Faculty & Staff
Core Faculty

Isaac Choi, PhD
Director, Honors Program
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Teaching and research interests
- Philosophy of religion and analytic theology
- The nature and epistemology of expertise

Ross McCullough, PhD
Associate Director, Honors Program
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Teaching and research interests
- Eschatology
- Creation
- The Eucharist
- Late scholasticism
Faculty Fellows

Joseph Clair, PhD
Executive Dean, Cultural Enterprise
Associate Professor, Theology and Culture
Teaching and research interests
- Christian thought and ethics
- The role of religion in public life

Ryan Dearinger, PhD
Associate Professor of History
Faculty Fellow, George Fox University Honors Program

Brian Doak, PhD
Vice President, George Fox Digital
Professor of Biblical Studies
Teaching and research interests
- Hebrew Bible/Old Testament & language
- History of interpretation
- Archaeology of the ancient Near East
- Comparative religion in the ancient world
- Iconography and art history of the ancient Near East

Joel Mayward, PhD
Assistant Professor of Christian Ministries, Theology and the Arts
Teaching and research interests
- Theological aesthetics
- Theology and philosophy in film
- Christian ethics
- Liberation theologies
- Continental philosophical theology

Paul Otto, PhD
Professor of History
Faculty Fellow, George Fox University Honors Program
Campus Coordinator for Role-Immersion Pedagogy

Leah Payne, PhD
Associate Professor of Theology
Research and teaching interests
- American religious innovation
- Religion and popular culture
- Gender, race and class construction
- Hermeneutics
- Performance theory