Faculty
| Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp |
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 Spring 2017 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, Center for the Humanities Medieval Christianity; Jewish-Christian relations; Religion and childhood |
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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 |
Lecturer in Religious Studies 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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| Kathleen Gibbons |
Lecturer in Classics and Religious Studies Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean; Late Antique Christianity; Jewish-Christian Relations; Ancient Religion and Philosophy |
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| Beata Grant |
On leave 2016-2017 Professor of Chinese and Religious Studies Buddhism; Chinese religion and literature; Pre-modern Chinese women's literature and culture |
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| R. Marie Griffith |
Director, John C. Danforth Center on Religion & Politics John C. Danforth Distinguished Professor Gender, Religion, and American Politics |
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| Martin Jacobs |
Professor of Rabbinic Studies Rabbinic literature and thought; Jewish historiography; Jewish-Muslim cultural and literary contacts; Jews in Islamic lands; Medieval travel literature |
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| Hillel Kieval |
Gloria M. Goldstein Professor of Jewish History and Thought Professor of History Professor of Jewish, Islamic & Near Eastern Languages & Cultures Jewish history in early modern and modern Europe; Culture and society in Central Europe; Ethnicity and nationalism |
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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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| 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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| Lerone A. Martin |
On leave Spring 2017 Assistant Professor of Religion and Politics Religion and Politics in Twentieth Century US History; Religious Media; FBI |
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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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| Leigh E. Schmidt |
Edward Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professor American religious history; Religion and American Politics |
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| Mark Valeri |
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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| Hayrettin Yücesoy |
Associate Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies History of medieval Middle East, in particular: political practice & thought; historiography; messianic beliefs & movements; cross-cultural/trans-regional connections & encounters |
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| Tobias Benedikt Zürn |
Postdoctoral Fellow in East Asian Religions Pre-modern Chinese Religions and Intellectual History; Daoist Textual and Visual Cultures; Early Chinese Aesthetics; Reception History; Intertextuality |