Scholarship
The Center for Faculty Development (CFD) seeks help the Faculty at Union University achieve scholarship, pursue traditional advancement within your discipline, and conduct and disseminate their scholarship.
Initiatives
Fall and Winter Workshops
At the beginning of the fall and spring semesters faculty participate in an extended development opportunity that includes either departmental and interdepartmental dialogue on current topics or concurrent sessions offered by faculty colleagues and campus leaders.
In the Academy
Multiple sessions are offered each semester for all faculty regarding important aspects of professional advancement, grant opportunities, and research leave opportunities.
Faculty Dialogue Groups
Believing that iron sharpens iron, faculty facilitate discussions over lunch on selected books or topics of interest in teaching, scholarship, and the Christian faith and practice.
Definitions and Expectations for Union Faculty (.pdf)
This is the inaugural edition of Scholarship Definitions and Expectations for Union Faculty to all departments and faculty. This is a document that represents years of hard work by departments and schools to articulate the kinds of scholarship that best express the knowledge and methods of inquiry in each academic discipline.
Journals
Recent and Forthcoming Books
- God's Fools: Saints, Prophets, Martyrs, and the Making of Modern Comedy.
Jason Crawford. Bloomsbury Academic (February 2026).
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- The Oxford Handbook of Allegory.
Edited by David Parry. Oxford University Press (February 2026).
Union Contributor(s): Jason Crawford (Chapter 26: "Allegory and Personification").
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- Translation Technique and Literary Structures in Greek Isaiah 13: 1-14:23.
Matthew J. Albanese. SBL Press (September 2025).
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Recent Scholarship
- PRESENTATION - "Why do the Martyrs Laugh?" by Jason Crawford (October 2025)
- AWARD/RECOGNITION - "Guest Editor: Role of Oxidative Stress, Antioxidants, and Gut Microbiota in Obesity and Metabolic Disorders" by Lunawati L. Bennett (October 2025)
- ARTICLE - "Some New World: Myths of Supernatural Belief in a Secular Age" by William Thierfelder (September 2025)
