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POSITION: Associate Professor of Religious Studies

DEPARTMENTS:
School of Theology, Humanities and Performing Arts
Theology & Religion

LOCATION: Main Campus, Harrisonburg | RLN 301

EMAIL: heike.peckruhn@emu.edu

Dr. Heike Peckruhn is the Associate Professor of Religious Studies, and teaches a variety of courses on religious traditions, Christian theology, disability studies, and gender and sexuality studies. She is the author of Meaning in Our Bodies: Sensory Experience as Constructive Theological Imagination (Oxford, 2017), and a variety of essays including on disability and theology, racialized belongings and religiosity, and queer theological imaginations. 

Growing up in a rural Mennonite village in Germany in a biracial and multi-religious family, she found her way into studying theology at Bienenberg (Switzerland), community counseling at EMU, and constructive theology at Iliff School of Theology and University of Denver. 

Education

MA, Eastern Mennonite University (Counseling)
BA, Bienenberg (Biblical and Theological Studies)
PHD, University of Denver (Religious & Theological Studies)

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