School of Graduate Studies Faculty

Allert, Craig
Associate Professor of Religious Studies and History and Chair, Religious Studies Department
Department: FHSS; School of Graduate Studies, MAIH; History; Religious Studies; MA Biblical Studies
Email: allert@twu.ca
Expertise: Early Christianity, Church Fathers; Development of Christian doctrine; Evangelicalism; Formation of the New Testament canon; Historical theology; Justin Martyr.
Burkinshaw, Robert
Professor of History; Dean, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences; Director, Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Humanties.
Department: School of Graduate Studies, MAIH; FHSS, History
Email: burkinsh@twu.ca
Expertise: Canadian History; Canadian history and religion; Religion in Canada; evangelicalism in British Columbia; Evangelicalism and post-secondary education in North America; First Nations Pentecostalism in British Columbia; Canadian Society and church history; History of Christianity
Doede, Robert P.
Associate Professor of Philosophy
Department: School of Graduate Studies, MAIH; Philosophy
Email: BobD@twu.ca
Expertise: Existentialism, Aesthetics, Philosophy of mind, Feminist philosophy, and philosophy of embodiment.
Dunning, Stephen
Associate Professor of English
Department: English; MAIH
Email: Stephen.Dunning@twu.ca
Expertise: Canadian Literature; Modern British Literature; World Literature; Fantasy Literature, cultural studies; multiculturalism, moderism and postmodernism
Dyck, John
Assistant Professor of Political Studies
Department: Political Studies and International Studies; MAIH
Email: John.Dyck@twu.ca
Expertise: Business Education;Canadian Government; American Government; Ideologies; Canadian Politics; Judicial independence and judicial rights; Mennonite history and thought; Model United Nations; Political Studies and theory; Coaching and Sports management; Wheelchair basketball; Tutoring and Mentoring
Gobbett, Brian
Adjunct Professor of History
Department: School of Graduate Studies, MAIH;
Expertise: North American intellectual and religious, Aboriginal issues, science and religion
Guenther, Bruce
Associate Professor of Church History and Mennonite Studies
Department: School of Graduate Studies, MAIH; History
Email: bruce.guenther@twu.ca
Expertise: Evangelicalism and fundamentalism in North America, history of theological education in Canada, Mennonite studies in Canada.
Havers, Grant
Chair, Department of Philosophy, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Political Studies
Department: School of Graduate Studies, MAIH; Philosophy
Email: havers@twu.ca
Expertise: Political philosophy; History of philosophy; Ethic of natural rights; Philosophy of the Enlightenment; Tension between reason and faith; Right-wing political thought.
Healey, Robynne
Associate Professor of History; Chair, Department of Geography, History, Political and International Studies;Stream Coordinator for MAIH; Co-director, Gender Studies Institute
Department: School of Graduate Studies, MAIH; History, International Studies
Email: Robynne.Healey@twu.ca
Expertise: Gender; Canadian history; The Atlantic World; Quaker Studies; War and Peace
Hilder, Monika B.
Associate Professor of English
Department: School of Graduate Studies, MAIH; English
Email: Monika.Hilder@twu.ca
Expertise: Children's literature; Fantasy literature (George MacDonald, C.S. Lewis, and Madeleine L'Engle); Moral Education; Gender Criticism; Literature & Spirituality; Milton.
Klassen, John
Professor Emeritus of History
Department: School of Graduate Studies, MAIH; History
Expertise: Church and the State relations; Fathers and mothers in Christian tradition; Grace in Western tradition; History of gender (men and women)(masculinity and femininity); History of the family; History of women and men; History and comtemporary issues in Europe; History of Human Rights; Medieval Europe, Reformation, family & gender; Medieval Bohemia; Reformation; Renaissance; Violence coercion and peace in the Christian tradition; War and peace; Women and men in the church; Church origins - Anabaptist , Free Church, Mennonite
Nelson, Holly Faith
Associate Professor of English; (on sabbatical 2009-2010; visiting scholar, UBC (2009-2010)
Department: School of Graduate Studies, MAIH; FHSS, English
Email: Holly.Nelson@twu.ca
Expertise: early modern literature; British civil war literature; literature of the long eighteenth century; Scottish Romanticism; gender and literature; theology and literature; politics and literature
Pearson, Sara
Assistant Professor of English; Coordinator of First-Year English
Department: School of Graduate Studies, MAIH; FHSS, English
Email: Sara.Pearson@twu.ca
Expertise: Nineteenth-century British literature; the Brontës; the genre of the novel; Classical and Biblical backgrounds of English literature
Penner, Myron
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Graduate Philosophy Coordinator for MA in Interdisciplinary Humanities
Department: School of Graduate Studies, MAIH, Philosophy
Email: Myron.Penner@twu.ca
Expertise: Philosophy of Religion; Epistemology (methods of knowing); metaphysics (first principles, being)
Provost, Darren
Assistant Professor of History
Department: History; MAIH
Email: Darren.Provost@twu.ca
Expertise: Medieval, Renaissance, and Reformation Europe; History of Marriage and the Family; History of Christianity and Western Civilization
Rowe, Paul
Associate Professor and Coordinator of Political and International Studies
Department: Political Studies and International Studies; MAIH
Email: Paul.Rowe@twu.ca
Expertise: Middle Eastern Politics; Religion and Politics; Developing World Politics, International Politics; Christian Minorities in the Middle East.
Shelvey, Bruce
Associate Professor of History and Political Studies
Department: School of Graduate Studies, MAIH, Geography, History, Political Studies, International Studies
Email: shelvey@twu.ca
Expertise: Environmental history; Canada-US relations; comparative, philosophy of history.
Szabo, Lynn
Associate Professor and Chair, English Department; Stream Coordinator MAIH
Department: School of Graduate Studies, MAIH; FHSS, English
Email: lszabo@twu.ca
Expertise: American literature; Thomas Merton's Poetics; Canadian women poets; Creative Writing; Genre studies; Literature & Spirituality; Christian mysticism.
Wiebe, Phillip
Professor of Philosophy; MAIH
Department: School of Graduate Studies, MAIH, Philosophy
Email: pwiebe@twu.ca
Expertise: Analytic philosophy; philosophy of science and religion, religious experience; philosophy and Christianity
Zimmermann, Jens
Professor of English; Canada Research Chair in Interpretation, Religion and Culture
Department: School of Graduate Studies, MAIH; FHSS, English
Email: JensZ@twu.ca
Expertise: European literature; literary theory; philosophical theology; interpretation theory; (Individual thinkers) Martin Heidegger, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Emmanuel Levinas, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Hans-Urs von Balthasar.