~~~~March Men and Goddess Madness~~ Dr. Dennis Quinn~

Dennis Quinn is Assistant Professor at Cal Poly Pomona’s Interdisciplinary General Education (IGE) Department. He received his PhD in Religion from Claremont Graduate University with an emphasis on ancient Mediterranean religions and early Christianity. He has written for popular and academic forums on topics such as relics in the early middle ages, slave religion in ancient Rome, the process of demonization in early Christianity, and active learning in the university classroom, just to name a few. Dennis has also been active in the Claremont conferences on Pagan Studies interested in modern expressions of paganism taking its form in cemetery cults, H. P. Lovecraft influenced religions, and paganism and other religious identities within the university classroom. He is interested in religions as expressions of cultural contexts and social identities. "The importance of the feminine divine in the western has come up in my work on Roman domestic religion, saint veneration in the early middle ages, and even Casey Bernall, the “martyr” of Columbine. Goddesses within a multicultural context are addressed in many of the classes I teach in IGE."