Department of Religious Studies
Faculty
Religious Studies
Milica Bakić-Hayden
Visiting Lecturer
PhD, University of Chicago
Balkans and South Asia, Eastern Orthodoxy, Hinduism, comparative mysticism, sainthood
H. David Brumble
Professor of English and Religious Studies (secondary appointment)
PhD, University of Nebraska
Bible as literature, late medieval and renaissance literature
Clark Chilson
Assistant Professor
PhD, Lancaster University (UK)
Japan, modern and premodern Buddhism and popular religion, ethnography, secretive societies
Rebecca Denova
Visiting Lecturer
PhD, University of Pittsburgh
Early Christianity, religions of late antiquity
Tony Edwards
Associate Professor
PhD, Stanford University
Philosophy of religion, theory of religion, history of Christian thought
Haya S. Feig
Lecturer
MEd, University of Pittsburgh
MA, London University
Hebrew language
Paula M. Kane
John and Lucine O'Brien Marous Associate Professor of Contemporary Catholic Studies
PhD, Yale University
North America, popular religion, modern Roman Catholicism, religion and the arts
Alexander Orbach
Associate Professor
PhD, University of Wisconsin
Modern Judaism, religion and history, Diaspora
Linda Penkower
Associate Professor
PhD, Columbia University
Medieval Chinese and Japanese Buddhist history, modern East Asian popular religion
Adam Shear
Associate Professor
PhD, University of Pennsylvania
Medieval and early modern Judaism, history of the book
Visiting Faculty
Eli Reich (2008-2009, 2009-2010)
Visiting Instructor
ABD, University of Chicago
Classical Judaism
Emeritus
Fred W. Clothey
Professor Emeritus
PhD, University of Chicago
India and South Asia, ritual studies
Bernard R. Goldstein
University Professor Emeritus
PhD, Brown University
Medieval Judaism, religion and science