Faculty


	David Albertson Assistant Professor of Religion Ph.D. Religion, University of Chicago Office: ACB227 Phone: (213)740-7050 Email: dalberts@usc.edu	Research Specialities: Medieval and Renaissance Christianity, Christian mysticism, medieval and Renaissance philosophy, philosophy of religion, visual culture
	Lisa Bitel Professor of History and Religion Ph.D. History, Harvard University Office: SOS282 Phone: (213)821-2150 Email: bitel@usc.edu	Research Specialities: Medieval European history, history of Christianity, religious studies, women's and gender history, Irish history, Celtic literatures and cultures, art and archaeology of medieval Europe, visual and material culture of pre-modern Europe
	Sheila Briggs Associate Professor of Religion and Gender Studies Office: ACB130 Phone: (213)740-0267 Email: sbriggs@usc.edu
	Lynn Dodd Lecturer Ph.D. Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, University of California, Los Angeles Office: ACB335 Phone: (213)740-0266 Email: swartz@usc.edu	Research Specialities: Amuq Valley Research Project Survey (Turkey) Kenan Tepe Excavations (Tigris River, Turkey) Native American Sacred Landscapes Project (California) Tell al-Judaidah Publication Project (Turkey) Israeli Palestinian Archaeology Working Group (Co-organizer)
	Ronald Garet Carolyn Craig Franklin Professor of Law and Religion and Professor of Law Ph.D. Religious Studies, Yale University Office: LAW454 Phone: (213)740-2568
	G. Clinton Godart Assistant Professor of History, Religion and East Asian Languages and Cultures Ph.D. History, University of Chicago Office: SOS153 Phone: (213)740-1657 Email: godart@usc.edu	Research Specialities: Modern Japanese History, Intellectual History of Japan, History of Science, Buddhism in Modern Japan
	L. Katharine Harrington Adjunct Professor of Religion
	Janet Hoskins Professor of Anthropology and Religion Ph.D. Anthropology, Harvard University Office: GFS131 Phone: (213)740-1913 Email: jhoskins@usc.edu
	Sherman Jackson King Faisal Chair in Islamic Thought and Culture and Professor of Religion and American Studies and Ethnicity Ph.D. Oriental Studies: Islamic Near East, University of Pennsylvania Office: ACB130 Phone: (213)740-0270 Email: sajackso@usc.edu
	Rongdao Lai Assistant Professor of Religion Office: ACB130 Phone: (213)740-0270 Email: leilai@usc.edu
	Sonya Lee Associate Professor of Art History, East Asian Languages and Cultures and Religion Ph.D. Art History, University of Chicago Office: VKC351 Phone: (213)821-2582 Email: sonyasle@usc.edu	Research Specialities: Chinese religious art and architecture, visual cultures of the Silk Road
	Paul Lichterman Professor of Sociology and Religion Ph.D. Sociology, University of California, Berkeley Office: KAP352 Phone: (213)740-3533 Email: lichterm@usc.edu	Research Specialities: culture (public culture, civic and political culture, organizational culture), religion, political sociology, civic engagement, theory, qualitative methodology, ethnographic methods
	James McHugh Assistant Professor of Religion Ph.D. Sanskrit and Indian Studies, Harvard University Office: ACB126 Phone: (213)740-7141 Email: jmchugh@usc.edu	Research Specialities: Material culture of South Asian religions. Smell, aromatics and religion. History of perfumery. History of alcohol in India. Sanskrit literary and technical texts. Material culture theory.
	Lori Meeks Associate Professor of Religion and East Asian Languages and Cultures Ph.D. East Asian Religions, Princeton University Office: ACB234 Phone: (323)719-0984 Email: meeks@usc.edu	Research Specialities: Women, Gender, and Religion; Religious and Social History of Japan; Women’s History in East Asia; Buddhist Literature and Philosophy; Buddhist Monasticism; Japanese Literature and Culture
	Donald Miller Leonard K. Firestone Professor of Religion and Professor of Religion and Sociology Ph.D. Social Ethics and Religion, University of Southern California Office: ACB439 Phone: (213)740-8562 Email: demiller@usc.edu	Research Specialities: Religious trends, genocide, oral history, religious ethnography,Pentecostalism
	Cecil Murray John R. Tansey Chair in Christian Ethics and Professor of Religion Ph.D. Religion, Claremont School of Theology Office: ABMABM Phone: (213)743-4105 Email: clmurray@usc.edu
	Megan Reid Assistant Professor of Religion, Gender Studies, and Law Ph.D. Religion, Princeton Office: ACB235 Phone: (213)740-3623 Email: meganrei@usc.edu
	Rita Sherma Swami Vivekananda Visiting Faculty in Hindu Studies Office: ACB130 Phone: (213)740-0272 Email: ritasherma@aol.com
	Stephen Smith Adjunct Professor of Religion Office: LVL119A Phone: (213)740-6003 Email: smithsd@usc.edu
	Varun Soni Adjunct Assistant Professor of Religion Office: URC106 Phone: (213)740-6110 Email: vasoni@usc.edu
	Duncan Williams Associate Professor of Religion Ph.D. Religion (Japanese Religions), Harvard University Office: ACB130 Phone: (213)740-0272 Email: duncanwi@usc.edu	Research Specialities: Buddhism, Japanese religions, American Buddhism, Buddhism and the environment, Japanese-American history and religion, Hybrid Japan, social history of religion
	Diane Winston Knight Chair in Media and Religion and Associate Professor of Religion Email: dianewin@usc.edu
	Bruce Zuckerman Myron and Marian Casden Director and Professor of Religion and Linguistics Ph.D. Ancient Near Eastern Languages, Yale University Office: ACB327 Phone: (213)740-3405 Email: bzuckerm@college.usc.edu

Affiliated Faculty


	Reuven Firestone Professor of Medieval Judaism and Islam Ph.D. New York University Office: HUC018 Phone: (213) 765-2139 Email: rfirestone@huc.edu	Research Specialities:Holy war, Qur'anic narrative, history of Judaism, history of Islam, phenomenology of religion, scriptural intertextuality, emergent religion and new religious movements
	Joshua D. Garroway Assistant Professor of Early Christianity and Second Commonwealth Ph.D., Religious Studies, Yale University Office: HUC 012 Phone: (213) 765-2175 Email: jgarroway@huc.edu	Research Specialities: Pauline Studies, Historical Jesus, Luke-Acts, History of the Early Church, Jewish Identity in Antiquity, Jewish-Christian Relations.
	Leah Hochman Assistant Professor of Jewish Thought, Director, Jerome H. Louchheim School for Judaic Studies at USC Office: HUC 208 Phone: (213)765-2114 Email: hochman@usc.edu	Research Specialities:Religion and literature, medieval, modern and contemporary Jewish and religious thought; 18th-century aesthetics; Jewish studies; German-Jewish studies; Jewish literature; Judaism in the US and the Americas; food and religion; gender and Judaism; religion and popular culture.

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University of Southern California
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Los Angeles, CA 90089-1481

Phone: (213) 740 - 0270
Email: religion@dornsife.usc.edu