Religious Studies

Specializes in Environmental Ethics; Method in Religious Ethics; Religion and Ecology; Christian Social Ethics; Theology and Environmental Sciences; Theology and Economy; Food Ethics; Climate Ethics

Specializes in New Testament and Early Christian Literature, Christian Apocrypha, Apocryphal Acts, Ancient Greek Popular Literature, Religions of Roman Empire

Specializes in Christian thought, esp. Augustine and the Augustinian tradition; religious ethics, esp. comparative religious ethics; religion and culture; religion and politics; evil and sin.

Specializes in early and Medieval Christianity; religious and cross-cultural interaction in Late Antiquity; biblical interpretation; theories of gender, sexuality and the body; ritual purity; monasticism and asceticism; book culture

Specializes in ​​the philosophical and artistic dimensions of postcolonial, colonial, and pre-colonial Islamic and indigenous religious traditions of West and North Africa, especially Sufism and Ifa

Specializes in the intertwining of religious criticism, political aesthetics, and Islamic practice, with a focus on contemporary Africa and the Middle East

Specializes in medieval Jewish and Islamic cultural and intellectual history, and the connections between Jewish and Muslim communities in the Mediterranean and Middle East

Specializes in The history of East African religious movements; Indigenous religions, Christianity, and Islam in Western Kenya; Gender and religion in Africa; African indigenous religious rituals; History of religions, theory and method

Specializes in Burmese (Myanmar) Buddhism, particularly Burmese traditions of meditation and, following from that, in the transformations of meditative practices (and the understandings of reality they convey explicitly and implicitly) as they spread around the world

Specializes in ​​the narrative and poetic literature of Buddhism in Tibet, India, and the Himalayan Buddhist Kingdom of Bhutan, and more broadly in the literary and religious cultures of Buddhism

Specializes in Nyingma and Bön lineages of Tibetan Buddhism, tantric traditions overall, Buddhist philosophy, and Tibetan historical literature and concerns, particularly from the eighth to fifteenth centuries

Specializes in literature, religions, and history of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament and the Second Temple period, intersections between religion, race, and democracy, and public humanities

Specializes in the classic texts of rabbinic Judaism (midrash, Mishnah and Talmud)

Specializes in medieval Arabo-Islamic intellectual history and modern Islamist ideologies.

Specializes in the Hebrew Bible, Second Temple Judaism, Biblical Hebrew, and Senses in the Ancient World.

Specializes in Muslim-Hindu interactions in South Asia, Sufism and Islamic philosophy, Qur'anic exegesis, Hindu philosophy and theology, and South Asian religious literatures, primarily in the context of the early modern period, but also including the medieval period

Specializes in modern Jewish thought and intellectual and cultural history and Jewish life in Central Europe, Italy, the Yishuv and modern Israel

Specializes in philosophy, religion, and ecology in South Asia

Specializes in the religions of China, the intellectual history of premodern China, Buddhism in Taiwan, and Buddhist picture books

Specializes in Indian religions and South Asian intellectual, religious, and cultural history, particularly the philosophy and religious and narrative literatures of the Kashmir Valley of the ninth to twelfth centuries

Specializes in the constructive contributions of Catholic and Latinx theologies to notions of justice and aesthetics to the life of democracy and issues of democracy, migration, family, gender, economics (labor and consumption), race and ethnicity, and ecology