Temple University

David Carnish is a Ph.D. student in his second year of studies in the Italian Renaissance. He received a BA in Philosophy from Valdosta State College in 1990, a M/Div from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, KY in 1994 and a MA in Interdisciplinary Humanities from Penn State Harrisburg in 2020.  His areas of interest, religion, humanism, spirituality, sacred image, icons, iconoclasm, and the Counter-Reformation.  He currently lives in Elizabethtown, PA where he works for Penn State Hershey Medical Center as a chaplaincy educator.  He loves poetry, hiking, swimming and playing with his two boys, two cats and the family dog.  

MA, Interdisciplinary Humanities, Penn State, 2020 
M/Div, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1994 
BA, Philosophy, Valdosta State College, 1990 

Advisor: Marcia Hall, PhD