #116

Dr. Ron Large is an Associate Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at Gonzaga University in Spokane WA. His area of specialization is Christian Ethics with an emphasis in 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.

 
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Dr. Patrick McCormick
Professor of Religious Studies/ Department Chair

Department of Religious Studies
Gonzaga University
AD Box 57
Spokane, WA 99258

Phone: 509-313-6715
Fax: 509-313-5718

Office Location
Robinson 08

 
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Dr. Kevin McCruden
Asst Professor of Religious Studies

Gonzaga University
Religious Studies
AD Box 57
Spokane, WA 99258

Phone: 509-313-5980

Office Location
Robinson House 008

Dr. Kevin McCruden, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, arrived at Gonzaga in 2003 after completing his Ph.D. in New Testament/Early Christianity at Loyola University Chicago. Prior to his doctoral work Kevin pursued theological studies at Yale Divinity School, where he received the M.Div. and S.T.M. degrees in 1994 and 1995, respectively. Kevin's area of specialization focuses on New Testament documents associated with first century Rome, in particular the Letter to the Hebrews. Kevin's additional teaching and research interests include the Gospel of Mark and the Letters of Paul. Kevin is the author of several articles and book reviews in such journals as Biblica, Biblical Research, and Theological Studies. His most recent work includes an essay on 2 Peter and Jude in the Blackwell Companion to the New Testament, as well as an essay on non-violence in the Gospel of Mark in the Jesuit magazine America.

 
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Amy Merrill Willis
Instructor of Religious Studies

Gonzaga University
Dept of Religious Studies
AD Box 57
Spokane, WA 99258

Phone: (509) 313-6788

Office Location
Robinson House 013

Amy C. Merrill Willis joined the faculty of the Religious Studies Department in 2004. She teaches courses related to the Old Testament/Hebrew Bible. Her teaching interests include community based learning and the Old Testament, women and the Bible, and the Dead Sea Scrolls. Her research interests include the depiction of God in apocalyptic literature, biblical theology, myth and the Old Testament, cults of the dead in Ancient Israel, and the Bible and culture. Instructor Merrill Willis is presently completing her Ph.D. in Hebrew Bible at Emory University. Her dissertation is a study of Divine Sovereignty in the Book of Daniel. She holds a Master of Divinity degree from Union Theological Seminary in Richmond, Virginia and a Bachelor of Arts double degree in English and Bible/Religion from Erskine College in Due West, South Carolina. Instructor Merrill Willis is a member of the clergy in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and has served in churches in Virginia and South Carolina. She is married to Rev. Steve Willis, also a member of the Presbyterian clergy. They have two young children.

 
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Dr. Joy Milos
Associate Professor of Religious Studies/ Director of Religious Studies Gradute Program

Department of Religious Studies
Gonzaga University
AD Box 57
Spokane, WA 99258

Phone: 509-313-6714
Fax: 509-313-5718

Office Location
Robinson House 111

Dr. Joy Milos, CSJ is presently Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Programs in the Department of Religious Studies at Gonzaga. She is a Sister of St. Joseph of Carondelet from the Albany, NY Province. She received her Ph.D. from The Catholic University of American in Christian Spirituality. Joy has taught a wide range of courses in spirituality, Christology, women and Christian spirituality, spiritual direction and comparative Christianity. Joy has published a number of articles, chapters and book reviews in such journals as The Way, Commonweal, Living Light, Sewanee Theological Review and Spirituality. Her most recent articles have been about the spirituality of Dorothy L. Sayers and Dr. A. Maude Royden. She has also directed retreats in various locations around the country, Canada, England and Ireland. In addition to her academic background, Joy is committed to an integration of spirituality and social justice, especially around issues related to adequate housing and women's concerns. She has taken numerous groups of Gonzaga students on Habitat for Humanity Global Village experiences to rural central Mexico.

 
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Fr. John Mossi

Associate Professor of Religious Studies

Department of Religious Studies
Gonzaga University
AD Box 57
Spokane, WA 99258

Phone: 509-313-6779
Fax: 509-313-5718

Office Location
Robinson 12

 
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Dr. Linda Schearing
Professor of Religious Studies

Department of Religious Studies
Gonzaga University
AD Box 57
Spokane, WA 99258

Phone: 509-313-6797
Fax: 509-313-5718

Office Location
Robinson House 011

 
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Dr. John Sheveland
Assistant Professor

502 E. Boone Ave.
AD Box 57
Spokane, WA 99258

Phone: (509) 313-6784
 
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Dr. Cate Siejk

Associate Professor of Religious Studies

Department of Religious Studies
Gonzaga University
AD Box 57
Spokane, WA 99258

Phone: (509) 313-6776
Fax: (509) 313-5718

Office Location
Robinson House 112

Dr. Cate Siejk, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, received her Ph.D. in Theology and Education from Boston College in 1992. She began teaching at Gonzaga in fall, 1991 and regularly teaches courses in Christian Doctrine, Feminist Theologies, and Sharing Faith ( graduate course in religious education and other ministries.) Dr. Siejk's research interests are in epistemology, feminist theory, and feminist theologies. She is also a faculty member in the Womens Studies Program.

 
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Bud Thompson
Instructor, Religious Studies

Gonzaga University
Religious Studies
AD Box 57
Spokane, WA 99258

Office Location
Robinson House 015

 
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Dr. Bernard Tyrrell

Professor of Religious Studies, Emeritus

Jesuit House, Gonzaga University
Gonzaga University
AD Box 111
Spokane, WA 99258-0001

Phone: (509) 328-4220, Ex. 6036

Office Location
Jesuit House

Office Hours
By Appointment

 
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