Faculty and Affiliated Faculty
| Mark Valeri |
Interim Director of Religious Studies Reverend Priscilla Wood Neaves Distinguished Professor of Religion and Politics Religion and social thought, especially economics, in America; Reformation theology and the political history of Calvinism; Puritanism; and Enlightenment moral philosophy |
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| Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp |
On Leave 2018-2019 Director of Religious Studies Archer Alexander Distinguished Professor African-American religions; Religion on the Pacific borderlands of the Americas; Issues of intercultural contact |
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| Cassie Adcock |
On Leave Fall 2018 Associate Professor of History, South Asian Studies, and Religious Studies Religion and politics in modern South Asia (especially north India); Hindu traditions; Islamic traditions; comparative secularisms; modern South Asian history, including histories of the environment and environmentalisms |
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| Wendy Love Anderson |
Academic Coordinator for the Center for the Humanities Medieval Christianity; Jewish-Christian relations; Religion and childhood |
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| Sarah Baitzel |
Assistant Professor, Archaeology Mortuary Archaeology, the Andes, Social Organization, Ritual, and Complex Societies. |
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| Pamela Barmash |
Associate Professor of Hebrew Bible and Biblical Hebrew History of law; Religions of the ancient Near East; History of scriptural interpretation |
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| Anna F. Bialek |
Assistant Professor of Religion and Politics Religious Ethics; Christian and Feminist Thought; Theories and Methods in Religious Studies |
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| Daniel Bornstein |
Stella K Darrow Professor of Catholic Studies Professor of History and Religious Studies Medieval and Renaissance Europe (especially Italy); History of Christianity; Religion, culture, society; Female religious life |
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| John Bowen |
Dunbar-Van Cleve Professor in Arts & Sciences Professor of Sociocultural Anthropology Religion & Ritual; Islam; Social Theory; Kinship and Social Organization; Historical Studies; Culture & Political Change; Sumatra, Indonesia, Europe |
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| Beata Grant |
Professor of Chinese and Religious Studies Buddhism; Chinese religion and literature; Pre-modern Chinese women's literature and culture |
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| Lance Jenott |
Lecturer in Classics and Religious Studies The New Testament; Early Christianity; Second Temple Judaism |
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| Stephanie Kirk |
Associate Professor of Spanish; Comparative Literature; and Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Literature & culture of colonial Latin America & the early modern Atlantic world, with a focus on gender studies & religion |
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| Elena V. Kravchenko |
Lecturer in Religious Studies Religion and Material Culture; Diasporic Religion/Trans-Atlantic Christianity/Orthodox Christianity in the United States; Embodiment, Agency and Subjectivity in the Study of Religion; Religion, Gender, Race and Ethnicity |
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| Jonathan Kvanvig |
Professor of Philosophy Metaphysics & Epistemology; Philosophy of Religion; Philosophy of Logic & Language |
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| David Lawton |
Professor of English Medieval literatures and culture; Bible and religious writing; Chaucer; Literary history and theory; Drama; Poetics; Blasphemy; Pain studies; Postcolonial and Australian studies |
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| Joe Loewenstein |
Professor, Department of English Director Of the Humanities Digital Workshop and the Interdisciplinary Project in the Humanities Renaissance literature; Book culture |
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| Lerone A. Martin |
Associate Professor of Religion and Politics Religion and Politics in Twentieth Century US History; Religious Media; FBI |
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| Erin McGlothlin |
Associate Professor of German and Jewish Studies 20th and 21st-century German literature, Holocaust studies (literature, film and theory), Jewish studies (contemporary German-Jewish and diasporic Jewish literature), narrative theory, autobiography, memory studies, the graphic novel |
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| Aria Nakissa |
Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies Law; Anthropology; Religion; Islamic Legal Theory; Classical Islamic Texts (Fiqh, Tafsir, Hadith, Tasawwuf); Contemporary Muslim Societies; Human Rights; Middle East; Southeast Asia |
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| James F. Pierce |
Research Associate (Honorary) Gender and sexuality in Hindu traditions; South Asian Buddhism; Translation of Sanskrit, Hindi, and Bangla textual sources |