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Alison Melnick

Associate Professor of Religious Studies

18th Century Tibetan History, Asian religious history, Chinese borderland religions, Gender and Authority in Tibet, gender and religion, Hagiography in Asian contexts, Privilege studies, Religion and Gender in Asia, Religions of China, Religions of South Asia, Tibetan religion, Tibetan religion and history

Trian Nguyen

Associate Professor of Art and Visual Culture

Asian art history, Daoist ceremonial paintings, East Asian ceramic, Thich Quang Duc’s self-immolation and his impact, Vietnamese Buddhist sculpture

Marcus C. Bruce

Charles A. Dana Professor of Religious Studies

African American culture, African Americans in France, African-American studies, American cultural studies, American religious history, American religious studies, cultural studies

Nathan C. Faries

Associate Professor of Asian Studies

Wesley B. Chaney

Associate Professor of History

Lisa Maurizio

Professor of Classical and Medieval Studies

Archaic and classical Greek religion, Greek and Roman history and religion, Greek and Roman mythology and literature, mythology, oral poetry, oral studies and gender studies, women’s history

Janice R. Levi

Visiting Assistant Professor of History

African History, Africana Studies, Ethnicity and Race Studies, Historical Transmission, Jewish History, memory studies, Migration Studies, Religious Studies

David R. George Jr.

Senior Lecturer in Hispanic Studies

19th and 20th century Iberian literatures and cultures, Asian studies, European studies, film and TV literary adaptations, Global Hispanophone Studies, Hispano-Asian studies, Iberian studies, Japanese studies, media studies, nineteenth-century studies, realist novel, travel narrative, travel writing

Mark L. Tizzoni

Assistant Professor of Classical and Medieval Studies

cultural and intellectual history, Early Middle Ages, ethnicity, history, history of identity, late antiquity, Late Latin, Latin language, Latin poetry, medieval studies, post-Roman world, premodern African history, premodern Iberia, premodern North Africa, race and ethnicity

Lisa Landoe Hedrick

Visiting Assistant Professor of Religious Studies