Faculty, Staff, & Researchers

Kecia Ali

ka@bu.edu

Kecia Ali (Ph.D., Religion, Duke University) teaches a range of classes on Islam

Anthony Petro

apetro@bu.edu

Anthony Petro is an associate professor in the Department of Religion and in the Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Program

Shamiran Mako

smako@bu.edu

Shamiran Mako is an assistant professor of international relations at the Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University

Nicolette Manglos-Weber

nmw1@bu.edu

Nicolette Manglos-Weber is an interdisciplinary sociologist who studies religious community life, focusing on how religion shapes politics and collective wellbeing

James McCarty 

mccartyj@bu.edu

James W. McCarty is an interdisciplinary scholar whose research sits at the intersections of Peace Studies and Christian Ethics

Jeremy Menchik (He/Him)

menchik@bu.edu

Jeremy Menchik is Director of the Institute on Culture, Religion and World Affairs (CURA) and Associate Professor of International Relations and Political Science.

Zachary Mondesire

zmonde@bu.edu

Zachary Mondesire is an assistant professor of International Relations at the Pardee School of Global Studies

Ayşe Parla

parlaa@bu.edu

Ayse Parla is Associate Professor, Provost’s Faculty Fellow for Graduate Academic Programs and Policies

Teena Purohit

tpurohit@bu.edu

Teena Purohit joined the Department of Religion in Fall 2009. A scholar of South Asian religions with specialties in Muslim and Hindu devotional literature, religious identity formation, and modern Islam

Nancy Ammerman

nta@bu.edu

Nancy T. Ammerman is Professor Emerita of Sociology of Religion at Boston University

Dana Robert

drobdan@bu.edu

Dr. Robert is William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor, and Director of the Center for Global Christianity and Mission

Jon Roberts

roberts1@bu.edu

Jon H. Roberts is the Tomorrow Foundation Professor of American Intellectual History at Boston University

Jeffrey Rubin

jwr@bu.edu

Jeffrey W. Rubin is the author of Decentering the Regime: Ethnicity, Radicalism, and Democracy in Juchitán, Mexico (Duke 1997) and co-author of Sustaining Activism: A Brazilian Women’s Movement and a Father-Daughter Collaboration (Duke 2013)

Steven Sandage

ssandage@bu.edu

Steven J. Sandage is Professor of Psychology of Religion and Theology

Adam Seligman

seligman@bu.edu

Adam B. Seligman is Professor of Religion at Boston University

Nancy Smith-Hefner

smhefner@bu.edu

Nancy J. Smith-Hefner is a linguistic anthropologist and specialist of religion and gender in Southeast Asia

Robert Weller

rpweller@bu.edu

Robert P. Weller is a Professor at Boston University

Noora Lori

nlori@bu.edu

Noora Lori is an Associate Professor of International Relations at the Pardee School of Global Studies

Timothy Longman

longman@bu.edu

Professor Longman’s current research focuses on state -society relations in Africa, looking particularly at human rights, transitional justice, democratization, civil society, the politics of race and ethnicity, religion and politics, and women and politics

Margaret Litvin

mlitvin@bu.edu

Margaret Litvin is Associate Professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature

Lance Laird

llaird@bu.edu

Lance D. Laird is Assistant Professor of Family Medicine at Boston University

Betty Anderson

banderso@bu.edu

Betty Anderson is Professor of History at Boston University

Kimberly Arkin

karkin@bu.edu

Kimberly Arkin is a cultural anthropologist whose work explores the surprising ways that a powerful and meaningful fiction of French national community—whether ethno-racial, cultural, and/or moral—has been produced, contested, and reproduced in the years following the turn of the millennium

Linda Barnes

Linda Barnes is a medical anthropologist and a scholar in the study of world  religions. She is a Professor of Family Medicine at Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine (BU CAMED)

Taylor Boas

tboas@bu.edu

Taylor Boas is CURA Executive Committee and Professor of Political Science at College of Arts & Sciences

Alexander de la Paz

adelapaz@bu.edu

Alexander de la Paz is an Assistant Professor of International Security at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies

Aimee Genell

genell@bu.edu

Aimee Genell is an Assistant Professor of International History at the Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University

Margarita Guillory

mlsg@bu.edu

Margarita Simon Guillory teaches courses on American religious history, digital religion, and religion and popular culture

Phillip Haberkern

phaberke@bu.edu

Phillip Haberkern joined the BU history department in 2011. He is a historian of late medieval and early modern Europe, and his research focuses on radical religious change in the fifteenth and sixteenth century

Shahla Haeri

shaeri@bu.edu

Shahla Haeri is one of the pioneers of Iranian Anthropology, and has produced cutting-edge ethnographies of Iran, Pakistan and the Muslim world

Noor Hashem

nhashem@bu.edu

Dr. Noor Hashem is a lecturer with the CAS Writing Center at Boston University

Robert Hefner

rhefner@bu.edu

Robert W. Hefner is professor of anthropology and global affairs at the Pardee School of Global Affairs at Boston University

Jennifer Hunter (She/Her)

jrh259@bu.edu

Jennifer Hunter is Assistant Director of the Institute on Culture, Religion and World Affairs (CURA)

Frank Korom

korom@bu.edu

Frank Korom is Professor Emeritus of Religion & Anthropology at Boston University

Gina Zurlo

gzurlo@bu.edu

Gina Zurlo is visiting scholar at CURA

Matteo Bortolini

matteo.bortolini@unipd.it

Matteo Bortolini is associate professor of sociology at the Department of Historical and Geographical Sciences and the Ancient World at the University of Padova (Italy)

Michael Jindra

jindraprof@gmail.com

Michael Jindra is a cultural anthropologist who focuses broadly on how culture influences social activity and outcomes

Saleena Saleem

sbsaleem@bu.edu

Saleena Saleem is a PhD candidate in Sociology at the University of Liverpool (UK)