Department of Religion Faculty
The Department of Religion consists of a broad and diverse faculty of distinguished experts in various religions, eastern and western, ancient and modern. We also apply a broad array of disciplinary methods to the study of religion: Our faculty includes anthropologists, historians, literary scholars, and philosophers – all devoted to understanding the impact that religion has had and continues to have in human society.
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Kecia Ali
Professor of Religion, Islamic studies
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Andrea M. Berlin
James R. Wiseman Chair in Classical Archaeology, Professor of Archaeology and Religion
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Daigengna Duoer
Assistant Professor, Buddhism and East Asian Religions
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David Frankfurter
Professor of Religion; Aurelio Professor of the Appreciation of Scripture, ancient Mediterranean religions; Jewish and Christian literature
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Margarita Guillory
Associate Professor of Religion, American religious history; digital religion; religion and popular culture
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Laura Harrington
Senior Lecturer, Buddhism in America; Indo-Tibetan Buddhism; material culture
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James Howard Hill, Jr.
Assistant Professor
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April Hughes
Associate Professor of Religion, Religions of China
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Steven Katz
Professor of Religion; Alvin J. And Shirley Slater Chair in Jewish Holocaust Studies, Judaica; Holocaust Studies; philosophy of religion; comparative mysticism
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Siobhan Kelly
Society of Fellows Postdoctoral Scholar at Boston University
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Jonathan Klawans
Professor of Religion and Judaic Studies, religion and religious literature of Judaism in late antiquity
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Deeana Klepper
Chair, Professor of Religion and History, Christianity, Judaism, and medieval and early modern religious history.
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Yair Lior
Senior Lecturer, Comparative Religion; Judaism; Chinese philosophy; Neo-Confucianism
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Diana Lobel
Associate Professor of Religion and Judaic Studies; Associate Director of Graduate Studies, classical and medieval Jewish studies; comparative philosophy and religious thought
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Anthony Petro
Director of Undergraduate Studies, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF RELIGION, MODERN CHRISTIANITY; U.S. RELIGION; GENDER AND SEXUALITY
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Teena Purohit
Associate Professor of Religion, South Asian Studies and Islamic studies
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Adam Seligman
Professor of Religion; Research Associate at the Institute for the Study of Economic Culture
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Michael Zank
Director of Graduate Studies, Professor of Religion, Jewish, and Medieval Studies