School of Graduate Studies Faculty

Allert, Craig
Associate Professor of Religious Studies and History; 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 Humanities.
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 (free will of the individual), Aesthetics (related to the senses), Philosophy of mind, Feminist philosophy, and philosophy of embodiment. Philosophy of Technology and Transhumanism.
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, modernism 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
Epp Buckingham, Janet
LLC Director; Associate Professor of Political Studies and History
Department: LLC; School of Graduate Studies, MAIH; Political Studies; History
Email: Janet.Epp-Buckingham@twu.ca
Expertise: Religious Freedom, Human Rights, Church/State Relations
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, 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; 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; The Atlantic World; Quaker Studies; War and Peace; Canadian History
Hilder, Monika B.
Associate Professor of English
Department: English; MAIH
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 contemporary 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
Professor of English; Chair of the English Department; Co-Director, Gender Studies Institute
Department: English; MAIH
Email: Holly.Nelson@twu.ca
Expertise: early modern British literature; British civil war literature; literature of the long eighteenth century; Scottish literature; gender and literature; theology and literature; politics and literature
Pearson, Sara
Assistant Professor of English; Coordinator of First-Year English
Department: English; MAIH
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
Associate 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 (criteria for knowledge and rational belief); Metaphysics (analyzing concepts necessary for understanding reality)
Provost, Darren
Assistant Professor of History, Coordinator for 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, Chair, History, Political & International Studies and Geography Department
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, theoretical history.
Szabo, Lynn
Associate Professor of English; English Stream Co-ordinator, M.A. in Humanities
Department: English; MAIH
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: English; MAIH
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.