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The Study of Religion—Chairs and Directors

Chair of the Standing Committee on the Study of Religion: Luis M. Giron Negron

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 (on leave 2025-2026)
Swayam Bagaria, Assistant Professor of Hindu Studies (Divinity School)
Giovanni B. Bazzana, Frothingham Professor of the History of Religion and Professor of New Testament and Early Christian Studies (Divinity School)
Catherine Brekus, Charles Warren Professor of the History of Religion in America (Divinity School) (on leave 2025-2026)
Francis X. Clooney, Parkman Professor of Divinity and Professor of Comparative Theology (Divinity School)
Benjamin H. Dunning, Florence Corliss Lamont Professor of Divinity and Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity (Divinity School)
Mohsen Goudarzi, Associate Professor of Islamic Studies (Divinity School)
Ahmad Greene-Hayes, Assistant Professor of African American Religious Studies (Divinity School)
Janet Gyatso, Hershey Professor of Buddhist Studies (Divinity School)
Jay M. Harris, Harry Austryn Wolfson Professor of Jewish Studies
David N. Hempton, Alonzo L. McDonald Family Professor of Evangelical Theological Studies (Divinity School)
David Holland, John A. Bartlett Professor of New England Church History (Divinity School)
Amy Hollywood, Elizabeth H. Monrad Professor of Christian Studies (Divinity School)
Nicole Hoskins, Assistant Professor of Religion and Ecology (Divinity School)
Terrence L. Johnson, Professor of African and African American Studies and Charles G. Adams Professor of African American Religious Studies
Courtney B. Lamberth, Director of Undergraduate Studies for the Study of Religion
David Lamberth, Professor of Philosophy and Theology (Divinity School) (on leave fall term)
Shaul Magid, Professor of Modern Jewish Studies in Residence (Divinity School)
Jacob Olupona, Hugh K. Foster Professor of African and African American Studies and Professor of African Religious Traditions
Kimberley Patton, Professor of the Comparative and Historical Study of Religion (Divinity School)
Felipe Pereda, Fernando Zobel de Ayala Professor of Spanish Art
Michael Puett, Walter C. Klein Professor of Chinese History
Annette Y. Reed, Krister Stendahl Professor of Divinity and Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity (Divinity School) (on leave 2025-2026)
Julia V. Rhyder, Associate Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Mayra Rivera, The Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Religion and Latinx Studies (Divinity School) (spring term only)
James Robson, James C. Kralik and Yunli Lou Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations; Harvard College Professor
Panagiotis Roilos, George Seferis Professor of Modern Greek Studies and of Comparative Literature
Michelle C. Sanchez, Professor of Theology (Divinity School)
Martha Selby, Sangam Professor of South Asian Studies and Professor of Comparative Literature
Terenjit S. Sevea, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Associate Professor of Islamic Studies (Divinity School) (on leave 2025-2026)
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 (Divinity School)
Eugene Y. Wang, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Professor of Asian Art
Nicholas Watson, Henry B. and Anne M. Cabot Professor of English Literature
Raúl E. Zegarra, Assistant Professor of Roman Catholic Theological Studies (Divinity School)
Malika Zeghal, Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Professor in Contemporary Islamic Thought and Life (on leave 2025-2026)

Other Faculty Offering Instruction

Charles Lockwood, Lecturer on the Study of Religion

Additional Information

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