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.

Katharina Von Kellenbach
Professor of Religious Studies

Departments: Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies
Office: Anne Arundel, 110-G
Email: kvonkellenbach@smcm.edu
Phone: 240-895-4277

Education:

PhD 1990: Temple University.
MA 1984: Temple University.
1982: Georg August Universität Göttingen (Theology).
Colloquium 1981: Kirchliche Hochschule Berlin.

Link to Katharina Von Kellenbach's Personal Site

Selected Publications

Bio

Katharina Von Kellenbach (Ph.D., Temple University) is a Professor of Religious Studies. Her interests include Jewish-Christian relations, Holocaust Studies, feminist theology, and ethics. Her publications include Anti-Judaism in Feminist Religious Writings (1994) and co-edited Zwischen-Raume. Deutsche feministische Theologinnen Im Ausland (2000) and Von Gott Reden im Land der Tater (2001). She published on the life and work of the first ordained female rabbi, Regina Jonas (1902-1944) who perished during the Holocaust. A recipient of the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung Fellowship, she is currently working on "Christian Discourses of Forgiveness and Church Attitudes towards the Prosecution of National Socialist Perpetrators."

Professional Experience

2006: Professor of Religious Studies
2003 - 2007: Chair, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies.
2000: Associate Professor of Religious Studies, St. Mary's College of Maryland.
1991 ‑ 2000: Assistant Professor of Religious Studies; coordinator of interdisciplinary program in women's studies.
1990 - 1991: Visiting Assistant Professor, Lehigh University, Muhlenberg and Moravian College.
1989: Visiting Lecturer, Lehigh University.
1985 ‑ 1988: Teaching Assistant and Instructor, Temple University.

Related Professional Experience

2008: Editorial Board Kirche und Israel
2008: Editorial Board theologie.geschichte: Zeitschrift für Theologie und Kulturgeschichte
2007/2009: Reviewer for the 2007-2008 AAUW Educational Foundation American Fellowship Panels
2005: Overseer Visit - Member of External Review Team to the Religion Department of Colby College, Maine.
2004-2009: Co-chair of "Religion, Genocide and Holocaust" Group at the Annual Meeting of the AAR.
2004-2009: Christian Scholars Group on Jewish-Christian Relations. Center for Christian-Jewish Studies, Boston College.
2002-2007: Speaker for the Maryland Humanities Council Speaker's Bureau.
2002-2003: Writing Subcommittee of the Committee on the Status of Women in the Profession of the American Academy of Religion to prepare the "Guide for Women in Religion: Making Your Way from A -Z" (New York: Palgrave Press: 2004).
2000-2007: Manuscript reviewer for Oxford University Press, Lehigh University Press, Longman Publishers, Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, Women's Studies Quarterly.
1998-2007: Reader and reviewer for the Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Grants in Women's Studies and the Johnson and Johnson Grants in Women's Health, Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation.
1998-2004: Member of Steering Committee, "Religion, Genocide and Holocaust" Group at the Annual Meeting of the AAR.

Accomplishments

2007: Three-month Research Fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung at the Fachbereich Evangelische Theologie, Humboldt Universität, Berlin, Germany
2006: Charles H. Revson Foundation Fellowship for Archival Research at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington DC, March-June 2006.
2005: Faculty-Student Life Award, Student Government Association, SMCM.
2004: Coolidge Colloquium Fellowship, UTS & Columbia University, New York City.
2002: Faculty Summer Institute at Dartmouth College: Institute for the Study of Applied and Professional Ethics: Teaching the Ethical, Legal and Social Implications of the Human Genome Project.
2000: Research Fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung to spend twelve months at Humboldt University of Berlin.
2000: DAAD Award for a Study and Research Visit (declined stipend).
2000: American Council of Learned Societies, ACLS Junior Fellowship (declined stipend).
1999: Associate Status, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies; USHMM.
1991-2006: Faculty Development Grants, St. Mary's College of Maryland to attend conferences and do research in the US, China, Germany, the Czech Republic, Israel and Belarus.
1989: Charlotte W. Newcombe Fellowship.
1987: Scholarship for the NCCJ (National Conference of Christians and Jews), Minneapolis.
1986: Coolidge Colloquium Fellowship, EDS, Cambridge.
1986: Scholarship for the NCCJ, Baltimore.
1983: DAAD Scholarship (German Academic Exchange Service).

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