Lee Krahenbuhl Ph.D.

Highlights

Dr. Lee Krähenbühl (he/him/his), Professor of Communication, is Chair of the Department of Communication and Director of the Graduate Program in Communication Studies. He is President of the Maryland Communication Association, and has taught Communication, Entertainment History, Theatre, and World Religions at the college and university levels for over thirty years. Dr. Krähenbühl is also a singer/songwriter, actor, director, designer of both traditional and online curricula, and scholar of the interaction of the performing arts and religious movements in the Western hemisphere from the precolonial era to the present, with special emphasis on North America in the nineteenth century. He is a 14th-generation teacher: a paternal sixth great grandfather, Benjamin Sneed (1721-1819), was schoolmaster to Thomas Jefferson’s family near Monticello; a ninth, Thomas Thacher (1620-1678), was professor and mentor to the American theologian and eventual Harvard president Cotton Mather. An eleventh great grandfather, John Lothrop (1584-1653), was a London contemporary of William Shakespeare; he pastored an independent congregation just blocks from the Globe Theatre in Southwark. Imprisoned there for his nonconformist religious teaching, he was afterward exiled to America, where he became one of the architects of the doctrine of separation of church and state. Dr. K. considers it a privilege to teach at Stevenson University, with its motto: Pro Discendo, Pro Vivendo—“For Learning, For Living.”