Sally Stamper

Instructor in Religious Studies, St. Norbert College

I am fortunate to complete my graduate training with significant teaching experience, as well as a clear and robust research agenda. Courses taught include religion, philosophy, women's and gender studies, humanities, and gen ed at Lake Forest College, Midland U, St Norbert College, and the University of Chicago.

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Updated 10/27/11

Curriculum vitae

I am happy to submit additional detail to search committees upon request.

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Updated 09/22/10

Teaching Philosophy

I welcome the opportunity to discuss at greater length my experience and approach to teaching, in and out of the classroom, but for now - Full Page

Updated 10/27/11

Teaching Evaluations

These are representative samples of comments from students and colleagues. I am happy to furnish search committees with more detailed information (including complete sets of evaluations), as well as teaching-focused letters of recommendation.

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Updated 12/21/11

Courses Taught

I've abstracted descriptions for courses I've taught, along with selected syllabi and a lecture from an online course. You'll also find a list of courses for which I've developed proposals and have preliminary syllabi available. Full Page

Updated 10/27/11

Teaching Resources

A representative sample of resources I've used in courses at Lake Forest College, Midland University, St. Norbert College, and the University of Chicago, including links to museums, audio recordings, print resources, and videos. (You'll find additional links on other pages.)

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Updated 10/28/11

University of Chicago Divinity School

My MA (2001) and PhD (2011) are both at the University of Chicago Divinity School. Follow this link for more information about the Divinity School, including members of my dissertation committee, Richard Rosengarten and Dwight Hopkins (readers). My advisor, Kathryn Tanner, is now at Yale Divinity School. My third reader, Joshua Kellman, is a clinical faculty member in the Department of Psychiatry, University of Chicago, and a faculty member at the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis. I've also provided a link to the Institute. In addition to the areas of specialization in which I completed doctoral exams (Christian thought, religion and literature), I have done significant graduate coursework in Hebrew Bible, religion and psychology, ethics, and pedagogy, as well as graduate and post-graduate coursework in clinical social work, family systems theory, and psychoanalysis. My undergraduate coursework emphasized English and French literature and psychology. See my Coursework page for highlights of my training in these areas of study.

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Updated 03/04/10

Book Reviews

These reviews reflect some of my teaching and research interests.

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Updated 06/12/10

Religion and Culture Web Forum - Writing Sample

Follow this link to the University of Chicago Religion and Culture Web Forum (Cooper Harriss, editor): a new paper and responses are posted each month. My response to Mark Scott's "Theorizing Theodicy in the Study of Religion" appeared on the forum November, 2009. Full Page

Updated 06/12/10

Selected Coursework

My education, both graduate and undergraduate, spans a range of disciplines. This page includes highlights of my coursework in religion, psychology, Hebrew Bible, literature, ethics, and clinical social work. My doctoral exams covered the history of Christian thought (2nd through 20th centuries), religion and literature (genres: confessional and children's literatures), and systematic theology (Karl Barth). My examiners were Bernard McGinn, Richard Rosengarten, Susan Schreiner, Kathryn Tanner, and David Tracy. Full Page

Updated 02/11/10

Photos

This page gives you a visual glimpse into field trips and creative projects that I've enjoyed sharing with students. Full Page

Updated 09/19/11

Forester and Green Knight Women's Ice Hockey

Among my students in the three courses I taught at Lake Forest College were a number of student athletes, most notably about a fourth of the women's hockey team, who finished their 2009-2010 season as conference champions, ranked in the top ten nation-wide.

At St. Norbert College, I'm now teaching a number of women on the ice hockey team that had its inaugural season 2010-2011.

The divided loyalties are intense...

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Updated 10/27/11

St. Norbert College

I am an instructor of religion at St. Norbert College. The only Norbertine college in the world, St. Norbert is located on a beautiful campus on the Fox River in De Pere, WI, just south of Green Bay.

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Updated 06/12/10

Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion - AAR Teaching Roundtable

This page provides a link to the Wabash Center, which offers all kinds of resources and opportunities. I enjoyed facilitating a luncheon discussion at the American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting (2009) that was co-sponsored by the Wabash Center and the Teaching Religion Section of the AAR. The discussion at our table engaged my topic "When the Heathen Rage: Introducing Religious Studies to the Skeptical and Misinformed." Follow the link I've provided for a full description. Full Page

Updated 10/28/11

Professor Herman Sinaiko 1929-2011

With Herman's death, there is a profound sense of an era coming to an end in the Undergraduate College of the University of Chicago. He spent a lifetime at the University, as an undergraduate, then a graduate student in Philosophy, and staying on to teach in the College. He did a stint as dean of students and taught until a year or so before his death in October 2011. Herman served generations of students well, was pleased to teach the children of his former students, often in the same course their parents had taken with him, and took great pleasure in bringing their best critical thought and work out of first-year students, in particular, in whom he had supreme confidence as junior scholars.

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Updated 02/13/10

Sightings - Martin Marty Center

Sightings is an email publication of the Martin Marty Center for the Advanced Study of Religion, where I was a dissertation fellow 2008-2009. The second link will take you to John Howell's recent column, "Keeping on the Sunny Side: Southern Traditionalism's Bid for Academic Respectability and Tolerance". Full Page