The Canisius College Alumni Association will confer the Kenneth L. Koessler Distinguished Faculty Award upon Timothy H. Wadkins, PhD, during Spring Honors Convocation on Friday, May 18 at 2 p.m. The award, presented annually, recognizes a faculty member for teaching excellence and outstanding contributions to the academic world.
As a professor of religious studies and theology at Canisius since 1992, Wadkins is highly respected by his peers. An accomplished researcher and scholar, he is well-known for the academic rigor of his in-class courses, his transformative international seminars, and a long list of publications, including his recent book, The Rise of Pentecostalism in Modern El Salvador: From the Blood of the Martyrs to the Baptism of the Holy Spirit (Baylor University Press, 2017).
In 2001, Wadkins founded the Institute for the Global Study of Religion (IGSOR), which was created to promote interest in the study of religion within the Canisius College community and the wider community of Western New York. One continuing product of IGSOR is the Ignatian Seminar Program, a series of international immersion seminars led by Wadkins and various other faculty that expose students to religion in countries outside of the West, such as the Philippines, El Salvador, Argentina, India, Mexico and Tanzania.
Read more about Wadkins here.
