Intercultural
Bible Faculty
Studies Faculty
When new Corban professor Allen Jones was in college he developed an interest in the Old Testament that changed the way he viewed the Bible’s two books. “I learned to approach the Old Testament as a New Covenant book and the New Testament as a New Covenant book,” he said. “It opened up the Old Testament in ways I never understood
before and it was a lot of fun. This is something I hope my students can also get excited about.” Jones recently returned from the University of St Andrews in Scotland as a newly minted Ph.D. with a focus on the Old Testament and the Hebrew Bible. He will serve as an assistant professor of Bible within Corban’s School of Ministry at the Salem campus. He previously worked as an adjunct professor at Multnomah University, an online instructor at Western Seminary, an elementary school teacher and graduate lecturer. In addition to living in Scotland, he has served on short-term missions in Africa, Eastern Europe, and Mexico. He currently teaches Old Testament Survey and Bible Study Methods.
After more than two decades as a missionary in Africa, former adjunct professor Annette R. Harrison, Ph.D, is now serving as an assistant professor of intercultural studies at Corban University’s Salem campus. As a member of Wycliffe Bible Translators, Harrison served in France, Burkina Faso, the Republic of Niger, the Republic of Congo and the Central African Republic. While in Africa, she studied the how language use and social organization worked within a non-missionary planted (independently planted) Christian church in the Republic of Congo. “I studied how leadership emerged through language use and how group members signaled someone else to do something,” she said. “To the best of my knowledge, a study like this has never been done in this part of Africa.” She studied French and has a master’s and a doctorate degree in linguistics. This fall Harrison is teaching a course in language and culture acquisition (focused on the Indonesian language), sociology and an English course for Corban’s international students. Harrison can be reached at 503-375-7186 or aharrison@corban.edu.
Jones can be reached at 503-375-7184 or ajones@corban.edu
Science Faculty On July 1, Corban University hired Sarah Comstock, Ph.D, as an assistant professor in the health science department. Beginning fall semester, she will teach advanced physiology, chemistry, anatomy and physiology and life science. She will also oversee the department’s internship program. During her doctoral work, Comstock helped design experimental approaches to investigate the effects of maternal, high-fat diets in primates. Comstock was recently notified by Baylor University that her revised manuscript, “Maternal high fat diet epigenetically modulates the fetal thyroid axis in a nonhuman primate model”, was selected for publication in “Molecular Endocrinology.” She can be reached at scomstock@corban.edu 5