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2009–2010 Faculty Directory

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Name Department or School Phone Area of Interest
Abé, Ryûichi EALC 495-4305 Buddhism and Japanese history, literature and culture
Ahmed, Leila HDS 496-5316 Islam in America and issues of women and gender
Ahmed, Shahab Religion/NELC 495-4585 Islamic intellectual history
Asani, Ali S. Religion/NELC 495-5755 Muslim literatures of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh; Shiism, Sufism and popular or folk forms of Muslim devotional life; Muslim communities in the West
Bazzana, Giovanni HDS tba coming soon
Beliso-De Jesus, Aisha M. HDS tba coming soon
Bovon, François HDS 495-5673 New Testament and early Christian literature
Braude, Ann HDS 495-5705 Religious history of American women
Carrasco, Davíd HDS 496-8508 Hermeneutics in the study of religion, Mesoamerican religions, and the Mexican-American borderlands
Cesari, Jocelyne HDS 495-4486 Islam in the West, Islam and international relations
Clooney, Francis X. HDS 496-2779 Theological commentarial writings in the Sanskrit and Tamil traditions of Hindu India; comparative theology
Cohen, Shaye NELC 496-6422 Jews and Gentiles; the boundary between Judaism and its surrounding cultures
Cox, Harvey HDS 495-5752 Religion, culture, and politics
Duffy, John Classics 496-9086 Byzantine literature, theology, philosophy, medicine, and religious tales.
Dyck, Arthur J. HDS 495-5742 Ethical theory, with special application to questions of moral knowledge, human rights, and bioethics
Eck, Diana Religion/HDS 495-5781 Religious pluralism in multi-religious societies; religions of India and America
Fiorenza, Francis HDS 495-4518 Fundamental/foundational theology; political theology; history of nineteenth- and twentieth-century theology
Frederick, Marla F. Religion/AAAS 496-8551 African American religious experience, the political economy of the U.S. South, democracy and racial formation
Girón Negrón, Luis M. Romance Languages and Literatures/Comparative Literature 495-2567 Literatures of the Iberian peninsula in the Middle Ages and early modern period; religion and literature in premodern European cultures
Gomes, Peter J. HDS 495-5508 Homiletics; history of Harvard
Graham, William A. HDS 495-4513 Early Islamic religious history and textual traditions and problems in the history of world religion
Griffith, Marie R. HDS tba coming soon
Gyatso, Janet HDS 495-4518 Buddhist studies; Tibetan and South Asian religious culture
Hackett, Jo Ann NELC 496-8558 Biblical Hebrew and Northwest Semitic epigraphy
Hall, David D. HDS 495-7732 Religion and society in seventeenth-century New England and England
Hallisey, Charles HDS Theravāda Buddhism, Pāli language and literature, Buddhist ethics, Buddhist literary culture
Hamburger, Jeffrey F. HAA 495-8732 Medieval art and theology
Hardacre, Helen EALC 496-5844 Modern Japanese religious history
Harris, Jay M. NELC 495-2486 Jewish studies
Henrichs, Albert Classics Greek literature, mythology, and religion; Paganism and Christianity; Manichaeism
Higginbotham, Evelyn Brooks AAAS 495-7828 African American women in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
Hollywood, Amy HDS 495-8815 History of Christian thought; mysticism; feminist theory, psychoanalysis, and continental philosophy
Jackson, Michael D. HDS Ethnography, anthropology of events, ritualization
Johansen, Baber HDS Islam and law
Jones, Tamsin Religion 496-1018 Christian theology and modern western religious philosophy
Jordan, Mark HDS 495-8815 Varieties of theological rhetoric and religious identities, Christian teachings on sex, and the work of Thomas Aquinas
Kienzle, Beverly HDS 496-2897 Latin and Romance languages; Christian Latin and medieval Christianity
King, Karen HDS 496-3398 History of Christianity and women’s studies
Kleinman, Arthur Anthropology/Medicine 496-3846 Medical anthropology
Kloppenberg, James History 496-0197 American and European intellectual and political history
Koester, Helmut HDS 495-5926 New Testament interpretation, history of early Christianity, archaeology of the early Christian period
Lahiri, Smita Anthropology 496-9647 Colonialism, Christianity, historical memory, and nation-building in the Philippines; politics of language in post-liberalization India
Lamberth, David HDS 495-9578 Theology and the philosophy of religion, modern liberal thought
Levenson, Jon D. HDS 495-5955 Reinterpretations of texts in the Hebrew Bible itself and in the "rewritten Bible" of Second Temple Judaism; Rabbinic midrash; Judaism and Christianity, both in the times of the early church and in modernity
Machinist, Peter B. NELC 495-0333 Ideology of imperialism and other forms of group identification; ancient historiography; mythology; prophecy; Assyrian history; and the history of modern biblical and other Near Eastern scholarship
Madigan, Kevin HDS 496-2779 High-medieval scholastic biblical exegesis and theology
McKanan, Dan HDS 496-8815 Religious movements for social transformation in the U.S. from the ablolitionists through the present.
Mendelsohn, Everett History of Science 495-3492 History of the life sciences; science and society
Mitten, David G. Classics 495-3355 Greek and Roman archaeology and art history
Monius, Anne E. HDS 495-5736 History of religions in South Asia; aesthetics, ethics, and literature
Mottahedeh, Roy History 495-8433 Pre-modern social and intellectual history of the Islamic Middle East
Nasrallah, Laura HDS 495-1724 Colonialism, gender, status, and politics in the production and ancient history of interpretation of the New Testament and early Christian writings
Olupona, Jacob HDS/AAAS 495-4486 Indigenous African religions
Patil, Parimal G. Religion/Sanskrit 384-8938 South Asian intellectual practices and their relevance to broader issues in The Study of Religion, Philosophy, and Area Studies
Patton, Kimberley HDS 496-3395 Ancient Greek religion and archaeology; archaic sanctuaries; iconography of sacrifice; history of world religions; cross-cultural religious phenomenology
Puett, Michael EALC 495-8360 Intellectual, cultural, and political history of early China
Schofer, Jonathan HDS 384-8096 Descriptive, comparative, and constructive studies of ethics
Schüssler Fiorenza, Elisabeth HDS 495-5751 Biblical interpretation and feminist theology
Skjaervø, P. Oktor NELC 496-5756 Iranian languages, religions, and history
Stang, Charles HDS 495-8846 The history and theology of Christianity in late antiquity, especially Eastern varieties of Christianity
Swearer, Donald HDS 495-2889 Buddhism in Southeast Asia
Teeter, D. Andrew HDS 384-809 Jewish biblical interpretation as it intersects with the textual development of the Hebrew Scriptures
Thiemann, Ronald F. HDS 495-4513 Religion and public life
Tu, Wei-ming EALC 495-3369 Chinese intellectual history; Asian and comparative philosphy; East Asian religious thought; Confucian studies
van der Kuijp, Leonard EALC/Sanskrit 496-6871 Indo-Tibetan Buddhism; Tibetan Intellectual and Political History
Williams, Preston HDS 495-5766 Christian ethics, social and economic justice, human rights, and African American experience