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FACULTY MEMBER	CONTACT	RESEARCH AREAS
David L. Haberman Professor; Department Chair	dhaberma@indiana.edu Sycamore Hall 215 (812) 855-3531	History of South Asian religions, Indian arts and aesthetics, ritual studies, theories of religion, religion and ecology
Asma Afsaruddin Adjunct Professor	aafsarud@indiana.edu Memorial Hall M17 (812) 856-7347	Islamic religious and political thought, pre-modern and modern Qur'an exegesis and hadith criticism, Inter-faith relations, Islamic feminism(s), Contemporary Islamic movements
Heather Blair Assistant Professor	heablair@indiana.edu Sycamore Hall 326	Pre-modern history of Japanese Religions, Buddhism and East Asian Religions
David Brakke Professor	dbrakke@indiana.edu Sycamore Hall 217	Ancient Christianity, late antiquity, Coptic and Syriac studies
Candy Gunther Brown Associate Professor	browncg@indiana.edu Sycamore Hall 331	Religion in the Americas, spiritual healing practices, evangelicalism, Pentecostal and Charismatic Christianities, globalization, lived religion, religion and science, medical ethics and healthcare management, first amendment constitutional interpretation, history of the book and print culture, comparative religions, theory and method, and gender, women's, and ethnic studies.
Jamsheed Choksy Adjunct Professor	jchoksy@indiana.edu Goodbody Hall 157	Ancient and modern Zoroastrianism, Islamic studies, history of religions
Daniel O. Conkle Adjunct Professor	conkle@indiana.edu Law Building 331	Religious liberty, religion and law, the role of religion in American politics and public life
Devin A. DeWeese Adjunct Professor	deweese@indiana.edu Goodbody Hall 343 (812) 855-2298	History of Yasavī, Kubravī, and Naqshbandī Sufi Traditions, Islamization in Inner Asia, shrine traditions and sacred landscape of Central Asia, Islam in Tsarist, Soviet, and post-Soviet Central Asia
Constance M. Furey Associate Professor; Associate Department Chair	cfurey@indiana.edu Sycamore Hall 227	Catholic and Protestant Reformations; religious thought, literature, and community formation
Paul Gutjahr Adjunct Associate Professor	pgutjahr@indiana.edu Ballantine Hall 426	American religious and intellectual thought, religious publishing
J. Albert Harrill Professor	jharrill@indiana.edu Sycamore Hall 207	New Testament studies, early Christian social history, ancient Mediterranean religions
Sarah Imhoff Assistant Professor	seimhoff@indiana.edu Sycamore Hall 223	Gender and American Jewish history, race and Jewishness, Rabbinic literature, American Religious history
Michael Ing Assistant Professor	ming@indiana.edu Sycamore Hall 203	Confucianism, Ritual Theory, Religious Ethics, Theories of Religion, Chinese Thought
R. Kevin Jaques Associate Professor	rjaques@indiana.edu Sycamore Hall 209	Islamic Studies, medieval Islamic legal history, religious authority in times of social and cultural upheaval, comparative religions
Nancy Levene Associate Professor	nlevene@indiana.edu Sycamore Hall 209A	Philosophy of religion, cultures of the European Modern West
Edward Linenthal Adjunct Professor	etl@indiana.edu Ballantine Hall 808	Public history, studies in American memory, contemporary American religion, religion, war, and genocide
Shaul Magid Professor	smagid@indiana.edu Sycamore Hall 225	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 213 (812) 855-6756	Asian languages and literature (Sanskrit, Bengali), religions of South Asia, formation of religious community, iconography
Patrick Michelson Assistant Professor	plmichel@indiana.edu Sycamore Hall 333	Russian Orthodoxy, History of Eastern Christianity Modern Christian thought, Russian intellectual history, Modern Russian history
Richard B. Miller Professor	miller3@indiana.edu Sycamore Hall 221 Poynter Center (812) 855-0261	Religious thought and ethics, history of Christian ethics; social and cultural criticism
Jason Mokhtarian Assistant Professor	jmokhtar@indiana.edu Sycamore Hall 334	Ancient Judaism, Rabbinics, Jews of Ancient Persia, Talmud in its Iranian Context, Ancient Iranian Studies
Richard Nance Assistant Professor, Director of Undergraduate Studies	rfnance@indiana.edu Sycamore Hall 230	Indian and Tibetan Buddhist history, philosophy, rhetoric, and ritual
Stephen Selka Assistant Professor	sselka@indiana.edu Sycamore Hall 205	Religion, identity, and politics; identity and social movements; Brazil and the U.S.; diaspora studies; transnational tourism; urban anthropology
Lisa Sideris Associate Professor	lsideris@indiana.edu Sycamore Hall 211	Religious environmental ethics and religion and science
Aaron Stalnaker Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies	astalnak@indiana.edu Sycamore Hall 219	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 Hall 744	Social theory, social policy, religion and society, and American political culture
Edward Watts Adjunct Associate Professor	ejwatts@indiana.edu Ballantine Hall 828	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

Eva Mroczek

Eva Mroczek
Visiting Lecturer

emroczek@indiana.edu
Sycamore Hall 207

Hebrew Bible, The Dead Sea Scrolls, Apocrypha, and Pseudepigrapha, Early Jewish scriptural interpretation, Jewish reading and writing in antiquity, Book History

Photo of Joshua Paddison Joshua Paddison
Visiting Assistant Professor

jpaddiso@indiana.edu
Sycamore Hall 207

Comparative race and ethnicity, religion, and culture in the nineteenth-century United States, American West