Graham Harvey's CV and publication list

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1.         Higher Education

 

1979-1982       BA (Hons) 2.i. Theology. London Bible College (CNAA)

 

1984-1991       PhD: The True Israel: uses of the names Jew, Hebrew and Israel in ancient Jewish Literature. University of Newcastle upon Tyne

 

2.         APPOINTMENTS AND EXPERIENCE

 

2007-present            Reader in Religious Studies, Open University

 

2003-2007                Lecturer in Religious Studies, Open University

 

1996-2003                Reader/Principal Lecturer in Religious Studies, King Alfred’s College, Winchester

 

1995                         Lecturer in Judaism, Dept. of Religious Studies, University of Newcastle upon Tyne. (part-time)

Also Continuing Education tutor, University of Newcastle upon Tyne

 

1995 (Mar-May)        Hartley Institute Visiting Fellowship, Southampton University. “Common Ground between Jews and Christians: a test case in Inter-Faith Dialogue”. (fixed term)

 

1994-1995                Lecturer in Bible and Judaism, Department of Religious Studies, University of Newcastle upon Tyne. (part-time)

Also Continuing Education tutor, University of Newcastle upon Tyne

 

1993-1994                Co-organiser, international conference on the Academic Study of Modern Paganism and Shamanism, Department of Religious Studies, University of Newcastle upon Tyne. (part-time)

 

1993                         Administrator of the Joint International Conference of the British Association for the Study of Religions and the Department of Religious Studies, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, September 1993. (part-time)

 

1990-1991                Trainee Ethnographer, Hancock Museum, Newcastle upon Tyne. Special concerns with North American, Australian and Pacific collections

 

3.         CONTRIBUTIONS TO OPEN UNIVERSITY TEACHING AND STUDENT SUPPORT

 

(a)        Organisational responsibilities

 

A880 MA Religious Studies, Year 1 (90 points)

2007-present            Production course team chair

 

AD317 Religion Today: Tradition, Modernity and Change (60 points)

2006- 2007           Presentation course team chair

2006- 2007            Examination and award board chair

 

A217 Introducing Religions (60 points)

2006-present            Member of Presentation course team

2004 to 2005            Member of Production course team and specifically responsible for Judaism materials

 

AA100 Introduction to the Arts (60 points)

2005-present            Member of Production course team and specifically responsible for Unit 22 “Sacred Space and Landscape”

 

A440 Dissertation in the Arts

2006                         Member of Production course team and specifically responsible for co-ordination of Religious Studies department’s contribution (A448) (Production postponed)

 

A448 The Undergraduate Dissertation in Religious Studies (30 points)

2006                         Co-ordinator of Religious Studies Units. (Production postponed)

 

 

(b)       Contributions to teaching materials and methods

 

A217 Introducing Religions (60 points)

2004 to 2005            Author of Unit 2 (Judaism) and Judaism material for DVD and Audio CD (including interviews). (1.5 units)

 

AA307 Religions in Conflict and Co-operation (60 points)

2005                         Two interviews on Audio CD

 

AA100 Introduction to the Arts (60 points)

2005-present            Co-author of Unit 22 “Sacred Space and Landscape”, for Block 4 “Time, Space and Leisure”

 

 (c)       Contributions to staff and student support and associated activities

 

2005-present            Departmental Research Students Co-ordinator

 

A217 Introducing Religions (60 points)

2006-present            Monitoring and tutor briefing

 

AD317 Religion Today: Tradition, Modernity and Change (60 points)

2006-present            Monitoring

 

(d)       Contributions to teaching outside the Open University

 

1996-2003                King Alfred’s (College) Winchester

Team member developing new undergraduate course in Theology and Religious Studies, specifically responsible for level three modules including Final Year Dissertation. Within the course, devised four new modules and developed four others in presentation (plus a backup bank of additional modules).

Tutor in MA in Contemporary Popular Knowledges (2000-2003)

Tutor in MA Religious Studies (Spirituality) (1996-1999)

 

1994-1995                University of Newcastle upon Tyne: Centre for Continuing Education

Devised modules on Paganism; Ancient Judaism and Modern Judaism

 

1991-1995                University of Newcastle upon Tyne

Developed modules in Religious Studies: Judaism, New Religious Movements

 

4.         CONTRIBUTIONS TO ADMINISTRATION AND MANAGEMENT

 

            Open University

2007-present            Member of University Student Research Project Panel

2006-present            Member of Faculty Promotions Advisory Group’s Scrutiny Group

2006-present            Member of Faculty Research Sub-Committee

2006                         Member of Faculty Level 1 Policy Group

2005-present            Member of Faculty Promotions Advisory Group

 

Contributions at other institutions

2001-2003                King Alfred’s Winchester

Programme Director: MA Religion (Rhetoric and Rituals of Death) by Distance Learning

2000-2003                King Alfred’s Winchester:

Programme Director: MA in Religion: The Rhetoric and Rituals of Death;

1999-2003                Member of College’s Research Committee and the Academic Regulations Committeee; Member of School of Cultural Studies’ Quality Committee and Learning and Teaching Committee.

 

 

5.         RESEARCH AND SCHOLARSHIP

 

6.         POSTGRADUATE STUDENT SUPERVISION

 

Dates of Supervision	Date of Award	Name of Student	Thesis Title	Degree Awarded
1998-2001	2001	Andy Letcher	Bardism among contemporary Pagans.	PhD King Alfred’s College, Winchester
2001-2004	2005	Brian Walker	Hope within an Abrahamic Dialogue: An investigation into the content of hope emergent from dialogue between contemporary Judaic, Christian and Muslim advocates. AHRB funded.	PhD University College, Winchester
2001-2005	2005	Christina Welch	The Role of Visual Representation in the Construction of North American Indian and Western Alternative Spiritual Identities. AHRB funded	PhD University College, Winchester
1999-2006	2006	Olu Taiwo	Interfacing with our own interface – the relationship between digital (clock) and metabolic (organic) temporal space through music and movement in Enlightenment and Indigenous (Yoruba) Cultures	PhD University of Winchester
2002-2006	2006	Jenny Gaffin	The Politics of Performance of Queer Inter-Religious Dialogue.	PhD University of Winchester
2003-present		Adrian Harris	The Wisdom of the Body: Embodied knowledge in the practice of Nature Religions
2003-present		Ian Jamieson	Ethical perspectives among contemporary Pagans.
2004-present		Helen Purcell	Is Western society really disenchanted? A critical examination of the works of Alan Garner and his reception among contemporary Pagans.
2004-present		Amy Whitehead	Idolatry:  Testing the limits of materiality
2006-present		Mika Lassander	A Community of Individuals: Group Affiliation and Individualism in Contemporary Paganism in Britain, Finland and Ireland
2006-present		Francesca Howell	Environmental Philosophy though an Italian Lens: the influence of traditional Italian witchcraft on ecological perspectives in Italy
2007-present		Maria Nita	Eco-Theism Old and New: Faith Groups at the Heart of the Climate Change Campaign

   

 

7.         EXTERNAL ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES

 

Offices in learned societies and professional bodies

 

2007-present            Trustee of the British Sociological Association

2006-present            Advisor to the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics

2004-present            Member of Research Committee of the Religious Experience Research Centre of the Alister Hardy Trust

2003-present            Honorary Secretary of the British Association for the Study of Religions

2003-present            Member of International committee of the International Association for the History of Religions

 

Memberships in learned societies

 

1996-present            Member of the Society for the Study of Native American Religious Traditions

1993-present            Member of the British Association for the Study of Religions

 

 

External Examining

 

2007-2011                Religion in Context programme, Middlesex University

2002-2010                Theology and Religious Studies programme, University of Greenwich.

2002-2006                Religious Studies programme, Wolverhampton University

 

Contributions to conferences

 

2007                         Convener of two international panels (“Studying Indigenous Religions and indigeneity” and “Researching Paganisms”) for the Fifth International Meeting on Socio-Religious Studies, Havana, Cuba.

2005                         Co-organiser of international conference on Embodiment and Environment held at Oxford Brookes University

2005                         Organiser of conference on Locating the Ancestors, Belief Beyond Boundaries Research Group, held at the Open University

1999                         Co-organiser of international conference on Taking Religious Convictions Seriously: Religion and Law. held at the University of Central Lancashire

1998                         Co-organiser of international conference on Shamanism in Contemporary Society. held at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne

1997                         Co-organiser of international colloquium on Ambivalent Goddesses. held at King Alfred’s College, Winchester

1997                         Co-organiser of international conference on Re-Enchantment: third international conference on Contemporary Paganism. held at the King Alfred’s College, Winchester.

1996                         Co-organiser of “Who wants to live forever?” — a series of three one-day conferences on death, dying and bereavement, held at King Alfred’s College, Winchester

1995                         Co-Organiser of international conference on Possession and Exorcism. held at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne

1994                         Co-organiser of International Conference on Paganism in Contemporary Britain. held at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne

1993                         Organiser of conference on Encounters of Religions, BASR Annual Conference, held at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne

 

Invited lectures

 

2008                         “Paganism: negotiating between esotericism and animism”, Kabbalah and Contemporary Spiritual Revival: Historical, Sociological, and Cultural Perspectives, Ben Gurion University in Beer Sheva, Israel.

2007                         Invited lecture ‘Guesthood as method and interpretation in the study of indigenous religions’ at IAHR special conference, ‘New Challenges in the Academic Study of Religion’, Stockholm

2006                         ‘Other animists, other modernists: contesting personhood in the study of indigenous religions’, keynote presentation at the annual conference of the Australian Association for the Study of Religions, Adelaide, Australia

2006                         ‘The material culture of indigenous religions and the life of “‘object persons”’, Objects, Art & Belief: An Introduction to the material culture of religion. Oxford University.

2005                         Key note address: ‘Between Romanticism and Radicalism: Researching and Teaching Religious Environmentalism’, Religions in Conversation with the Environment Conference, Birmingham, funded by The Higher Education Academy Subject Centres for Philosophical and Religious Studies and Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

2004                         Key note address: ‘Recent and Future developments in the Study of Paganisms’, ASANAS conference, University of Wolverhampton

2003                         Invited respondent to New Religious Movements panel, American Academy of Religion

 

8.         OTHER INFORMATION

 

PhD/MPhil examined

 

2001-present            13 PhDs examined – Universities of Massey (New Zealand), Monash (Australia), Winchester, King’s College London, Bristol, Stirling, Southampton, KwaZulu Natal (South Africa), West of England, Edinburgh, Liverpool Hope.

2005-present            MPhils examined: 2: Newcastle upon Tyne, Greenwich