Appointments to the Graduate Faculty

The chair of the Department of Religious Studies must consult with the Department Review Committee and the department’s Director of Graduate Studies before nominating a faculty member for either a new appointment for three years or for a reappointment for a five-year term. Members of the Department of Religious Studies must meet the following criteria to be nominated or reappointed to membership on the graduate faculty:

1. Education

All graduate faculty must hold a Ph.D. in religious studies or a related area.

2. Professional Development

Graduate faculty must show evidence of an ongoing program of research, and have published at least one article in a refereed journal since their last review, or some combination of journal articles, chapters in books, book reviews in journals or presentations at national professional meetings.  The key criterion is that the faculty’s work has received review by peers in their own field of research.

3. Teaching

Graduate faculty must be involved in graduate education through such activities as effective teaching of graduate level courses, serving on graduate thesis committees, guiding independent studies and supervising individual graduate research.

4. Initial Appointment

Initial appointments of new Ph.D. recipients to the graduate faculty may be recommended on the basis of promise as demonstrated in their performance as graduate assistants, in their last teaching position and/or on recommendations from mentors who are respected in their particular field.

Last revised on January 23, 2003

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