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 religions

Alison 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 | Consolatoria

Oliver 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 religion

Steven 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 religion

Virginia 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 Brazil

Jo 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 | mythology

Martha 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 poor

Patrick 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 | Sanskrit

Chad 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 migration

John 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 & kinship

Thomas 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 religion

L. 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

Interests

  Greco-Roman religions | formative Judaism | Christian origins | archaeology & social history