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FACULTY LIST
JAMES K. WELLMAN, JR. - Program Chair - on leave Autumn 2009
Associate Professor, Jackson School of International Studies; Religion in America, Religion and culture, Theory of religion.
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PHILIP BALLINGER
PhD Louvain (1998)
Faculty Affiliate, Language and Religious Experience, Early Christianity, Christianity and Mysticism.
GAD BARZILAI
PhD Hebrew University (1987)
Professor, Political Science, Law, State and Society, Human Rights, Israel Politics.
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CYNTHEA BOGEL
PhD Harvard (1995)
Associate Professor, Art History; Buddhist Visual Culture, Japanese art and architectural history.
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JONATHAN BROWN
PhD University of Chicago (2006)
Assistant Professor, Near East Languages and Civilization; Islamic Studies.
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DANIEL CHIROT
PhD Columbia University (1973)
Professor, Jackson School of International Studies, Sociology
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COLLETT D. COX
PhD Columbia (1983)
Professor, Asian Languages and Literature; Buddhism, study of religion.
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SARA CURRAN
PhD University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill (1994)
Director, International Studies & Associate Director, CSDE, Jackson School
Associate Professor, Evans School
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TER ELLINGSON
PhD Wisconsin (1979)
Professor, Music. Adjunct, Anthropology and South Asian Studies; Tibet, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Buddhist Cultures, Shamanism, ritual; Ghana, African traditional religions, religious change and conflict.
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ANTHONY GILL
PhD UCLA (1994)
Professor, Political Science; Latin America, Protestantism, religious liberty, economic models of religion.
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ELLIS GOLDBERG
PhD California-Berkeley (1983)
Professor, Political Science; Islam, religion and politics in the Middle East.
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JAMES W. GREEN
PhD Washington (1972)
Senior Lecturer, Anthropology; phenomenology of religious experience, death, Islam, Pakistan, West Indies.
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STEVAN C. HARRELL
PhD Stanford (1974)
Professor, Anthropology; anthropology of religion, Chinese folk religion.
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MARTIN S. JAFFEE
PhD Brown (1980)
Professor, International Studies and adjunct, Near Eastern Languages and Civilization; Rabbinic Judaism, oral-traditional studies, comparative theory.
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CHARLES F. KEYES
PhD Cornell (1967)
Emeritus, Professor, Anthropology; anthropology of religion, Buddhism.
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CLARK B. LOMBARDI
Ph.D Columbia (Religion: 2001), J.D. Columbia (Law: 1998)
Assistant Professor, School of Law; Law and Religion, Islamic Law, Church and State.
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SCOTT NOEGEL
PhD Cornell (1995)
Professor, Chair, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization; Adjunct History, Adjunct Comparative Literature. Hebrew Bible, ancient Near Eastern religions.
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CHRISTIAN LEE NOVETZKE
PhD Columbia (2002)
Indian history, religion, media, film, and culture from the 16th century to the contemporary period.
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MARY R. O'NEIL
PhD Stanford (1982)
Associate Professor, History; Renaissance and Reformation.
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ARZOO OSANLOO
PhD Stanford
Assistant Professor, Anthropology and Law, Societies and Justice Program
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STEVEN J. PFAFF
PhD New York University (1999)
Associate Professor, Sociology
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NOAM PIANKO
PhD Yale (2004)
Assistant Professor, Jewish Studies. American Jewish History, History of Jewish Nationalism, Modern Jewish thought.
HEIDI PAUWELS
PhD Washington (1994)
Professor, Asian Languages and Literature; Hindi language and literature, Sanskrit religious literature, Hinduism, esp. medieval devotional literature; hagiographies; goddesses and their representation in classical, medieval and contemporary texts, including film and television.
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CABEIRI de BERGH ROBINSON - on leave 2009-10
PhD Cornell (2005)
Assistant Professor, South Asian Studies; Political Islam, Modern South Asia (esp. Kashmir, Pakistan, India), Comparative Muslim Societies, Anthropology of political violence, history and memory, human rights and humanitarian interventions.
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RICHARD G. SALOMON
PhD Pennsylvania (1975)
Professor, Asian Languages and Literature; "Early Indian Buddhism; Indian Buddhist textual studies; Gandharan studies.
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FLORIAN SCHWARZ
Dr.phil. University of Tübingen (Germany) (1998).
Assistant Professor, Department of History. History of the medieval and early modern Middle East and Central Asia, Islamic intellectual history.
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CLARKE K. SPEED
PhD University of Washington (1991)
Lecturer, University Honors Program and African Studies. West Africa, Caribbean, and Diaspora; African Cosmologies, African Christianity, Secrecy; the Witch; Mystical Crisis, Public Mystical Practices in Colonial Spaces.
ROBERT C. STACEY
PhD Yale (1983)
Professor, History; medieval Christianity and Judaism.
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ROBIN C. STACEY
PhD Yale (1986)
Professor, History; Medieval Christianity, Celtic.
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SARAH STROUP
PhD University of California-Berkeley (2000)
Associate Professor, Classics. Latin prose literature of the Republic and early empire; art Website
KYOKO TOKUNO
PhD California-Berkeley (1994)
Senior Lecturer, Jackson School of International Studies, Chinese and Japanese Buddhism.
EUGENE A. VANCE
PhD Cornell (1964)
Professor, English and Comparative Literature; medieval French literature, literary theory.
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JOEL THOMAS WALKER
PhD Princeton (1998)
Associate Professor, History, Religions of late antiquity; Syriac Christianity.
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EUGENE WEBB
PhD Columbia (1965)
Professor Emeritus, Comparative Literature and the Jackson School of International Studies. Philosophy, Christian thought.
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MICHAEL A. WILLIAMS - on sabbatical Autumn 2009, Autumn 2010
PhD Harvard (1977)
Professor, Jackson School of International Studies; Early Christianity, religion in late antiquity, Study of religion.
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GLENNYS J. YOUNG
PhD California-Berkeley (1989)
Associate Professor, Jackson School of International Studies; Imperial and Soviet Russia.
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Associate Members
JERE L. BACHARACH
PhD Michigan (1967)
Emeritus, Professor, History and International Studies; early Islamic, medieval, and modern Middle East, Ottoman Empire.
ROBERT C. COBURN
PhD Harvard (1958)
Emeritus Professor, Philosophy; religion and philosophy.
LINDA L. ILTIS
PhD Wisconsin-Madison (1985)
Lecturer, International Studies; Buddhism, Hinduism, Religion in Africa, South Asian and West African spirit possession and healing, women and religion, anthropology of religion, ritual studies, kingship, Nepali, Newari, Sanskrit textual studies and oral traditions, Nepal, India, Sri Lanka, Ghana. Ghana Program: Religion, Performance & Identity: Modes of Empowerment.
LORNA A. RHODES
PhD Cornell (1973)
Associate Professor, Anthropology; medical anthropology and religion, religion in South Asia.
RICHARD G. SALOMON
PhD Pennsylvania (1975)
Associate Professor, Asian Languages and Literature; religion in India.
ROBIN C. STACEY
PhD Yale (1986)
Associate Professor, History; medieval Christianity.
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