Denise Kimber Buell
Associate Professor of Religion
Chair, Department of Religion

Office: Stetson E13
Phone: (413) 597-2990
E-mail: Denise.K.Buell@williams.edu

Office Hours

Mondays 2-3pm
Tuesdays 2-3pm
Fridays 10-11am
and by appointment

Education

A.B. Princeton University, 1987
M.Div. Harvard Divinity School, 1990
Ph.D. Harvard University, 1995

Courses

REL/CLAS 210: Reading Jesus, Writing Gospels: Christian Origins in Context
REL 212/HIST 324: The Development of Christianity: 30-600 CE
REL 305T: Haunted: Ghosts in the Study of Religion
REL 306/WGST 307: Feminist Approaches to Religion
REL 101: Introduction to Religion
WGST 101: Introduction to Women's and Gender Studies

Selected Publications

“Why this New Race:” Ethnic Reasoning in Early Christianity. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2005.

Making Christians: Clement of Alexandria and the Rhetoric of Legitimacy. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999.

"The Politics of Interpretation: The Rhetoric of Race and Ethnicity in Paul." Journal of Biblical Literature. 123.2 (2004): 235-252.

"'Sell What You Have and Give to the Poor:’ A Feminist Interpretation of Clement of Alexandria’s Who is the Rich Person Who is Saved?" Walk in the Ways of Wisdom: Essays in Honor of Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza. Ed. Cynthia Kittredge, Shelly Matthews, and Melanie Johnson-DeBaufre, 194-213. Harrisburg, PA: Trinity Press International, 2003.

"Race and Universalism in Early Christianity." Journal of Early Christian Studies. 10:4 (2002): 429-68.

"Rethinking the Relevance of Race for Early Christian Self-Definition." Harvard Theological Review. 94:4 (2001): 449–476.

Research Fields

Early Christian History

Feminist Biblical Interpretation

Religion and Cultures of the Roman Imperial Period

Ethnicity and Critical Race Theory

Clement of Alexandria

Other Interests

Gnosticism

Cultural Memory

Queer Theory

Religion and Science

Program Connections

Women's and Gender Studies

Next Leave

2008-2009