Faculty List
Core Faculty
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@austin.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 4.104A
Education
Ph.D., Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany
Interests
Indian Buddhism | asceticism | comparison in the study of religionSteven J. Friesen
Professor, Louise Farmer Boyer Chair in Biblical Studies
friesen@austin.utexas.edu | (512) 471-8629 | BUR 530
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 BrazilJennifer Graber
Associate Professor
jgraber@austin.utexas.edu | (512) 471-8634 | BUR 528
Education
Ph.D., Duke UniversityJo 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
Department Chair; Associate Professor
newman@austin.utexas.edu | (512) 232-2264 | BUR 418 / 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@austin.utexas.edu | 512-232-5929 | BUR 516
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 533
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@utexas.edu | 512-232-1438 | WAG 212
Education
Ph.D., Yale University
Interests
Greco-Roman religions | formative Judaism | Christian origins | archaeology & social historyAffiliated Faculty
Robert H. Abzug
Oliver H. Radkey Regents Professor of History; Director, Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies
zug@austin.utexas.edu | 512-475-7240 | GAR 2.108
Education
Ph.D., History, 1977, University of California, Berkeley
Interests
Religion in the U.S. | social reform and religious life in antebellum America | America and the Holocaust | the interpenetration of religion and psychology in modern American cultureHina Azam
Assistant Professor, Department of Middle Eastern Studies
hina.azam@austin.utexas.edu | 475-8393 (no voicemail - please call department to leave a message) | WMB 5.120A
Education
Ph.D.- 2007, Duke University
Interests
Islamic jurisprudence, theology, exegesis, hadith studies; Women/sexuality and Islam; Sexual Violence in Islamic LawMiriam Bodian
Professor, Department of History
bodian@austin.utexas.edu | 512-471-4358 | GAR 2.104A
Education
Ph.D., 1988, Hebrew University
Interests
Spanish and Portuguese Inquisitions | post-Expulsion Sephardic Jewry | Jews and the ReformationMatthew J. Butler
Associate Professor, Department of History
mbutler@austin.utexas.edu | 512-475-7972 | GAR 3.414
Education
Ph.D., 1999, University of Bristol
Interests
Religion in Latin America | Post-revolutionary Mexico | Cristero Rebellion | Church and State | Latin American CatholicismJorge Cañizares-Esguerra
Alice Drysdale Sheffield Professor of History
canizares-esguerra@austin.utexas.edu | 512-475-7694 | GAR 2.140
Education
Ph.D., 1995, University of Wisconsin
Interests
Early Modern Atlantic History | History of Science and Colonialism | History of Knowledge | Colonial Spanish and British AmericaJohn R Clarke
Professor, Department of Art & Art History; Annie Laurie Howard Regents Professor in Fine Arts
j.clarke@austin.utexas.edu | 512-232-2355 | DFA 2.114
Education
PhD, Yale
Interests
Greek and Roman art and architectureKarl Galinsky
Floyd A. Cailloux Centennial Professor of Classics, University Distinguished Teaching Professor
galinsky@austin.utexas.edu | 471-8504 | WAG 215
Education
Ph.D., Princeton
Interests
Roman literature | Augustine culture | Greco-Roman religion | social memoryJohn Huehnergard
Professor, Department of Middle Eastern Studies
huehnergard@austin.utexas.edu | 512-471-7081 | WMB 5.140
Education
Ph.D. 1979, Harvard University
Interests
Semitic languages and linguistics | historical linguistics | writing systems | ancient Near Eastern historyS. Akbar Hyder
Associate Professor, Department of Asian Studies
shyder@austin.utexas.edu | 512-475-6031 | WCH 4.110
Education
Ph.D., Harvard University
Interests
Islam in South Asia | religious aesthetics in South Asia and the Middle EastJanice Leoshko
Associate Professor, Department of Art & Art History
jleoshko@mail.utexas.edu | 512-232-2581 | DFA 2.110
Education
Ph.D., Ohio State University
Interests
religious art in South and Southeast Asia | Indian Buddhist art | Jain artNa'ama Pat-El
Assistant Professor, Department of Middle Eastern Studies
npatel@austin.utexas.edu | 232-8292 | WMB 5.144
Education
Ph.D.- 2008, Harvard University
Interests
Comparative Semitic linguistics | historical linguistics | languages in contactGlenn Peers
Professor, Department of Art & Art History
gpeers@austin.utexas.edu | 512-232-2594 | DFA 2.508
Education
Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University
Interests
Early medieval and Byzantine artMartha Selby
Professor and Chair, Department of Asian Studies
ms@uts.cc.utexas.edu | 512-475-6040 | WCH 4.134A
Education
Ph.D., University of Chicago
Interests
Representations of women in Indian religions | religion and medicine | religious poetry of IndiaNancy K. Stalker
Associate Professor, Department of Asian Studies
nancy.stalker@mail.utexas.edu | 512-475-6044 | WCH 5.128
Education
Ph.D., 2002, Stanford University
Interests
New religious movements in Japan | 20th-century cultural history of Japan | religion and genderDavid Stuart
Professor, Department of Art & Art History; Linda and David Schele Professor of Mesoamerican Art and Writing
davidstuart@mail.utexas.edu | 512-232-2363 | ART 1.412
Education
Ph.D., Vanderbilt University
