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Angelov, Alexander
Director of Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Email: [[aangelov]]
Interests: Medieval Christianity; Eastern Orthodoxy; Byzantine and Balkan history; Conversion; Inter-religious relations; Atheism and Secularization; Cultural Anthropology; Theories of Religion
Office: Wren 309

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Blazer, Annie
David L. Holmes Associate Professor of Reformation Studies and American Religious History
Email: [[alblazer]]
Interests: religion in North America; religion and popular culture; gender and sexuality; critical race studies; anthropology of religion; religion and urbanization
Office: Wren 304

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Burchett, Patton
Associate Professor
Email: [[peburchett]]
Interests: Religions of South Asia; Hindu devotion (Bhakti); Yoga; Tantra; Hindu-Muslim relations; Magic, Science, & Religion; Colonialism; "Spirituality" & Neoliberalism; Religion & Ecology; Contemplative Studies; Religious Nationalisms
Office: Wren 308

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Daise, Michael
Endowed Professor of Judaic Studies in Religious Studies; Department Chair
Email: [[madais]]
Interests: Early Judaism and nascent Christianity.
Office: Wren 201

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Fischbach, Rahel
Assistant Professor of Religious Studies
Email: [[rfischbach]]
Interests: Qur'ān Hermeneutics, Interfaith Relations, Postcolonialism, Gender, Islamic Legal Cultures
Office: Wren 313

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Fraser Kirsh, Mary
Visiting Teaching Professor of Judaic Studies
Email: [[mfkirsh]]
Office: Wren 310
Interests: Holocaust history, Jewish identity in post-Holocaust Europe, memorialization of the Holocaust, Jewish childhood, gender and Judaism, Jewish memoirs, refugees and religion

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Homrighausen, Joanna
Adjunct Lecturer for Judaic Studies and Religious Studies
Email: [[jdhomrighausen]]
Office: Wren 315B

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Leveille, Matthew
Adjunct Lecturer
Email: [[mcleveille]]
Interests: Hinduism; Religions of South Asia; Sanskrit Poetry (kāvya), devotional poetry (stotra), and poetics (alaṃkāraśāstra); Hindu devotion (bhakti); Hermeneutics; Religion and Literature
Office: Available by Appointment

Liggin , Fred
Adjunct Lecturer
Email: [[ofliggin]]
Office: Available by Appointment

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McLaughlin, Mark
Teaching Professor of South Asian Religions
Email: [[mjmclaughlin]]
Office: Wren 312
Interests: South Asian Religions, History and Philosophy of Meditation and Yoga, Sacred Space in South Asia, Tomb and Relic Traditions, Sustainability and Religion

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Rainey, Eugenia
Assistant Professor
Email: [[etrainey]]
Interests: African Diaspora religions, medical anthropology, race, lived religion, critical theory, colonialism
Office: Samuel E. Jones House Room 204

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Rashkover, Randi
Director of Judaic Studies, Sophia and Nathan S. Gumenick Professor of Judaic Studies
Email: rlrashkover@wm.edu
Interests: Jewish philosophy, Jewish-Christian Comparative Theology, Jewish Political Thought
Office: Wren 303

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Sheikh, Faraz
Hans Tiefel Associate Professor of Ethics
Email: [[fmsheikh]]
Interests: Comparative Religious Ethics; Ethical Formation; Muslim Ethics; Discourse and Subjectivity
Office: Wren 305

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Tobolowsky, Andrew
Walter G. Mason Associate Professor of Religious Studies
Email: [[abtobolowsky]]
Interests: Hebrew Bible, Ancient Israel, Greek Mythology, Ancient History
Office: Wren 307

Vose, Kevin
Walter G. Mason Associate Professor of Religious Studies
Email: [[kavose]]
Office: Wren 306