Administration

Office Manager:  Joye Palmer
Macy 210  |  704-687-4598  |  704-687-3002 (fax)  |  jpalmer@uncc.edu

Department Chair:  James D. Tabor
Macy 210A |  704-687-2783  |  jdtabor@uncc.edu

Director of Undergraduate Studies:  J. Daniel White
Macy 208B |  704-687-4601  |  jdwhite@uncc.edu

Director of Graduate Studies:  John C. Reeves
Macy 204B  |  704-687-3070  |  jcreeves@uncc.edu

Faculty  (click on names for individual web sites)

The department has 21 faculty members, 16 fulltime and 5 adjunct.

Kent Brintnall (J.D., Northeastern University School of Law; Ph.D, Emory University) Assistant Professor
Religion and modern culture; sexuality and body; religion and film; queer theory

Judith Fagan (Ph.D., UNC Chapel Hill) Visiting Assistant Professor
Religion and modern culture
Macy 108D  |  704-687-4604  |  jfagan@uncc.edu

Shimon Gibson (Ph.D., London University) Adjunct Professor
Ancient Near Eastern archaeology;  Landscape archaeology; culture of Roman and Byzantine Palestine

Marcy Goldstein (Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara) Adjunct Lecturer
 Hinduism; religions of Asia)
Macy 213 |  704-687-6707

Kathryn Johnson (Ph.D., Harvard University) Associate Professor
Islam; Middle Eastern studies
Macy 214  |  704-687-4586  |  kvjohnso@uncc.edu

Tina Katsanos (M.A., University of South Carolina) Lecturer
Indigenous religions and culture
Macy 218  |  704-687-2516

Sean McCloud (Ph.D., UNC Chapel Hill) Assistant Professor
Religion and modern culture
Macy 215  |  704-687-2542  |  spmcclou@uncc.edu

David Mozina (M.T.S, Th.D. expected Fall 2008, Harvard University) Instructor. 
Religions of China and East Asia
Macy 108A  |  704-687-3186  |  dmozina@uncc.edu

Francis Penkava (M.A. Arizona State University) Adjunct Lecturer
 Macy 212  |  704-687-2467  |  rpenkava@uncc.edu

John C. Reeves (Ph.D., Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion) Blumenthal Professor of Judaic Studies and Director of Graduate Studies
Hebrew Bible; Near Eastern languages and literature; early and medieval Jewish literature
Macy 204B  |  704-687-3070  |  jcreeves@uncc.edu

Julia Robinson-Harmon (Ph.D., Michigan State University) Assistant Professor
African-American religions
 Macy 208C  |  704-687-6046  |  jmrobin4@uncc.edu

Joanne Maguire Robinson (Ph.D., University of Chicago) Associate Professor
Christianity and western culture; medieval Christianity
Macy 202E  |  704-687-2888  |  jmrobin2@uncc.edu

Celia Brewer Sinclair (M.A., Yale Divinity School) Lecturer
Biblical Studies
Macy 220  |  704-687-3378  |  cbsincla@uncc.edu

Jeremy Schott (Ph.D., Duke University) Assistant Professor
Early Christianity, religions of the ancient Mediterranean
Macy 221  |  704-687-6049  |  jmschott@uncc.edu

James D. Tabor (Ph.D., University of Chicago) Professor and Department Chair
Christian origins; Greco-Roman religions
Macy 210A  |  704-687-2783  |  jdtabor@uncc.edu

Barbara Thiede (Ph.D., University of Missouri) Lecturer
Judaism; Hebrew Bible
Macy 221  | 704-687-6687

J. Daniel White (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania) Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies
Hinduism; Religions of India and South Asia
Macy 208B  |  704-687-4601  |  jdwhite@uncc.edu

Joseph Winters (Ph.D., Princeton University) Assistant Professor
Religion and modern culture; Africana studies; critical theory
 Macy 202C  |  704-687-6706  |  jwinter6@uncc.edu

Emeritus Faculty

Ron Gestwicki (Ph.D., Syracuse University) Religion and modern culture; depth psychology. Dr. Gestwicki lives on Sanibel Island, FL in the winter and on a lake in Maine during the summer.  He can be reached by email at CandRGestwicki@aol.com.

Jeffrey Meyer (Ph.D., University of Chicago) Religions of China and East Asia

Edward St. Clair (Ph.D., Duke University) Religion and modern culture; philosophy of religion
estclair@uncc.edu

Herman Thomas (Ph.D., Hartford Seminary) Religion in America; African-American religions
Dr. Thomas  the Provost at Shaw University in Raleigh, NC.

Loy Witherspoon (Ph.D., Boston University) Christian origins and early Christianity
Macy 219  |  704-687-4600