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Faculty Research Areas
- Ethnography
- Material Religion
- US Evangelicalism
- Global Christianity
- Anthropology of Religion
- Chinese Buddhism
- Chan/Zen Buddhism
- Chinese Buddhist apocryphal scriptures
- Interactions between Buddhism and Daoism
- Gender, sexuality, and the body
- Islam in the Persianate and Indian Ocean Worlds
- Religious Materiality, Senses, and Embodiment
- Sufism and Veneration of the Prophet Muhammad
- Religious Interactions in South Asia, 1000–1800
- Early Modern North Indian Devotional Traditions
- Pre-modern Islam and Politics
- Religion and State
- Religion, Law & Politics
- Political Theory/Political Theology
- Public Understandings of Religion
- Religion and International Relations
- American Borders
- US and the Middle East
- US Religion, Politics & Public Life
- Islam in South Asia
- Sufism
- Islamic Law
- Muslim politics
- Critical studies of secularity
- Theory and Method in Religious Studies
- Tibetan Buddhist Studies
- Buddhist literature
- Gender and sexuality studies
- Auto/biography studies
- Religion in classical South Asia
- Hindu law (dharmaśāstra) and Statecraft (arthaśāstra)
- Sanskrit language and literature
- Textual criticism
- Law and religion
- Politics and religion
- Africana Religion
- African Diaspora Studies
- Religion and Ethnography
- Global Pentecostalism
- Religion and Politics
- Caribbean Studies
- Digital Humanities
- History of Christianity in early modern Europe and Latin America, with emphasis on the Society of Jesus and colonial Mexico
- Early modern natural and moral philosophy
- Interested in the space where critical theory meets social science
- American Catholicism in both historical and ethnographic perspective
- Theory and method for the study of religion
- Media, Religion, and Culture
- Religion in the Digital Age
- Religion, Environment, and Climate Change
- Climate Mediamaking
- Religion, Marketing, and Consumerism
- Religion and American Culture
- Environmental Humanities
- Hope Studies
- Classical Rabbinic Literature
- Babylonian Talmud
- The relationship between law and literature as both a general theoretical question and within the Jewish tradition
- The Mishnah as a work of literature
- Rabbinic Judaism, especially rabbinic education and embodiment in late antiquity and contemporary Jewish institutional afterlives
- American Judaism
- Jewish Orthodoxy and ex-Orthodoxy (Off the Derech Studies)
- Comparative Ex-Religion
- Feminist Science Studies
- Bioethnography; Textual Ethnography
- Gender/Sex, Sexuality, and Reproduction
- Religious Education
