Department Faculty

Professor
Major Interests: Jewish-Christian relations in Late Antiquity; critical theories of religion; Syriac language and literature; reception of classical antiquity; religion in the modern Middle East.

Annette Yoshiko Reed

Professor
Major Interests: Second Temple Judaism, New Testament and early Christianity, Jews and Christians in late Antiquity, and Biblical interpretation and parabiblical literature.

Hent de Vries

Professor
Major Interests: Philosophy of religion, modern European thought, history and critique of metaphysics, religion and violence, religion and media, and literature and temporality.

Assistant Professor
Major Interests: Christianity; secularism critical approaches to the study of religion; visual anthropology; public space; France; Europe; contemporary art; museums; capitalism; xenophobia and privilege.

William McGrath

Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Assistant Professor of Buddhist Studies
Major Interests: Buddhism in East and Central Asia, Tibetan and Chinese medical traditions, Tibetan language and history, and the intersections of religion and medicine.

Nick Tackes

Adjunct Instructor
Major Interests: Healing and religion in South Asia , ethnography, apocalyptic movements in South Asia, ritual

Omid Mehrgan

Adjunct Instructor
Major Interests: Modern German thought, comparative literature, aesthetics, critical theory, philosophy of religion

Michael Bayas

Adjunct Instructor
Major Interests: Early American religious history, secularization narratives, print culture, racial and religious dimensions of publics, markets and technologies.