Meet the Faculty

Emeriti Faculty
Visiting Faculty

FACULTY MEMBER	CONTACT	RESEARCH AREAS
Heather Blair Assistant Professor	heablair@indiana.edu Sycamore Hall, Rm 326 (812) 855-2495	Pre-modern history of Japanese Religions, Buddhism and East Asian Religions.
David Brakke Professor; Department Chair	dbrakke@indiana.edu 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, Charismatic and Pentecostal Christianity, Globalization, Healthcare Management
Jamsheed Choksy Adjunct Professor	jchoksy@indiana.edu Goodbody Hall, Rm. 157 (812) 855-8643	Ancient and modern Zoroastrianism, Islamic studies, history of religions
Daniel O. Conkle Adjunct Professor	conkle@indiana.edu 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	cfurey@indiana.edu Sycamore Hall, Rm. 227 (812) 855-6678	Catholic and Protestant Reformations; religious thought, literature, and community formation.
Paul Gutjahr Adjunct Associate Professor	pgutjahr@indiana.edu Ballantine Hall, Rm. 426 (812) 855-4137	American religious and intellectual thought, religious publishing
David L. Haberman Professor	dhaberma@indiana.edu 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
J. Albert Harrill Professor	jharrill@indiana.edu Sycamore Hall, Rm. 207 (812) 855-8654	New Testament studies, early Christian social history, ancient Mediterranean religions
R. Kevin Jaques Associate Professor	rjaques@indiana.edu 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	nlevene@indiana.edu 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.
Shaul Magid Professor	smagid@indiana.edu 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	rmanring@indiana.edu 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	miller3@indiana.edu Sycamore Hall, Rm. 221 (812) 855-1431 (812) 855-0261	Religious thought and ethics, history of Christian ethics; social and cultural criticism
Richard Nance Assistant Professor	rfnance@indiana.edu Sycamore Hall, Rm.201 (812) 855-6159	Indian and Tibetan Buddhist history, philosophy, rhetoric, and ritual
Stephen Selka Adjunct Professor	sselka@indiana.edu Phone: (812) 855-5610 Office: Memorial East M30	Religion, identity, and politics; identity and social movements; Brazil and the U.S.; diaspora studies; transnational tourism; urban anthropology
Lisa Sideris Assistant Professor; Director of Undergraduate Studies	lsideris@indiana.edu Sycamore Hall, Rm. 211 (812)855-6119	Religious environmental ethics and religion and science
Aaron Stalnaker Associate Professor	astalnak@indiana.edu 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
Brian Steensland Adjunct Associate Professor	bsteens@indiana.edu BALLANTINE 744 856-0447	Social theory, social policy, religion and society, and American political culture.
Edward Watts Adjunct Associate Professor	ejwatts@indiana.edu Ballantine Hall, Rm. 828 855-6882	Ancient Intellectual and religious history, late antiquity and early Byzantium

Emeriti Faculty

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

Mary Jo Weaver
Professor Emerita

weaverm@indiana.edu

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

Visiting Faculty

FACULTY MEMBER	CONTACT	RESEARCH AREAS