Jan Fuller, assistant professor of religious studies and Camp Younts University Chaplain
B.A., Hollins College; M.Div., Yale Divinity School; D.Min., Wesley Theological Seminary

• Dissertation title: "Dangerous Opportunities: Bereavement and Theology for Young Adult Women."
• Recent publications: We Ask Your Blessing: 100 Prayers for Campus Occasions, ed. Donald Shockley (2005)

Fuller's research interests include Muslims and Christians, post-war spirituality, Middle East politics and life, grief literature, memoir, body theology, ecumenical and multifaith relationships.

E-mail: jfuller@hollins.edu

Darla Schumm, associate professor of religious studies
B.A., interdisciplinary studies, Goshen College; M.A., Christian ethics, Pacific School of Religion; Ph.D., religion, ethics, and society, Vanderbilt University

• Dissertation title: "The Self Understanding of the Christian Missionary Movement on Prostitution in Thailand: A Critical Analysis."
• Co-author of the article Out of the Darkness: Examining the Rhetoric of Blindness in the Gospel of John.

Schumm began teaching at Hollins in 2001. She teaches the course series Introduction to World Religions I and II, as well as the traditions courses in Buddhism, Islam, Judaism, and Christianity. She has also designed courses in Women in Religion, Women in Buddhism, Sexual Ethics, and Jesus and Mary Magdalene in Literature and Film. She enjoys the small class size at Hollins that allows one-on-one interaction with students and provides opportunities for a more creative learning environment.

Ruth Alden Doan, professor; B.A., Princeton University; M.A., Ph.D., University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

Professor Doan primarily teaches courses in early America and social and religious history. She also teaches the survey of U.S. history, seminars on colonial history, the American Revolution, antebellum America, and the American wilderness experience. Her publications include a monograph on Millerism in 19th-century American religious history. Currently, she is working on a study of southern evangelical conversion.