Dr. Joel Brady has taught in the Departments of Religious Studies, Slavic Languages and Literatures, and History at the University of Pittsburgh. He is also a Teaching Consultant and the Program Supervisor at the University Center for Teaching and Learning. In addition to "Religions of the West," his CGS courses have included "Vampire: Blood and Empire" and "Madness and Madmen in Russian Culture." He also teaches "Orthodox Christianity," "Behind Bars: Cross Cultural Representations of Prison," and Pitt's "University Teaching Practicum" for new graduate instructors.
Courses Taught at Pitt
- RELGST 0105 - Religions of the West
- Vampire: Blood and Empire
- Madness and Madmen in Russian Culture
- RELGST 1135 - Orthodox Christianity
- Behind Bars: Crosscultural representations of Prison
- East European Civilization
- University Teaching Practicum
Representative Publications
Transnational Conversions: Greek Catholic Migrants and Russky Orthodox Conversion Movements in Austria-Hungary, Russia, and the Americas (1890-1914), Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh, 2012.
“Becoming What We Always Were: ‘Conversion’ of U.S. Greek Catholics to Russian Orthodoxy, 1890-1914.” U.S. Catholic Historian 32, no. 1 (Winter 2014): 23-48.
“Religion and Ethnic Diversity,” in Cortés, Carlos E., ed., Multicultural America: A Multimedia Encyclopedia. SAGE Publications, 2013.
“John Paul Himka, Last Judgment Iconography in the Carpathians (Review).” Slovo 22, no. 1 (Spring 2010).
“Rival Organization for the Study of Eastern Christianity Also Convenes in October.” The ASEC Newsletter 7, no. 1 (February 2010).