Program Information
Michael Taber, Chair
240 895 4900
mstaber@smcm.edu
Penny Shissler, Office Clerk
240 895 2159
Program Highlight
The department offers a major and minor in Philosophy and a major and minor in Religious Studies. As an active and energetic department, we are committed towards an intercultural, international and interdisciplinary understanding of the world. We teach across the traditional fields of philosophy and religious studies, and beyond the cultural divides of East and West. Departmental faculty likes to teach in a variety of venues (Nitze Program; Women, Gender and Sexuality; Environmental Studies; Asian Studies; African and African Diaspora Studies), to take students on study tours (Greece, Germany/Poland, India, Thailand, and, in the future, England and Israel), and to bring questions of global relevance to the campus communities through scheduling events with renowned speakers and activists.
Björn Krondorfer (on leave 2012-13)
Professor of Religious Studies
Departments: Philosophy and Religious Studies
Office: Margaret Brent Hall (on leave)
Email: bhkrondorfer@smcm.edu
Phone: office clerk: 240-895-2159
Bio:
Professor Krondorfer is on leave from St. Mary's College for fall 2012 and spring 2013. (Ph.D., Temple University) Björn Krondorfer is Professor of Religious Studies and the Department Chair for Philosophy and Religious Studies, with an expertise is the Western religious traditions and particular interests in cultural studies, Holocaust studies and gender studies.
At St. Mary's College, he has been serving as Vice President of the Faculty Senate and as chair of the Curriculum Committee. He has been a member of the Strategic Planning Committee, the International Council, and the Academic Affairs Committee of the Board of Trustees.
