Faculty Experts

The following list is provided for authors, editors, and reporters researching issues in religion. PSR faculty members are available for interviews and comments in the following fields. To contact a faculty member, please call or e-mail the PSR communications office.

Adolescents

  • Boyung Lee
  • Mai-Anh Le Tran

African American Religious Experience

  • Archie Smith, Jr.
  • D. Mark Wilson

American Religious Life, Contemporary

  • William McKinney

American Religious History

  • William McKinney
  • Randi Walker

Ancient Near East

  • Aaron Brody
  • Kah-Jin Jeffrey Kuan

Apocalypse

  • Tat-siong Benny Liew

Asian-American Religious Experience

  • Kah-Jin Jeffrey Kuan
  • Boyung Lee
  • Tat-siong Benny Liew
  • Fumitaka Matsuoka
  • Mai-Anh Le Tran

Baptists

  • Archie Smith, Jr.
  • D. Mark Wilson

Bible: see Hebrew Bible, New Testament

Biblical Archaeology

  • Aaron Brody

Bioethics

  • Michael Mendiola

Children

  • Mai-Anh Le Tran

Chinese Christianity

  • Kah-Jin Jeffrey Kuan
  • Tat-siong Benny Liew

Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)

  • Joseph Driskill
  • Mary Donovan Turner

Christianity, Progressive/Liberal

  • William McKinney
  • Randi Walker

Church History, 18th Century

  • James F. Lawrence

Church of the Brethren

  • Fumitaka Matsuoka

Dance

  • Andrea Bieler

Dead Sea Scrolls

  • Aaron Brody

Drama and Worship

  • Andrea Bieler

Education, Christian

  • Boyung Lee
  • Mai-Anh Le Tran

Ethics, Christian

  • Michael Mendiola

Ethnography

  • Mai-Anh Le Tran

Evangelism

  • Karen Oliveto

Feminist Theology

  • Andrea Bieler
  • Boyung Lee
  • Inese Radzins
  • Lynn Nell Rhodes
  • Mayra Rivera Rivera
  • Mary A. Tolbert
  • Mary Donovan Turner

Film

  • Mary Donovan Turner

Gay Marriage: see Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Issues

Hebrew Bible

  • Aaron Brody
  • Kah-Jin Jeffrey Kuan
  • Mary Donovan Turner

Hip-Hop

  • D. Mark Wilson

Homosexuality: see Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Issues

Human Rights

  • Fumitaka Matsuoka

Immigration

  • Boyung Lee
  • Fumitaka Matsuoka
  • Kah-Jin Jeffrey Kuan

Japanese Religious Experience

  • Fumitaka Matsuoka

Jewish-Christian Relations

  • Andrea Bieler

Korean Religious Experience

  • Boyung Lee

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Issues

  • Andrea Bieler
  • Jay Johnson
  • Kah-Jin Jeffrey Kuan (Bible)
  • Michael Mendiola
  • Mary A. Tolbert (Bible)
  • D. Mark Wilson

Marriage

  • Andrea Bieler

Ministry and Congregational Studies

  • William McKinney
  • Lynn Rhodes
  • Mai-Anh Le Tran
  • D. Mark Wilson

Money and Religion

  • William McKinney

New Testament

  • Tat-siong Benny Liew
  • Mary A. Tolbert

Old Testament: see Hebrew Bible

Pastoral Care

  • Joseph Driskill
  • Archie Smith, Jr.

Postcolonial Studies

  • Boyung Lee
  • Tat-siong Benny Liew
  • Fumitaka Matsuoka
  • Mayra Rivera Rivera

Postmodernism

  • Andrea Bieler
  • Jay Johnson
  • Inese Radzins
  • Mary A. Tolbert

Popular Culture

  • Boyung Lee
  • Mai-Anh Le Tran

Preaching

  • Andrea Bieler
  • Mary Donovan Turner
  • D. Mark Wilson

Protestantism, American Mainline

  • William McKinney

Queer Theory

  • Andrea Bieler
  • Jay Johnson
  • Tat-siong Benny Liew
  • Michael Mendiola
  • Mary A. Tolbert

Racism

  • Kah-Jin Jeffrey Kuan
  • Tat-siong Benny Liew
  • Fumitaka Matsuoka
  • Archie Smith, Jr.
  • Randi Walker
  • D. Mark Wilson

Religious Right/American Evangelicals

  • William McKinney

Sacraments

  • Andrea Bieler

Science and Religion

  • James F. Lawrence

Social Gospel

  • William McKinney
  • D. Mark Wilson

Spirituality

  • Joseph Driskill
  • Boyung Lee

Sexuality and Gender

  • Andrea Bieler
  • Jay Johnson
  • Boyung Lee
  • Tat-siong Benny Liew
  • Michael Mendiola
  • Mary A. Tolbert
  • D. Mark Wilson

Story

  • Mai-Anh Le Tran
  • Mary Donovan Turner

Swedenborgian Church

  • James F. Lawrence
  • Inese Radzins

Theology

  • Fumitaka Matsuoka
  • Inese Radzins
  • Mayra Rivera Rivera

United Church of Christ (UCC), History of

  • Randi Walker

United Methodist Church

  • Kah-Jin Jeffrey Kuan
  • Boyung Lee
  • Karen Oliveto
  • Lynn Rhodes

Vietnamese Religious Experience

  • Mai-Anh Le Tran

War

  • Fumitaka Matsuoka

Women and the Bible

  • Mary A. Tolbert
  • Mary Donovan Turner

Women and the Church

  • Boyung Lee
  • Lynn Rhodes
  • Mai-Anh Le Tran
  • Mary Donovan Turner

Women and the Church, Roman Catholic

  • Mayra Rivera Rivera

Women in American Religions

  • Randi Walker

Worship

  • Andrea Bieler
  • D. Mark Wilson