Faculty & Staff
Core Faculty

Isaac Choi, PhD
Director, Honors Program
Associate Professor of Philosophy
Teaching and research interests
- Philosophy of religion and analytic theology
- The nature and epistemology of expertise

Jason Lepojärvi, PhD
C.S. Lewis Associate Professor of Theology & Literature
Director, C.S. Lewis Initiative
Teaching and research interests
- The Inklings (C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, and friends)
- Love in religion, philosophy, and literature
- Ethics

Ross McCullough, PhD
Associate Director, Honors Program
Associate Professor of Theology
Teaching and research interests
- Eschatology
- Creation
- The Eucharist
- Late scholasticism

Jesse Peterson, PhD
Assistant Professor of Biblical Studies
Teaching and research interests
- Biblical literature, languages, and interpretation
- Ecclesiastes/Qoheleth and wisdom literature
- Philosophy in dialogue with biblical texts

Dana Robinson, PhD
Assistant Professor of History and Theology
Associate Director, Honors Program
Principal Investigator & Program Director, Liberation Scholars
Teaching and research interests
- Ancient Mediterranean History
- Early Christianity
- Food, work, and everyday religion in late antiquity

Jay David Miller, PhD
Assistant Professor of English
Teaching and Research Interests
- Early American literature
- The Atlantic World
- Theology and literature
- Literature and the environment
- Quakerism
Faculty Fellows

Joseph Clair, PhD
Executive Dean, Cultural Enterprise
Dean, College of Humanities
Associate Professor, Theology and Culture
Teaching and research interests
- Christian thought and ethics
- The role of religion in public life

Caitlin Corning, PhD
Chair, Department of History and Politics
Professor of History
Teaching & Research Interests
- Early Medieval church history
- Late Antiquity
- Sub-Roman Britain

Ryan Dearinger, PhD
Associate Professor of History
Faculty Fellow, George Fox University Honors Program
Teaching & Research Interests
- The American West and Pacific Northwest
- Immigration, labor and working-class history
- Environmental history
- Violence in American history

Andrew del Rio, PhD
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Director, George Fox University Apologetics Initiative
Faculty Fellow, George Fox University Honors Program
Teaching and research interests
- Philosophy of Religion and Apologetics
- Epistemology
- Ethics
- Philosophy of Science
- Analytic Philosophical Theology

Brian Doak, PhD
Vice President, George Fox Digital
Professor of Biblical Studies
Teaching and research interests
- Hebrew Bible/Old Testament & language
- Archaeology of the ancient Near East
- Comparative religion in the ancient world
- Iconography and art history of the ancient Near East

Mark David Hall, PhD
Distinguished Scholar of Christianity & Public Life
Teaching & Research Interests
- American Political Theory
- Religion and Politics
- Constitutional Law
- Great Books

Joel Mayward, PhD
Assistant Professor of Christian Ministries, Theology and the Arts
Teaching and research interests
- Christian ministry and leadership
- Contextual and liberation theologies
- Theological aesthetics
- Theology, philosophy, and popular culture
- Continental philosophical theology

Paul Otto, PhD
Professor of History
Faculty Fellow, George Fox University Honors Program
Campus Coordinator for Role-Immersion Pedagogy
Teaching & Research Interests
- History of early America and Native Americans
- Role-immersion pedagogy

Leah Payne, PhD
Associate Professor of American Religious History
Research and teaching interests
- American religious innovation
- Pentecostal and Charismatic Christianties
- Religion, politics, and popular culture
- Gender, race and class construction
- Ritual and performance theory

Travis Pickell, PhD
Assistant Professor of Theology and Ethics
Director, Cornerstone Core and Character Virtue Initiative
Faculty Fellow, George Fox University Honors Program
Research and teaching interests
- Ethics
- Theology
- Religion and Medicine
- Technology
- Pluralism and Public Life

Rebecca Sandberg, MFA
Assistant Director, Cultural Enterprise
Faculty Fellow, George Fox University Honors Program
Teaching and Research Interests
- Liberal arts and culture
- Great Books
- Writing and rhetoric pedagogy (fiction)
- Organizational leadership/human development