Matthew P.
Private tutor in Shaker Heights, OH
Education
PHD STUDENT, 2008-2015, UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH RELIGIOUS STUDIES DEPARTMENT, TEACHING FELLOW 2009-2013 • Concentration: American Religious History, specifically the intersection of American Christian Fundamentalism and Darwinian Evolutionary Science. o Courses taught as a Teaching Fellow at Pitt: History Department: Asian History and Religions 2009; History of Sport in America 2010 Religious Studies Department: American Religious History, 2010; Asian Religions, 2011; Early Christian History, 2012; Origins of Christianity 2013 STM (Master of Sacred Theology), 2007-2008, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, • Concentration in Value Theory and American Religious History, • Master’s Thesis: “Value: An Examination of Value Theory In Albrecht Ritschl and Hermann Lotze and Its Impact in American Religious Progressivism in the late 19th and throughout the 20th Century.” M.Div. (Master of Divinity), 1988-1991, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, ˙ Emphasis on Christian Ethics B.A. Allegheny College, Meadville, PA, 1980-84 ˙ Major: American Studies (American History, Political Science and Literature) ˙ Minor: Music -music history and vocal performance
Experience
As described above, I was a teaching fellow as a PhD student at the University of Pittsburgh. Moreover, I have been a private tutor to high school students for the past two years in the Cleveland suburbs. I would like to continue teaching and inspiring a sense of curiosity in students in a safe and compassionate space as I have done over the past 30 years. I have been a youth pastor in three churches in that time period. I then returned to graduate school to receive the second Master's degree and then began my PhD studies at Pitt. I would be happy to provide a list of the classes I have taken, but they are too numerous to mention in this space. It is Important for me to emphasize here that I do not discuss religious convictions or beliefs as a tutor. While at Pitt, a secular institution, I was happy to help the students explore the religious complexities generated in such a wonderfully rich and diverse American history. I enjoyed teaching about the beliefs of other major world religions as well. I have published three articles and would be happy to provide potential students and parents with my publications. They are: ˙ 2012, “Immigration and the Arts”, The Making of Modern Immigration, An Encyclopedia of People and Ideas, Patrick J. Hayes, Editor, ABC-CLIO, Santa Barbara, CA & Oxford, England. ˙2010, BOOK REVIEW, as published in The International Journal of Multicultural Education, Review of Teaching Adolescents Religious Literacy in a Post-9/11 World, by Robert J. Nash and Penny A. Bishop. ˙ 2010, “Presbyterians: Nineteenth Century”, Encyclopedia of Religion in America, Charles H. Libby and Peter W. Williams, eds., Congressional Quarterly Press, A Div. of SAGE Publications, Washington, D.C.
Availability
Weekdays after 9AM
Can Meet
Up to 45 minutes away for no additional charge
Hobbies
I love: people. learning anything new, cinema (-just about every genre), photographing Holy Spaces all over the world (my photographs have been featured in three art shows: two in Philadelphia and one in Cleveland), reading; travelling (47/50 states and 50 countries down, many more to go), all music, (especially classical music, opera, and American folk music), -anything that tells a story.
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