Meet the Faculty

Emeriti Faculty
Visiting Faculty

FACULTY MEMBER	CONTACT	RESEARCH AREAS
David Brakke Professor; Department Chair	Sycamore Hall, Rm. 217 (812) 855-5117 (812) 855-3531	Ancient Christianity, late antiquity, Coptic and Syriac studies
Candy Gunther Brown Associate Professor	browncg@indiana.edu Sycamore Hall, Rm. 331 (812) 855-8929	American religious history, spiritual healing practices, religious print cultures, evangelicalism, pentecostalism
Jamsheed Choksy Adjunct Professor	Goodbody Hall, Rm. 157 (812) 855-8643	Ancient and modern Zoroastrianism, Islamic studies, history of religions
Daniel O. Conkle Adjunct Professor	Law Building, Rm. 331 (812) 855-4331	Religious liberty, religion and law, the role of religion in American politics and public life
Constance M. Furey Associate Professor	Sycamore Hall, Rm. 227 (812) 855-6678	Catholic and Protestant Reformations; religious thought, literature, and community formation.
Paul Gutjahr Adjunct Associate Professor	Ballantine Hall, Rm. 426 (812) 855-4137	American religious and intellectual thought, religious publishing
David L. Haberman Professor	Sycamore Hall, Rm. 215 (812) 855-8894	History of South Asian religions, Indian arts and aesthetics, ritual studies, theories of religion, Native American religions
Chaya Halberstam Assistant Professor	chalbers@indiana.edu Sycamore Hall, Rm. 203 (812) 855-2492	Ancient Judaism, Hebrew Bible and Rabbinic Biblical Interpretation
Bert Harrill Professor; Director of Undergraduate Studies	Sycamore Hall, Rm. 207 (812) 855-8654	New Testament studies, early Christian social history, ancient Mediterranean religions
R. Kevin Jaques Associate Professor	Sycamore Hall, Rm. 209 (812) 855-6907	Islamic legal history, Islam in Southeast Asia and Indian Ocean communities, Islam in the United States, religious authority in times of social and cultural upheaval, methods and methodologies in the academic study of religion, ethnography
Sylvester A. Johnson Assistant Professor	syljohns@indiana.edu Sycamore Hall, Rm. 332 (812) 855-0368	Scriptures, Race and Religion in America, Religion and cultural theory, Missionary religion in the U.S., Chosenness and American identity
Nancy Levene Associate Professor; Director of Graduate Studies	Sycamore Hall, Rm. 209A (812) 855-6669	Philosophy of religion, cultures of the European Modern West
Edward Linenthal Adjunct Professor	etl@indiana.edu Ballantine Hall, Room 808 (812) 855- 0335	Public history, studies in American memory, contemporary American religion, religion, war, and genocide.
Kathryn Lofton Assistant Professor	loftonk@indiana.edu Sycamore Hall, Rm. 326 (812) 855-2495	U.S. Religious History, Fundamentalisms and Modernisms, Religion and Popular Culture, Race, Religion, and Ethnicity, Methods and Approaches to the Study of Religion
Shaul Magid Associate Professor	Sycamore Hall, Rm. 225 (812) 856-1469	Kabbala, medieval and modern Jewish philosophy, Hasidism, gender and religion, Jewish ethics and contemporary Jewish religiosity, renewal, and fundamentalism
Rebecca Manring Associate Professor	Sycamore Hall, Rm. 213 (812) 855-6756	Asian languages and literature (Sanskrit, Bengali), religions of South Asia, formation of religious community, iconography

Richard B. Miller Professor	Sycamore Hall, Rm. 221 (812) 855-1431 (812) 855-0261	Religious thought and ethics, history of Christian ethics; social and cultural criticism
Michael Morgan Adjunct Professor	Sycamore Hall, Rm. 026 (812) 855-0206	Ancient, modern and Jewish philosophy, philosophy of religion
Richard Nance Assistant Professor	rfnance@indiana.edu Sycamore Hall, Rm.201 (812) 855-6159	Indian and Tibetan Buddhist history, philosophy, rhetoric, and ritual
Kevin O'Neill Assistant Professor	kloneill@indiana.edu Sycamore Hall Rm.205 (812) 855-6904	Transnational religion in the Americas, Christianity and democracy, religion and genocide
Dorothea Schulz Assistant Professor	deschulz@indiana.edu Sycamore Hall, Rm. 223 (812) 855-3909	Islam in Africa, gender and media studies, public culture, and anthropology of the state
David Delgado Shorter Adjunct Assistant Professor	dshorter@indiana.edu 504 N. Fess (812) 855-1027	Myth/Ritual/Symbol, Indigenous Worldview, Religious Folklore, Colonialisms
Lisa Sideris Assistant Professor	Sycamore Hall, Rm. 211 (812)855-6119	Religious environmental ethics and religion and science
Aaron Stalnaker Assistant Professor	Sycamore Hall, Rm. 219 (812) 855-8089	Comparative religious ethics, philosophy of religions (theistic, non-theistic, and comparative), Chinese thought, Christian thought, moral philosophy, theories of religion
Edward Watts Adjunct Associate Professor	ejwatts@indiana.edu Ballantine Hall, Rm. 828 855-6882	Ancient Intellectual and religious history, late antiquity and early Byzantium
Steve Weitzman Professor	Sycamore Hall, Rm. 331 (812) 855-1174	Biblical and early Jewish literature and religion

Emeriti Faculty

FACULTY MEMBER	CONTACT	RESEARCH AREAS
James S. Ackerman Professor Emeritus		Religion and literature of Israel and the Ancient Near East, Bible as literature
James G. Hart Professor Emeritus		Philosophy of religion, philosophical theology, peace and conflict studies
Gerald J. Larson Professor Emeritus		Indian philosophy, cross-cultural philosophy of religion, history of religions, classical and Vedic Sanskrit studies
David H. Smith Professor Emeritus		Religious ethics, theological ethics, medical ethics, ethics and philanthropy, teaching ethics
Stephen J. Stein Chancellor's Professor Emeritus		American religious history, early American history, new religious movements, American studies

Mary Jo Weaver
Professor Emerita

American Catholicism, contemporary Christianity, women and religion, mysticism and spirituality

Visiting Faculty

FACULTY MEMBER	CONTACT	RESEARCH AREAS

Paul Fischer
Visiting Lecturer

pafische@indiana.edu
Sycamore Hall, Rm 007
(812) 855-2011

East Asian religious, intellectual, and cultural history; self-cultivation; early China; textual criticism