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 John Phillips Professor of
Religion
After receiving her Ph.D from the Graduate Theological Union in conjunction
with the University of California-Berkeley, Nancy Frankenberry joined the
Dartmouth faculty in 1977. In 1991 she received the Karen E. Wetterhahn
Memorial Award for Distinguished Creative or Scholarly Achievement, and in 1995
she was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship.
She is the author or editor of five books, Religion and Radical
Empiricism (1987), Interpreting Neville (1999), Language,
Truth, and Religious Belief (1999), Radical Interpretation in
Religion (2002), and The Faith of Scientists: In Their Own Words
(forthcoming); and has published some forty articles in scholarly
books or journals. She is currently writing a book about American
pragmatism.
A specialist in philosophy of religion, she teaches courses having to do
with modern religious and anti-religious thought; reason and religious belief;
science and religion; and gender and religion.
Prof. Frankenberry's Publications since 1999 (pdf).
Courses and Programs
2008 Spring
- 13 (10A) Beyond God the Father: An Introduction to Gender and Religion
(Identical to Women’s and Gender Studies 43.1)
- 35 (2A) Religion and Science
2008 Fall
- 77 (12) Reason and Religious Belief
- 81 (10A) Seminar: Richard Dawkins and His Critics
2009 Winter
- 36 (11) New Directions in American Religious Thought
- 85 (10A) Senior Colloquium: The Invention of Religion (Frankenberry and
Heschel)
2009 Spring
- Non-Teaching Resident Term
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