Faculty

Director / Director of Undergraduate Studies

Name	Contact	Specialties
Katharine Gerbner Department of History Director	1239 Heller Hall 612-624-3507 [email protected]	Religious dimensions of race, authority, and freedom in the early modern Atlantic world
Nathanael Homewood Associate Director Director of Undergraduate Studies Graduate Program Coordinator	248 Social Sciences Building 612-625-6393 [email protected]	Global Christianity, Religion and Sexuality, African Religions, Pentecostalism

Director of Graduate Studies

Name	Contact	Specialties
Anna Lise Seastrand Department of Art History	417 Heller Hall 612-625-6384 [email protected]	South Asian art

Core Faculty & Staff

Name	Contact	Specialties
Patricia Ahearne-Kroll Department of Classical & Near Eastern Religions and Cultures	262 Nicholson Hall 612-301-1300 [email protected]	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 [email protected]	New Testament, Hellenistic religions, Second Temple Judaism, gender, family
Ranjani Atur Department of Classical & Near Eastern Religions & Cultures	254 Nicholson Hall 612-625-3326 [email protected]	Ancient Greek Religion, Material Culture and Space, Comparative Religions, Ancient Polytheisms, Early Christianity
Sinem Arcak Casale Department of Art History	423 Heller Hall [email protected]	Islamic art and architecture, the history and visual culture of the Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals, art, diplomacy, religion, and trade in the early modern Muslim world,
Penny Edgell Department of Sociology	1039 Social Sciences Building 612-624-9828 [email protected]	Culture, gender, religion
Aisha Ghani Department of Anthropology	369 Hubert H. Humphrey Center [email protected]	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
Katharine Gerbner Department of History	1239 Heller Hall 612-624-3507 [email protected]	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 [email protected]	Early modern Chinese literature and religion, Buddhism, Neo-Confucianism
Daniel M Greenberg Department of Art History	421 Heller Hall 612-625-8336 [email protected]	East Asian Art
Peter Harle CLA Advising	338 Heller Hall 612-625-2379 [email protected]
Alexander Jabbari	220N Folwell Hall [email protected]	Literary history and philology of the Middle East and South Asia, Persian, Arabic, and Urdu textual traditions
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 [email protected]	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 [email protected]	Gender studies, metaphor theory, prophetic literature, and biblical narratives
Howard Louthan Department of History	1116 Heller Hall 612-624-7834 [email protected]	Early modern Europe; Central Europe; cultural, intellectual, and religious history
Nabil Matar Department of English	330C Lind Hall 612-626-8320 [email protected]	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 [email protected]	Center for Jewish Studies
Morgan Rouzer Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies	230D Folwell Hall 612-624-1486 [email protected]	Buddhism and its relation to pre-modern and modern literature
Nida Sajid Department of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies	260 Nicholson Hall 612-625-2015 [email protected]	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 [email protected]	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 [email protected]	History of Western philosophy, science, and religion
Ajay Skaria Department of History	924 Heller Hall 612-624-7565 [email protected]	South Asia, environmental history
Theofanis Stavrou Department of History	1224 Heller Hall 612-624-5734 [email protected]	Religious history of Russia in the twentieth century
Andrea Sterk Department of History	1237 Heller Hall 612-626-4265 [email protected]	Ancient and medieval Christianity, late antiquity, Byzantium history
Rachel Trocchio Department of English	310A Pillsbury Hall 612-625-0134 [email protected]	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 [email protected]	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 [email protected]	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 [email protected]	Migration, transnationalism, Islam, race, class, gender, globalization
Dean Billmeyer School of Music	100 Ferguson Hall 612-624-3307 [email protected]	Organ, analysis and techniques of sacred music
David Chang Department of History	1143 Heller Hall 612-624-9045 [email protected]	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 [email protected]	Greek and Roman Religion
Kirsten Fischer Department of History	1049 Heller Hall 612-626-4456 [email protected]	American religious history
Michael Gaudio Department of Art History	364 Heller Hall 612-624-0847 [email protected]	Visual culture of early modern Europe, Protestant Reformation
Michelle Hamilton Department of Spanish & Portuguese	209 Folwell Hall 612-625-6661 [email protected]	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 [email protected]	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 [email protected]	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 [email protected]	History of early modern philosophy, philosophy of race, religion and blackness
Alan Love Department of Philosophy	735 Heller Hall 612-625-4510 [email protected]	Philosophy of biology, philosophy of science, science and religion
Peter Mercer-Taylor School of Music	100 Ferguson Hall 612-624-0385 [email protected]	Music history 1750–1900, American hymnology
Susan Noakes Department of French & Italian	305D Folwell Hall 612-624-0076 [email protected]	Women's studies, the Global Middle Ages
Matt Rahaim School of Music	170 Ferguson Hall 612-624-2393 [email protected]	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 [email protected]	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 [email protected]	Jewish studies, Middle East, north Africa
Hoon Song Department of Anthropology	395 Hubert H. Humphrey Center 612-624-8980 [email protected]	Theories of religion, witchcraft, divination, sorcery, shamanism
Shaden Tageldin Department of Cultural Studies & Comparative Literature	218 Nicholson Hall 612-625-8445 [email protected]	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 [email protected]	Reformation cultural history, apocalypticism in modern American culture

Faculty Emeriti

Name	Contact	Specialties
William Beeman Department of Anthropology	395 Hubert H. Humphrey Center [email protected]	Islam, Middle Eastern religion and anthropology
Jeffrey Broadbent Department of Sociology	1026 Social Sciences Building 612-624-1828 [email protected]	Religious cultural influence and social action in east Asian society
Jeanne Kilde Religious Studies Program	146C Nicholson Hall 612-625-6393 [email protected]	Theory and method in religious studies, religion in America, religious space and architecture
Patricia Lorcin Department of History	1020 Heller Hall 612-626-4269 [email protected]	Modern France and French imperialism, Race and Racial ideology in France and its colonies, Western Imperialism, Colonialism, Post-colonial Studies
Riv-Ellen Prell Department of American Studies	[email protected]	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 [email protected]	Greek and Roman religion, New Testament studies, early Christianity