People

Come meet the people of the religion department.  In this section you will find full-time faculty, part-time faculty, visiting faculty, staff and students.

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Full-Time Faculty

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Tracy Coleman

Associate Professor & Chair

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Office: Armstrong 141
Tel:(719) 389-6195
Email: tcoleman@coloradocollege.edu

Fields: Hinduism and Early Indian Buddhism; Women, Men, and Gender in Religion; Bhakti Literature; Krishna Traditions; Feminisms in Religion

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David Gardiner

Associate Professor

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Office: Armstrong 140
Tel: (719) 389-6616
Email: dgardiner@coloradocollege.edu 

Fields: Buddhism; East Asian Religions; Buddhist-Christian Dialogue

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Sarah Schwarz

Assistant Professor

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Office: Armstrong 120
Tel: (719) 389-6617
Email: sarah.schwarz@coloradocollege.edu

Fields: Religions of the Roman Empire, especially Early Christianity and Early Judaism; Biblical and Quasi-biblical Literature; Religion and Magic; Demonology; Apocalyptic Literature

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David Weddle

Professor

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Office: Armstrong 139
Tel: (719) 389-6615
Email: dweddle@coloradocollege.edu

Fields: Christianity; Philosophy of Religion; Religions in America; Religious Ethics; Theory and Method of Religious Studies; Topics in Comparative Religion: Miracles, Sacrifice

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Peter Wright

Assistant Professor

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Office: Armstrong 121
Tel: (719) 227-8137
Email: peter.wright@coloradocollege.edu

Fields: Islamic Sacred Literature and its Interpretation; Islam in the Americas; History of Religions; Theory and Method in Religious Studies; Religion and Violence

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Part-Time Faculty

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Bruce Coriell

College Chaplain & Lecturer in Religion

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Office: Shove Chapel, Chaplains' Office
Tel: (719) 389-6638
Email: bcoriell@coloradocollege.edu

Fields: Indigenous Religions Traditions, Shamanism, Nature and Religion, Interfaith Encounters 

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Devaka Premawardhana

Riley Scholar in Residence

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Office: Armstrong 122
Tel: (719) 389-
Email: devaka.premawardhana@coloradocollege.edu

Fields: Global Christianity/ies, Religion in Africa, Anthropology of Religion, Existential-Phenomenological Anthropology

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Visiting Faculty

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Amy Balogh

Visiting Lecturer

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Office: Armstrong 125
Tel: (719) 389-6636
Email: amy.balogh@coloradocollege.edu

Fields: Hebrew Bible, Ancient Near Eastern History and Religion, Second Temple and Rabbinic Judaism, Archaeology and Conservation of Historic Sites, Composition of the Hebrew Bible 

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Daniel G. Shaw

Visiting Associate Professor

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Office: Armstrong 142
Tel: (719) 389-6636
Email: dshaw@coloradocollege.edu

Fields: Roman Catholic Studies, Comparative Religion, Philosophy of Religion

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Staff

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Rory Stadler

Office Coordinator: Religion, Philosophy & General Studies

Office: Armstrong 131
Tel: (719) 389-6636
Fax: (719) 389-6179
Email: rstadler@coloradocollege.edu

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