Faculty & Staff
Stephen Lloyd-Moffett, Associate Professor
Religious Studies Minor Advisor
Bldg. 47, Room 34E
805-756-2475
slloydmo@calpoly.edu
Professor Lloyd-Moffett's initial research focused on ascetic traditions, particularly hermits and cave-dwellers in Early Christianity and Ancient Hinduism. However, he has broad interests in religion, publishing or lecturing on the mystical life of César Chávez, religion in modern Greece, Eastern Orthodox Christianity, ignorance of Islam in America, and most recently in the relationship between religion and wine. He is the author of Beauty for Ashes: The Spiritual Transformation of a Modern Greek Community, that tells the engaging story of the spiritual recovery of a rural Greek town after a scandal involving their bishop. He is currently working on The Soul of Wine: In Vino Sanctus, that looks at the way in which passion for wine acts as a surrogate for religion. In 2010, he was named one of the Top 20 under 40 in San Luis Obispo and was awarded the Cal Poly College of Liberal arts teaching award and the President's Community Service Award. He lectures widely in the community on religious topics. 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 interests outside the classroom include communal living, wine making, and spending time with his sons, Basil and Phineas.
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. |
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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. |
| Adam benShea Lecturer Philosophy Department Bldg. 26M, Rm. 104 805-756-5174 abenshea@calpoly.edu |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
| Anna Pokazanyeva Lecturer Philosophy Department Bldg. 26M, Rm 103 805-756-5167 apokazan@calpoly.edu |
Anna Pokazanyeva received her Ph.D. in Religious Studies from the University of California, Santa Barbara and specializes in South Asian and American metaphysical traditions. Her research interests include modern yoga, gender and sexuality, and religion and science. Her recent work has focused on turn-of-the-century Yogis and superpowers. |
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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. |
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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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Rebekah Swigger, |
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