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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

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)

Anya Bernstein, Professor of Anthropology

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)

Francis X. Clooney, Parkman Professor of Divinity and Professor of Comparative Theology

Shaye J. Cohen, Nathan Littauer Professor of Hebrew Literature and Philosophy (fall term only)

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 (fall term only)

Luis Girón Negrón, William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Comparative Literature and of Romance Languages and Literatures (on leave spring term)

Mohsen Goudarzi, Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies (Divinity School)

Ahmad Greene-Hayes, Assistant Professor of African American Religious Studies

Janet Gyatso, Hershey Professor of Buddhist Studies (Divinity School)

Jay M. Harris, Harry Austryn Wolfson Professor of Jewish Studies

David Holland, John A. Bartlett Professor of New England Church History (Divinity School)

Amy Hollywood, Elizabeth H. Monrad Professor of Christian Studies (Divinity School)

Tracey Hucks, Victor S. Thomas Professor of Africana Religious Studies

Terrence Johnson, Professor of African American Religious Studies (Divinity School) (on leave 2023-2024)

Courtney B. 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)

Kimberley Patton, Professor of the Comparative and Historical Study of Religion (Divinity School) (on leave spring term)

Irene Peirano Garrison, Pope Professor of the Latin Language and Literature

Felipe Pereda, Fernando Zobel de Ayala Professor of Spanish Art

Michael Puett, Walter C. Klein Professor of Chinese History

Annette Yoshiko Reed, Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity (Divinity School)

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) (on leave fall term)

Martha Selby, Sangam Professor of South Asian Studies and Professor of Comparative Literature

Terenjit Sevea, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies (Divinity School)

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)

Eugene Y. Wang, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Professor of Asian Art

Malika Zeghal, Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Professor in Contemporary Islamic Thought and Life

Charles Lockwood, Lecturer on the Study of Religion

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

The Study of Religion—Chairs and Directors