Religious Studies Program

Expertise: Immigration, religious and ethnic identity, nationalism, sociology of religion.

Expertise: Archaeology and history of ancient and late antique Christianity. Material culture and religions of eastern Mediterranean and the Near East. Monasticism in Eastern Mediterranean World. Foodways in Late Antiquity

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: 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.