Board of Scholars and Practitioners

The Journal of Inter-Religious Dialogue™ is pleased to have as advisors and reviewers the members of its Board of Scholars and Practitioners. Among them are non-profit leaders, experts in theology, and researchers who have demonstrated that inter-religious studies is truly a discipline of its own.

Y. Alp Aslandogan
President
Institute of Interfaith Dialog

Justus Baird
Director of the Center for Multifaith Education
Auburn Theological Seminary

Alan Brill
Cooperman/Ross Endowed Professor in honor of Sister Rose Thering
Seton Hall University

Tarunjit Singh Butalia
Chair of Interfaith Committee
World Sikh Council - America Region

Reginald Broadnax
Dean of Academic Affairs
Hood Theological Seminary

Thomas Cattoi
Assistant Professor of Christology and Cultures
Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley/Graduate Theological Union

Miriam Cooke
Professor of Modern Arabic Literature and Culture
Duke University

David Gray
Director of the Workforce and Family Program
The New America Foundation

Barry Harrison
Managing Partner
Resolve Digital

Burhan Erdem
Student Specialist in Muslim-Christian Relations
University of Houston

Marianne Farina
Assistant Professor
Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology

Reuven Firestone
Professor of Medieval Judaism and Islam
Hebrew Union College

Nancy Fuchs-Kreimer
Director of the Religious Studies Department
Reconstructionist Rabbinical College

Bud Heckman
Director of External Relations
Religions for Peace International

Yahya Hendi
First Full-Time Muslim Chaplain in the United States
Georgetown University

Robert Hunt
Director of Global Theological Education
Perkins School of Theology
Southern Methodist University

John Kampen
Academic Dean and Professor of New Testament
Methodist Theological School in Ohio

Edward Kessler
Founder and Executive Director of the Woolf Institute of Abrahamic Faiths
Fellow, St. Edmund's College
Cambridge University

Sheryl Kujawa-Holbrook
Professor of Religious Education
Claremont School of Theology

Fatimah Husein
Lecturer
Indonesian Consortium of Religious Studies

Kristin Johnston Largen
Editor, Dialog: A Journal of Theology
Assistant Professor of Systematic Theology
Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg

David Lawrence
Professor of Hinduism
Chair of Religion and Philosophy
University of North Dakota

Timothy Light
Emeritus Professor of Chinese Religions
Western Michigan University

Christy Lohr
Director, Intersections Institute
Eastern Cluster of Lutheran Seminaries

Greg Martin
Author; Vice President
Soka Gakkai -- USA

A. Rashied Omar
Research Scholar of Islamic Studies and Peacebuilding
Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies
University of Notre Dame

Jon Pahl
Professor, History of Christianity in North America
Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia

Eboo Patel
Founder and Executive Director
Interfaith Youth Core

Shanta Premawardhana
Director of Interreligious Dialogue and Cooperation
World Council of Churches

Martin Ramstedt
Senior Research Fellow
Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology

Monica Ringer
Assistant Professor of History and Asian Languages and Civilizations
Amherst College

Or Rose
Associate Dean, Director of Informal Education
Hebrew College

Varun Soni
Dean of Religious Life
University of Southern California

Paul Sorrentino
Director of Religious Life
Amherst College

Robert Stockman
Director
Wilmette Institute for Baha'i Studies

Siti Syamsiyatun
Associate Director
Indonesian Consortium for Religious Studies

Sayyid Syeed
Director of Interfaith and Community Alliances
Islamic Society of North America

Swami Tyagananda
Director, Ramakrishna Vedanta Society of Boston
Hindu Chaplain
Harvard University

Burton Visotzky
Appleman Professor of Midrash and Interreligious Studies
Jewish Theological Seminary

Matthew Weiner
Director of Programs
Interfaith Center of New York

Madhuri Yadlapati
Instructor of Religion
Louisiana State University

Venerable Yifa
Nun, Scholar, and Writer
Fo Guang Shan Buddhist Order