Sharon Adams, Ph.D.

Education

BA, University of Colorado Boulder, English and History MA, Iliff School of Theology, Philosophy and Theology PhD, Joint Ph.D. Program in Religious and Theological Studies University of Denver and Iliff School of Theology, Philosophy, Theology and Cultural Theory

Courses

RLST 2600 Judaism, Christianity and Islam; RLST 2800 Women and Religion; WGST 2200 Women, Gender, Literature and the Arts, ARSC 1550 Making the Self: Tools for Well-Being and Success in College

Bio

Sharon completed her doctorate in Religious Studies in 2011.  She has been teaching for the University of Colorado in Boulder for over 15 years.  She is currently the assistant coordinator for ARSC 1550: Making of the Self: Tools for Well-Being and Success in College.  Sharon spent the summer of 2010 in Israel studying with the Galilee Institute and the summer of 2011 working on an interfaith and art project as well as working for Nazareth Academic Institute, a college focusing on a peace studies curriculum and which employs professors who come from the Jewish, Christian and Muslim faiths.  She is interested in the study of religion and art through the lens of gender and feminist psychoanalytic thought, emphasizing the role that religion and creativity play in everyday life and beyond.  She has trained to be an end-of-life doula and works to bring insights from religious belief and practice, as well as some secular perspectives, to those who lack support systems and information as they near death.