Associate fellows

Credentials

BA (UVic), MA (UVic/Middle East Technical University), PhD (The Ohio State University)

Affiliation

Independent scholar

Project title

Cemevleri: An Examination of the Historical Roots and Contemporary Meanings of Alevi Architecture and Iconography

Credentials

BA (University of British Columbia), MA (University of British Columbia), PhD (University of British Columbia)

Affiliation

Independent scholar

Project title

What About the Bible? An Exploration of Current
Practices

Credentials

BA (Wellesley), PhD (Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London)

Affiliation

University of Victoria/American University of Beirut, ret.

Project title

Treasures of the Early Church

Credentials

BA (Trinity Western University), MAR (Yale University), PhD (Yale University)

Affiliation

Independent scholar

Project title

Evangelicalism and the Environment in the United
States

Credentials

BD (Tufts), MA (McMaster), PhD (McMaster)

Affiliation

Brandon University, ret.

Project title

Ethical Issues in Modern Buddhism

Credentials

BA (University of California, Berkeley), MBA (University of Washington), MA (University of Washington)

Affiliation

Independent scholar

Project title

The Evolution of the Muslim Zakat Tax as an Obligatory
Act

Credentials

BFA (Emily Carr), MA (UBC)

Affiliation

McGill University (PhD candidate)

Project title

The Use of Funerary Art for Commemorating Social Identity: The Case of the Via Latina’s Samaritan Woman

Credentials

BA (York), MA (University of Toronto), PhD (Stanford)

Affiliation

McGill University, ret.

Project titles

The Modernization of Buddhism in Global Perspective

Little Jade: Language and Experience in Zen

Credentials

BA (UVic), MA (Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London), PhD (UVic)

Affiliation

University of Victoria

Project title

Students or Tailors?
A re-evaluation of the sculptures on the south transept
of the cathedral of Notre-Dame in Paris

Credentials

BA (Cambridge University), PhD (University of Sussex)

Affiliation

Professor Emeritus (University of Alberta)

Project title

The Book of Isaiah

Credentials

BMus (University of Saskatchewan), BA (University of Saskatchewan), MA (University of Toronto), PhD (University of Toronto)

Affiliation

University of Victoria

Project titles

How Catholic Schools can be Thought of as Sites
of Inter-Religious and Ecumenical Dialogue

Credentials

AB (University of Chicago), MA (University of Wisconsin, Madison), PhD (University of Wisconsin, Madison)

Affiliation

York University, ret.

Project titles

Theology Throughout Most of the Human Past:
The Spiritual Life and Understanding of Gathering-
Hunting Peoples

Credentials

BA (UVic), MA (UVic) PhD (Western)

Affiliation

Independent scholar

Project title

Relating to the Forest in Amazonian Quichua Philosophy;
Relational Ontology, Selfhood, Ethics, and
Aesthetics

Credentials

Specialist (equivalent to MA; State Academic University of Humanitarian Sciences), PhD (Institute of the USA and Canada: Russian Academy of Sciences)

Affiliation

Research Fellow (Institute of the USA and Canada: Russian Academy of Sciences)

Project title

Islam and politics in “Arab spring” countries from an
international community perspective

Credentials

BA (University of Toronto), MA (Brown University), PhD (Brown University)

Affiliation

St. Jerome's University

Project title

The Meaning of Founding Stories:
Jean Vanier and L’Arche communities around the
world

Credentials

BEd (University of Victoria), MEd (University of Victoria), PhD (University of Victoria)

Affiliation

Director, Academic Leadership Initiatives and Adviser to the Provost on Equity and Diversity (University of Victoria)

Project title

Chinese Canadian spirituality in the 21st Century

Credentials

BA (Vermont), MA (University of Chicago), PhD (McGill)

Affiliation

McGill University, ret.

Project title

The Divyaprabandham, Canonization, and Śrīvaisnava
Formation:
Musical Tropes and Identity Negotiations