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Brad M. Biglow, Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminal Justice, holds a Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Florida. In Religious Studies, he focuses on religion and ritual in native (tribal) society and millenialism (cults and secret societies). Dr. Biglow has worked with indigenous peoples in the Southwest (Navajo, Hopi, and Zuni) and, most recently, with the Huichol of Mexico where he studied community culture change and the preservation of traditional Huichol language, religious traditions, and culture.

Elizabeth Daniell, adjunct instructor in religious studies, has been teaching Religious Studies at UNF for seven years. She has a Doctor of Education degree from Auburn University with a concentration in the study of religion in public education and an MA in Religious Studies from Arizona State University. Before coming to UNF she did post doctoral work at Lexington Theological Seminary and previously taught at Arizona State University, the Univ. of Northern Arizona, and Midway. At UNF she teaches in World Religions, Hebrew Bible/Old Testament, New Testament, Myth and Ritual, Western Religious Traditions, and Mysticism and offers her expertise in numerous public forums.

Julie Ingersoll, assistant professor of religious studies, teaches courses on religion and culture in America, including American Religion, Religion and Violence, and Religion in Culture. She is currently finishing up a book manuscript for New York University Press. The book, now entitled War Stories: Gender Conflict in Conservative American Protestantism, is due to be released in 2003. Her most recent publication is an essay entitled "Against Univocality" Re-Reading Ethnographies of Conservative Protestant Women," which is included in the New York University Press volume on ethnographic method Personal Knowledge and Beyond: Reshaping the Ethnography of Religion. Dr. Ingersoll's next research project, for which she was recently awarded a UNF summer fellowship, will be an exploration of cultural myths and symbolism in conflicts over the confederate battle flag.

Ron Lukens-Bull, asssitant professor of anthroplogy, has published and presented widely about Islam based on fieldwork conducted in the world's most populous Islamic country (Indonesia). His research has concerned Islamic education and Islamic leadership with specific attention to the question of how Muslims negotiate both modernity and tradition, which is the focus on his current book project. His graduate training in anthropology included significant cross-training in Islamic Studies. He has on-going relationships with the Muslim community in Jacksonville and the on-line Muslim community.

John Maraldo, professor of philosophy, published an article on the Japanese "Kyoto School" that focuses on the identity of this group of Buddhist philosophers, an article on Japanese hermeneutics or interpretation theory, focusing on the views of Watsuji Tetsuro; and an article on the role of geographical place in self-knowledge and identity. He also wrote an article on God and nothingness in the thought of the French philosopher-theologian Jean-Luc Marion and the Japanese thinker K. Nishida, and another article, for a new Encyclopedia of Buddhism, on Buddhist senses of history . He is currently revising an article on the question, what happens to alterity (otherness) in a philosophy like Zen that negates self-identity. In the fall 2002, he will teach a foreign culture focusing on Japanese culture through its arts and aesthetics; and in the spring 2003 his phenomenology course as well as a new comparative ethics course focusing on Hindu, Confucian, Buddhist and contemporary Japanese ethical theories. He is also working on organizing a conference on phenomenology and Buddhism, to be held at FAU.

Allen Tilley, professor of English and chair of the Department of English and Foreign Language, has been teaching his Religious Studies course (LIT 3408, Approaches to Literature: Myth) at UNF since he arrived in 1973. His Plots of Time: An Inquiry into History, Myth, and Meaning (University Press of Florida, 1995) arises in part from his work with the course. He plans to offer the course in 2002-3.