People

Permanent Faculty

Ahmed H. al-Rahim

Assistant Professor

Phone: 434-924-6709 E-mail:

353 Gibson Hall

Elizabeth Alexander

Associate Professor

Phone: 434-924-6711 E-mail:

PO Box 400126

Asher Biemann

Associate Professor

Phone: 434-924-3643 E-mail:

PO Box 400126
Department of Religious Studies

Larry Bouchard

Associate Professor

Phone: 434-924-6710 E-mail:

Department of Religious Studies
PO Box 400126

James Childress

University Professor & John Allen Hollingsworth Prof, Ethics

Phone: 434-924-6724 E-mail:

Department of Religious Studies
PO Box 400126

Valerie Cooper

Assistant Professor

Phone: 434-924-6648 E-mail:

PO Box 400126
Department of Religious Studies

Gerald Fogarty

Wm R Kenan Jr Prof of the History of Christianity & Prof

Phone: 434-924-6707 E-mail:

Department of Religious Studies
PO Box 400126

Harry Gamble

Professor

Phone: 434-924-6714 E-mail:

Department of Religious Studies
PO Box 400126

Jennifer L. Geddes

Research Associate Professor

Phone: 434-924-7705 E-mail:

PO Box 400816
3 University Circle

David Germano

Associate Professor

Phone: 434-924-6728 E-mail:

Department of Religious Studies
PO Box 400126

Gregory Goering

Assistant Professor

Phone: 434-924-6721 E-mail:

PO Box 400126
Department of Religious Studies

Paul Groner

Professor of Religious Studies

Phone: 434-924-6715 E-mail:

Department of Religious Studies
PO Box 400126

Vigen Guroian

Professor

Phone: 434-982-6217 E-mail:

PO Box 400126
Department of Religious Studies

Mark Hadley

Associate Professor

Phone: 434-924-3350 E-mail:

P O Box 400133
College of Arts and Sciences
204 Monroe Hall

Martien Halvorson-Taylor

Assistant Professor

Phone: 434-924-6723 E-mail:

Department of Religious Studies
PO Box 400126

Kevin Hart

Edwin B Kyle Prof of Christian Studies & Chair

Phone: 434-924-1097 E-mail:

PO Box 400126
Department of Religious Studies
Halsey Hall

Matthew Hedstrom

Assistant Professor

Phone: 434-924-6314 E-mail:

PO BOX 400126
Religious Studies
Gibson Hall

Cynthia H. Hoehler-Fatton

Assoc Director, Carter G Woodson IAAS & Associate Professor

Phone: 434-243-9671 E-mail:

Department of Religious Studies
PO Box 400126

Clarke Hudson

Assistant Professor

Phone: 434-924-8884 E-mail:

PO Box 400126
Department of Religious Studies

Slavica Jakelic

Research Assistant Professor

Phone: 434-243-5511 E-mail:

PO Box 400178
Department of Religious Studies

Paul Jones

Associate Professor & Director of Graduate Program

Phone: 434-982-2283 E-mail:

PO Box 400126
Department of Religious Studies

Judith L. Kovacs

Associate Professor

Phone: 434-924-6717 E-mail:

Department of Religious Studies
PO Box 400126

Karen Lang

Professor

Phone: 434-924-0846 E-mail:

Department of Religious Studies
PO Box 400126

Charles R. Marsh

Professor

Phone: 434-924-6839 E-mail:

Department of Religious Studies
PO Box 400126

Charles Mathewes

Professor

Phone: 434-924-6708 E-mail:

Department of Religious Studies
PO Box 400126

Margaret E. Mohrmann

Professor

Phone: 434-924-2094 E-mail:

P O Box 800761
Barringer Flr 5
Room 5363

John Nemec

Assistant Professor

Phone: 434-924-6716 E-mail:

Department of Religious Studies
PO Box 400126

Peter Ochs

Edgar M Bronfman Professor of Modern Judaic Studies

Phone: 434-924-6718 E-mail:

Department of Religious Studies
PO Box 400126

Vanessa Ochs

Professor

Phone: 434-924-6722 E-mail:

Department of Religious Studies
PO Box 400126

John E. Portmann

Associate Professor

Phone: 434-243-5537 E-mail:

Department of Religious Studies
PO Box 400126

Benjamin Ray

Professor

Phone: 434-924-6720 E-mail:

Department of Religious Studies
PO Box 400126

Abdulaziz A. Sachedina

Frances Myers Ball Professor of Religious Studies

Phone: 434-924-6725 E-mail:

PO Box 400126
Department of Religious Studies

Kurtis Schaeffer

Professor

Phone: 434-924-3770 E-mail:

PO Box 400126
Department of Religious Studies

Jalane Schmidt

Assistant Professor

Phone: 434-924-1061 E-mail:

PO Box 400126
Department of Religious Studies

Karl Shuve

Assistant Professor

Phone: 434-924-6712 E-mail:

PO Box 400126
Department of Religious Studies

Heather Warren

Associate Professor

Phone: 434-924-6719 E-mail:

Department of Religious Studies
PO Box 400126

William Wilson

Associate Professor

Phone: 434-924-3350 E-mail:

P O Box 400133
College of Arts and Sciences
264 Monroe Hall

Adjunct Faculty

Ed Freeman

Olsson Professor

Phone: 434-924-0935 E-mail:

PO Box 400321
Faculty Pavilions, 164

James Hunter

LaBrosse-Levinson Dist Profship in Rel, Cult & Soc Theory

Phone: 434-924-6524 E-mail:

PO Box 400766
Cabell Hall, 548

Doug Laycock

Professor

Phone: 434-243-8546 E-mail:

PO Box 400405
WB 302J
580 Massie Road

Jon Mikalson

William R Kenan, Jr, Professor of Classics

Phone: 434-924-3008 E-mail:

PO Box 400788
Department of Classics
Cocke Hall B002

John Shepherd

Associate Professor and Director, East Asia Center

Phone: 434-924-6940 E-mail:

PO Box 400120
Brooks Hall, 303

Andy Wicks

Ruffin Associate Professor

Phone: 434-243-8739 E-mail:

PO Box 400321
Faculty Pavilions, 286

Dorothy Wong

Associate Professor

Phone: 434-243-8650 E-mail:

PO Box 400130
Department of Art

Visiting Faculty

None at this time

Faculty Emeriti

M. J. Ferreira, Ph.D.

(Princeton University) Carolyn B Barbour Professor of Religious Studies

Julian N. Hartt, Ph.D.

(Yale University), William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor Emeritus; Philosophical Theology

P. Jeffrey Hopkins, Ph.D.

(University of Wisconsin), Professor; Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies.
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H C Erik Midelfort, Ph.D.

(Yale University), Julian Bishko Professor of History

William Lee Miller, Ph.D.

(Yale University), Miller Professor of Ethics and Institutions, and Religious Studies; Ethics and Society

K. L. Seshagiri Rao, Ph.D.

(Harvard University), Professor Emeritus; History of Religions, Hinduism, Religions of India

Robert P. Scharlemann, Dr. Theol.

(University of Heidelberg), Professor Emeritus; Philosophical Theology

Kenneth W. Thompson, Ph.D.

(University of Chicago), J Wilson Newman Professor Professor Emeritus; Government and Religious Studies

Robert Wilken , Ph.D.

(University of Chicago), Professor Emeritus; Early Christian Studies

Staff

Doug Burgess

ADMINISTRATIVE AND OFFICE SPECIALIST III

Phone: 434-924-6705 E-mail:

Department of Religious Studies
PO Box 400126

Elizabeth Smith

GRADUATE AND FISCAL COORDINATOR

Phone: 434-924-6706 E-mail:

PO Box 400126
323 Gibson Hall

Mick Watson

RELIGIOUS STUDIES ADMINISTRATIVE SUPERVISOR

Phone: 434-924-6713 E-mail:

PO Box 400126
Department of Religious Studies