Department of Religious Studies
Faculty
Affiliated Faculty
Joseph S. Alter
Professor of Cultural Anthropology
PhD, University of California at Berkeley
India and South Asia, medical anthropology
Mohammed A. Bamyeh
Associate Professor of Sociology
PhD, University of Wisconsin at Madison
Islam, globalization, social movements
Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski
Professor of French
PhD, Princeton University
French medieval literature and culture, church history, female spirituality
Katherine N. Carlitz
Adjunct Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures
PhD, University of Chicago
China, religion, law and gender, Ming literary tradition
Nancy Condee
Professor of Slavic Language and Literatures
PhD, Yale University
Contemporary Russian culture and cultural politics; Soviet cultural politics; late Soviet and post-Soviet cinema; imperial and postcolonial theory; popular culture
Nicole Constable
UCIS Research Professor of Cultural Anthropology
PhD, University of California at Berkeley
China, modernity, ethnicity, nationalism and gender, Hakka Chinese Christian identity
M. Pinar Emiralioglu
Visiting Assistant Professor of History
PhD, University of Chicago
Islam, cultural and intellectual history of the Ottoman Empire
Edwin D. Floyd
Professor of Classics
PhD, Princeton University
Sanskrit, Greek poetry, Greek and Indo-European linguistics
Allan Neil Galpern
Associate Professor of History
PhD, University of California at Berkeley
Early modern Europe
Karen Gerhart
Associate Professor of History of Art and Architecture
PhD, University of Kansas
Japan, premodern art and ritual
Nathan S. Hilberg
Director of Academic Affairs, Honors College
PhD, University of Pittsburgh
Philosophy of religion
Nicholas F. Jones
Professor of Classics
PhD, University of California at Berkeley
Classical Athens
Katheryn M. Linduff
UCIS Research Professor of History of Art and Architecture and Archaeological Anthropology
PhD, University of Pittsburgh
Ancient Chinese and Eurasian art and archaeology
Irina Livezeanu
Associate Professor of History
PhD, University of Michigan
Modern intellectual and cultural European history
Lara Putnam
Associate Professor of History
PhD, University of Michigan
Latin America, race, ethnicity and gender
Evelyn S. Rawski
University Professor of History
PhD, Harvard University
Late imperial China
Marcus Rediker
Professor of History
PhD, University of Pennsylvania
Early American history, Atlantic history
Jonathan Scott
Amundson Professor of British History
PhD, Cambridge University
Early modern British and Europe history
Richard Smethurst
UCIS Research Professor of History
PhD, University of Michigan
Modern Japan
M. Alison Stones
Professor of History of Art and Architecture
PhD, Courtauld Institute (London)
Medieval European art history, illuminated manuscripts
Andrew J. Strathern
Mellon Professor of Cultural Anthropology
PhD, Cambridge University
Pacific islands, ethnography
Cecile Chu-Chun Sun
Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures
PhD, University of Indiana at Bloomington
Classical Chinese literature and poetry
George H. Taylor
Associate Professor of Law
JD, Harvard University
Legal hermeneutics
Bruce L. Venarde
Associate Professor of History
PhD, Harvard University
Medieval Europe, race, ethnicity and gender