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 Chair; 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 Professor of Religion, philosophy of religion; Buddhism in India and Tibet T: 617.353.1083 mdeckel@bu.edu	David Frankfurter Professor of Religion; Aurelio Professor of the Appreciation of Scripture, ancient Mediterranean religions; Jewish and Christian literature T: 617.353.4431 dtmf@bu.edu
Margarita Guillory Associate Professor of Religion, American religious history; digital religion; religion and popular culture T: 617.358.1754 mlsg@bu.edu	Laura Harrington Lecturer, Buddhism in America; Indo-Tibetan Buddhism; material culture lharring@bu.edu
April Hughes Director, Undergraduate Studies; Assistant Professor of 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; 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 and History, Christianity, Judaism, and medieval and early modern 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	Yair Lior Lecturer, comparative religion; Judaism; Chinese philosophy; Neo-Confucianism yairlior@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 Director, Graduate Studies; NEH Distinguished Teaching Professor and Associate 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, Jewish, and Medieval Studies T: 617.353.4434 mzank@bu.edu