UCSD - Program for the Study of Religion

Program for the Study of Religion

Faculty
Richard S. Cohen www * www (858) 534-8691 rscohen@ucsd.edu	Associate Professor, Literature *Buddhism, South Asian Religions, Theory in the Study of Religion*
Dayna Kalleres www (858) 534-2279 dkalleres@ucsd.edu	Assistant Professor, Literature Critical Theories of Religion, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Early to Late Antique Christian Literature; Cultural Studies
Babak Rahimi www (858) 534-2147 brahimi@ucsd.edu	Assistant Professor, Literature History of Islam, Contemporary Iranian Culture
Affiliated Faculty
John Blanco www (858) 534-3639 jdblanco@ucsd.edu	Assistant Professor, Literature *Filipino Literature; Nineteenth-Century Latin American and Caribbean Literature; Anti-Colonial Thought.*
Nancy Caciola www (858) 822-0676 ncaciola@ucsd.edu	Associate Professor, History *Medieval European History, European Women's History, History of Christianity, Family History, Interdisciplinary Methodologies in the Study of History, Popular Culture*
Suzanne Cahill (858) 534-8105 secjbm34@aol.com	Adjunct Associate Professor, History *Asian Religious Traditions, Chinese Religions, Buddhism, Taoism, Women in Chinese Religion*
Steven Cassedy www (858) 534-3343 scassedy@ucsd.edu	Professor, Slavic and Comparative Literature Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Russian, French, German and Yiddish Literature; Early Twentieth-Century Literary Theory; Russian Jewish Intellectual History; Jewish Immigration to America
Alain J.-J. Cohen www (858) 534-3489 ajjcohen@ucsd.edu	Professor, Comparative Literature and French Literature Cinema (history and analysis), Semiotics (Peirce to Greimas), Psychoanalysis (Freud to Lacan), Film Studies and Art History, Semiotics of Culture, French Philosophy
Stephen Cox www (858) 534-4721 sdcox@ucsd.edu	Professor, Literature; Director Humanities Writing *English Literature: Eighteenth-Century and Romantic Literature, Blake, History of Liberal Ideas, The New Testament and Its Literary Influence*
Thomas J. Csordas (858) 822-6588 tcscordas@ucsd.edu	Professor, Anthropology Healing, Ritual Language, Globalization, Social Change, Navajo Religion, Catholic Charismatic Renewal
Page A. duBois www (858) 534-3379 pdubois@ucsd.edu	Professor, Literature *Classics and Comparative Literature, Greek, Feminist Theory and Psychoanalysis, Cultural Studies*
John H. Evans www (858) 534-4972 jhevans@weber.ucsd.edu	Associate Professor, Sociology *Religion, culture, politics and science*
David N. Freedman (858) 534-3542 dnfreedman@ucsd.edu	Professor, History *Judaic studies, the Bible, Archaeology, History of the Ancient Near East*
Amelia Glaser www (858) 534-3809 amglaser@ucsd.edu	Assistant Professor, Literature
David Goodblatt (858) 534-0617 dgoodblatt@ucsd.edu	Professor, History; Endowed Chair in Judaic Studies *Jewish history, with an emphasis on the history of Judaism in the pre-Islamic period*
Jack M. Greenstein (858) 822-2194 jgreenstein@ucsd.edu	Associate Professor, Visual Arts *The consistencies, disparities and tensions between theory and practice in late medieval and Renaissance art*
Marcel Henaff www (858) 534-2396 mhenaff@ucsd.edu	Professor, French Literature *Continental Philosophy; Cultural Anthropology; Political Philosophy; Narrative Forms; Visual Arts; Theater; Architecture and Urbanism; Cultural Cognition*
Matthew T. Herbst www (858) 822-4859 matthewherbst@ucsd.edu	Director, Making of the Modern World Program Eleanor Roosevelt College
Deborah Hertz www (858) 534-4550 dhertz@ucsd.edu	Professor, History: Herman Wouk Chair in Judaic Studies *Modern Jewish History, history of women in Europe, and modern German history*
Alan Houston (858) 534-2951 ahouston@ucsd.edu	Associate Professor, Political Science *The Development of Liberal, Republican, and Democratic Ideas in Early-Modern Europe; also Legal Theory, Constitutional Law, and American Political Thought*
Stephanie Jed www (858) 534-3378 sjed@ucsd.edu	Associate Professor, Italian and Comparative Literature *The Renaissance; History of Writing; Women's Studies*
Benetta W. Jules-Rosette (858) 534-4790 bjulesrosette@ucsd.edu	Professor, Sociology *Semiotic Studies of Religious Discourse, Tourist Art, and New Technologies in Africa*
Hasan Kayali (858) 534-1071 hkayali@ucsd.edu	Associate Professor, History *Modern Middle Eastern History and Islamic studies, Politics and Ideology in the late Ottoman Empire s*
Lisa R. Lampert-Weissig www * www (858) 822-0204 llampert@ucsd.edu	Associate Professor, Literature Medieval and early modern English literature, medieval women writers, Middle High German literature, literary representations of Jews and Judaism, and feminist theory
Richard P. Madsen (858) 534-0486 rmadsen@ucsd.edu	Professor, Sociology *The Comparative Sociology of Culture*
John A. Marino (858) 534-3041 jmarino@ucsd.edu	Associate Professor, History *Early modern European History and Renaissance and Reformation Europe*
Keith McNeal (858) 822-2395 kmcneal@ucsd.edu	Assistant Professor, Anthropology Afro- and Indo-Caribbean religion and diaspora; ritual and performance studies; ecstatic religion; psychoanalysis and culture.
Dana Nelkin phone: 822-0472 email: dnelkin@ucsd.edu	Associate Professor, Philosophy *Moral psychology, and the intersection of philosophy of mind, metaphysics, and ethic*
Sheldon A. Nodelman (858) 822-1146 snodelman@ucsd.edu	Professor, Visual Arts *The Art of Classical Antiquity, especially Roman Imperial Art, Twentieth Century Avant-garde Art, and the Problems of Art-Historical Theory and Method*
Esra �zy�rek (858) 534-3200 eozyurek@ucsd.edu	Assistant Professor, Anthropology *Secularism and Islam, ideologies of state and citizenship, alternative modernities, social and cultural memory, nationalism, gender; Middle East, Turkey*
Steven Parish (858) 822-1640 sparish@ucsd.edu	Associate Professor, Anthropology *Psychological Anthropology, Culture Theory, Moral Systems, Family, Childhood and Socialization, Hinduism; South Asia*
Patrick Patterson (858) 534-1999 patrickpatterson@ucsd.edu	Assistant Professor, History 19th- and 20th-century Eastern Europe and the Balkans, with emphasis on cultural and political history, nationalism and ethnicity, and religion
William H. Propp (858) 534-3541 wpropp@ucsd.edu	Professor, History *Civilizations and Languages of the Ancient Near East, as well as Biblical and Judaic Studies*
Joel Robbins (858) 822-2612 jlrobbins@ucsd.edu	Associate Professor, Anthropology Social and Cultural Anthropology, Anthropological Theory, Religion, Symbolism, Social Structure, Cultural Conceptions of the Environment, Western Ideology, Globalization and Cultural Change; Melanesia
Gershon Shafir www (858) 534-2575 gshafir@ucsd.edu	Professor, Sociology *Comparative-Historical Sociology, with emphases on Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Citizenship Rights*
Susan Smith (858) 822-1147 susmith@ucsd.edu	Associate Professor, Visual Arts The Idea of Medieval Art, Jan van Eyck, The Illuminated Manuscript in the Middle Ages, and Art and Gender in the Middle Ages and Renaissance
Tracy B. Strong www (858) 534-7081 tstrong@ucsd.edu	Professor, Political Science *Political Theory, Contemporary and Continental Thought*
Christena Turner www (858) 534-0490 chturner@ucsd.edu	Associate Professor, Sociology *Chinese and Japanese Studies, Culture, Consciousness, Labor Relations an Workplace Cultures, Everyday Life, Religion, and Ethnography*
Robert Westman www (858) 534-6317 rwestman@helix.ucsd.edu	Professor, History Cultural History of Early Modern Science, the Copernican Question and Occult Philosophies of Nature
Oumelbanine Zhiri www (858) 534-3198 ozhiri@ucsd.edu	Professor, Literature *French Literature: Medieval and Renaissance French Literature; Renaissance Historiography and Geography; Comparative Studies in European and Arab Cultures*
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