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Dr. Joel Craig Richmond is a Canadian national who currently teaches in PMU’s Core Curriculum Program in the College of Sciences and Human Studies.
At the University of Toronto, he completed an Hon. B.A. in Near & Middle Eastern Studies (2012), an M.A. in the Academic Study of Religion (2014), and a Ph.D. in the Academic Study of Religion (2021). Before coming to PMU, he previously taught at Toronto Metropolitan University and delivered lectures across Canada on the subject of classical Islamic thought. He has numerous publications in peer-reviewed academic journals and has a monograph, Al-Ghazālī’s Moral Psychology: From Self-Control to Self-Surrender, which will be published in 2025 by Equinox Publications in the Series: Monographs in Arabic and Islamic Studies. He hopes to continue his study of virtue ethics in Islam well into the future.
As an educator, his goal with students is to create a learning environment that emphasizes diverse paradigms and promotes cross-cultural learning and understanding. In addition to supporting the development of a globally defined consciousness in the classroom, the learning environment he seeks to create ensures that students see a world where every person’s view matters. His goal is not to establish a consensus or one worldview, but to promote healthy dialogue, encourage empathy, and deepen the understanding of students to our collective diversity. With the aid of the course materials, his aim is to consciously engage different perspectives and raise awareness of the historical frameworks that have shaped our understanding of the subjects in the humanities.