Faculty List
Joel Brereton
Associate Professor
jpb@austin.utexas.edu | 512-475-6024 | WCH 4.114
Education
Ph.D., Yale University
Interests
Religion & literature of early India | Vedic studies | Sanskrit | Asian religionsAlison K. Frazier
Associate Professor
akfrazier@mail.utexas.edu | 512-475-6375 | GAR 2.148
Education
Ph.D., 1997, Columbia University
Interests
Premodern saints' lives | biblical exegesis | manuscript and print culture | Machiavelli and torture | ConsolatoriaOliver Freiberger
Associate Professor
of@austin.utexas.edu | 512-471-8239 | WCH 5.110
Education
Ph.D., Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany
Interests
Indian Buddhism | asceticism | comparison in the study of religionSteven J. Friesen
Interim Chair; Professor, Louise Farmer Boyer Chair in Biblical Studies
friesen@mail.utexas.edu | (512) 471-8629 | BUR 418
Education
Ph.D., Harvard University
Interests
Social history of the early Christian churches | Roman imperial cults | Revelation and apocalypticism | indigenous religions | social locations and functions of religionVirginia Garrard-Burnett
Professor
garrard@austin.utexas.edu | 512.475.7822 | GAR 2.204
Education
Ph.D., 1986, Tulane University
Interests
Religion in Latin America | Protestantism and new religious movements | religious and ethnic identity among the Maya | neo-pentecostalism in BrazilJo Ann Hackett
Professor
hackett@austin.utexas.edu | 512-471-6951 | WMB 5.136
Education
Ph.D., Harvard University
Interests
Old Testament & Hebrew studies | Semitic languages & epigraphy | women in the ancient Near East | mythologyMartha G. Newman
Associate Professor
newman@mail.utexas.edu | 512-475-8660 | BUR 410 / GAR 3.408
Education
Ph.D., 1988, Stanford University
Interests
Medieval Christian monasticism | monastic miracle collections | monastic attitudes toward women & the poorPatrick Olivelle
Professor; Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities
jpo@uts.cc.utexas.edu | 512-475-6032 | WCH 4.112
Education
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Interests
Ancient Indian religious history | ancient Indian legal tradition of Dharmasastra | SanskritChad Seales
Assistant Professor
seales@mail.utexas.edu | 512-232-5929 | BUR 412
Education
Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Interests
Religion in the American South | religion and industry | religion and popular culture | theory and method in the study of religion | religion and migrationJohn W. Traphagan
Associate Professor
john.traphagan@austin.utexas.edu | 512-232-0874 | BUR 426
Education
Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh
Interests
Religion & ritual | Japanese religion & society | anthropology of religion | medical ethics | gender & aging | family & kinshipThomas A. Tweed
Gwyn Shive, Anita Nordan Lindsay, and Joe and Cherry Gray Professor of the History of Christianity
tomtweed@austin.utexas.edu | 512-232-8382 | BUR 422
Education
Ph.D., Stanford University
Interests
Religion in the Americas | Catholicism in America | Asian religions in US | Latino/a religion | religion & transnationalism | religion & geography | method & theory in the study of religionL. Michael White
Professor, Ronald Nelson Smith Chair in Classics and Religious Studies; Director, Institute for the Study of Antiquity & Christian Origins (ISAC)
lmwhite@mail.utexas.edu | 512-232-1438 | WAG 212
Education
Ph.D., Yale University



