University of Texas at Austin College of Liberal Arts Cairo Religion and Faith in Modern Cairo
             
          
Religious Studies Core Faculty
                     
                  
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
                     
                  
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
                     
                  
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
                     
                  
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
                     
                  
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
                     
                  
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
                     
                  
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.
                     
                  
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
                     
                  
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
                     
                  
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
                                      
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
                     
                  
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.
                     
                  
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)
                     
                  
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
                     
                  
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
                     
                  
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
                     
                  
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
                     
                  
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
                     
                  
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
                     
                  
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
                     
                  
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
                     
                  
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
                     
                  
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
                     
                  
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
                     
                  
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
                     
                  
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
                     
                  
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.
                     
                  
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
                     
                  
                     
                  
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
                     
                  
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
                     
                  
                     
                  
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
                                      
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
                     
                  
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)
                     
                  
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
                     
                  
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
                     
                  
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
                     
                  
Professors Emeriti
                     
                  
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
                     
                  
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
                     
                  
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
                     
                  
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
                     
                  
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
                     
                  
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
                     
                  
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
                     
                  
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
                     
                  
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
                     
                  
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
                     
                  
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
                     
                  
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
                     
                  
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
                     
                  
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
Source: https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/rs/faculty/index.php
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