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Calvin Mercer
Professor of Religious Studies
East Carolina University
Greenville, NC 27858-4353
252 • 328 • 4310 (office)
252 • 414 • 8861(cell)
252 • 328 • 6301 (fax) mercerc@ecu.edu
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Teaching Positions Held
East Carolina University: Professor of Religion, 8/10-present; Associate Professor of Religion, 8/90-7/10; Assistant Professor of Religion, 1/85-5/90; Graduate Faculty appointment, full member, 8/94-present
Mount Olive College: Professor of Religion, 1/81-12/84
Florida A & M University: Instructor of Religion, half-time, 8/79-12/80
Administrative Experience
DIRECTOR, MULTIDISCIPLINARY STUDIES PROGRAM
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Harriot College of Arts and Sciences, Multidisciplinary Studies Program, East Carolina University; 1/98-5/12.
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Responsible for overseeing the academic program, participating faculty, and student majors. Reported to the office of the Dean of Harriot College.
Major Duties:
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Supervise “Structured Concentration” faculty directors (Classics, Religious Studies, Neuroscience) with regard to managing their concentration programs.
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Supervise “Individual Concentration” faculty mentors for Asian, International, Russian, and other smaller programs, with regard to their teaching and advising.
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Ensure adequate advising of student majors. The Program had grown to 125 majors when I completed service as director.
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Chair the Multidisciplinary Studies Program governing committee.
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Develop and manage curriculum initiatives.
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Manage assessment and other reports.
DIRECTOR, RELIGIOUS STUDIES PROGRAM
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Harriot College of Arts and Sciences Religious Studies Program, East Carolina University; Director, 8/89-12/05, 8/13-8/15
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Responsible for overseeing the academic program, participating faculty, student majors, budgets, fundraising, and campus/community programs. Reported to the office of the Dean of Harriot College.
Major duties:
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Help supervise full-time and adjunct faculty with regard to teaching and service.
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Ensure adequate advising of student majors. The Program had about 35 majors when I completed service as director.
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Chair the interdisciplinary Religious Studies Program governing committee.
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Manage the budget.
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Seek private endowment and other financial support. I played a significant role in recruiting a Program friend, Dr. Jesse Peel, to donate $500,000 to establish an endowed professorship, the J. Woolard and Helen Peel Distinguished Professor in Religious Studies.
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Develop and manage curriculum initiatives.
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Manage assessment and other reports.
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Manage the annual “Jarvis Lecture on Christianity and Culture,” which became the largest public lecture series at the university. I played the major role in initiating and securing private funding for this series. The series is now named the “Distinguished Lecture on Religion and Culture” and is a part of the Harriot College “Voyages of Discovery” series.
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Oversee the offering of other special programs for the campus and community.
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Maintain an active informational email newsletter for religion-related cultural and/or academic area events. Currently, this newsletter is posted to 1,200 people, mostly regional friends of the Program.
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Develop an alumni outreach program (in progress when I stepped down as director).
Publications (books)
Religion and Human Enhancement: Death, Values, and Morality. Tracy Trothen and Calvin Mercer, Co-editors. In Palgrave Studies in the Future of Humanity and Its Successors. Steve Fuller and Calvin Mercer, Series Co-editors. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, under contract, scheduled for publication 2018.
Religion and Transhumanism: The Unknown Future of Human Enhancement. Calvin Mercer and Tracy Trothen, Co-editors. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2015.
Transhumanism and the Body: The World Religions Speak. Calvin Mercer and Derek Maher, Co-editors. In Palgrave Studies in the Future of Humanity and Its Successors. Steve Fuller and Calvin Mercer, Series Co-editors. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Religion and the Implications of Radical Life Extension. Derek Maher and Calvin Mercer, Co-editors. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. Republished in paperback, 2014.
Slaves to Faith: A Therapist Looks Inside the Fundamentalist Mind. Foreword by Martin Marty. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2009.
The Writings of Swami Sivananda: A Bibliographical Study. Tilak Pyle and Calvin Mercer. Lewiston: Edwin Mellen, 2007.
Norman Perrin’s Interpretation of the New Testament: From “Exegetical Method” to
“Hermeneutical Process.” Studies in American Biblical Hermeneutics 2. Macon, GA: Mercer University, 1986.
Publications (series co-editor)
Cole-Turner, Ron and Steve Donaldson. Chips in the Brain, Immortality, and the World of Tomorrow: Christian Perspectives on Transhumanism and the Church. In Palgrave Studies in the Future of Humanity and Its Successors. Steve Fuller and Calvin Mercer, Series Co-editors. New York: Palgrae Macmillan, accepted for publication.
Malapi-Nelson, Alcibiades. The Nature of the Machine and the Collapse of Cybernetics: A Transhumanist Lesson for Emerging Technologies. In Palgrave Studies in the Future of Humanity and Its Successors. Steve Fuller and Calvin Mercer, Series Co-editors. New York: Palgrae Macmillan, in press.
Religion and Human Enhancement: Death, Values, and Morality. Tracy Trothen and Calvin Mercer, Co-editors. In Palgrave Studies in the Future of Humanity and Its Successors. Steve Fuller and Calvin Mercer, Series Co-editors. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, under contract, scheduled for publication July/August 2017.
Riggio, Adam. Ecology, Ethics, and the Future of Humanity. In Palgrave Studies in the Future of Humanity and Its Successors. Steve Fuller and Calvin Mercer, Series Co-editors. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
Transhumanism and the Body: The World Religions Speak. Calvin Mercer and Derek Maher, Co-editors. In Palgrave Studies in the Future of Humanity and Its Successors. Steve Fuller and Calvin Mercer, Series Co-editors. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
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