Kevin McGinnis
Adjunct Instructor of religious studies
Kevin McGinnis has taught in the departments of Religious Studies and Languages, Literatures & Cultures here at Stonehill. He has also taught at Springfield College, the University of the Pacific, and the Claremont School of Theology. He also has a background in student affairs and currently works in Housing and Residential Education at UMass Dartmouth. His published work has mostly focused on the social history of the early church, especially in the ways in which Greek philosophical practices and values found their way into the church in the first four centuries of the common era. Currently, he is working on a book on the Christian appropriation of the title "priest" in the third and fourth centuries as it evolved into the primary religion of the Roman Empire. In addition to courses on the New Testament and early Christian history, Dr. McGinnis has also taught courses on method and theory in the study of religion, classical mythology, Greek philosophy, and Latin.