PO Box 6300
Department of Geology and Geography
330 Brooks Hall
Morgantown, WV 26506

+1 304 293 5603

My Office: +1 (918) 622-7979
bturley@mix.wvu.edu

Briane K. Turley
Adjunct Research Professor

Department of Geology and Geography

College of Arts and Sciences

Education

PhD American Religious History

University of Virginia

MA Modern European and American Religious History

University of Virginia

MDiv Nazarene Theological Seminary

BA Music

West Virginia University

Recent Awards
Marquis Who's Who in America 2001
Marquis Who's Who in American Education 2003-
J. William Fulbright Lectureship, University of Szeged, Hungary 2002
Fulbright Alumni Initiatives Award With Peter Torok and Andras Mate-Toth, University of Szeged, Hungary 2004-06

Research Areas
Geographic Information Systems for the Humanities, Information Technology, Regionalism and Religion, Religion in Central and Eastern Europe, Religion and Culture in the U.S. South, Anglican Church history.

Recent Publications

"The Vulnerable: Abortion and Disability" in The Oxford Handbook of Evangelical Theology, ed. Gerald D. McDermott (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming).

Religion in World History (co-authored with John Super), Routledge Press (2006).

A Wheel Within a Wheel: Southern Methodism and the Georgia Holiness Association: Mercer University Press, (1999).

"Navigating a New Landscape: Religious and Technological Pluralism in Diana Eck's On Common Ground" review article co-authored with Rodger Payne, September 1999, Journal of the American Academy of Religion.

"Electronic Chalk Dust: Online Collaboration in the American Religion Classroom," May 1998, Religious Studies News

Projects

Co-founder and Managing Editor of the Religion and Society in Central and Eastern Europe and Director of the American Religious Experience. Co-Founder of the Journal of Southern Religion.