Joel Brady

  • Program Coordinator, Center for Teaching and Learning and Part-Time Instructor of Religious Studies

Teaching

Religions of the West, Orthodox Christianity

Education & Training

  • PhD, Cooperative Doctoral Program in Religious Studies, University of Pittsburgh, 2012
  • PhD Certificate, Russian and East European Studies, University of Pittsburgh, 2011
  • MA, Historical Theology, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, 2005
  • BA, English Literature, University of Pittsburgh, 2003

Representative Publications

Transnational Conversions: Greek Catholic Migrants and Russky Orthodox Conversion Movements in Austria-Hungary, Russia, and the Americas (1890-1914), Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh, 2012.

“Becoming What We Always Were: ‘Conversion’ of U.S. Greek Catholics to Russian Orthodoxy, 1890-1914.” U.S. Catholic Historian 32, no. 1 (Winter 2014): 23-48.

“Religion and Ethnic Diversity,” in Cortés, Carlos E., ed., Multicultural America: A Multimedia Encyclopedia. SAGE Publications, 2013.

“John Paul Himka, Last Judgment Iconography in the Carpathians (Review).” Slovo 22, no. 1 (Spring 2010).

“Rival Organization for the Study of Eastern Christianity Also Convenes in October.” The ASEC Newsletter 7, no. 1 (February 2010).