Institute Faculty

The following faculty will lecture, guide field studies in New York, and provide individualized consultation: 

	Dr. Afe Adogame Lecturer, University of Edinburgh Author of many articles of the African Diaspora and editor of  Religion in the context of African Migration and European Traditions of the Study of Religion in Africa
	Dr. Courtney Bender Associate Professor of Religion, Columbia University Author of Heaven’s Kitchen and World's of Experience: Contemporary Spirituality and the American Religious Imagination (forthcoming)
	Dr. Katie Day Professor of Church and Society, Lutheran Theological School at Philadelphia Director of the Germantown Avenue Project Author of Difficult Conversations
	Dr. Dale T. Irvin President of NYTS and director of its Center for World Christianity Author of A History of the World Christian Movement, Hearing Many Voices and Christian Histories, Christian Traditioning: Rendering Accounts
	Dr. Lowell Livezey Professor of Urban and Religious Studies at NYTS Director of its Ecologies of Learning Project Editor/co-author of Public Religion and Urban Transformation
	Dr. Pyong Gap Min Professor of Sociology, City University of New York Author of Caught in the Middle and numerous books and articles on Korean Americans and their churches

Institute Staff

The following staff members coordinated field sites, accomodations, transportation, etc, and aided in the design of the curriculum.

Katie DiSalvo	Shirvahna Gobin
Christine Pae	Rafael Reyes III
Dr. Lester Edwin J. Ruiz	Matthew Weiner