Professor Robyn Stein DeLuca is a scholar, speaker, and author on the subjects of Health Psychology, Reproduction, and Religion. She is passionate about educating with cutting edge research, and exploring the important health and religious questions of today. Her students have reviewed her as “the most dynamic professor they ever had,” and she has been invited to speak to a variety of groups including: the Suffolk County Women’s Bar Association, the League of Women Voters, and The Society of Black Engineers.

DeLuca has a Ph.D. in Health Psychology with a graduate certificate in Women’s Studies, and was a core faculty member in the Women’s and Gender Studies Program at Stony Brook University for 15 years, teaching a multitude of courses on the psychology of health, gender, and reproduction. Her research on postpartum depression and childbirth satisfaction has been published in scholarly psychology journals. During her years at Stony Brook, DeLuca served for two years as the Executive Director of the Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) program, which provides mentoring, research opportunities, and scholarships to young women showing promise in science, technology, engineering, and math. Prior to this, she was the Faculty Director of the Living Learning Center on Human Sexual and Gender Development, an academic minor focusing on questions of gender, sexuality, and sexual orientation.

In recent years DeLuca’s interests have broadened to include the study of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. For the last three years, she taught a course on the roles of women in these three faiths, and has presented at academic conferences on the application of Feminist Theology to Judaism and Islam. In an amazing cross-cultural experience in 2012, she was invited to teach a course on Women and Religion at the State University of St. Petersburg, Russia. Because her love of learning is a lifetime commitment, DeLuca will complete a Graduate Certificate in Religious Studies and Education with the Harvard Divinity School in December 2014.

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