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Fabrizio Cilento

Associate Professor of Communication, Film and Digital Media

 

Honors course taught:

  • First Year Seminar: From Borges to HTML: Seeing the Sacred in Multimedia Adaptations
  • Latin America Cinema

 

 

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Robin A. Collins

Distinguished Professor of Philosophy

 

Honors courses taught:

  • First Year Seminar: The Philosophy and Apologetics of C.S. Lewis
  • Philosophy of Religion
  • Asian Philosophy
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Anthony Eseke

Assistant Professor of Communication

 

Honors course taught:

  • Honors Culminating Seminar
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Jennifer Fisler

Dean of the School of Graduate and Professional Studies; Professor of Education

 

Honors course taught:

  • First Year Seminar: The Power of "And"
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Erik M. Forst

Assistant Professor of Music

 

Honors course taught:

  • Studies in Global Music
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Philip Graybill

Assistant Professor of Engineering

 

Honors course taught:

  • First Year Seminar: Technology and Human Nature
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Jesse Hake

Adjunct Professor

Honors course taught:

  • First Year Seminar: Reading Fairy Tales
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Drew Hart

Assistant Professor of Theology

 

Honors course taught:

  • First Year Seminar: The Color of Love

 

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James B. LaGrand

Director of the University Honors Program; Professor of American History

 

Honors courses taught:

  • First Year Seminar: Patriotism or Cosmopolitanism?
  • African American History Since 1865
  • Native American History
  • Hours Culminating Seminar: Christendom and its Legacies: What Should We Think About the Influence of the Church on Society, Culture and Politics?
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Robin Lauermann

Professor of Politics, Chair of Department of History, Politics and International Relations

 

Honors course taught:

  • First Year Seminar: Democracy in America: The Critical Citizen
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Devin Manzullo-Thomas

Assistant Professor of American Religious History, Director of the Sider Institute, Director of Archives

 

Honors courses taught:

  • First Year Seminar: Give Peace a Chance: Explorations in the Christian Peace Tradition
  • Pursuing the Good Life
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Janet Matanguihan

Assistant Professor of Biology

 

Honors course taught:

  • Pursuing the Good Life
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Obed Mfum-Mensah

Professor of Education

 

Honors course taught:

  • Socio-Cultural Perspectives on Education
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Bernardo Michael

Professor of History

 

Honors course taught:

  • History of Premodern Asia
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Sarah Myers

Assistant Professor of History

Honor course taught:

  • Women & Gender in American History
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Jenell Paris

Professor of Anthropology and Criminal Justice

Honors course taught:

  • Cultural Anthropology
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Christine Perrin

Senior Lecturer and Director of Writing

 

Honors course taught:

  • Honors Culminating Seminar: The Architecture of Happiness
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Christopher Perrin

Adjunct Professor

 

Honors course taught:

  • Honors Culminating Seminar: The Architecture of Happiness
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David K. Pettegrew

Professor of History and Archaeology

Honors course taught:

  • First Year Seminar: St. Augustine: A Christian Life

 

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Jason Renn

Assistant Professor of Politics

 

Honors courses taught:

  • First Year Seminar: Why Go to War?
  • Politics of China
  • Honors Culminating Seminar
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Timothy Schoettle

Professor of Philosophy

 

Honors courses taught:

  • Ethics
  • Pursing the Good Life
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David L. Weaver-Zercher

Distinguished Professor of American Religious History

 

Honors courses taught:

  • First Year Seminar: The Old Order Amish and Us
  • Religious Pluralism in America
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Cynthia A. Wells

Dean for Faculty Development; Professor of Higher Education; Director, Ernest L. Boyer Center

Honor courses taught:

  • First year Seminar: The Art of Storytelling
  • Created and Called for Community
  • Honors Culminating Seminar - The Good Life: Big Questions of Education, Faith and Meaning