Emeritus Faculty

Mitsuo Aoki (1914–2010)
DD, Pacific School of Religion (1968)

Dr. Aoki founded the Department of Religion in 1956. He earned a B.A. degree from Drury University in Springfield, MO, and a B.D. from Chicago Theological Seminary, before receiving his Doctor of Divinity degree from the Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, CA. Some of his numerous contributions to the field of death and dying, and to hospice care, are described on the http://www.livingyourdying.com/index.html website.

Alfred Bloom
Ph.D., Harvard University (1963)

David W. Chappell (1940–2004)
Ph.D., Yale University

S. Cromwell Crawford
Th.D., Pacific School of Religion (1965)

Michael R. Saso Personal website: http://www.michaelsaso.org
Ph.D., London University (1971)

Friedrich Seifert
Th.D., Pacific School of Religion (1967)

George J. Tanabe, Jr.
Ph.D., Columbia University (1983)