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Alexandra Brown Department Head mail 32A Newcomb, 458-8789	Jessie Ball duPont Professor (B.A., Duke; M.Div., Yale; Ph.D., Columbia / Union Theological Seminary) Christianity from its origins to late antiquity; pilgrimage, monasticism, and notions of the body and gender in religious traditions.
Patrick Hatcher mail 21 Newcomb, 458-8797	Assistant Professor (B.A. Dickinson College; M.A. Univ. of Chicago; Ph.D. candidate, Univ. of Chicago) Islam; comparative religion; conversion of the Central Asian Turkic peoples, the use of religion in constructing post-Soviet nationalisms
Jeffrey Kosky mail 36D Newcomb, 458-8930	Associate Professor (B.A., Williams College; Ph.D., Chicago) Western religious thought; philosophy of religion; religion and culture.
Timothy Lubin homepage mail 23 Newcomb, 458-8146	Associate Professor (B.A., Columbia; M.T.S., Harvard; Ph.D., Columbia) Hinduism, esp. Vedic and Shaiva traditions; ritual, sacrifice, and asceticism; the spread of brahmin institutions; Hindu law and comparative legal theory; Sanskrit literature and hermeneutics; trans-regional cultures in antiquity.
Richard Marks homepage mail 27C Newcomb, 458-8788	Professor (B.A., Raymond College, Univ. of Pacific; M.A., Hebrew Union College; Ph.D., UCLA) Judaism, the Hebrew Bible, Theravada Buddhism, comparative religion; history of Jewish perceptions of Indian religions.
Winston Davis	Professor Emeritus (B.A., Rochester; B.D., Colgate-Rochester Divinity School; M.A., Columbia; Ph.D., Chicago) East Asian religion and society in comparative contexts; religion in the modern world.

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Harlan Beckley Shepherd homepage mail 20 Newcomb, 458-8784	Fletcher Otey Thomas Professor of Religion, Director of the Shepherd Program for the Interdisciplinary Study of Poverty and Human Capability (Ph.D., Vanderbilt) Poverty studies; theological ethics.
George Carras mail 38 Washington, 458-8424	Professor of Classical Studies, Senior Research Fellow in Religion, (D.Phil., Oxford) Pauline studies, Josephus, early Christianity and Hellenistic Judaism.
Kevin Crotty mail 24 Robinson, 458-8910	Associate Professor of Classics (Ph.D., Yale) Greek myth and religion; Augustine; myth and philosophy in ancient Greece.
Genelle Gertz homepage mail 23 Payne, 458-8763	Assistant Professor of English (Ph.D., Princeton) Medieval and early modern women writers; the Reformation; republicanism and the English revolution; prophecy and mysticism; heresy trials; the politics of reading.
Sascha Goluboff homepage mail 31A Newcomb, 458-8807	Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology (Ph.D., Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) Judaism in Russia; diaspora and globalization; religion, ethnicity, and nationalism; performance and ritual studies; gender studies.
Scott Johnson homepage mail 1B Washington, 458-8312	Assistant Professor of Classics (D.Phil., Keble College, Oxford) Late Antique Greek literature; ancient travel writing; hagiography; apocrypha, pseudepigrapha, and forgery; Syriac Christianity.
Harvey Markowitz mail 36A Newcomb, 458-8214	Assistant Professor of Anthropology (Ph.D., Chicago) American Indian religions; culture and religion of the Lakota Sioux; history of American religions; inter-religious dialogue; modern Christian mission; history of Christianity.
David Peterson mail 33 Newcomb, 458-8094	Associate Professor of History (Ph.D., Cornell) Medieval Church history, Renaissance, Reformation.
Holly Crawford Pickett homepage mail 2B Payne, 458-8078	Assistant Professor of English (Ph.D., UCLA) Religion and drama; religious identities and controversies in Reformation England; conversion; representations of religious difference; performance studies.
W. Lad Sessions mail 25 Newcomb, 458-8795	Ballengee Professor of Philosophy (Ph.D., Yale) Philosophy of religion, ethics, logic, Chinese philosophy, Kant, Hume, history of 20th-century philosophy.
Ken White homepage mail 35 Newcomb, 458-8793	Ames Professor of Sociology and Anthropology (Ph.D., Vanderbilt) Sociology of religion; sociological study of Mormonism; religion in America.