Sarah Azaransky, Ph.D., has taught at the University of San Diego since 2007.  She teaches Christian Social Ethics, Christianity and its Practice, and Introduction to World Religions.  Her research focus is Christianity and American democracy, with special interests in the Black Freedom Movement, feminist and womanist ethics, and the role of religion in American public life.

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Annice Callahan, RSCJ, has been an adjunct professor in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies since 1998. She teaches courses in Christian theology. She lives with the community of Religious of the Sacred Heart on campus.

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Ellen Colangelo has been an adjunct member of the faculty since 1990. She is an adjunct associate professor of Pastoral Care and Counseling in the College of Arts and Sciences. As Coordinator of the Masters program, Professor Colangelo administers the program and is the advisor to all the students.

Professor Colangelo is a licensed psychologist and a certified pastoral counselor. She serves on the Board of Governors of the American Association of Pastoral Counselors and is active in the San Diego Psychological Association. She also is on the board of directors of Casa Cornelia Law Center and is part of the Professional Advisory Group of Vitas Hospice’s Clinical Pastoral Education program.She and her husband, James Ewing, act as consultants to the Chaplains at Navy Medical Center (Balboa Hospital) in San Diego.

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Jeannie Constantinou, Ph.D., has enjoyed USD from both sides of the desk, first as a college student, then as a graduate student, and now as a post-doctoral Fellow in the Theology and Religious Studies Department where she teaches Biblical Studies and Early Christianity.  She credits much of her academic success to the good education and the supportive faculty at USD.  Her current research efforts at this time focus on the Apocalypse in the ancient Church and Apocalypticism in the history of Christianity. She also has a very strong interest in early biblical interpretation and in first century Roman law. She is also devoted to presenting a historical understanding of the bible to a wider audience beyond the campus, especially Eastern Orthodox Christians, and to this end she records a weekly podcast which has attracted an international following.

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Msgr. Daniel Dillabough is Vice President for Mission and Ministry at the University of San Diego. Prior to his taking this position in 1998, he served the Diocese of San Diego, as Chancellor, Moderator of Diocesan Offices, Director of Clergy Personnel, Director of Temporal Affairs, and Judicial Vicar. He also taught at North American College in Rome and has been a guest lecturer in Theology and Religious Studies at USD.

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Professor Ewing serves in the Master’s program in Pastoral Care and Counseling providing instruction and supervision in Pastoral Counseling.

For eight and a half years, Professor Ewing served as Executive Director of the American Association of Pastoral Counselors, the first full time Director of AAPC which provides leadership and certification of pastoral counselors in United States and Canada.  In addition to positions in campus ministry and student affairs, he served as Director of the Theological Consortium in St. Louis, through which he organized the Ph.D. program in Pastoral Counseling at St. Louis University. 

His academic appointments include Professor of Pastoral Care, Eden Theological Seminary, Program Director of Pastoral Counseling Program at United States International University and Director of the Marriage and Family Program at USIU(currently Alliant International University).

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Daria Hollowell has been an adjunct faculty member at USD since September 2002, starting out in the Political Science department teaching International Relations, and then shifting to Theology and Religious Studies  in January 2004.  An alumna of USD’s Theology Department in Practical Theology (1990), Hollowell focuses on the department’s core course requirements of Introduction to Scripture and Foundations of Catholic Theology.

Hollowell came to USD after a 30-year career as a Foreign Service Officer with the U.S. Department of State.  Beginning in 1973, Hollowell served on three separate continents:  Asia (Hong Kong and Tokyo), Latin America (Mexico three times), and in Europe (Italy twice, Great Britain twice, and France), retiring from Florence, Italy as U.S. Consul General and U.S. Representative to the Republic of San Marino in 2002.  She is married to a retired naval officer and math teacher who accompanied her with their four children during moves with the State Department, settling in San Diego.

Postings in so many places were a lure and hook to an array of interests and concerns ranging from languages to archeology and a keen appreciation of history.  These elements combine to provide three-dimensionality to her course’s fascinating—and always applicable—texts and subject matter.  Hollowell hopes to enrich her students’ appreciation of the richness of having roots in issues that are not just minutes old.

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Rev. Jack E. Lindquist is a minister of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America with an M.Div. from the Lutheran School of Theology in Chicago who has taught in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies, both part-time and full-time, since 1970. His research and teaching specialties are  “The World of the New Testament” (through which he has led many study tours), “The Reformation Era,” “The Holocaust and the Churches Under Hitler,” and “Lutheran and Roman Catholic Theological Dialogue.” His publications have included: “The Eucharist: An Ecumenical Spectrum” (International Eucharistic Congress: Philadelphia, 1976) and “The Emmaus Story (Luke 24:13-35) as Liturgical Catechesis” (Studies In Honor of Toivo Harjunpaa: Helsinki, 1977); six articles on "Lutheranism" in An Introductory Dictionary Of Theology and Religious Studies. Collegeville: Liturgical Press, 2007.

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David Moseley, Ph.D., is a transplant from England with undergraduate and graduate degrees in law, philosophy and theology from Magdalen College, Oxford University; and a doctorate in theology and music from Jesus College, Cambridge University.  He has lived in San Diego since 1997, and has been teaching theology and philosophy of religion as an adjunct faculty member at the University of San Diego since 1997. Moseley is also chair of the Religious Studies Department at The Bishop’s School in la Jolla, and Theologian-in-Residence at the Episcopal Cathedral in San Diego.

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Saba Shofany, Ph.D., joined the faculty of the Department of Theology and Religious Studies in 2006. He teaches courses in Christianity and its practice and foundation of Christian ethics. Shofany's research specialization is Catholic and Orthodox moral theology, focusing on fundamental and applied ethics such as: sexuality, beginning of life, abortion, contraceptives, transplantation of organs, cosmetic surgery, the mystery of death, truth telling to the dying, suicide, assisted suicide, euthanasia and life support. Father Shofany is a Greek Melkite Catholic priest of the Diocese of Newton, Massachusetts.

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Irving Alan Sparks has been a part-time adjunct member of the USD faculty since 2004, during which time he has taught THRS 112 Introduction to World Religions. Before retirement from full-time academic service, he served twenty-five years at San Diego State University, first as Associate Dean of the Graduate Division, then as Professor and Department Chair of Religious Studies, and now as Professor Emeritus. Professor Sparks began his academic career at Claremont Graduate School, where, as its Associate Director, he helped found the Institute for Antiquity and Christianity, while serving as Assistant Professor in CGS and also in the School of Theology at Claremont.

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Kathryn Valdivia has taught at the University of San Diego since 2004.  She is a PhD Candidate from Claremont Graduate University in their School of Religion in the program, Philosophy of Religion and Theology.  She teaches Introduction to Biblical Studies, Christianity and Its Practice, Introduction to Catholic Theology, and Problem of God. Her main areas of research are contemporary metaphysics, philosophical theology, and philosophy of religion.

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