Johnson, Donovan D.: - Donovan Johnson has an MDiv from Trinity Divinity School and studied religion at the University of Tübingen. He received a PhD in literature at the University of California at Irvine and has taught world religions and global humanities in California and Washington State. Like Buber, he developed dialogue as his mode of instruction. He is an avid hiker, although, unlike Buber, his locale is the Cascades of the Western United States, not the Dolomites.