Faculty and Staff

Maria Antonaccio (Ph.D, University of Chicago), is Associate Professor of religious ethics.  She teaches courses on western religious and philosophical ethics, contemporary Christian ethics, environmental ethics, and literature and ethics.  She is the author of Picturing the Human: The Moral Thought of Iris Murdoch , and co-editor of Iris Murdoch   the Search for Human Goodness .

mailto: antoncco@bucknell.edu

Paul A. Macdonald Jr. , assistant professor (Ph.D., University of Virginia), teaches courses in Christianity, the history of Christian thought, and western religious thought.  His main areas of research are philosophical theology, Christian theology, and Christian philosophy.  Currently, he is completing a book in philosophical theology entitled Knowledge and the Transcendent: An Inquiry into God’s Relationship to the Mind.

Eric Michael Mazur , on leave.

Web page:   http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/mazur

Karline McLain (Ph.D., University of Texas) is Assistant Professor of South Asian religions.  Her main area of teaching and research interest is religion and visual culture in modern India.  She teaches courses on Hinduism, Islam in South Asia, Hinduism and visual Media, and the Indian epics.  She is currently writing a book entitled Immortal Picture Stories: Comic Books, Religion, and Identity in Modern India.

Web page: http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/kmclain

James Mark Shields (Ph.D., McGill University), is assistant professor in East Asian religions. His research area is modern Buddhist philosophy and Asian religious and philosophical ethics, and he has taught courses on Asian religions, comparative ethics, sexuality and religion, and religion and the arts. He is coeditor of Teaching Buddhism in the West: From the Wheel to the Web , and is currently working on a study of a Japanese movement called Critical Buddhism.

Rivka Ulmer , assistant professor and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Chair in Jewish studies (Dr. Phil., J.W. Goethe Universität, Frankfurt am Main), teaches Jewish studies courses and specializes in Rabbinic literature (Midrash, Talmud, and Responsa) and medieval Hebrew manuscripts using semiotic, linguistic, and cultural theory methods. Her interests include comparative literature, Jewish history and thought (Classical period to Modernity), Jews in Egypt, Jewish magic, and Jews in Germany.

Web page: http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/rulmer

Carol Wayne White , (Ph.D., University of Denver, Iliff School of Theology) is associate professor of philosophy of religion.  Her areas of teaching and research include philosophy of religion, process theology and philosophy, poststructuralist and feminist philosophies, critical theory and religion, religious naturalism, and science and religion.  She is the author of Poststructuralism, Feminism, and Religion and Reverberations from a Mystical Naturalism: Revitalizing the Legacy of Anne Conway (1631-79) (forthcoming).

Connie Yoder, academic assistant, also serves as the academic assistant for the classics department.

mailto: cyoder@bucknell.edu)