Biography

Ann W. Duncan
Department: Philosophy and Religion
Title: Assistant Professor of Religion
Office: Julia Rogers 103B
Phone: 410-337-3011
Email: ann.duncan@goucher.edu

Professor Ann W. Duncan is Assistant Professor of Religion and specializes in American Religious History, intersections between religion and public life and religion and the social sciences. Professor Duncan’s past research, presentations and publications have focused on intersections of religion and politics, American Christianity and wartime, American Civil Religion and religious understandings of motherhood and the family. She is the co-editor of the three volume set, Church-State Issues in America Today (Praeger, 2008). Her current project, “From the Mother of God to the Mommy Wars: Motherhood and American Christianity” integrates interviews with Catholic, Quaker and Mormon women with historical and theological perspectives on Christian and American Motherhood. Professor Duncan’s courses include Religion and Society, Introduction to Islamic Thought, New Religious Movements, Religion and Politics in America and American Religion and Social Reform. She holds a Bachelor of Arts from Duke University and a M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Virginia.