AAR-WR Unit Chairs Updated June 1, 2017 Master Record UNIT CHAIR(S) EMAIL ADDRESS INSITITIONAL AFFILIATION YEA R American Asian Religious Studies Thien-Huong T Ninh, PhD ninht@crc.losrios.edu Cosumnes River College 2019 Jeongyun April Hur, PhD student jeongyun.hur@gmail.com Claremont School of Theology 2019 Alison Jameson, PhD ajameson@email.arizona.edu University of Arizona, Tucson 2018 Jake Nagasawa, PhD student jnagasawa@umail.ucsb.edu UC Santa Barbara 2019 Eva Braunstein, PhD student evabraunstein@umail.ucsb.edu UC Santa Barbara 2019 Kolby Knight, PhD student kknight@umail.ucsb.edu UC Santa Barbara 2018 Sarah RobinsonBertoni, PhD sarahrobinsonbertoni@gmail.com Santa Clara University 2018 Kimberly Carfore, PhD student kimcar4@hotmail.com California Institute of Integral Studies 2018 Melissa James, PhD melmjames@yahoo.com Independent scholar 2019 Philip Riley priley@scu.edu Santa Clara University 2018 Chad Bogosian, PhD chad.bogosian@yahoo.com Grand Canyon University 2020 Gregory Bock, PhD gbock@uttyler.edu University of Texas at Tyler 2019 Angela Sells, PhD comingintobeing@gmail.com Meridian University, Petaluma 2018 Lauri Ramey, PhD lramey@calstatela.edu CSU Los Angeles 2018 dwhitaker@mail.sdsu.edu San Diego State University 2017 Chase Laurelle Way, PhD candidate chase.laurelle.way@gmail.com Claremont Graduate University 2018 David M Houghton, PhD student davidhoughton@fuller.edu Fuller Theological Seminary 2020 Buddhist Studies Catholic Studies Ecology and Religion Education and Pedagogy Ethics Goddess Studies Graduate Student Roy Whitaker, Professional PhD History of Christianity Indigenous Religions Islamic Studies Jewish Studies Latina, Latino, and Latin American Religion Nineteenth Century Pagan Studies Philosophy of Religion Psychology, Culture, and Rel Queer Studies in Religion Brian Clearwater, PhD bclearwater@oxy.edu Occidental College 2018 Kevin Whitesides, PhD student kevinwhitesides@umail.ucsb.edu dimensional_didge@hotmail.com UC Santa Barbara 2018 Souad Ali, PhD Souad.ali@asu.edu Arizona State University, Tempe 2019 Sophia Pandya, PhD Sophia.pandya@csulb.edu CSU Long Beach 2019 Roberta Sabbath, PhD sabbathr@yahoo.com University of Nevada 2020 Victoria Ballmes, PhD candidate vballmes@umail.ucsb.edu UC Santa Barbara 2019 Leigh Ann Hildebrand, PhD student lhildebrand@ses.gtu.edu Graduate Theological Union 2019 Daisy Vargas, PhD candidate dvarg004@ucr.edu UC Riverside 2019 Tom Evans, PhD candidate thomasgevans@gmail.com Claremont Graduate University 2019 Christina Littlefield, PhD Christina.Littlefield@pepperdine.e du Pepperdine University 2019 Matthew Crabb, PhD student mcrabb76@gmail.com Graduate Theological Union 2018 Dorothea Kahena Viale, PhD dkviale@cpp.edu Cal Poly Pomona 2019 Michelle Mueller mmueller05@gmail.com Santa Clara University 2020 Dane Sawyer, PhD dsawyer@laverne.edu University of LaVerne 2018 Paul Rodriguez, Ph.D candidate paul.rodriguez@cgu.edu Claremont Graduate University 2018 Zayin Cabot, PhD zayin.cabot@csueastbay.edu CSU East Bay 2020 Casey Crosbie PhD student casey.crosbie@cst.edu Claremont School of Theology/Claremont Graduate University 2020 Yuria Celidwen, PhD student celidwen@hotmail.com celidwen@gmail.com Pacific Graduate Institute 2019 Phillip Butler, PhD candidate p.r.r.butler@gmail.com Claremont School of Theology 2020 Marie Cartier, PhD ezmerelda@earthlink.net Adjunct UCI and CSUN 2020 Religion, Science, and Technology Religion and Social Sciences Religion and the Arts Religion in America Religion, Literature, and Film Religions of Asia Womanist/PanAfrican Women and Religion John Erickson, PhD candidate jerickson85@gmail.com Claremont Graduate University 2020 Enrico Beltramini, PhD ebeltramini@ndnu.edu Notre Dame de Namur University year probat ion; panel Marianne Delaporte, PhD mdelaporte@ndnu.edu Notre Dame de Namur University Hester Oberman, PhD heoberman@msn.com U of Arizona, Tucson 2018 Joseph Paxton, PhD student joseph.paxton@cst.edu Claremont School of Theology 2018 Roy Whitaker, PhD dwhitaker@mail.sdsu.edu San Diego State University 2019 Albert Silva, PhD student acsilva@umail.ucsb.edu UC Santa Barbara 2019 Konden R Smith, PhD krsmith1@asu.edu Arizona State University 2018 Nathan Fredrickson, PhD student veradico@gmail.com UC Santa Barbara 2019 Cristina Rosetti, PhD candidate crose005@ucr.edu University of California, Riverside 2020 Emmanuela Patrice, PhD empstork2233@gmail.com CSU Long Beach 2019 Jon R Stone, PhD jrstone@csulb.edu CSU Long Beach 2019 Anna Hennessey, PhD dr.amhennessey@gmail.com Independent Scholar SF/Visiting Scholar UC Berkeley 2019 Michael Reading, PhD student michael.reading@cst.edu Claremont School of Theology 2019 Valerie MilesTribble, DMin PhD vmiles-tribble@absw.edu American Baptist Seminary of the West 2020 Ineda Adesanya, PhD student iadesanya@ses.gtu.edu Graduate Theological Union 2020 Sakina YoungScaggs, PhD candidate revsystah@gmail.com ASU Tempe 2019 Sara Frykenberg, PhD sara.frykenberg@gmail.com Mount St Mary’s University 2018 Emily Silverman, PhD ebinah@gmail.com Visiting Scholar GTU 2018 Conference manager: Joseph K Paxton (480) 600-3727 – Cell joseph.paxton@cst.edu