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Faculty and Affiliated 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
Cassie Adcock 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
Wendy Love Anderson Academic Coordinator for the Center for the Humanities
Medieval Christianity; Jewish-Christian relations; Religion and childhood
Sarah Baitzel Assistant Professor, Archaeology
Mortuary Archaeology, the Andes, Social Organization, Ritual, and Complex Societies.
Pamela Barmash Associate Professor of Hebrew Bible and Biblical Hebrew
History of law; Religions of the ancient Near East; History of scriptural interpretation
Anna F. Bialek On leave Spring 2018
Assistant Professor of Religion and Politics
Religious Ethics; Christian and Feminist Thought; Theories and Methods in Religious Studies
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
John Bowen On leave Spring 2018
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
Beata Grant Professor of Chinese and Religious Studies
Buddhism; Chinese religion and literature; Pre-modern Chinese women's literature and culture
Lance Jenott Lecturer in Classics and Religious Studies
The New Testament; Early Christianity; Second Temple Judaism
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
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
Jonathan Kvanvig Professor of Philosophy
Metaphysics & Epistemology; Philosophy of Religion; Philosophy of Logic & Language
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
Joe Loewenstein Professor, Department of English
Director Of the Humanities Digital Workshop and the Interdisciplinary Project in the Humanities
Renaissance literature; Book culture
Lerone A. Martin Associate Professor of Religion and Politics
Religion and Politics in Twentieth Century US History; Religious Media; FBI
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
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
James F. Pierce Research Associate (Honorary)
Gender and sexuality in Hindu traditions; South Asian Buddhism; Translation of Sanskrit, Hindi, and Bangla textual sources
Leigh E. Schmidt Edward Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professor
American religious history; Religion and American Politics

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