School of Religion Faculty

Chair

Leonard K. Firestone Professor of Religion
Ph.D. Sanskrit and Indian Studies, Harvard University

E-mail: jmchugh@usc.edu

Office: ACB 226
Phone: (213) 740-7141

Research Specialties: Material Culture of South Asian Religions, Smell, Aromatics and Religion, History of Perfumery, History of Alcohol in India, Sanskrit Literary and Technical Texts, Material Cultural Theory

Associate Professor of Religion
Ph.D. Religion, University of Chicago

Email: dalberts@usc.edu

Office: ACB 227
Phone: (213) 740-7050

Research Specialties: Medieval and Early Modern Christianity, Christian Mysticism, Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy, Religion and Visual Culture, Philosophy of Religion

Dean’s Professor of Religion and Professor of Religion and History
Ph.D. History, Harvard University

Email: bitel@usc.edu

Office: ACB 126
Phone: (213) 821-2150

Research Specialties: 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

Associate Professor of Religion and Gender Studies

Email: sbriggs@usc.edu

Office: ACB 232
Phone: (213) 740-0267

John R. Tansey Chair in Christian Ethics and Professor of Religion
Ph.D. New Testament and Early Christianity, Harvard University

Email: concanno@usc.edu

Office: ACB 426
Phone: (213)-821-8391

Research Specialties: New Testament, Early Christianity, Pauline Studies, Historical Jesus, Greek and Roman Archaeology, Theory and Method in the Study of Religion, Continental Philosophy

Professor of the Practice of Religion and Spatial Sciences
Ph.D. Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, University of California, Los Angeles

E-mail: swartz@usc.edu

Office: ACB 329
Phone: (213)740-0266

Research Specialties: 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)

Associate Professor of Religion
Ph.D. Religion, Duke University

E-mail: jill.hk@usc.edu

Office: ACB 235

Research Specialties: Ancient Judaism, Early Christianity, Biblical Studies, Evangelical Christianity in the U.S.

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

E-mail: sajackso@usc.edu

Office: ACB 230
Phone: (213) 821-6386

Professor of Sociology and Religion
Ph.D. Sociology, University of California, Berkeley

E-mail: lichterm@usc.edu

Office: KAP 352
Phone: (213) 740-3533

Research Specialties: Culture – Public Culture, Civic and Political Culture, Organizational Culture, Religion, Political Sociology, Civic Engagement, Theory, Qualitative Methodology, Ethnographic Methods

Ruth Ziegler Chair in Jewish Studies and Professor of Religion, Law and History

E-mail: marglin@usc.edu

Office: ACB 326
Phone: (213) 821-2912

Research Specialties: Jews and Muslims in Modern North Africa and the Mediterranean, Legal History, Non-Muslims in the Islamic World, Mediterranean Studies

Associate Professor of Religion and East Asian Languages and Cultures
Ph.D. East Asian Religions, Princeton University

Email: meeks@usc.edu

Office: ACB 129
Phone: (323) 719-0984

Research Specialties: 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

Assistant Professor of Religion

E-mail: mossk@usc.edu

Office: ACB 235

Research Specialties: religion and race; slavery and colonialism; encounter and conversion; Black Atlantic Religion; African-American history; Atlantic World Studies; early modern Christianity; critical race studies; American religious history

Assistant Professor of Religion

E-mail: arjunnai@usc.edu

Office: ACB 328
Phone: (213) 821-3043

Associate Professor of Religion

E-mail: strassfe@usc.edu

Office: ACB 339

Research Specialties: Rabbinic literature, Late Antiquity , Trans Studies, Jewish Studies

Alton M. Brooks Professor of Religion, American Studies and Ethnicity and East Asian Languages and Cultures

Ph.D. Religion (Japanese Religions), Harvard University

E-mail: duncanwi@usc.edu

Office: ACB 231
Phone: (213) 740-0272

Research Specialties: Buddhism, Japanese Religions, American Buddhism, Buddhism and the Environment, Japanese American History and Religion, World War Two Japanese American Incarceration and Internment, Mixed Rase Japanese Society, Critical Mixed Race Studies, Social History of Religion

Professor of Journalism and Communication; Knight Center Chair in Media and Religion

Email: dianewin@usc.edu

Office:  ASC 332B
Phone: (213) 821-5388
MC: 0281

Assistant Professor of Religion

E-mail: xzu@usc.edu

Office: ACB 233

Executive Director – Center for Religion and Civic Culture
Adjunct Associate Professor (Research) of Religion

Email: rflory@usc.edu

Research Specialties: Sociology of religion, religion and social change, youth and religion, civic engagement, faith-based organizations

Regenstein Professor of Medieval Judaism and Islam
Ph.D. New York University

Email: fireston@usc.edu

Office: HUC 018
Phone: (213) 765-2139

Research Specialties: Holy War, Qur’anic Narrative, History of Judaism, History of Islam, Phenomenology of Religion, Scriptural Intertextuality, Emergent Religion and New Religious Movements

Bronstein Professor of Judaeo-Christian Studies, Early Christianity and Second Commonwealth
Ph.D. Religious Studies, Yale University

E-mail: jgarroway@usc.edu

Office: HUC 012
Phone: (213) 765-2175

Research Specialties: Pauline Studies, Historical Jesus, Luke-Acts, History of the Early Church, Jewish Identity in Antiquity, Jewish-Christian Relations

Associate Professor of Jewish Thought and Director, Louchheim School for Judaic Studies

Email: hochman@usc.edu

Office: HUC 208
Phone: (213) 765-2114

Research Specialties: Religion and Literature, Medieval, Modern and Contemporary Jewish and Religious Thought, 18-th 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

Professor of Anthropology and Religion

E-mail: jhoskins@usc.edu

Office: GFS 131
Phone: (213) 740-1913

Professor of Art History, East Asian Languages & Cultures, and Religion
Ph.D. Art History, University of Chicago

E-mail: sonyasle@usc.edu

Office: THH 355
Phone: (213) 821-2582

Research Specialities: Buddhist Art and Architecture of China and Central Asia, Material Culture of the Ancient Silk Road, Art and Ecology, Asian Art Collecting, Heritage Conservation

President
Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies

E-mail: woodrich@usc.edu

Office: GSF 304
Phone: (213) 740-1864

Professor Emeritus of Religion
Th.D.

Professor Emeritus of Religion
Ph.D. History of Religions, University of Chicago

Carolyn Craig Franklin Chair Emeritus in Law and Religion
Ph.D. Religious Studies, Yale University

E-mail: rgaret@law.usc.edu

Professor Emeritus of Religion
Ph.D. New Testament, Yale University

E-mail: hock@usc.edu

Professor Emeritus of Religion
Ph.D. Social Ethics and Religion, University of Southern California

E-mail: demiller@usc.edu

Professor Emeritus of Religion
Ph.D. Ancient Near Eastern Languages, Yale University

E-mail: bzuckerm@usc.edu