Faculty Associates are faculty of Creighton University who work in the areas of religion and society. Their primary appointments are in academic departments of the university, but they have committed their expertise, interests, and skills to the collaborative work of the Center.
The Kripke Center accepts applications for new Faculty Associates. For further information on the responsibilities and privileges of Faculty Associates, see the Faculty Associate Profile.
Current Associates
Ulil Amri
Assistant Professor in Cultural Anthropology
Religion and Environment, Social Movements, Political Economy, Muslim Faith Communities in Indonesia
Erin Averett
Professor of Art History and Classical & Near Eastern Studies
Classical Archaeology
Matthew Averett
Associate Professor of Art History
Renaissance and Baroque Art and Architecture; Urban Development
Dulcinea Boesenberg
Associate Professor of Theology
New Testament; Early Jewish and Christian Community and Identity
Sherri Brown
Associate Professor of Theology
Biblical Studies; New Testament and Social Justice
Susan A. Calef
Assistant Professor of Theology
New Testament and Christian Origins; Feminist Biblical Interpretation; Women in Early Christianity; Body Issues in Early Christianity; Apocryphal Acts; Biblical Spirituality
John C. M. Calvert
Professor of History
Middle Eastern History; Islamism; Jihadism
J. Jay Carney
Professor of Theology
African Christianity, Church History
Sabrina Danielsen, Director of the Kripke Center
Associate Professor of Sociology
Sociology of Religion; Social Problems and Movements
Daniel DiLeo
Associate Professor and Director of Justice and Peace Studies
Religion and Environment; Catholic Social Teaching and Climate Change
Gintaras K. Duda
Professor of Physics
Dark matter; Intersection of Religion and Science; Scientific Cosmology
Scott Eastman
Professor of History
Spanish Nationalism and Colonialism
Kevin Estep
Associate Professor of Health Administration and Policy
American Congregations; Public Health; Political Polarization
Julia Fleming
Professor of Theology
History of Catholic Social Ethics, particularly Crime and Punishment
Leonard Greenspoon, Klutznick Chair in Jewish Civilization
Professor of Classical and Near Eastern Studies
Hebrew Bible; Dead Sea Scrolls; Bible Translations; Bible in Popular Culture; Judaism; Jewish-Christian Relations
Andrew Gustafson
Associate Professor of Business Ethics and Society
Ethics, Business, and Society
Martha Habash
Professor of Classics
Greek Religion, Roman Religion, Ancient History
H. Ashley Hall
Associate Professor of Theology
Reformation; Protestant Theology
Jeffrey P. Hause
Professor of Philosophy
Medieval Philosophy; Ethics; Ancient Philosophy
Bridget Keegan
Professor of English; Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences
British Literature; Religion and the Environment
Thomas M. Kelly
Professor of Theology
Liberation Theology; Enculturation; Christianity in Cultural Context
Christopher Krall, S.J.
Assistant Professor of Theology
Religion and Sciences, particularly Neuroscience; Theology of Prayer
Richard Collin Mangrum, Yossem Chair in Legal Ethics
Professor of Law
Constitutional Law; Free Exercise and Establishment Issues; Morman History and Theology
Cristina Pop
Assistant Professor of Medical Anthropology, Department of Cultural and Social Studies
Medical Anthropology; Gender and Religion; Discourse analysis of Mythical Texts
Nicolae Roddy
Professor of Theology
Hebrew Bible; Society and Literature of the Second Temple Period; Syro-Palestinian Archaeology; Romanian Apocryphal Literature; Eastern Orthodox Christian Theology and Culture
Alexander Rödlach, SVD
Associate Professor of Anthropology and Psychiatry
Medical Anthopology; religion and health; faith community nursing; religious explanations of health and epidemics
Trish Ross
Assistant Professor in Modern Languages & Literature & Honors Program
History of Christianity; History of Science and Religion
Jacob Rump
Associate Professor of Philosophy
Phenomenology; Theory of Meaning; Epistemology; Modern and Contemporary European Philosophy; History of Analytic Philosophy; Ethics
Todd Salzman
Professor of Theology
Law, Religion, Sexual and Gender Ethics
Samantha Senda-Cook
Professor of Communication Studies; Affiliated Faculty with Environmental Science and Sustainability Programs
Rhetoric; Environmental Communication; Materiality; Qualitative Methods; Space and Place; Recreation; Food; Urban and Sustainable Agriculture; Memory and Time; Embodied Practices
Ronald A. Simkins
Professor of Theology
Hebrew Bible; Near Eastern Studies; Archaeology of Israel; Creation Myths; Political Economy of Israel; Bible and the Environment
Zachary B. Smith
Associate Professor of Theology
Late Antique, Medieval, and Byzantine Christianity