Faculty

Director / Director of Undergraduate Studies

Name	Contact	Specialties
Jeanne Kilde Director Director of Undergraduate Studies	146C Nicholson Hall 612-625-6393 jkilde@umn.edu	Theory and method in religious studies, religion in America, religious space and architecture

Director of Graduate Studies

Name	Contact	Specialties
TBA

Core Faculty & Staff

Name	Contact	Specialties
Patricia Ahearne-Kroll Department of Classical & Near Eastern Religions and Cultures	262 Nicholson Hall 612-301-1300 pahearne@umn.edu	Second temple Judaism, Religion in Ptolemaic Egypt, Jewish apocrypha and pseude
Stephen Ahearne-Kroll Department of Classical & Near Eastern Religions and Cultures	146E Nicholson Hall 612-301-1480 sahearne@umn.edu	New Testament, Hellenistic religions, Second Temple Judaism, gender, family
Ranjani Atur Department of Classical & Near Eastern Religions & Cultures	254 Nicholson Hall 612-625-3326 ratur@umn.edu	Ancient Greek Religion, Material Culture and Space, Comparative Religions, Ancient Polytheisms, Early Christianity
Bernard Bachrach Department of History	114 Heller Hall 612-624-3301 bachr001@umn.edu	Medieval Jewish-Christian relations, history of the Crusades
Giancarlo Casale Department of History	1237 Heller Hall 612-626-4265 casale@umn.edu	Ottoman Empire, intellectual life in the Ottoman Empire and Renaissance Italy during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries
Sinem Casale Department of Art History	346 Heller Hall 612-626-6342 sinem@umn.edu	Islamic art and architecture with an emphasis on the history and visual culture of the Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals.
Penny Edgell Department of Sociology	1039 Social Sciences Building 612-624-9828 edgell@umn.edu	Culture, gender, religion
Aisha Ghani Department of Anthropology	369 Hubert H. Humphrey Center aghani@umn.edu	Anthropology of religion and secularism, political and legal anthropology, violence, liberalism sovereignty, U.S. constitutional and environmental law, Islamic law, psychoanalysis, courtroom ethnography, social theory; Islam and Muslim communities in the United States
Katherine Gerbner Department of History	1110 Heller Hall 612-624-3507 kgerbner@umn.edu	Religious dimensions of race, authority, and freedom in the early modern Atlantic world
Alia Goehr Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies	220 Folwell Hall agoehr@umn.edu	Early modern Chinese literature and religion, Buddhism, Neo-Confucianism
Peter Harle CLA Advising	338 Heller Hall 612-625-2379 harle005@umn.edu
Bernard Levinson Berman Family Chair of Jewish Studies and Hebrew Bible Department of Classical & Near Eastern Religions and Cultures	258 Nicholson Hall 612-625-4323 levinson@umn.edu	Hebrew Bible, Jewish studies, history of interpretation, literary approaches to biblical studies, divine revelation
Hanne Loeland-Levinson Department of Classical & Near Eastern Religions and Cultures	150E Nicholson Hall 612-624-8341 loela001@umn.edu	Gender studies, metaphor theory, prophetic literature, and biblical narratives
Howard Louthan Department of History	1116 Heller Hall 612-624-7834 hlouthan@umn.edu	Early modern Europe; Central Europe; cultural, intellectual, and religious history
Nabil Matar Department of English	330C Lind Hall 612-626-8320 matar010@umn.edu	Early modern Euro-Islamic contacts, 17th century British religious literature
Natan Paradise Associate Director of the Center for Jewish Studies	150B Nicholson Hall 612-625-2020 parad004@umn.edu	Center for Jewish Studies
Morgan Rouzer Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies	230D Folwell Hall 612-624-1486 prouzer@umn.edu	Buddhism and its relation to pre-modern and modern literature
Nida Sajid Department of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies	260 Nicholson Hall 612-625-2015 nsajid@umn.edu	South Asian Literature and Culture, Modern Muslim World and Islam in South Asia, Empire and Postcolonial Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Anna Seastrand Department of Art History	338 Heller Hall 612-625-6384 annalise@umn.edu	South Asian art and religious practice; sacred space; Hinduism and the South Indian temple
J.B. Shank Department of History	922 Heller Hall 612-624-7323 jbshank@umn.edu	History of Western philosophy, science, and religion
Ajay Skaria Department of History	924 Heller Hall 612-624-7565 skari002@umn.edu	South Asia, environmental history
Theofanis Stavrou Department of History	1224 Heller Hall 612-624-5734 stavr001@umn.edu	Religious history of Russia in the twentieth century
Andrea Sterk Department of History	1237 Heller Hall 612-626-4265 sterk@umn.edu	Ancient and medieval Christianity, late antiquity, Byzantium history
Rachel Trocchio Department of English	310A Pillsbury Hall 612-625-0134 trocc004@umn.edu	17th- through 19th-century American literature, Puritanism and Puritan literary studies, Early Modern Studies, Intellectual History, Religion and Cognition
Ann Waltner Department of History	912 Heller Hall 612-624-3810 waltn001@umn.edu	Law, world history, gender, traditional Chinese social history

Affiliated Faculty & Staff

Name	Contact	Specialties
Hakim Abderrezak Department of French & Italian	303C Folwell Hall 612-624-1074 abder002@umn.edu	French and Francophone language, literature, and culture; French immigration policies, Maghrebi cinema, north African and Caribbean literature
Cawo Abdi Department of Sociology	1146 Social Sciences Building 612-624-3714 cabdi@umn.edu	Migration, transnationalism, Islam, race, class, gender, globalization
Dean Billmeyer School of Music	100 Ferguson Hall 612-624-3307 dwb@umn.edu	Organ, analysis and techniques of sacred music
Jeffrey Broadbent Department of Sociology	1026 Social Sciences Building 612-624-1828 broad001@umn.edu	Religious cultural influence and social action in east Asian society
David Chang Department of History	1143 Heller Hall 612-624-9045 dchang@umn.edu	Race and ethnicity in Hawai'i and the United States, religion in the politics of agrarian socialism
Spencer Cole Department of Classical & Near Eastern Religions and Cultures	146F Nicholson Hall 612-625-5540 secole@umn.edu	Greek and Roman Religion
Kirsten Fischer Department of History	1049 Heller Hall 612-626-4456 kfischer@umn.edu	American religious history
Michael Gaudio Department of Art History	364 Heller Hall 612-624-0847 gaudio@umn.edu	Visual culture of early modern Europe, Protestant Reformation
Michelle Hamilton Department of Spanish & Portuguese	209 Folwell Hall 612-625-6661 hamilton@umn.edu	Jews, Muslims, and Christians in medieval Iberia; Maimonides; Ibn Rushd; Christian mystics; Moriscos; mysticism
Katherine Hayes Department of Anthropology	386 Hubert H. Humphrey Center 612-626-7482 kathayes@umn.edu	Historical archaeology and material culture, early colonial entanglements of European settlers, Native Americans and enslaved Africans in North America.
Zornitsa Keremidchieva Department of Communication Studies	225 Ford Hall zkeremid@umn.edu	Rhetorical studies, intercultural and interfaith institution building around the Eastern Orthodox world
Dwight K. Lewis, Jr. Department of Philosophy	817 Heller Hall 612-625-6563 lewi1715@umn.edu	History of early modern philosophy, philosophy of race, religion and blackness
Patricia Lorcin Department of History	1020 Heller Hall 612-626-4269 plorcin@umn.edu	Modern France and French imperialism, Race and Racial ideology in France and its colonies, Western Imperialism, Colonialism, Post-colonial Studies
Alan Love Department of Philosophy	735 Heller Hall 612-625-4510 aclove@umn.edu	Philosophy of biology, philosophy of science, science and religion
Peter Mercer-Taylor School of Music	100 Ferguson Hall 612-624-0385 merce011@umn.edu	Music history 1750–1900, American hymnology
Susan Noakes Department of French & Italian	305D Folwell Hall 612-624-0076 noake001@umn.edu	Women's studies, the Global Middle Ages
Steven Ostrow Department of Art History	338A Heller Hall 612-624-4500 ostro133@umn.edu	Early modern Italian visual culture, post-Tridentine period and seventeenth-century sculpture and art theory
Thomas Pepper Department of Cultural Studies & Comparative Literature	220 Nicholson Hall 612-624-8099 tapepper@umn.edu	Philosophy of religion of modernity (Kierkegaard), theory of the text and interpretation
Matt Rahaim School of Music	170 Ferguson Hall 612-624-2393 mrahaim@umn.edu	South Asia, vocal and bodily practices, ethical self-cultivation, phenomenology, performance, ethnography, sonic ecology
Andrew Scheil Department of English	310E Lind Hall 612-625-9518 ascheil@umn.edu	Late antique and early medieval theology, exegesis, and literature; anti-Semitism; religion and literature (especially poetry)
Daniel Schroeter Department of History	1018 Heller Hall 612-624-2800 schro800@umn.edu	Jewish studies, Middle East, north Africa
Hoon Song Department of Anthropology	395 Hubert H. Humphrey Center 612-624-8980 songx080@umn.edu	Theories of religion, witchcraft, divination, sorcery, shamanism
Shaden Tageldin Department of Cultural Studies & Comparative Literature	218 Nicholson Hall 612-625-8445 tageldin@umn.edu	19th- and 20th-century literatures in English, Arabic, French, empire and postcolonial studies, critical translation theory, political of language, literary form, genre, histories and ideologies of comparative literature, aesthetics and biologics of race, nation, culture, literatures of migration and diaspora
John Watkins Department of English	312 Lind Hall 612-624-8879 watki005@umn.edu	Reformation cultural history, apocalypticism in modern American culture

Faculty Emeriti

Name	Contact	Specialties
Catherine Asher Department of Art History	370 Heller Hall 612-626-8339 asher001@umn.edu	Cultural production of south Asia and the Islamic world
William Beeman Department of Anthropology	395 Hubert H. Humphrey Center wbeeman@umn.edu	Islam, Middle Eastern religion and anthropology
Jasper Hopkins Department of Philosophy	hopkins@umn.edu	History of medieval and of Renaissance philosophy, philosophy of religion
Riv-Ellen Prell Department of American Studies	prell001@umn.edu	Anthropology of America, cultural studies of American Jews and Judaism
Melissa Harl Sellew Department of Classical & Near Eastern Studies	260 Nicholson Hall 612-625-2026 sellew@umn.edu	Greek and Roman religion, New Testament studies, early Christianity