Department of Religion • Boston University • College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

Department of Religion Faculty

Kecia Ali Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies T : 617.353.4465 ka@bu.edu	Peter Berger Professor Emeritus Sociology of Religion T: 617.353.9050
Gina Cogan Assistant Professor of Asian Religions T: 617.358.3647 gcogan@bu.edu	M. David Eckel Director, The Institute for Philosophy and Religion; Associate Professor of Religion Philosophy of religion; Buddhism in India and Tibet T: 617.353.5404 mdeckel@bu.edu
Paula Fredriksen William Goodwin Aurelio Professor of the Appreciation of Scripture Social and intellectual history of early Christianity T: 617.353.4431 augfred@bu.edu	Donna Freitas Visiting Assistant Professor of Religion American religious culture, women's spirituality, sexuality and religion T: 617.358-3910 freitas@bu.edu
Garth W. Green Assistant Professor of Philosophy of Religion T: 617.358.3635 gwgreen@bu.edu	Ray Hart Dean of the School of Theology Professor of Religion Philosophy of religion; theology; religion and the arts T: 617.353.3050 rayhart@bu.edu
Peter Hawkins Director, The Luce Program in Scripture and Literary Arts; Professor of Religion Dante studies; the literary “afterlife” of Jewish and Christian scriptures T: 617.358.1755 psh@bu.edu	Steven Katz Director, The Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies; Professor of Religion Judaica, Holocaust Studies, philosophy of religion, and comparative mysticism T: 617.353.8096 judaics@bu.edu
Jonathan Klawans Director, Division of Religious and Theological Studies, Associate Professor of Religion Religion and Religious Literature of Judaism in Late Antiquity T: 617.353.4432 jklawans@bu.edu	Deeana Klepper Director of Undergraduate Studies Associate Professor of Religion Christianity; Medieval and early Modern European religious history T: 617.358.0186 dklepper@bu.edu
Jennifer W. Knust Assistant Professor of Religion New Testament, Christian Origins T: 617.358.4222 jknust@bu.edu	Frank Korom Associate Professor of Religion Religion and Anthropology T: 617.358.0185 korom@bu.edu
Christopher Lehrich Assistant Professor of Religion Theory of Religion; Early Modern Europe; Magic, Science, and Religion T: 617.358.3913 clehrich@bu.edu	Hillel Levine Professor of Sociology and Religion T: 617.353.4428 hlevine@bu.edu
Diana Lobel Associate Professor of Religion Classical and medieval Jewish studies; Comparative philosophy and religious thought T: 617.353.2863 dnlobel@bu.edu	Herbert Mason University Professor Professor of History and Religion History and literature of Islam T: 617.358.1777 masonh@bu.edu
Robert Neville Executive Director, Danielsen Professor of Philosophy, Religion, and Theology T: 617.353.3047 rneville@bu.edu	Alan M. Olson Professor of Religion Philosophy of Religion T: 617.353.3904 amo@bu.edu
Stephen Prothero Chair, Department of Religion; Professor of Religion, Religion and culture in the United States T: 617.353.4426 prothero@bu.edu	Adam Seligman Professor of Religion, Research Associate at the Institute for the Study of Economic Culture T: 617.353.7760 seligman@bu.edu
Merlin Swartz Professor of Religion, Religious and intellectual history of medieval Islam T: 617.353.4430 mswartz@bu.edu	Elie Wiesel University Professor Professor of Philosophy and Religion T: 617.353.4561 F: 617.353.4024
Michael Zank Associate Professor of Religion Philosophy of Religion; Modern Jewish Thought T: 617.353.4434 mzank@bu.edu

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