Faculty
Director / Director of Undergraduate Studies
Name | Contact | Specialties |
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Katharine Gerbner Department of History Director |
1239 Heller Hall 612-624-3507 kgerbner@umn.edu |
Religious dimensions of race, authority, and freedom in the early modern Atlantic world |
Nathanael Homewood Associate Director Director of Undergraduate Studies |
248 Social Sciences Building 612-625-6393 homewood@umn.edu |
Global Christianity, Religion and Sexuality, African Religions, Pentecostalism |
Director of Graduate Studies
Name | Contact | Specialties |
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Anna Lise Seastrand Department of Art History |
417 Heller Hall 612-625-6384 seast003@umn.edu |
South Asian art |
Core Faculty & Staff
Name | Contact | Specialties |
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Patricia Ahearne-Kroll
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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 |
Daniel M Greenberg |
421 Heller Hall 612-625-8336 gree2948@umn.edu |
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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 |
Katharine Gerbner Department of History |
1239 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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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 |
Department of Classical & Near Eastern Religions and Cultures
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146F Nicholson Hall
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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 |
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 |
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 |
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William Beeman Department of Anthropology |
395 Hubert H. Humphrey Center wbeeman@umn.edu |
Islam, Middle Eastern religion and anthropology |
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 |
Jeanne Kilde Religious Studies Program |
146C Nicholson Hall 612-625-6393 jkilde@umn.edu |
Theory and method in religious studies, religion in America, religious space and architecture |
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 |
Department of American Studies
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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 |