Religion

Faculty

Sandra Bisciglia
  • Assistant Professor of Religion
Lentz Hall 237
·(262) 597-8190
Sandra Bisciglia is a 1994 graduate of Carthage College. She received the very first Carthage Distinguished Adult Learner Award and the Carthage Religion Department's Emma Johnson Award. She worked in ...
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Bonnie Flessen
  • Adjunct Faculty, Religion
Bonnie Flessen earned a Ph.D. with distinction in Biblical Studies (New Testament) from the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago. While at LSTC, she also earned a Master of Theology ...
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Ross Larson
  • Dean of A. F. Siebert Chapel
  • Adjunct Assistant Professor of Religion
  • Adjunct Assistant Professor of Communication and Digital Media
Lentz Hall 328E
·(262) 551-5719
Ross Larson has taught religion and public speech at Carthage since 1991. He has served as a Lutheran pastor in Chicago, St. Louis and Racine, Wis.; on the staff of ...
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Kenneth Lenz
  • Adjunct Faculty, Religion
Ken Lenz is a published author and music arranger whose interests include Biblical hermeneutics (interpretation) and Christian apologetics (evidences). He has served as a hospice chaplain, and as an assistant ...
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James Lochtefeld
  • Director of the Asian Studies Program
  • Director of the Global Heritage Program
  • Professor of Religion
Lentz Hall 207
·(262) 551-5913
James Lochtefeld specializes in Hindu pilgrimage. His dissertation research focused on the north Indian pilgrimage city of Hardwar; the dissertation draws on Sanskrit texts, archival documents, and field research to ...
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Thomas Long
  • Adjunct Assistant Professor of Religion
Lentz Hall 206
·(262) 551-5898
Thomas Long has taught the foundational course Understandings of Religion; upper-level courses in the history of Christian thought and church history; the J-Term course Christian Responses to Nazism and the ...
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Romwald Maczka
  • Chair of the Religion Department
  • Professor of Religion
Lentz Hall 213
·(262) 551-5824
Romwald Maczka is an authority on the study of Christianity and Marxism. He has served as director of the Institute for the Study of Christianity and Marxism, has lectured frequently ...
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David Musa
  • Visiting Assistant Professor of Religion
Lentz Hall 239
·(262) 551-6312
David Musa is a native of Sierra Leone who earned a B.S. in biology from Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone in 1979. He earned an M.A. in systematic ...
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Christine Renaud
  • Chair of the Classics Department
  • Director of the Women and Gender Studies Program
  • Professor of Classics and Religion
Lentz Hall 427
·(262) 551-5739
Chris Renaud has excavated in the ancient agora of Athens, the Roman Forum, an ancient Greek necropolis outside of Metaponto in southern Italy, and the Panhellenic sanctuary of Isthmia, Greece. ...
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Daniel Schowalter
  • Professor of Religion and Classics
Lentz Hall 218
·(262) 551-5884
Daniel Schowalter is interested in archaeology and the religions of the ancient Roman world. He is co-director of the excavation of a three-phase Roman Temple at Omrit in northern Israel, ...
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Karl E. H. Seigfried
  • Adjunct Faculty, Music — Bass and Guitar
  • Adjunct Faculty, Religion — Norse Religion
Johnson Arts Center 344
·(262) 551-5859
Karl Seigfried teaches in both the Music Department and the Religion Department at Carthage College. He studied Literature (American, English, German), Art and Music in San Diego, Rome, Madison and ...
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Christian von Dehsen
  • Chair, Humanities Division
  • Professor of Religion
Lentz Hall 309
·(262) 551-5845
Christian D. von Dehsen has a balanced background, having worked as an assistant pastor and a research associate before joining the Carthage faculty. He was the Book Review Editor for ...
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Additional Faculty

David Duncan

Adjunct Faculty, Religion
Lentz Hall 316
profduncan@aol.com • (262) 551-5823

David Garrett

Adjunct Faculty, Religion
Lentz Hall 316
davidfgarrett@gmail.com • (262) 822-2221

David Garrett holds a B.A. in Creative Writing from Cardinal Stritch University and a M.T.S. from Harvard Divinity School. His academic interests include Hebrew Bible, wisdom literature, faith narratives and their communities, and writing as a spiritual discipline. An active minister, he is on the teaching team and directs "The Project" college group at his church.

John Jones IV

Adjunct Faculty, Religion
Lentz Hall 316
jjones@carthage.edu • (262) 551-5823

Eric Nelson

enelson1@carthage.edu

Lynn Tracy

Adjunct Faculty, Religion
Lentz Hall 316
ltracy@carthage.edu • (262) 551-5823

Lynn Tracy has a bachelor's degree in psychology from Carthage College and a master's degree in theological studies from Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary. She teaches the course called Issues in Living and Dying (RELI 230) at Carthage. She works full time as the manager of community engagement for United Way of Lake County, Ill. She lives in Beach Park, Ill., with her husband, Michael Tracy Sr.

Mark Trump

Adjunct Faculty, Religion
mtrump@carthage.edu

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Faculty Spotlight

Religion Professor James Lochtefeld brings Indian culture to life in photography show. Read more.

J-Term in India

J-Term in India

See a slideshow of photographs from Religion J-Term trips to India and The Himalayas.