Department head and chairs

Administrative staff

  • General office contact information

    Department of Religion
    Room 328 Fletcher Argue Building
    University of Manitoba (Fort Gary Campus)
    Winnipeg, Manitoba R3T 2N2
    Phone: 204-474-9516
    Fax: 204-474-7601
    Religion@umanitoba.ca

Academic faculty

Sessional instructors

Other professorial staff

Adjuncts

Other academic faculty

Professor Emeritus

  • Dr. Klaus Klostemaier
    Distinguished Professor Emeritus, FRSC

Graduate students and postdoctoral fellows

Masters' students (JMP)

Daniel Boswick
boswickd@myumanitoba.ca
Research: Morality, taking a close look at 'discourse ethics' as developed by Jürgen Habermas.

Jerome Falk
falkj347@myumanitoba.ca
Research: Greco-Roman religion, culture, thought. Early Christianity (from New Testament through to late ancient/early medieval). Theory/philosophy/theology (ancient and/or modern). Classical languages.

Christopher Gotting
gottingc@myumanitoba.ca

Carriera Lamoureux
lamourec@myumanitoba.ca

Roderick Richardson
richa138@myumanitoba.ca

Tiana Thomson
thomso27@myumanitoba.ca

PhD students

Razie Basfa
basafar@myumanitoba.ca

Donna Brown
brownd1@myumanitoba.ca
Research: Tibetan Buddhism, contemporary Buddhism in North America, Buddhist international organizations, Buddhist social engagement, forgiveness and reconciliation and traditionalism and modernism in contemporary religion.

Walter Luzzi
luzziw@myumanitoba.ca
Research: Rights of women in Islam, today's view of women in Islam as a result of colonialism, freedom of conscience.

Maryam Mohammadrezayi
mrezayim@myumanitoba.ca
Research: Islamic philosophy/western philosophy, hermeneutics and mysticism.

Heather Patrick
patrickh@myumanitoba.ca
Research: History of religion, parody and satire in first through fifth century early Christian and Greco-Roman 'sacred' texts, religion and popular culture.

Afrin Rahman
rahma30@myumanitoba.ca

Robert Russell
umruss33@myumanitoba.ca

Catherine van Reenen
vanreenc@myumanitoba.ca
Research: 19th and 20th century spiritualism, history of religions, history of science and technology and western esotericism.