Faculty from many diverse departments and programs teach in Moravian University's Peace and Justice Studies Program.
Kelly Denton-Borhaug | Professor and Program Director, Peace and Justice Studies
Office location: Comenius 109
Email: denton-borhaugk@moravian.edu
Website: http://kdentonblog.wordpress.com/
Education
B.A., California State University, Northridge
M.Div. with Honors, Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary
Ph.D., Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, CA
Research interests and expertise
Cultural criticism of religion, religion, militarism and war in the U.S. context, moral injury, liberationist ethics, Christian soteriology and ethics.
Kelly Denton-Borhaug has been speaking and writing about “sacrificial U.S. war-culture” since the early 2000’s. Her latest book, And Then Your Soul Is Gone: Moral Injury and U.S. War-culture, addresses the public crisis of military moral injury, and analyzes the roots of this phenomenon in U.S. war-culture.
Her first book, U.S. War-culture, Sacrifice and Salvation, is part of the Equinox international series on religion and violence co-edited by Rosemary Radford Ruether and Lisa Isherwood. She has authored many articles and book chapters.
She teaches courses in religion and ethics, Peace and Justice Studies, and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, and more. She has focused on topics such as pilgrimage studies, Christian soteriology, liberationist ethics, women and film, and the nature of peace. She led the development of a unique “InFocus Global Seminar: Japan: Legacies of WWII” Mayterm course to travel with students to Japan for two weeks to study issues of war and peace, the legacy of atomic weapons, and visit Hiroshima, Nagasaki, U.S. military bases in Japan, and more.
Denton-Borhaug served as a Co-director of the InFocus Center of Investigation: War, Peace and the Just Society, and now is Executive Director of InFocus at Moravian University.
She is interested in digital humanities, teaches online, hybrid and in-person courses, and two seminar travel courses. "Latin Liberation Theology" involves travel with students to the border region between the U.S. and Mexico to study religion, ethics, immigration, and U.S. policy of the border. "Japan: Legacies of WWII" is an InFocus Global Travel Seminar course through which students learn about the history and ethics of nuclear weapons and disarmament through travel to Osaka, Hiroshima, Nagasaki and Kyoto.
Denton-Borhaug was the recipient of an National Endowment of the Humanities grant to develop "What Is Peace?" with Dr. Bernie Cantens; has been a digital humanities consultant with the Consortium of Independent Colleges, has received grants through the Andrew Mellon Foundation, and received the Moravian University Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Foundation Award for Distinguished Teaching.
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Sandra Aguilar | Professor of History
Office location: Comenius Hall 302
Office phone: 610-625-7957
Email: aguilars@moravian.edu
Education
Ph.D., University of Manchester
Research interests and expertise
Nineteenth- and Twentieth-century Latin America, particularly Mexico. I am currently working on a book manuscript entitled “Cooking Modernity: Food, Gender, and Class in Mid-Twentieth Century Mexico.” This work situates women, the kitchen, and food at the forefront of the modernization process by examining women’s agency at home and the failure of nutrition programs in Mexico.
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Cathy Coyne | Associate Professor of Practice in Public Health
Office location: Sally Miksiewicz Center, Room 305
Office phone: 610-625-7720
Email: coynec@moravian.edu
Education
B.S., Boston College
MPH, Boston University School of Public Health
Ph.D., John Hopkins School of Public Health (now Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health)
Research interests and expertise
Health Disparities, Housing and Food Insecurity, Health Behavior, Health Literacy
Bibliography
Dr. Coyne is an Associate Professor of Practice in Public Health at Moravian University. Prior to her appointment at Moravian University, Dr. Coyne was the Director of Health Advocacy and Policy at the Lehigh Valley Health Network in Allentown PA where she established the Health Advocacy Program and a medical legal partnership. She also has held faculty positions at West Virginia University teaching graduate students in public health. In addition, Dr. Coyne has experience working as a public health professional in state government and with a cancer research non-profit organization.
Dr. Coyne’s research focus includes health disparities, particularly those related to housing and food insecurity; health literacy; and health behaviors associated with social determinants of health. She has been the principal and co-investigator on several federally funded and philanthropic grants and has published in peer-reviewed journals, co-authored two book chapters, and served as presenter at regional, state, and national conferences.
In addition to teaching public health courses at Moravian, Dr. Coyne served as an Honors Project Advisor in 2024-2025. She is currently serving as a member of Moravian's Health Humanities Minor faculty, initiated in 2024. Dr. Coyne also serves as a member of several university and college committees that support faculty and students at Moravian.
Dr. Coyne believes that being involved in one’s community as a way to affect positive change is very important. She currently serves on the board of directors at two non-profit organizations: New Bethany and Catalyst4.
Mark Harris | Instructor of Writing, Journal, Advisor
Office location: Zinzendorf 201
Email: harrisd@moravian.edu
Education
B.A., Stetson University
M.A., University of Chicago
Research interests and expertise
Environmental journalism, natural burial, place studies, creative nonfiction
Bibliography
Mark Harris is a former book editor and environmental columnist with the Los Angeles Times Syndicate. An award-winning freelance journalist, his is the author of the acclaimed book on natural burial, Grave Matters, and speaks nationally on issues related to funerals and burial in America. A Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellow, Harris is currently at work on a book that examines notions of home and place.
Arash Naraghi | Professor of Philosophy and Religion; Program Director for Ethics
Office location: Comenius Hall 106
Office phone: 610-625-7835
Email: naraghia@moravian.edu
Education
M.A. and Ph.D. in Philosophy: Philosophy of Religion and Ethics, University of California, Santa Barbara
Research interests and expertise
Epistemology of religious experience, The problem of evil, Islamic theology (ethical theories in Islam), Islamic mysticism (The school of Kowrassan), Contemporary Shi'ism, and modernism in Islam (The challenges of human rights, and feminism).