Academics
Faculty
James Byrne
Department Chair
Professor of Religious Studies
S.T.B., S.T.L. Gregorian University, Rome; Ph.D. Trinity College, University of Dublin
Dr. Byrne’s research interests focus on the encounter between religious beliefs and modern thought and culture. His previous works include books on religion in the Enlightenment and the question of God in modernity and post-modernity. He is currently working on a book on the science and religion debates.
Saint Edmund's Hall 223
Phone: 802.654.2759
Box 111
E-mail: jbyrne@smcvt.edu
Personal Web site: http://academics.smcvt.edu/jbyrne/index.htm
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John Peter Kenney
Professor of Religious Studies
A.B. Bowdoin College; Ph.D. Brown University
Dr. Kenney's research interest is the philosophy of religion.
Library 302
Phone: 802.654.2525
Box 375
E-mail: jkenney@smcvt.edu
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Joseph Kroger
Professor of Religious Studies
B.A. University of Dayton; M.A. St. Louis University; Ph.D. McMaster University
Dr. Kroger's research interests are liberation theology and Eastern religions.
Saint Emdund's Hall 235
Phone: 802.654.2570
Box 135
E-mail: jkroger@smcvt.edu
Personal Web site: http://academics.smcvt.edu/jkroger/
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Edward J. Mahoney
Professor of Religious Studies
B.A. University of Ottawa; B.Ph. St. Paul’s University; S.T.B., M.A., M.M.R.Sc., Ph.D. The Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium
Dr. Mahoney specializes in the study of ethics.
Saint Edmund's Hall 243
Phone: 802.654.2578
Box 183
E-mail: emahoney@smcvt.edu
Personal Web site: http://academics.smcvt.edu/emahoney/
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Rev. Joseph McLaughlin, SSE
Professor of Religious Studies
B.A. Saint Michael’s College; S.T.B, A.M. University of St. Michael’s College, Toronto; Ph.D. National University of Ireland, Galway
Dr. McLaughlin's expertise are Ecclesiastical, Irish and Early Modern European History.
Saint Edmund's Hall 244
Phone: 802.654.2371
Box 272
E-mail: jmclaughlin@smcvt.edu
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Jeffrey Trumbower
Dean of the College
Professor of Religious Studies
B.A. Vanderbilt University; M.A., Ph.D. University of Chicago
View Dr. Trumbower's Curriculum Vitae
Courses Taught:
RS 210 "Old Testament," RS 211 "New Testament," RS 216 "Early Christianity," and RS/CL/HI 321 "Judaism in the Greco-Roman World."
Dr. Trumbower's research interests focus on Jewish Sectarian Logic and Ideology.
As an academic scholar, Dr. Trumbower has always managed to incorporate the topics he has written about into his courses. He says that the very act of producing peer-reviewed scholarship keeps him in touch with new ideas and developments in his field, and these new ideas inevitably find their way into his teaching. He has quite often been influenced by a question or assertion of a student in class that has helped him to think more deeply about some scholarly topic he has been working on.
Outside of academia, Dr. Trumbower enjoys snowshoeing, coin collecting, and vegetable gardening. He appeared on the television game show “Jeopardy!” in 2004, narrowly missing first place by only $1. His other talents include singing and talking backwards instantaneously, with each word as if it were spelled backwards, but the words are still in the right order. He says he has been able to do this since he learned how to spell in childhood. He can also speak Spanish and to a lesser extent German backwards.
Learn more about Dr. Trumbower in his faculty spotlight.
Founders Hall 105
Phone: 802.654.2492
Box 105
E-mail: jtrumbower@smcvt.edu
Personal Web site: http://academics.smcvt.edu/jtrumbower/
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Raymond A. Patterson
Assistant Professor of Religious Studies
B.A. Dartmouth College; M.A. Yale Divinity School; Ph.D. The Catholic
University of America
Research interests that Dr. Patterson pursues are within American Catholicism.
Saint Edmund's Hall 225
Phone: 802.654.2427
Box 201
E-mail: rpatterson@smcvt.edu
Personal Web site: http://academics.smcvt.edu/rpatterson/index.htm
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Rev. Richard Berube, SSE
Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies
B.A. Saint Michael’s College; M.A. University of St. Michael’s College, Toronto; Ph.D. The Catholic University of America
Dr. Berube has concentrated much of his research on Jewish-Christian-Muslim dialogue.
Saint Edmund's Hall 231
Phone: 802.654.2666
Box 124
E-mail: rberube@smcvt.edu
Personal Web site: http://academics.smcvt.edu/rberube/
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Paul Couture, SSE, STD
Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies
Pontifical Gregorian University
Dr. Couture's research interests include New Testament studies.
E-mail: pcouture@smcvt.edu
Personal Web site: http://academics.smcvt.edu/pcouture/
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Stephanie Sleeper
Henry G. Fairbanks Visiting Humanities Scholar-In-Residence
B.A. Reed College; M.A., Ph.D. Claremont Graduate University
Dr. Sleeper, a religion scholar specializing in Early Modern Europe, is the first Henry G. Fairbanks Visiting Humanities Scholar-in-Residence at Saint Michael's College. Her field of study is the History of Christianity, Early Modern Studies; her dissertation is titled “Languages of ‘Moderation’: Religion, Education, and Print in England, 1649-1714.”
Saint Edmund's Hall 233
Phone: 802.654.2489
E-mail: ssleeper@smcvt.edu
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Robert Lair
Adjunct Professor of Religious Studies
M.A. Yale University
Recent courses Mr. Lair has taught include Introduction to Christianity and Theologies of God.
Box 358
E-mail: rlair@smcvt.edu
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Rabbi Joshua Chasan
Adjunct Professor of Religious Studies
Ph.D. University of Pittsburgh
Dr. Chasan teaches Introduction to Judaism.
Ohavi Zedek Synagogue, Burlington, VT
Box 396
E-mail: jchasan@smcvt.edu