
RELIGION FACULTY
(curriculum vitae may be linked to professor's name)
Willaim Lewis, Associate Professor of Philosophy,
Chair of the Department of Philosophy and Religion
B.A., Skidmore College; Ph.D. Pennsylvania State University.
Specializations: Social/Political Philosophy, American Philosophy, Ethics.
Ladd Hall 216 518.580.5402
wlewis@skidmore.edu
Mary Zeiss Stange, Professor of Women's Studies & Religion
B.A., M.A., Ph.D. Syracuse University.
Specializations: Feminism, Theology, Religion and Culture Studies, Environmental Studies.
Ladd Hall 213 Phone: 518.580.5408
E-mail: mstange@skidmore
(on sabbitical 2008-2009 academic year)
Joel R. Smith, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Religion
B.A., Carleton College; M.A., Ph D., M.A., Vanderbilt University.
Specializations: Philosophy of Religion, Comparative Philosophy, Existentialism, Buddhism, Hinduism.
Ladd Hall 217 Phone: 518.580.5407
jsmith@skidmore.edu
Marla Segol, Assistant Professor of Religion
B.A., SUNY New Paltz; M.A., SUNY Buffalo; Ph.D., Rutgers University.
Specializations: Judaism, Medieval Judaism, Kabbalah, Gender & Judaism, Medieval Jewish Literature, Religious Conversion.
Ladd Hall 215 Phone: 518.580.5405
msegol@skidmore.edu
Olga Solovieva, Visiting Assistant Professor of Religion
B.A.Omsk, Russia; M.A., Ph.D. Syracuse University
Specializations: World Religions; Christianity; Islam; Ancient
Greek & Hellenistic Religions; Religious Perspectives on Death & Afterlife
Ladd Hall: Phone: 518-580-
Gregory Spinner, Visiting Assistant Professor
B.A. The University of Tennessee
M.A., Ph D., The University of Chicago
Specializations: History of Religions, Jewish Studies
Ladd Hall 321 Phone: 518.580.8406
gspinner@skidmore.edu
Joel Tibbetts, Lecturer
B.A. Swarthmore
Ph.D. Vanderbilt University
Specializations: American Religion