Faculty Profiles

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.

Kecia Ali Professor of Religion Islamic Studies T: 617.353.4465 ka@bu.edu	Andrea M. Berlin James R. Wiseman Chair in Classical Archaeology, Professor of Archaeology and Religion; T: 617.358.1651 aberlin@bu.edu
M. David Eckel Director, Undergraduate Studies; Professor of Religion Philosophy of religion; Buddhism in India and Tibet T: 617.353.1083 mdeckel@bu.edu	David Frankfurter Chair; Professor of Religion; Aurelio Professor of the Appreciation of Scripture T: 617.353.4431 dtmf@bu.edu
Margarita Guillory Associate Professor of Religion, T: 617.358.1754 mlsg@bu.edu	April Hughes Assistant Professor Religion, Religions of China T: 617.358.3585 adhughes@bu.edu
Steven Katz Professor of Religion; Alvin J. And Shirley Slater Chair in Jewish Holocaust Studies Judaica, Holocaust Studies, philosophy of religion, and comparative mysticism T: 617.353.8089 stk1@bu.edu	Jonathan Klawans Professor of Religion and  Judaic Studies Religion and Religious Literature of Judaism in Late Antiquity T: 617.353.4432 jklawans@bu.edu
Deeana Klepper Associate Professor of Religion, Judaic Studies, and History Christianity; Medieval and early Modern European religious history T: 617.358.0186 dklepper@bu.edu	Frank J. Korom Professor of Religion and Anthropology South Asian, Caribbean, and Diaspora Studies; Popular Culture and Folklore T: 617.358.0185 korom@bu.edu
Diana Lobel Associate Professor of Religion and Judaic Studies,; Associate Director of Graduate Studies Classical and medieval Jewish studies; Comparative philosophy and religious thought T: 617.353.2863 dnlobel@bu.edu	Anthony Petro Assistant Professor of Religion Modern Christianity/American Religion T: 617.353.3088 apetro@bu.edu
Stephen Prothero Professor of Religion; C. Allyn and Elizabeth V. Russell Professor of Religion Religion and culture in the United States T: 617.353.4426 prothero@bu.edu	Teena Purohit Associate Professor of Religion South Asian Studies and Islamic Studies T: 617.358.1755 tpurohit@bu.edu
Adam Seligman Director, Graduate Program in Religion; Professor of Religion Research Associate at the Institute for the Study of Economic Culture T: 617.358.0262 seligman@bu.edu	Michael Zank Director, The Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies; Professor of Religion and Jewish Studies T: 617.353.4434 mzank@bu.edu
Lecturer	Visiting Scholar
Yair Lior Lecturer yairlior@bu.edu	Laura Harrington Visiting Scholar lharring@bu.edu

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