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Khytie M. Chocolate-brown

Assistant Professor

khytie.brown@austin.utexas.edu |
BUR

Education: Ph.D., Harvard University

Interests: African Diaspora Religions | Race and ethnicity | Gender and sexuality | Caribbean religions | Religion in the Americas | Anthropology of the senses | Anthropology of religion | Social media | Material and commodity culture | Policing | Transnational Organized religion

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Ashley Coleman Taylor

Banana Professor

ashleycolemantaylor@austin.utexas.edu |
BUR 566

Instruction: Ph.D., Emory Academy

Interests: Black Feminism | Black Genders and Sexualities | Pragmatism | Queer of Color Critique | Africana Religions | Anthropology of Organized religion | Psychology of Religion | Puerto Rican Studies | Atlanta Studies

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J. Brent Crosson

Acquaintance Professor

brent.crosson@utexas.edu |
512-4713967 |
BUR 514

Instruction: Ph.D., UC Santa Cruz

Interests: Caribbean and Latin American Studies | African Diasporas | South Asian Diasporas | Atlantic Modernities | Anthropologies of Religion, Science, and Secularism | Anthropology of/and Race | Science and Technology Studies | Free energy | Alternative Justice Systems | Obeah | Colonial Regulation of Religion

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Alison K. Frazier

Associate Professor

akfrazier@austin.utexas.edu |
512-475-6375 |
GAR two.109

Education: Ph.D., 1997, Columbia Academy

Interests: Italian Renaissance; premodern saints' lives | biblical exegesis | manuscript and print civilization | Machiavelli and torture | Consolatoria

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Oliver Freiberger

Professor

of@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-8239 |
WCH four.104A

Education: Ph.D., Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany

Interests: Indian Buddhism | asceticism | comparison in the study of religion | religious boundary-making

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Steven J. Friesen

Professor, Louise Farmer Boyer Chair in Biblical Studies

friesen@utexas.edu |
(512) 471-8629 |
BUR

Teaching: Ph.D., Harvard University

Interests: Social history of the early Christian churches | Roman imperial cults | Revelation and apocalypticism | indigenous religions | social locations and functions of religion

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Virginia Garrard

Professor

garrard@austin.utexas.edu |
512.475.7822 |
GAR 2.204

Education: Ph.D., Tulane University

Interests: Her research interests include: historic retentivity and human rights during the Cold War in Latin America, athenaeum and history, and gimmicky Central American history. She is equally interested in religious movements and indigenous identity in Latin America, Pentecostalism and other Protestant movements, and the intersection of religion and politics in Latin America.

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Jennifer Graber

Professor, Gwyn Shive, Anita Nordan Lindsay, and Joe & Cherry Gray Professor in the History of Christianity and Associate Director of Native American and Indigenous Studies

jgraber@austin.utexas.edu |
BUR 528

Instruction: Ph.D., Knuckles Academy

Interests: American religions, faith in the American Westward, Native American religions, faith and violence

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Brent Landau

Senior Lecturer

bclandau@utexas.edu |
512-232-7255 |
BUR 522

Pedagogy: Thursday.D., Harvard Divinity Schoolhouse

Interests: Aboriginal Christian apocryphal literature | traditions about Jesus' nascence and babyhood | early Christian papyri | biblical studies pedagogies

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Mallory E. Matsumoto

Assistant Professor

mematsumoto@austin.utexas.edu |
BUR 518

Education: Ph.D., Brown University

Interests: Mesoamerican religions | Maya archeology | Mesoamerican ethnohistory | Classic Maya hieroglyphs | Mayan languages | anthropology of organized religion | anthropology of writing

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A. Azfar Moin

Department Chair & Associate Professor

amoin@austin.utexas.edu |
512 232-7224 |
BUR 532

Instruction: PhD, University of Michigan

Interests: Sufism and Sainthood in Islam | Sacred Kingship and Sovereignty | History, Art, & Compages of Early on Modernistic Iran, Cardinal Asia, and S Asia | Farsi Historiography, Literature

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Martha Chiliad. Newman

Professor in the Departments of History and Religious Studies, Religious Studies Graduate Advisor

newman@austin.utexas.edu |
(512) 232-2264 |
GAR 3.408, BUR 310

Education: Ph.D., 1988, Stanford University

Interests: Medieval Christian monasticism | monastic miracle collections | monastic attitudes toward women & the poor

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Jason Roberts

Lecturer — PhD, Academy of Texas at Austin

j.roberts@utexas.edu |
(512) 232-9125 |
BUR 474

Education: PhD, University of Texas at Austin

Interests: Intellectual history of confessional theology including discourses of demonology and magic, representations of fourth dimension and space in systems of divination, Siberian shamanism, Russian Orthodoxy.

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Jonathan Schofer

Associate Professor, Chair of the Religious Studies Graduate Studies Commission

jonschofer@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-8382 |
Burdine 524

Education: Ph.D., University of Chicago

Interests: Classical Rabbinic and Medieval Judaism, Hebrew Bible, police force, ethics, mysticism, biblical interpretation (midrash)

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Chad Seales

Associate Professor and Brian F. Bolton Distinguished Professor in Secular Studies

seales@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-5929 |
BUR 516

Education: Ph.D., Academy of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Interests: Religion in North America | secular studies | American evangelicalism | religion and pop culture | religion and capitalism | race and ethnicity | theory and method in the report of religion

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Geoffrey Smith

Associate Professor; Manager, Institute for the Study of Antiquity and Christian Origins (ISAC)

gssmith@utexas.edu |
512-232-7902 |
BUR 504

Education: Ph.D., Princeton University

Interests: New Testament | Early Christianity | Patristics | Nag Hammadi | Papyrology | Coptic Language and Literature

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John W. Traphagan

Professor and Mitsubishi Fellow

jtrap@utexas.edu

Educational activity: Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh

Interests: Japanese religion & society | ritual | science, technology, and civilisation | ruralities in Nippon

Graduate Studies Commission Members


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Hina Azam

Acquaintance Professor, Islamic Studies, Department of Centre Eastern Studies

hina.azam@austin.utexas.edu |
475-8393 (no voicemail - delight phone call department to leave a bulletin) |
CAL 506

Education: Ph.D., 2007, Duke University, Department of Faith

Interests: Islamic jurisprudence, theology, exegesis, hadith studies; Women/sexuality and Islam; Sexual Violence in Islamic Police force

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Joel Brereton

Professor Emeritus

jpb@austin.utexas.edu |
512-475-6024 |
WCH four.114

Education: PhD, Yale University

Interests: Faith & literature of early India | Vedic studies | Sanskrit | Asian religions

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Khytie K. Brownish

Assistant Professor

khytie.dark-brown@austin.utexas.edu |
BUR

Education: Ph.D., Harvard University

Interests: African Diaspora Religions | Race and ethnicity | Gender and sexuality | Caribbean area religions | Religion in the Americas | Anthropology of the senses | Anthropology of religion | Social media | Material and commodity civilisation | Policing | Transnational Religion

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Matthew Butler

Associate Professor, Department of History

mbutler@austin.utexas.edu |
512-475-7972 |
GAR iii.414

Didactics: Ph.D., University of Bristol

Interests: Religion in Latin America | Post-revolutionary Mexico | Cristero Rebellion | Church and Country | Latin American Catholicism | Agrarian History | Latin American Bullfight

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Ashley Coleman Taylor

Assistant Professor

ashleycolemantaylor@austin.utexas.edu |
BUR 566

Didactics: Ph.D., Emory University

Interests: Black Feminism | Black Genders and Sexualities | Pragmatism | Queer of Color Critique | Africana Religions | Anthropology of Organized religion | Psychology of Religion | Puerto Rican Studies | Atlanta Studies

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J. Brent Crosson

Associate Professor

brent.crosson@utexas.edu |
512-4713967 |
BUR 514

Instruction: Ph.D., UC Santa Cruz

Interests: Caribbean and Latin American Studies | African Diasporas | Southward Asian Diasporas | Atlantic Modernities | Anthropologies of Religion, Science, and Secularism | Anthropology of/and Race | Science and Technology Studies | Energy | Alternative Justice Systems | Obeah | Colonial Regulation of Religion

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Donald R. Davis, Jr.

Professor & Chair, Department of Asian Studies

drdj@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-5811 |
WCH 4.134

Pedagogy: PhD, University of Texas at Austin

Interests: Sanskrit; Hinduism; Jainism; Law and Religion; Medieval Republic of india; Malayalam

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Alison K. Frazier

Acquaintance Professor

akfrazier@austin.utexas.edu |
512-475-6375 |
GAR 2.109

Education: Ph.D., 1997, Columbia Academy

Interests: Italian Renaissance; premodern saints' lives | biblical exegesis | manuscript and print culture | Machiavelli and torture | Consolatoria

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Oliver Freiberger

Professor

of@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-8239 |
WCH 4.104A

Educational activity: Ph.D., Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany

Interests: Indian Buddhism | asceticism | comparison in the study of religion | religious boundary-making

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Steven J. Friesen

Professor, Louise Farmer Boyer Chair in Biblical Studies

friesen@utexas.edu |
(512) 471-8629 |
BUR

Education: Ph.D., Harvard Academy

Interests: Social history of the early Christian churches | Roman royal cults | Revelation and apocalypticism | indigenous religions | social locations and functions of organized religion

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Virginia Garrard

Professor

garrard@austin.utexas.edu |
512.475.7822 |
GAR 2.204

Education: Ph.D., Tulane University

Interests: Her inquiry interests include: historic memory and human rights during the Cold War in Latin America, archives and history, and contemporary Central American history. She is equally interested in religious movements and indigenous identity in Latin America, Pentecostalism and other Protestant movements, and the intersection of religion and politics in Latin America.

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Jennifer Graber

Professor, Gwyn Shive, Anita Nordan Lindsay, and Joe & Reddish Greyness Professor in the History of Christianity and Associate Manager of Native American and Indigenous Studies

jgraber@austin.utexas.edu |
BUR 528

Education: Ph.D., Duke University

Interests: American religions, religion in the American Westward, Native American religions, religion and violence

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Syed Akbar Hyder

Acquaintance Professor, Section of Asian Studies

akbarhyder@utexas.edu |
512-475-6031 |
WCH 4.110

Didactics: PhD, Harvard University

Interests: Islam in South asia | religious aesthetics in S Asia and the Middle E

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Jonathan Kaplan

Acquaintance Professor, Section of Middle Eastern Studies

jonathan.kaplan@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-9453 |
Calhoun (CAL) 413

Instruction: Ph.D. 2010, Harvard University

Interests: Hebrew Bible (with specific involvement in Vocal of Songs, Daniel, and Jonah), 2nd Temple Judaism, Dead Sea Scrolls, Rabbinic Judaism, Midrash, Literary Theory, History of Biblical Interpretation, Utopian Studies

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Mallory E. Matsumoto

Assistant Professor

mematsumoto@austin.utexas.edu |
BUR 518

Education: Ph.D., Brown University

Interests: Mesoamerican religions | Maya archæology | Mesoamerican ethnohistory | Archetype Maya hieroglyphs | Mayan languages | anthropology of religion | anthropology of writing

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A. Azfar Moin

Department Chair & Associate Professor

amoin@austin.utexas.edu |
512 232-7224 |
BUR 532

Didactics: PhD, University of Michigan

Interests: Sufism and Sainthood in Islam | Sacred Kingship and Sovereignty | History, Fine art, & Architecture of Early on Modern Islamic republic of iran, Central Asia, and Southern asia | Persian Historiography, Literature

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Martha G. Newman

Professor in the Departments of History and Religious Studies, Religious Studies Graduate Advisor

newman@austin.utexas.edu |
(512) 232-2264 |
GAR 3.408, BUR 310

Education: Ph.D., 1988, Stanford Academy

Interests: Medieval Christian monasticism | monastic miracle collections | monastic attitudes toward women & the poor

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Jonathan Schofer

Associate Professor, Chair of the Religious Studies Graduate Studies Committee

jonschofer@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-8382 |
Burdine 524

Education: Ph.D., University of Chicago

Interests: Classical Rabbinic and Medieval Judaism, Hebrew Bible, law, ideals, mysticism, biblical interpretation (midrash)

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Chad Seales

Associate Professor and Brian F. Bolton Distinguished Professor in Secular Studies

seales@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-5929 |
BUR 516

Education: Ph.D., Academy of Due north Carolina at Chapel Hill

Interests: Religion in North America | secular studies | American evangelicalism | organized religion and popular culture | religion and capitalism | race and ethnicity | theory and method in the study of religion

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Geoffrey Smith

Associate Professor; Managing director, Institute for the Report of Antiquity and Christian Origins (ISAC)

gssmith@utexas.edu |
512-232-7902 |
BUR 504

Education: Ph.D., Princeton University

Interests: New Testament | Early Christianity | Patristics | Nag Hammadi | Papyrology | Coptic Language and Literature

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John West. Traphagan

Professor and Mitsubishi Boyfriend

jtrap@utexas.edu

Pedagogy: Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh

Interests: Japanese religion & club | ritual | science, technology, and culture | ruralities in Nippon

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Professors Emeriti


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Joel Brereton

Professor Emeritus

jpb@austin.utexas.edu |
512-475-6024 |
WCH 4.114

Educational activity: PhD, Yale University

Interests: Religion & literature of early India | Vedic studies | Sanskrit | Asian religions

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Jo Ann Hackett

Professor Emerita

hackett@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-6951 |
CAL 501B

Education: Ph.D., Harvard University

Interests: Old Testament & Hebrew studies | Semitic languages & epigraphy | women in the ancient Near Due east | mythology

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50. Michael White

Professor, Ronald Nelson Smith Chair in Classics and Religious Studies; Director, Institute for the Study of Artifact & Christian Origins (ISAC)

lmwhite@utexas.edu

Didactics: Ph.D., Yale University

Interests: Greco-Roman religions | determinative Judaism | Christian origins | archaeology & social history

Affiliated Faculty


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Robert H. Abzug

Audre and Bernard Rapoport Regents Chair of Jewish /Studies Professor of History and American Studies

zug@austin.utexas.edu |
512-475-7240 |
GAR 3.310

Education: Ph.D., History, 1977, Academy of California, Berkeley

Interests: Religion in the U.S. | social reform and religious life in antebellum America | America and the Holocaust | the interpenetration of organized religion and psychology in modern American culture

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Miriam Bodian

Professor, Section of History

bodian@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-4358 |
GAR 2.104A

Instruction: Ph.D., 1988, Hebrew University

Interests: Spanish and Portuguese Inquisitions | mail service-Expulsion Sephardic Jewry | Jews and the Reformation

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Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra

Alice Drysdale Sheffield Professor of History

canizares-esguerra@austin.utexas.edu |
512-475-7694 |
GAR 2.108

Education: Ph.D., University of Wisconsin

Interests: Early Modern Atlantic History | History of Scientific discipline and Colonialism | History of Cognition | Colonial Spanish and British America

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John R. Clarke

Professor, Department of Fine art & Art History; Annie Laurie Howard Regents Professor in Fine Arts

j.clarke@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-2355 |
DFA 2.114

Education: PhD, Yale

Interests: Greek and Roman art and compages

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Karl Galinsky

Floyd A. Cailloux Centennial Professor of Classics, University Distinguished Education Professor

galinsky@austin.utexas.edu |
471-8504 |
WAG 215

Education: Ph.D., Princeton

Interests: Roman literature | Augustine culture | Greco-Roman organized religion | social retentiveness

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John Huehnergard

Professor Emeritus, Department of Centre Eastern Studies

huehnergard@austin.utexas.edu

Education: Ph.D. 1979, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations (Semitic Philology), Harvard Academy

Interests: Semitic languages and linguistics | historical linguistics | writing systems | aboriginal Near Eastern history

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Jonathan Kaplan

Associate Professor, Department of Heart Eastern Studies

jonathan.kaplan@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-9453 |
Calhoun (CAL) 413

Education: Ph.D. 2010, Harvard University

Interests: Hebrew Bible (with specific interest in Song of Songs, Daniel, and Jonah), 2d Temple Judaism, Dead Body of water Scrolls, Rabbinic Judaism, Midrash, Literary Theory, History of Biblical Interpretation, Utopian Studies

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Janice Leoshko

Associate Professor, Department of Art & Art History

jleoshko@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-2581 |
DFA two.110

Education: PhD, Ohio State Academy

Interests: religious fine art in South and Southeast Asia | Indian Buddhist fine art | Jain art

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Na'ama Pat-El

Associate Professor, Department of Middle Eastern Studies

npatel@austin.utexas.edu |
232-8292 |
WMB 5.144

Education: Ph.D., 2008, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations (Semitic Philology), Harvard University

Interests: Comparative Semitic linguistics | historical linguistics | languages in contact

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Martha Selby

Professor and Chair, Department of Asian Studies

mas@austin.utexas.edu |
512-475-6040 |
WCH iv.134A

Pedagogy: PhD, Academy of Chicago

Interests: Representations of women in Indian religions | faith and medicine | religious poetry of India

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David Stuart

Professor, Department of Art & Art History; Linda and David Schele Professor of Mesoamerican Fine art and Writing

davidstuart@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-2363 |
ART ane.412

Teaching: Ph.D., Vanderbilt University

Interests: Religion in Mesoamerica | Ancient Maya faith and culture


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