Faculty
2007–2008 Faculty Directory
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| Name | Department or School | Phone | Area of Interest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Abé, Ryûichi | EALC | 495-4305 | Buddhism and Japanese history, literature and culture |
| Ahmed, Leila | HDS | 496-5316 | Islam in America and issues of women and gender |
| Ahmed, Shahab | Religion/NELC | 495-4585 | Islamic intellectual history |
| Asani, Ali S. | Religion/NELC | 495-5755 | Muslim literatures of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh; Shiism, Sufism and popular or folk forms of Muslim devotional life; Muslim communities in the West |
| Bovon, François | HDS | 495-5673 | New Testament and early Christian literature |
| Braude, Ann | HDS | 495-5705 | Religious history of American women |
| Carrasco, Davíd | HDS | 496-8508 | Hermeneutics in the study of religion, Mesoamerican religions, and the Mexican-American borderlands |
| Cesari, Jocelyne | HDS | 495-4486 | Islam in the West, Islam and international relations |
| Clooney, Francis X. | HDS | 496-2779 | Theological commentarial writings in the Sanskrit and Tamil traditions of Hindu India; comparative theology |
| Coakley, Sarah | HDS | 495-4518 | Systematic theology; philosophy of religion |
| Cohen, Shaye | NELC | 496-6422 | Jews and Gentiles; the boundary between Judaism and its surrounding cultures |
| Cox, Harvey | HDS | 495-5752 | Religion, culture, and politics |
| Denzey, Nicola | Religion | 384-8432 | Religions of Late Antiquity and the religious and social history of the Roman and Late Roman Empire |
| Duffy, John | Classics | 496-9086 | Byzantine literature, theology, philosophy, medicine, and religious tales. |
| Dyck, Arthur J. | HDS | 495-5742 | Ethical theory, with special application to questions of moral knowledge, human rights, and bioethics |
| Eck, Diana | Religion/HDS | 495-5781 | Religious pluralism in multi-religious societies; religions of India and America |
| Esack, Farid | HDS | 495-8815 (Assistant) | Islam and AIDS |
| Fiorenza, Francis | HDS | 495-4518 | Fundamental/foundational theology; political theology; history of nineteenth- and twentieth-century theology |
| Frederick, Marla F. | Religion/AAAS | 496-8551 | African American religious experience, the political economy of the U.S. South, democracy and racial formation |
| Girón Negrón, Luis M. | Romance Languages and Literatures/Comparative Literature | 495-2567 | Literatures of the Iberian peninsula in the Middle Ages and early modern period; religion and literature in premodern European cultures |
| Gomes, Peter J. | HDS | 495-5508 | Homiletics; history of Harvard |
| Graham, William A. | HDS | 495-4513 | Early Islamic religious history and textual traditions and problems in the history of world religion |
| Gyatso, Janet | HDS | 495-4518 | Buddhist studies; Tibetan and South Asian religious culture |
| Hackett, Jo Ann | NELC | 496-8558 | Biblical Hebrew and Northwest Semitic epigraphy |
| Hall, David D. | HDS | 495-7732 | Religion and society in seventeenth-century New England and England |
| Hallisey, Charles | HDS | Theravāda Buddhism, Pāli language and literature, Buddhist ethics, Buddhist literary culture | |
| Hamburger, Jeffrey F. | HAA | 495-8732 | Medieval art and theology |
| Hanson, Paul D. | HDS | 495-5765 | Hebrew prophecy, Jewish literature of the Second Temple Period, the religion of the ancient cultures of Mesopotamia and Egypt, and biblical theology |
| Hardacre, Helen | EALC | 496-5844 | Modern Japanese religious history |
| Harris, Jay M. | NELC | 495-2486 | Jewish studies |
| Henrichs, Albert | Classics | Greek literature, mythology, and religion; Paganism and Christianity; Manichaeism | |
| Higginbotham, Evelyn Brooks | AAAS | 495-7828 | African American women in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries |
| Hollywood, Amy | HDS | 495-8815 | History of Christian thought; mysticism; feminist theory, psychoanalysis, and continental philosophy |
| Jackson, Michael D. | HDS | Ethnography, anthropology of events, ritualization | |
| Johansen, Baber | HDS | Islam and law | |
| Jones, Christopher P. | Classics/History | 496-3823 495-1725 | Later Greek literature; Roman history and Latin literature of the imperial period |
| Kienzle, Beverly | HDS | 496-2897 | Latin and Romance languages; Christian Latin and medieval Christianity |
| King, Karen | HDS | 496-3398 | History of Christianity and women’s studies |
| Kleinman, Arthur | Anthropology/Medicine | 496-3846 | Medical anthropology |
| Kloppenberg, James | History | 496-0197 | American and European intellectual and political history |
| Koester, Helmut | HDS | 495-5926 | New Testament interpretation, history of early Christianity, archaeology of the early Christian period |
| Lahiri, Smita | Anthropology | 496-9647 | Colonialism, Christianity, historical memory, and nation-building in the Philippines; politics of language in post-liberalization India |
| Lamberth, David | HDS | 495-9578 | Theology and the philosophy of religion, modern liberal thought |
| Levenson, Jon D. | HDS | 495-5955 | Reinterpretations of texts in the Hebrew Bible itself and in the "rewritten Bible" of Second Temple Judaism; Rabbinic midrash; Judaism and Christianity, both in the times of the early church and in modernity |
| Little, David | HDS | 496-3138 | Moral philosophy, moral theology, history of ethics, and the sociology of religion, with an interest in comparative ethics, human rights, religious liberty, and ethics and international affairs |
| Machinist, Peter B. | NELC | 495-0333 | Ideology of imperialism and other forms of group identification; ancient historiography; mythology; prophecy; Assyrian history; and the history of modern biblical and other Near Eastern scholarship |
| Madigan, Kevin | HDS | 496-2779 | High-medieval scholastic biblical exegesis and theology |
| Mendelsohn, Everett | History of Science | 495-3492 | History of the life sciences; science and society |
| Mitten, David G. | Classics | 495-3355 | Greek and Roman archaeology and art history |
| Monius, Anne E. | HDS | 495-5736 | History of religions in South Asia; aesthetics, ethics, and literature |
| Mottahedeh, Roy | History | 495-8433 | Pre-modern social and intellectual history of the Islamic Middle East |
| Nasrallah, Laura | HDS | 495-1724 | Colonialism, gender, status, and politics in the production and ancient history of interpretation of the New Testament and early Christian writings |
| Olupona, Jacob | HDS/AAAS | 495-4486 | Indigenous African religions |
| Patil, Parimal G. | Religion/Sanskrit | 384-8938 | South Asian intellectual practices and their relevance to broader issues in The Study of Religion, Philosophy, and Area Studies |
| Patton, Kimberley | HDS | 496-3395 | Ancient Greek religion and archaeology; archaic sanctuaries; iconography of sacrifice; history of world religions; cross-cultural religious phenomenology |
| Provost-Smith, Patrick | HDS | 496-1213 | Intellectual history, theology, and religious ethics in early modern Christianity; contemporary critical theory and continental philosophy |
| Puett, Michael | EALC | 495-8360 | Intellectual, cultural, and political history of early China |
| Queen, Christopher | DCE | 495-3481 | Engaged Buddhism; Buddhism in the West |
| Schofer, Jonathan | HDS | 384-8096 | Descriptive, comparative, and constructive studies of ethics |
| Schüssler Fiorenza, Elisabeth | HDS | 495-5751 | Biblical interpretation and feminist theology | Skjaervø, P. Oktor | NELC | 496-5756 | Iranian languages, religions, and history |
| Swearer, Donald | HDS | 495-2889 | Buddhism in Southeast Asia |
| Thiemann, Ronald F. | HDS | 495-4513 | Religion and public life |
| Tu, Wei-ming | EALC | 495-3369 | Chinese intellectual history; Asian and comparative philosphy; East Asian religious thought; Confucian studies |
| van der Kuijp, Leonard | EALC/Sanskrit | 496-6871 | Indo-Tibetan Buddhism; Tibetan Intellectual and Political History |
| Williams, Preston | HDS | 495-5766 | Christian ethics, social and economic justice, human rights, and African American experience |