Jeffrey Marlett, Ph.D.  Associate Professor, Department of
Religious Studies  A native Midwesterner, Jeffrey Marlett joined
the Saint Rose faculty in 1998. Previously he taught at Lyon
College in Batesville, Arkansas. He earned his Ph.D. in
Historical Theology from Saint Louis University in 1997. He has
taught a wide variety of religious studies and philosophy
courses, covering topics such as ethics, mysticism, world
religions, Biblical studies, and the history of Christianity.
Currently he serves as the College’s Faculty Athletics
Representatives and on the American Studies program steering
committee. He is the author of Saving the Heartland: Catholic
Missionaries in Rural America, 1920-1960 (Northern Illinois
University Press, 2002), which won a Shambaugh recognition award
in 2003 from the State Historical Society of Iowa. He has
published articles in Theological Studies, U. S. Catholic
Historian, National Catholic Reporter, and Newsday. From 2000 to
2006 he co-chaired the Roman Catholic Studies group of th