Jawid Mojaddedi

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Department Chair
Professor
Islamic Studies

D. Christian Lammerts

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Director of Graduate Studies
Associate Professor
Theravāda Buddhism, Buddhism and Law, Legal History

Debra Scoggins Ballentine

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Associate Professor
Hebrew Bible,
Ancient Israelite History and Religion,
Ancient West Asian Literature
Hebew and Northwest Semitic Languages,
Second Temple Judaism,
Myth-making in the Ancient World

Edwin F. Bryant

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Professor
Religions of India

Tillo Detige

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Alka Siddhartha Dalal Postdoctoral Fellow in Jainism
Jainism, South Asian religion, Hindi, Sanskrit

Diane Shane Fruchtman

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Associate Professor
Early and Medieval Christian theology, history, and literature, with a focus on the Latin West.
Martyrdom and sainthood, gender, identity politics, rhetoric, violence, and community formation

Charles Häberl

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Professor (AMESALL & Religion)
Languages of the Middle East, both ancient and modern, and ethnic, linguistic, and religious minorities from the region

Tao Jiang

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Director of Rutgers Center for Chinese Studies
Professor (Religion & Philosophy)
Classical Chinese Philosophy, Mahāyāna Buddhist Philosophy, Cross-Cultural Philosophy

Sandy Russell Jones

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Associate Teaching Professor (History & Religion)
Women and Gender in Islam, Islamophobia, Islamic History, Comparative Religion

Tia M. Kolbaba

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Associate Professor
Early Christianity,
Byzantine Studies

Dugan McGinley

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Assistant Teaching Professor
Religion, Culture, and Society;
Gender and Sexuality;
Religious Ethics;
Contemporary Catholicism;
Religion and the Arts;
Spiritual Autobiography;
Death and Dying

Hilit Surowitz-Israel

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Assistant Professor
Religion in the Americas, Caribbean Religions, Sephardic Jewish History, Atlantic History, Diaspora Theory

Emma Wasserman

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Director of Undergraduate Studies
Professor
New Testament, Religions of the Greco-Roman World, Second Temple Judaism

Joseph W. Williams

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Associate Professor
American Religious History,
The Pentecostal-Charismatic Tradition,
Religion and Modernization,
Religion and Healing