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Assistant Professor of Hebrew Bible
Assistant Director of Library
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Phone: 913-253-5036
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Curriculum Vitae

Education

Ph.D. in Hebrew Bible, University of Manchester
M.A. in Hebrew Bible, Nazarene Theological Seminary
B.A. in Bible and Music (Double Major), Houghton University

Denomination

Ordained priest in The Episcopal Church

Discipline or Specialty

Hebrew Bible and Biblical Hebrew Language

Disciplinary/Research Interests

• Biblical Hebrew Poetry
• Book of Psalms
• Cognitive Linguistics
• Metaphor Theory
• Emotion
• Happiness/Unhappiness in the Hebrew Bible

What do you hope your students come away with when they leave your classroom?

What is your teaching style?

I understand teaching as a holistic vocation that nurtures intellectual curiosity, emotional authenticity, cultural competency, spiritual vitality, and embodied love, while laying foundations for ministry praxis, justice work, and human flourishing. I design scaffolded, skill-focused assignments that cultivate students’ critical awareness of the Hebrew Bible as a site of engagement across cultural and religious difference with ongoing relevance to contemporary questions and contexts. My pedagogy incorporates innovative methods—including gamification, creative assignment options, immersive audiovisual materials, multimodal reinforcement, and flexible completion schedules—to foster learning with minimal anxiety among a diverse student body.

Representative Courses Taught

HBS310 Engaging the Hebrew Bible and its Cultures

HSB320/321 Introduction to Biblical Hebrew Language

Recent Publications