Full-time Faculty

Ann S. Birkelbach

Islamic Art & Architecture, Sacred Art of World Religions, Sacred Arts of Islam, Traditional Crafts and Cultures.

Maria M Dakake

Director of Graduate Programs

Associate Professor

Islamic Thought; Qur'anic Studies; Shi'ite and Sufi Traditions; Women and Gender

Jetsun Deleplanque

Postdoctoral R & T Fellow

Buddhism, Tibetan religion, Tibetan and Himalayan history, Bhutan, Tibetan Buddhist hagiography, Religion and politics in Asia

John Farina

Associate Professor

Religion and Society; Religion and Law; American Religious History

Alexandria Frisch

Assistant Professor

Judaic Studies, Second Temple Literature, Dead Sea Scrolls

Charles Lloyd Garrettson

Assistant Professor

Religion and Politics; Christianity; Plato; Taoism; Comparative Religion; Philosophy; Ethics; Philosophical Theology; History

Jaimie Gunderson

Director of Undergraduate Programs

Assistant Professor

Religions of the ancient Mediterranean, New Testament/Christian origins, Late Antiquity, moral philosophy, emotion, embodied cognition, affect theory.

Colleen Erin Reynolds

Assistant Professor

Young Chan Ro

Professor

History of Religion; Philosophy of Religion; Comparative Religion; Chinese Philosophies and Religious Traditions; Cross-Cultural Study of Religions

Aziz Sachedina

IIIT Chair in Islamic Studies

Religion and Politics; Islamic Law and Ethics; Sunni and Shiite Theologies; Biomedical Ethics; Human Rights; Democracy and Pluralism; Spirituality and Mysticism

Garry Sparks

Associate Professor

Study of Christianities; Religions of Latin America; Theories of Religion; Native American Religions

John Turner

Chair

Professor

American Religion; Mormonism; History of Colonial New England