Program Faculty
Expertise: Immigration, religious and ethnic identity, nationalism, sociology of religion.
Expertise: Sociology of religion, culture, health and medicine; immigration; sexuality; research methods, Buddhism, chaplaincy.
Expertise: U.S. history; slavery and emancipation; the Civil War and Reconstruction; American religion and culture; 19th-century United States; social history of marginalized peoples.
Expertise: Religion in America; American journalism; colonial and early America.
Expertise: The art and architecture of western Europe in Late Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the early modern period.
Expertise: Hebrew Bible, religion, literature, and history of the Late Bronze and Iron Age Levant, Northwest Semitic languages and texts (Ugaritic, Phoenician, Aramaic), critical theory and the ancient Middle East
Expertise: American Jewish history and life; Jews in the Americas; American religion.
Expertise: Religion; psychoanalytic theory; memory and trauma; anthropology of the body; commodification; East Asia; Japan.
Expertise: Early American and 19th-century U.S. literature and culture; American religious history; print culture and media; art history and visual culture; geography and literature; cultural and environmental history of the American landscape; the American West.