Affiliated Faculty
| Name | Title/Interest | |
|---|---|---|
Elizabeth Allen | Ph.D. University of Michigan, Associate Professor of English Interests: Comparative Literature; Religious Studies (Chaucer, Gower, 15th century poetry; exemplary literature, romance, chronicle, episodic form; intersections between ethics and politics, politics and religion; hospitality, sovereignty, legal and constitutional history of England) Published Books | eallen@uci.edu |
Stanley Bailey | Professor of Sociology Interests: Religious Studies (race and ethnicity, religion, immigration, Latin America) | bailey@uci.edu |
Emily Baum | Ph.D. University of California, San Diego, Associate Professor of History Interests: Religious Studies (modern Chinese history, history of medicine) Faculty Website Published Books | emily.baum@uci.edu |
Houri Berberian | Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles, Director of the Armenian Studies Program and Meghrouni Family Chair in Armenian Studies and Professor of History Interests: Religious Studies (modern Armenian history, Middle East history) Faculty Website Published Books | houri.berberian@uci.edu |
Victoria Bernal | Ph.D. Northwestern University, Professor of Anthropology Interests: Culture and Theory; Gender and Sexuality Studies; Religious Studies | vbernal@uci.edu |
Roland Betancourt | Ph.D. Yale University, Chancellor's Fellow and Associate Professor of Art History Interests: Religious Studies; Visual Studies (Byzantine and Medieval art, critical and queer theory; histories of race, gender, and sexuality) Published Books | roland.betancourt@uci.edu |
Susan K. Brown | Ph.D. University of Washington, Professor of Sociology Interests: Religious Studies (immigration, inequality, urban sociology) | skbrown@uci.edu |
Carol M. Burke | Professor Emerita Interests: Religious Studies (literary and cultural theory, literary journalism, new media studies) Published Books | cburke@uci.edu |
Matthew Canepa | Ph.D. University of Chicago, Elahe Omidyar Mir-Djali Presidential Chair and Professor of Art History Interests: Religious Studies; Visual Studies (Achaemenid, Seleucid, Parthian, and Sasanian art and archaeology;, Iranian visual cultures and Afro-Eurasian exchange; critical approaches to space, place, landscape, urbanism, and memory) Faculty Website Published Books | matthew.canepa@uci.edu |
| Jean-Paul Carvalho | Ph.D. Oxford University, Associate Professor of Economics Interests: Logic and Philosophy of Science; Religious Studies Faculty Website | jpcarv@uci.edu |
Vinayak Chaturvedi | Ph.D. University of Cambridge, Associate Professor of History Interests: Culture and Theory; Religious Studies (modern South Asia, social and intellectual history) Published Books | vinayak@uci.edu |
Yong Chen | Ph.D. Cornell University, Associate Dean of Curriculum and Student Services and Professor of History Interests: Asian American Studies; Religious Studies(Asian American history and immigration, food and culture, U.S./China economic and cultural interactions) Published Books | y3chen@uci.edu |
Chungmoo Choi | Ph.D. Indiana University, Associate Professor of Korean Culture Interests: Religious Studies (modern Korea, postcolonial and colonial discourse, popular culture, anthropology) Published Books | cchoi@uci.edu |
Ian Coller | Ph.D. University of Melbourne, Professor of History Interests: Religious Studies, History (Early Modern Europe and Islam, Middle East and North Africa, imperialism, race and religion in the revolutionary era) Published Books | icoller@uci.edu |
Susan B. Coutin | Ph.D. Stanford University, Professor of Criminology, Law and Society Interests: Religious Studies (law, culture, immigration, human rights, citizenship, political activism, sanctuary, Central America) | scoutin@uci.edu |
Touraj Daryaee | Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles, UCI Endowed Chair in Persian Studies and Culture and Professor of History Interests: Religious Studies (Iran, Zoroastrianism, Ancient Medieval World) Published Books | tdaryaee@uci.edu |
Rebecca Davis | Ph.D. University of Notre Dame, Associate Professor of English Interests: Religious Studies (Old and Middle English literature, Piers Plowman, medieval religious culture, women’s writing, medieval philosophy) Published Books | radavis@uci.edu |
Brianne Donaldson | Ph.D. Claremont School of Theology, Shri Parshvanath Presidential Chair in Jain Studies and Assistant Professor of Religious Studies Interests: Philosophy (Jainism, South Asian religions, South Asian philosophy, process philosophy, critical animal studies, ethics and bioethics) Faculty Website Published Books | b.donaldson@uci.edu |
Michael Fuller | Ph.D. Yale University, Professor of East Asian Studies Interests: Chinese; Religious Studies (Chinese poetry and poetics, the cultural and intellectual contexts for poetry, aesthetic theory, linguistic issues in classical Chinese) Published Books | mafuller@uci.edu |
Sean Greenberg | Ph.D. Harvard University, Associate Professor of Philosophy Interests: Religious Studies (history of early modern philosophy, moral psychology) | greenbes@uci.edu |
Qitao Guo | Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, Associate Professor of History Interests: Religious Studies (social, cultural, and religious history of pre-modern China, Ming and Qing dynasties) Published Books | guoq@uci.edu |
Anneeth Kaur Hundle | Ph.D. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor,?Dhan Kaur Sahota Presidential Chair of Sikh Studies and?Assistant Professor?of Anthropology Interests: Religious Studies, Sikh Studies; African and South Asian diaspora studies;, Afro-Asianism; citizenship, race and decolonization; , minoritization and community formation; postcolonial and transnational feminisms, gender and sexuality; university studies; , Uganda, East Africa, Indian Ocean, global south Faculty Website | ahundle@uci.edu |
Andromache Karanika | Ph.D. Princeton University, Department Chair and Associate Professor of Classics Interests: Religious Studies (Greek epic poetry, Greek lyric, folklore) Published Books | karanika@uci.edu |
Aaron Kheriaty | M.D. Georgetown University, Health Sciences Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior Interests: Religious Studies Published Books | akheriat@uci.edu |
Susan Blakeley Klein | Ph.D. Cornell University, Professor of Japanese Studies Interests: Religious Studies (premodern and modern theater and dance, Japanese religions, feminist critical theory) Published Books | sbklein@uci.edu |
| Jeffrey Kopstein | Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, Department Chair and Professor of Political Science Interests: Religious Studies Faculty Website | kopstein@uci.edu |
James K. Lee | Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles, Associate Professor of Asian American Studies Interests: Culture and Theory; Religious Studies (Asian American literature and culture, contemporary U.S. literature, race and ethnic studies, urban studies, religious studies) | jkl@uci.edu |
Matthias Lehmann | Ph.D. Freie Universtät Berlin, Director of the Interdisciplinary Minor in Jewish Studies and Teller Family Chair in Jewish History and Professor of History Interests: European Languages and Studies;, Religious Studies (early modern and modern Jewish history, Sephardic studies) Published Books | mlehmann@uci.edu |
Mark LeVine | Ph.D. New York University, Professor of History Interests: Culture and Theory; Religious Studies (modern Middle Eastern history, Islamic studies, histories of empire and globalization) Published Books | mlevine@uci.edu |
Jayne Elizabeth Lewis | Ph.D. Princeton University, Professor of English Interests: Religious Studies (literature and medicine, restoration and 18th century British literature, literature of the supernatural and gothic fiction, history and/of fiction, atmosphere as literary concept and construct within natural philosophy) Published Books | jelewis@uci.edu |
Julia R. Lupton | Ph.D. Yale University, Associate Dean for Research and Professor of English Interests: Comparative Literature; Education; Religious Studies (Renaissance literature, literature and psychology) Published Books | jrlupton@uci.edu |
Cecelia M. Lynch | Ph.D. Columbia University, Professor of Political Science Interests: Religious Studies (international relations, religion and ethics; social movements and civil society actors; humanitarianism) | clynch@uci.edu |
| JB Manchak | Ph.D. University of California, Irvine, Professor of Logic and Philosophy of Science Interests: Religious Studies Faculty Website | jmanchak@uci.edu |
Sanjoy Mazumdar | Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Professor Emeritus of Urban Planning and Public Policy Interests: Asian American Studies; Religious Studies | mazumdar@uci.edu |
| Michael T. McBride | Ph.D. Yale University, Professor of Economics Interests: Logic and Philosophy of Science; Religious Studies | mcbride@uci.edu |
Nancy Ann McLoughlin | Ph.D. University of California, Santa Barbara, Director of Humanities Honors Program and Associate Professor of History Interests: European Languages and Studies; Religious Studies (late Medieval Europe, intellectual history, gender) Published Books | nmclough@uci.edu |
Jane O. Newman | Ph.D. Princeton University, Professor of Comparative Literature Interests: English; European Languages and Studies;, Religious Studies (comparative Renaissance, and early modern literature and culture [English, French, German, Italian, neo-Latin], Mediterranean Renaissance studies, Baroque, afterlives of antiquity, Walter Benjamin, Erich Auerbach, pre-modern lessons for the modern and post-modern) Published Books | jonewman@uci.edu |
Maria C. Pantelia | Ph.D. Ohio State University, Director, Thesaurus Linguae Graecae® and Professor of Classics Interests: Religious Studies (Greek epic, Hellenistic poetry, digital technologies in the humanities) Published Books | mcpantel@uci.edu |
Alka Patel | Ph.D. Harvard University, Associate Professor of Art History Interests: History; Religious Studies;, Visual Studies (South Asian and Islamic art and architecture, historiographies, Islamic diasporas in Cuba) Published Books | alkap@uci.edu |
Amy Powell | Ph.D. Harvard University, Associate Professor of Art History Interests: European Languages and Studies; Religious Studies; , Visual Studies (Late medieval and early modern art of northern Europe, critical theory) Published Books | amy.powell@uci.edu |
| Adrian Preda | M.D. Carol Davila University, Health Sciences Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior Interests: Religious Studies | apreda@hs.uci.edu |
Renee J. Raphael | Ph.D. Princeton University, Assistant Professor of History Interests: Religious Studies (early modern Europe, history of science, intellectual history) Faculty Website Published Books | renee.raphael@uci.edu |
Gary Richardson | Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, Professor of Economics Interests: European Languages and Studies; Religious Studies | garyr@uci.edu |
Michael Ryan | Ph.D. University of Iowa, Professor of English Interests: Religious Studies (American literature, creative writing, poetry, poetics, autobiography) Published Books | mryan@uci.edu |
Victoria A. Silver | Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles, Professor of English Interests: Religious Studies (early modern literature and culture, religious studies, history and theory of rhetoric, literature and philosophy) Faculty Website | vasilver@uci.edu |
John H. Smith | Ph.D. Princeton University, Professor of Comparative Literature Interests: German;, Religious Studies (18th- and 19th-century literature and intellectual history, literary theory) Faculty Website Published Books | jhsmith@uci.edu |
| Ian Straughn | Ph.D. University of Chicago, Assistant Professor of Teaching of Anthropology Interests: Religious Studies Faculty Website | ian.straughn@uci.edu |
Elizabeth Tinsley | Ph.D. Columbia University, Ph.D. Otani University, Assistant Professor of Buddhist Studies Interests: Visual Studies; Religious Studies (Buddhism in East Asia, Japanese Buddhism, East Asian religions, Buddhist visual and textual cultures, visual theory) | etinsley@uci.edu |
Roxanne Varzi | Ph.D. Columbia University, Associate Professor of Anthropology Interests: Culture and Theory; Film and Media Studies; Religious Studies;, Visual Studies (Iran, media, war, visual anthropology, film studies, ethnographic and fiction writing) | rvarzi@uci.edu |
Roger Walsh | M.D., Ph.D., D.H.L. University of Queensland, Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior Interests: Philosophy;Anthropology; Religious Studies (contemplative and spiritual practice, ethics and wisdom, exceptional psychological wellbeing) | rwalsh@uci.edu |