Dr. Heike Peckruhn is the Associate Professor of Religious Studies, and teaches a variety of courses on religious traditions, Christian theology, disability studies, and gender and sexuality studies. She is the author of Meaning in Our Bodies: Sensory Experience as Constructive Theological Imagination (Oxford, 2017), and a variety of essays including on disability and theology, racialized belongings and religiosity, and queer theological imaginations.
Growing up in a rural Mennonite village in Germany in a biracial and multi-religious family, she found her way into studying theology at Bienenberg (Switzerland), community counseling at EMU, and constructive theology at Iliff School of Theology and University of Denver.
