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Department of Religion


Degree Programs: Full-Time: M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Free-Standing M.A., Journalism-Religion; Full-Time/Part-Time: Free-Standing M.A.

Chair: Mark C. Taylor, Ph.D.
80 Claremont
Room 103
Tel: 212.851.4124


Director of Graduate Studies: Wayne Proudfoot, Ph.D.
80 Claremont Room 301
Tel: 212.851.4142


Dissertation Sponsors

Peter J. Awn:
Professor, Ph.D., Harvard, 1978
Interests: Islamic religion; history of religions; human rights in Islam
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Randall Balmer:
Professor, Ph.D., Princeton, 1984
Interests: Religion in America
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Courtney Bender:
Associate Professor, Ph.D., Princeton, 1997
Interests: Cultural sociology; religion; theory
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Euan Cameron:
Union Theological Seminary
Interests: The intellectual response to popular superstitions from the Middle Ages to early modern Europe; Christianity and historicism; the Roman Catholic tradition.
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Elizabeth Castelli:
(Barnard), Claremont, 1987
Interests: Biblical studies, New Testament; early Christianity
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Michael Como:
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Stanford, 2000
Interests: Japanese religion
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Gary Dorrien:
Professor, Ph.D., Union Theological Seminary, 1979
Interests: History of liberal theology; social ethics
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
David Weiss Halivni:
Professor, D.H.L., Jewish Theological Seminary, 1957
Interests: Talmud; Rabbinic Judaism
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
John S. Hawley:
Professor, Ph.D., Harvard, 1977
Interests: Hinduism; South Asia
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Mary McGee:
Adjunct Associate Professor, Th.D., Harvard, 1987
Interests: Religions of South Asia
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
John McGuckin:
(Union Theological Seminary), Rev., Ph.D.
Interests: History of aesthetics in early Christian Europe; history of the Byzantine church
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Wayne Proudfoot:
Professor, Ph.D., Harvard, 1972
Interests: Philosophy of religion; modern Christian thought
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Jonathan Schorsch:
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., California (Berkeley), 2000
Interests: Jewish history and culture; religious and racial identity in the early modern Atlantic world
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Alan F. Segal:
Professor, Ph.D., Yale, 1975
Interests: History of religions with a concentration in Hellenistic and early Rabbinic Judaism
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Robert Somerville:
Professor, Ph.D., Yale, 1968
Interests: History of Christianity; medieval Christianity; history of canon law; papal and conciliar history; medieval manuscripts
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Mark C. Taylor:
Professor, Ph.D., Harvard, 1973; Doktorgrad, Copenhagen, 1981
Interests: Religion and architecture; philosophy of religion
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Robert A. F. Thurman:
Professor
Interests: Buddhism, South Asia
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Gary A. Tubb:
Senior Lecturer, Ph.D., Harvard, 1979
Interests: Religions of South Asia, Sanskrit
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Chun-Fang Yu:
Professor, Ph.D., Columbia, 1973
Interests: Living traditions in daily life Chinese Buddhism, Buddhist nuns in contemporary Taiwan
Approved Dissertation Sponsor




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