CSC Section Committee Chairs for 2021

The following sections are formed to create both peer review and generative sessions within their respective disciplines. Section leaders (designated by an email address) and their committees typically represent a diversity of institutions and are responsible for two to three generative and peer review sessions each year.

American Religion

• Kathy Pulley, Missouri State University, kathypulley@missouristate.edu

Business and Economics

• Andy Borchers, Lipscomb University, andy.borchers@lipscomb.edu

Centers for Faith and Learning

• Laura Carroll, Abilene Christian University, laura.carroll@acu.edu

Christianity, Literature and Language

• Darryl Tippens, Abilene Christian University, dlt14a@acu.edu

Church and Academy

• Brandon Pierce, Independent Scholar, Austin, TX, bpierce04a@gmail.com

Civil Rights

• Tanya Smith Brice, Council on Social Work Education, tanyasmithbrice@gmail.com

Communication and Rhetoric

• Steven T. Gaines, Midland College, steven.gaines@gmail.com

Computer Science

• Dwayne Towell, Lipscomb University, dtowell@lipscomb.edu, co-chair
• James Prather, Abilene Christian University, james.prather@acu.edu, co-chair

Creative Writing

• John Struloeff, Pepperdine University, john.struloeff@pepperdine.edu

Cross and Crescent: Intersections of Christianity and Islam

• Trevor Thompson, University of Chicago, trevorwthompson@gmail.com

Early Career Scholars in Theological Disciplines

• Laura Locke Estes, St. Louis University, (Immediate Past Chair)
• Noemí Palomares, Boston College, palomarn@bc.edu

Film Studies

• Joi Carr, Pepperdine University, joi.carr@pepperdine.edu

Gender Studies Section

• Lynette Sharp Penya, Abilene Christian University, penyal@acu.edu

Health Science Section

• Joe DeWeese, Lipscomb University, joe.deweese@lipscomb.edu

Landon Saunders Section: The Human Being at the Nexus of World and Faith

• Kathy Pulley, Missouri State University, kathypulley@missouristate.edu

Mission and World Christianity

• Greg McKinzie, Fuller Theological Seminary, gemckinzie@gmail.com

New Testament

• Richard Wright, Abilene Christian University, richard.wright@acu.edu

Old Testament (Roberts Lecture in OT Studies)

• Mark W. Hamilton, Abilene Christian University, mark.hamilton@acu.edu

Patristics (Everett Ferguson Lecture in Early Christian Studies)

• Tera Harmon, Abilene Christian University, teraharmon@gmail.com

Practical Theology

• Gary S. Selby, Emmanual Christian Seminary at Milligan College, gsselby@milligan.edu

Sciences

• George Parks, Independent Scholar, georgeparks49@yahoo.com

Teaching, Learning & Technology

• Mindi Thompson, Abilene Christian, mlt11a@acu.edu

Theology and Philosophy

• Fred Aquino, Abilene Christian University, aquinof@acu.edu