Faculty and Staff
Devin Kuhn, Assistant Professor
RELS Minor Advisor
Bldg. 47, Room 34P
(805)756-2475
dkuhn@calpoly.edu
Professor Kuhn has the following degrees: B.A., English Georgetown University; M.A., Ph.D. in Women's Studies in Religion, Claremont Graduate University. She is jointly appointed in both the Religious Studies program and Women's and Gender Studies department. Dr. Kuhn teaches RELS 201 Religion, Dialogue and Society, RELS/WGS 370 Religion, Gender and Society, RELS 374 Religion and Violence, and RELS 378 Religion & Contemporary Values for the Religious Studies program. She also teaches WGS 301 Introduction to Women's & Gender Studies and WGS 340 Sexuality Studies for the Women's and Gender Studies Department. Her professional interests include women's moral agency and the intersections between religious ethics, sexuality and popular culture. Her interests outside the classroom include running (and finding fun trails to run in the SLO area) and learning about regional cuisine, especially local wines. After doing her first triathlon, the San Luis Obispo Triathlon last summer, she now officially feels like part of the SLO community.
Stephen Lloyd-Moffett, Associate Professor
**On Sabbatical Winter, Spring, and Fall 2012**
RELS Minor Advisor
Bldg. 47, Room 34E
(805)756-2475
slloydmo@calpoly.edu
Professor Lloyd-Moffett's professional research centers on ascetic traditions, particularly hermits and cave-dwellers in Early Christianity and Ancient Hinduism. He just completed a book that tells the story of the spiritual transformation of a rural Greek town over the past thirty years. It is due out in November 2009. He is working on a second book on Basil of Caesarea, the ascetic tradition, and the making of Christianity in the fourth century called. He has also recently published two essays examining César Chávez as a religious figure. He also has book accepted for publication based on field research conducted on a Fulbright grant about the religious life in a contemporary rural Greece village. He has the following degrees: B.A. from Claremont McKenna College in Economics and Film Studies; M.A. in Religious Studies from University of California, Santa Barbara; Master of Theology from St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary; Ph.D. in Religious Studies from University of California, Santa Barbara. His family, including his wife Fiona and young sons Basil and Phineas, live in San Luis Obispo where students are frequent visitors. His interests outside the classroom include wine making and wood working.
Judy Saltzman, Professor Emeritus
Prof. Saltzman began teaching religion at Cal Poly in 1977 and developed the Religious Studies program into a minor in 2003. She has the following degrees: B.A., San Jose State University; M.A., Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley; Ph.D., Religious Studies, University of California at Santa Barbara, 1977. Her interests include Asian religions, Indian philosophy and Vedanta, modern German philosophy and religious thought, comparative religion, and contemporary American religious thought. Prof. Saltzman is retired from teaching but remains active in the field.
Associated Faculty
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Keith Abney |
Keith Abney has the following degrees: B.A. Philosophy, Emory University; M.A. Theology, Fuller Theological Seminary; M.A. History and Philosophy of Science, University of Notre Dame; M.A. Philosophy, University of Notre Dame. Mr. Abney teaches Critical Thinking, Philosophy of Science, Philosophical Classics, and Ethics. His professional interests include Philosophy of Science, Science and Religion, Applied Ethics, and Axiology. |
Elizabeth Adan, |
Professor Adan teaches Modern and Contemporary Art History in the Department of Art and Design, and she holds the following degrees: B.A., Art History, U.C. Davis; M.F.A., Studio Art, U.C. Santa Barbara; M.A., Rhetoric, U.C. Berkeley; Ph.D., Contemporary Art, Religion, and Cultural Analysis with a Doctoral Emphasis in Women's Studies, U.C. Santa Barbara. She was also an Helena Rubenstein Fellow in Critical Studies at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program in 2000-01, and she is the author of "Ritual and Contemporary Visual Art" in Religion in the Practice of Daily Life (forthcoming, Greenwood Press, 2009). Her research interests include contemporary art, feminist theory and practice, critical theory, and ritual and performance studies. |
James Coleman, Professor |
Professor Coleman teaches in the Sociology Department at Cal Poly and has the following degrees: B.A., California State University, Northridge, 1969; M.A., University of California, Santa Barbara, 1971; Ph.D., 1975. He is the author of The New Buddhism : The Western Transformation of an Ancient Tradition, published by Oxford University Press in 2002. |
Basil Fiorito, |
Professor Fiorito teaches in the Psychology & Child Development Department at Cal Poly and has the following degrees: B.A. in Chemistry, Marist College, 1968; M.S. in Physical Chemistry, New York University, 1970; M.A. in Marriage & Family Counseling, Syracuse University, 1975; Ph.D. in Child & Family Studies, Syracuse University, 1977. He is the co-author of a published assessment instrument, the Means-Ends Spirituality Questionnaire. |
Todd Long , |
Professor Long has the following degrees: B.A., Philosophy with an Emphasis in Religion, M.A., Philosophy, University of Southern Mississippi; M.A., Philosophy, University of Wales; M.A., Ph.D., Philosophy, University of Rochester, (2003). Prof. Long teaches Epistemology, Metaphysics, Philosophical Classics, Epistemology of Religious Belief, Introduction to Philosophy, and Aesthetics. Professional interests include epistemology, metaphysics (especially free will and moral responsibility), philosophy of religion, and aesthetics. His published work includes “Moderate Reasons Responsiveness, Moral Responsibility, and Manipulation” in Freedom and Determinism (MIT Press); “Is it True that ‘Evolution is a theory, not a fact’?” in International Journal of Applied Philosophy, and “Belief or ‘Belief’: Rush Rhees on Religious Belief Language” in Philosophical Writings. On sabbatical 2009-2010 |
Joseph Lynch, |
Professor Lynch has the following degrees: B.A. Virginia Commonwealth University; M.A. Religion, Ph.D. Philosophy, The Claremont Graduate School (1992). Prof. Lynch teaches Buddhism, Critical Thinking, Philosophical Classics, Ethics, and Philosophy of Religion. His professional interests include philosophy of mind and philosophy of religion. |
Dustin Stegner, |
Professor Stegner received his B.A. in English Literature from the University of San Francisco (2000) and M.A. and Ph.D. in English from the Pennsylvania State University (2002, 2007). He regularly teaches the Bible as Literature and his teaching and research interests include Shakespeare, Edmund Spenser, literature of the English Reformation, and religion in literature. His articles have appeared in Shakespeare Studies and The Journal of English and Germanic Philology and edited collections on Shakespeare and Spenser. |
Jean Weztel, |
Professor Wetzel received a Ph.D. in Art History from the University of Kansas. Her specialty is the history of Chinese painting. At Cal Poly, she teaches courses in Asian Art, Buddhist Art, and most aspects of Western art, including a course on women in art. Her recent publications have focused on the study of courtesan culture and the role of women of the courtesan class as painters during the Ming Dynasty in China. |
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Jody Loving, |
Jill Fitzgerald, |