Angela Zito
Associate Professor; Chair, Department of Religious Studies; Director of Graduate Studies
Major Interests: Cultural history/historical anthropology; critical theories of religion; religions of China; filaility in China; religion and media; history and anthropology of embodiment; gender; performance and subjectivity; documentary film. |
Adam Becker
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.
Brett Krutzsch
Adjunct Instructor
Major Interests: Religion and queer history, religion and U.S. politics, religion and sexuality, American religious history, American Jewish history, religion and media.
Benjamin Fleming
Adjunct Instructor
Major Interests: Ritual, myth, iconography, and material culture in South Asia, with a particular emphasis on pilgrimage traditions and sacred geography.
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Elayne Oliphant
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.
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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.
Xavier Pickett
Faculty Fellow
Major Interests: African American religion, religious ethics, 19th & 20th century African American literature, emotions, pragmatism, political theory, moral psychology, new religious movements, sociology and social theory, 19th & 20th century African American history, African American philosophy.