Program Information
John Schroeder, Chair
Professor of Philosophy
240 895 4456
jwschroeder@smcm.edu
Sharon Newcomb, Office Assistant I
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.
Daniel Meckel
Assistant Professor of Religious Studies
Departments: Philosophy and Religious Studies
Office: Anne Arundel, 110-C
Email: djmeckel@smcm.edu
Phone: 240-895-4464
Bio
Daniel Meckel (Ph.D., University of Chicago) is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, specializing in religion and psychology, and Hindu religious life in India. He carries out ethnographic research on subjective and family life in the Indian Himalayas. Dan teaches courses on religion and culture in India, religion and psychological studies, and the anthropological study of religion. His research interests also include the intersection of Hindu practices and family life, the critical study of Western psychologies and their cross-cultural applicability, and religious and familial change in immigrant Hindu families in America. He regularly takes students on study tours of India. Dan was a Fulbright scholar in India and a fellow of the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research.
