Hooman Keshavarzi

Adjunct Faculty

Celene Ibrahim

Adjunct Faculty

Timur Yuskaev

Associate Professor of Contemporary Islam and Editor of The Muslim World Journal

Benjamin Watts

Executive Minister of the Howard Thurman Center for Justice and Transformational Ministry, Director of the Black Ministries Program, Faculty Associate in Religion and Community Life

Bishop Dr. Benjamin K. Watts  is a 1995 graduate of Hartford International University (then Hartford Seminary) where he received the Doctor of Ministry degree with distinction upon submission of the project entitled, “Understanding & Using Africentrism in Strengthening & Revitalizing the Mission of the Black Church: Analysis & Models.”

C.L. Stallworth

Adjunct Faculty

The Rev. Dr. C. L. Stallworth entered the preaching ministry at the early age of 16, as a junior in high school. He preached in various churches as a young minister, learning, meeting, and further developing his love of seeing people reach their full potential.

Mona Siddiqui

Distinguished Professor of Islamic and Interreligious Studies

Mona Siddiqui is Professor of Islamic and Interreligious Studies, Assistant Principal for Religion and Society, and Dean international for the Middle-East at the University of Edinburgh. Her research areas are primarily in the field of Islamic jurisprudence (fiqh) and ethics and Christian-Muslim relations. 

Phoebe Milliken

Faculty Associate in International Peacebuilding, Director of MA in International Peacebuilding (MAP) Program

Phoebe Milliken has worked in international education since 1996.  This work has included: developing literacy programming in Zimbabwe, managing a teacher education project spanning 25 countries in Eastern Europe and Central Asia for the International Literacy Association, teaching courses in African History in the U.S., and directing Augsburg College’s study abroad program in Namibia.

Aida Mansoor

Director of Field Education

Joel N. Lohr

President & Professor of Bible and Interreligious Dialogue

Joel N. Lohr is an award-winning author, scholar of religion, and passionate leader in interreligious relations and higher education. Born to Dutch immigrants in Canada, President Lohr is a first-generation college graduate, earning a BA in Religious Studies (Trinity Western University, Vancouver, Canada) and an MA and Ph.D. in Religion and Theology (University of Durham, England). He then took up a prestigious Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Toronto and taught at Wycliffe College, a seminary within the Anglican Church of Canada. He has held teaching appointments at Trinity Western University in Vancouver, Canada, and most recently at University of the Pacific in Stockton, CA, where he also served as Dean of Religious Life.

Amy-Jill Levine

Rabbi Stanley M. Kessler Distinguished Professor of New Testament and Jewish Studies

Professor Levine has been awarded grants from the Mellon Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the American Council of Learned Societies. In Spring 2019 she was the first Jew to teach New Testament at Rome’s Pontifical Biblical Institute; in 2021, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.