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The Study of Religion—Chairs and Directors

Chair of the Standing Committee on the Study of Religion: Catherine Brekus
Director of Undergraduate Studies: Courtney Lamberth
Director of Graduate Studies: Michelle C. Sanchez

Faculty of the Standing Committee on the Study of Religion

Ali Asani, Murray A. Albertson Professor of Middle Eastern Studies and Professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic Religion and Cultures
Giovanni Bazzana, Professor of New Testament (Divinity School) (on leave 2022-2023)
Catherine Brekus, Charles Warren Professor of the History of Religion in America (Divinity School)
Davíd Carrasco, Neil L. Rudenstine Professor for the Study of Latin America (FAS and Divinity School)
Shaye J. D. Cohen, Nathan Littauer Professor of Hebrew Literature and Philosophy
Benjamin Dunning, Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity (Divinity School)
Diana Eck, Fredric Wertham Professor of Law and Psychiatry in Society
James Engell, Gurney Professor of English Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature
Luis Girón Negrón, Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of Comparative Literature
Mohsen Goudarzi, Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies (Divinity School) (on leave 2022-2023)
Janet Gyatso, Hershey Professor of Buddhist Studies (Divinity School)
David Holland, John A. Bartlett Professor of New England Church History (Divinity School) (on leave 2022-2023)
Amy Hollywood, Elizabeth H. Monrad Professor of Christian Studies (Divinity School)
Terrence Johnson, Professor of African American Religious Studies (Divinity School)
Courtney Lamberth, Director of Undergraduate Studies for the Study of Religion
David Lamberth, Professor of Philosophy and Theology (Divinity School)
Jacob Olupona, Professor of African and African American Studies (FAS) and Professor of African Religious Traditions (Divinity School)
Parimal Patil, Professor of Religion and Indian Philosophy
Kimberley Patton, Professor of the Comparative and Historical Study of Religion (Divinity School)
Matthew Potts, Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church and Plummer Professor of Christian Morals in the Divinity School
Michael Puett, Walter C. Klein Professor of Chinese History
Annette Yoshiko Reed, Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity (Divinity School)
Julia Rhyder, Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Mayra Rivera, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Religion and Latinx Studies (Divinity School)
James Robson, James C. Kralik and Yunli Lou Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Michelle C. Sanchez, Associate Professor of Theology (Divinity School)
Terenjit Sevea, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies (Divinity School) (on leave 2022-2023)
Charles Stang, Professor of Early Christian Thought (Divinity School)
David Stern, Harry Starr Professor of Classical and Modern Jewish and Hebrew Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature
D. Andrew Teeter, Professor of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament (Divinity School)
Leonard van der Kuijp, Professor of Tibetan and Himalayan Studies
Eugene Y. Wang, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Professor of Asian Art
Malika Zeghal, Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Professor in Contemporary Islamic Thought and Life

Other Faculty Offering Instruction

Charles Lockwood, Lecturer on the Study of Religion

Additional Information

For additional information, please visit https://studyofreligion.fas.harvard.edu/