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POSITION: Associate Professor of Religious Studies

DEPARTMENTS:
School of Theology, Humanities and Performing Arts
Theology & Religion

LOCATION: Main Campus, Harrisonburg | RLN 301

Dr. Heike Peckruhn is the Associate Professor of Religious Studies, and teaches a variety of courses on religious traditions, Christian theology, disability studies, and gender and sexuality studies. She is the author of Meaning in Our Bodies: Sensory Experience as Constructive Theological Imagination (Oxford, 2017), and a variety of essays including on disability and theology, racialized belongings and religiosity, and queer theological imaginations. 

Growing up in a rural Mennonite village in Germany in a biracial and multi-religious family, she found her way into studying theology at Bienenberg (Switzerland), community counseling at EMU, and constructive theology at Iliff School of Theology and University of Denver. 

Education

MA, ²ÝÝ®ÉçÇø (Counseling)
BA, Bienenberg (Biblical and Theological Studies)
PHD, University of Denver (Religious & Theological Studies)