Steering Committee
| Name | Contact | Specialties |
|---|---|---|
| Stephen Ahearne-Kroll (On Leave Spring 2021) Department of Classical & Near Eastern Studies Sundet Chair in New Testament and Christian Studies |
245 Nicholson Hall 612-301-1480 sahearne@umn.edu |
New Testament, Hellenistic religions, Second Temple Judaism, gender, family |
| Penny Edgell Department of Sociology |
1039 Social Sciences Building 612-624-9828 edgell@umn.edu |
Culture, gender, religion |
| Mohsen Goudarzi Taghanaki Department of Classical and Near Eastern Studies |
266 Nicholson Hall 612-625-6519 goudarzi@umn.edu |
Early Islamic history, Qu'ranic studies |
| 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 |
| Jeanne Kilde Director Director of Undergraduate Studies |
150C Nicholson Hall 612-625-6393 jkilde@umn.edu |
Religion in America, religious space and architecture |
| Nabil Matar Department of English |
330C Lind Hall 612-626-8320 matar010@umn.edu |
English seventeenth-century religious literature, Mysticism, modern Arabic literature |
| Natan Paradise Center for Jewish Studies |
150B Nicholson Hall 612-625-2020 parad004@umn.edu |
Center for Jewish Studies |
| Paul Rouzer (On Leave Spring 2021) Department of Asian Languages & Literatures |
230D Folwell Hall 612-625-0122 prouzer@umn.edu |
Buddhism, traditions of the supernatural in east Asia, east Asian poetry and poetics |