General News

Our inaugural Loy H. Witherspoon Professor of Christian Origins We are thrilled to welcome Davina Lopez to our faculty as the first Loy H. Witherspoon Professor of Christian Origins. Dr. Witherspoon, a founding member of our department who died in 2017, generously endowed this professorship as part of his enduring legacy at Charlotte. Davina C. Lopez is a […]

Monday, September 15, at 2:30 in Macy 110 Eric Hoenes del Pinal will present on “The Lake Who Eats Girls and the  Mountain Who Stumbled: Notes on Relating to the Other-than-Human Beings in the Guatemalan Highlands” Abstract: Guatemala’s Q’eqchi’-Maya people understand the world as being inhabited by a broad range of other-than-human beings whose lives […]

for Personally Speaking on March 25, 2026 Will Sherman will be the speaker for the College of Humanities, Earth & Social Sciences’ Personally Speaking series. Dr. Sherman will be speaking on “Singing with the Mountains: Narratives of God and Language in Islam and Afghanistan,” based on the book Singing with the Mountains: The Language of God […]

In conjunction with Dr. Thiede’s newest book Dr. Thiede interviewed scholars in connection with her newest book, Rape Culture and the Bible: Scholars Reflect. View the film Rape Culture and the Bible: Scholars Reflect.

Coming in October! We are pleased to announce that Dr. Thiede’s newest book, Rape Culture and the Bible: Scholars Reflect, will be published by Routledge in October.

UNC Charlotte professor Julia Robinson Moore to give AAHH talk on work reclaiming lost history Read an article in The Chautauquan Daily. Julia Robinson Moore Julia Robinson Moore is an associate professor of African American Religion in the Department of Religious Studies and an affiliate faculty member in the Department of Africana Studies & History […]

Resources for students Every class in our department is unique but we do share some similarities in our approaches to critical thinking, research, and communication. If you’d like to improve your work in these areas, please feel free to use any of these resources (and please come visit us in office hours!).

Finalist for the Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award Libbie Shepherd, shown here (right) with Olivia Stockwell at a department event, was one of 12 finalists (from more than 50 nominees) for the Graduate School’s Annual Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award. This award recognizes the hard work of teaching assistants across campus, and Libbie has shown […]

The International Bulletin of Mission Research has named Dr. Kaloyanides’ book, Baptizing Burma: Religious Change in the Last Buddhist Kingdom, as one of the ten outstanding books in 2024 in Mission Studies, World Christianity, and Intercultural Theology.

Julia Moore was selected to participate in the 7th Annual Faculty Showcase for the Archiving Catawba Presbytery Project. The showcase will be on April 2, 2025, from 10:30 – 12:30 in the Halton Reading Room in Atkins Library. Please register online if you are interested in attending.