Office Phone: 724-847-6632
smdoyle@geneva.edu

Disciplines/Field of Instruction

• Non-Western History
• Non-Western Religions
• Humanities 

Degrees Received

• Ph.D., Non-Western History, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, 2005
  Specializations: south Asian cultural history, Asian Christianity

Courses Taught

• Non-Western History Sequence:
• Modern Asian History
• Modern African History
• Middle Eastern History
• History of India
• Upper-Level History Courses:
• Global Christianity
• Asian Cultural History
• East-West Contact
• History and Theory
• Senior Seminar: Post-colonialism
• Introductory Courses:
• Introduction to Historical Studies
• Humanities 203-  Western Culture: Ancient through Renaissance
• Humanities 303-  Western Culture: Enlightenment through Postmodernism
• Religious Studies Courses:
• Introduction to Religious Studies
• Asian Religions
• Western Religions

Presentation/Publications

• Synthesizing the Vedanta: The Theology of Pierre Johanns S.J. Oxford: P. Lang, 2006.
• “Reading John through Bhakti eyes: the Hermeneutics of A. J. Appasamy.”  Chapter in World Christianity in Local Context (ed. Stephen Goodwin), Continuum Press,  2009
• Review of Christians, Cultural Interactions, and India’s Religious Traditions (ed. J. Brown and R. Frykenburg), in Studies in World Christianity, vol. 8.2, 2002.

Current Projects

• The Christian Bhakti of A. J. Appasamy.   I am currently writing an intellectual biography of a leading 20th century Indian theologian who engaged with Hindu cultural traditions.
• I am currently serving on the steering committee for the new subject group in World Christianity being initiated in the Evangelical Theological Society.
• I love to travel every summer.  So far, I have visited 20 different countries, both European and non-Western.

Awards & Distinctions Received

• Travel Funds Recipient, Geneva College Faculty Development, 2009
   For visiting and photographing Kenya and Morocco
• Research Funds Recipient, Methodist University Faculty Development, 2007
  For conducting archival research in the Universities of Mumbai and Pune, India
• Research Funds Recipient, University of Edinburgh Small-Project Fund, 2003
  For conducting archival research in the Universities of Leuven and Namur, Belgium
• Research Funds Recipient, The Spalding Trust, Cambridge University, 2003
  For conducting archival research in the University of Calcutta, India
• Overseas Research Schemes Award, Universities UK, 2002-2004
• Faculty Scholarship, University of Edinburgh, 2002-2004
• Division of Humanities Scholarship, University of Edinburgh, 2001

Affiliations, e.g., membership in professional organizations, etc.

• Yale-Edinburgh Group on the History of Non-Western Christianity
• American Society of Church History
• American Academy of Religion
• Evangelical Theological Society   (Steering committee: World Christianity subject group)