Alexandrin, Elizabeth, Ph.D. (McGill)
Associate Professor
mailto:Elizabeth.Alexandrin@ad.umanitoba.ca
226 St. John's College
204-474-6765
Field: Islamic Studies
Interests: Medieval Islamic Thought (Sufism and Ismailism); Islamic Philosophy

Cantelo, Brenda, Ph.D (Manitoba)
Senior Instructor,
Senior Fellow and Dean of Studies St. John’s College 
mailto:Brenda.Cantelo@ad.umanitoba.ca
236 St. John's College
204-474-8115
Field: Hinduism, Religion and the Arts
Interests: Religion and Dance, Sacred Art and Architecture of India Religion and Art Performance

Drewes, David, Ph.D. (Virginia)
Associate Professor (Joint Masters Program Chair)
mailto:David.Drewes@ad.umanitoba.ca
330 Fletcher Argue Bldg.
204-474-9548
Field: Indian Buddhism
Interests: Early Mahayana, Early Buddhism, History of Buddhist Studies, Textual Criticism

Dubois, Danielle, Ph.D. (Johns Hopkins University)
Assistant Professor
mailto:Danielle.Dubois@ad.umanitoba.ca
333 Fletcher Argue Bldg.
204-480-1824
Field: History of Christian Thought
Interests: Medieval Christian Mysticism and Spirituality, Medieval Philosophy and Theology, Knowledge and Gender, Spiritual Exercises, Continental Philosophy of Religion

Grislis, Egil, Ph.D. (Yale)
Professor Emeritus
egrislis@shaw.ca
204-452-3844
Field: History of Christian Thought
Interests: Medieval and Reformation Thought, Contemporary Theology

Klostermaier, Klaus, Ph.D. (Bombay) F.R.S.C.
Distinguished Professor Emeritus
kklostr@cc.umanitoba.ca
111 St. Pauls College
204-474-8073
Field: Indian Studies; Science and Religion
Interests: Religions and Philosophies of India; History of Science; Interreligious Dialogue; Ecology

Lewis, Justin Jaron, Ph.D. (Toronto)
Associate Professor
Co-coordinator, Judaic Studies Program
mailto:JustinJaron.Lewis@ad.umanitoba.ca
332 Fletcher Argue Building
204-474-8696
Field: Judaism
Interests: Jewish storytelling; physicality and gender in Judaism; Jewish religious syncretism; Hasidism; Kabbalah; Yiddish literature

MacKendrick, Kenneth, Ph.D. (Toronto)
Associate Professor
mailto:Kenneth.Mackendrick@ad.umanitoba.ca
331 Fletcher Argue Building
204-474-6277
Field: Contemporary Christianity and Culture
Interests: Death and Mourning Rituals, Comparative Ethics, Critical Theory, Psychoanalytic Theory

Marx-Wolf, Heidi, Ph.D. (Pennsylvania), Ph.D. (California, Santa Barbara)
Assistant Professor, (Undergraduate and Honours Advisor)
mailto:Heidi.Marx-Wolf@ad.umanitoba.ca
318 Fletcher Argue Building
204-272-1682
Field: Early Christianity, Roman history, History of Philosophy
Interests: Greek and Roman religion, history of medicine and science (ancient/medieval)

McCance, Dawne, Ph.D. (Manitoba)
Distinguished Professor
mailto:Dawn.McCance@umanitoba.ca
232 St. John's College
204-474-8120
Field: Religion and Culture; Ethics; Method and Theory
Interests: Critical Theory; Continental Philosophy; Body History; Psychoanalytic Theory

Whicher, Ian, Ph.D. (Cambridge)
Professor, and Head, (Ph.D. Graduate Program Chair)
mailto:Ian.Whicher@ad.umanitoba.ca
329 Fletcher Argue Bldg.
204-474-8527
Field: Religious and Philiosophical Thought of India, Hinduism, the Yoga Tradition
Interests: Approaches to Spiritual Liberation in India