{"id":271,"date":"2023-01-27T22:26:49","date_gmt":"2023-01-27T22:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/religion\/?page_id=271"},"modified":"2026-01-16T00:20:29","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T00:20:29","slug":"school-of-religion-faculty","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/religion\/school-of-religion-faculty\/","title":{"rendered":"School of Religion Faculty"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n \n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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\n James McHugh<\/a>\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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Chair<\/strong><\/p>\n

Leonard K. Firestone Professor of Religion<\/b>
\n<\/b>Ph.D. Sanskrit and Indian Studies, Harvard University<\/span><\/p>\n

E-mail: <\/span>jmchugh@usc.edu<\/b><\/p>\n

Office: ACB 226<\/span>
\n<\/span>Phone: (213) 740-7141<\/span><\/p>\n

Research Specialties: <\/b>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<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

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\n David Albertson<\/a>\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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Professor of Religion<\/strong>
\nPh.D. Religion, University of Chicago<\/p>\n

Email: dalberts@usc.edu<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Office: ACB 227
\nPhone: (213) 740-7050<\/p>\n

Research Specialties: <\/strong>Medieval and Early Modern Christianity, Christian Mysticism, Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy, Religion and Visual Culture, Philosophy of Religion<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

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\n Lisa Bitel<\/a>\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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Dean’s Professor of Religion and Professor of Religion and History<\/strong>
\nPh.D. History, Harvard University<\/p>\n

Email: bitel@usc.edu<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Office: ACB 126
\nPhone: (213) 821-2150<\/p>\n

Research Specialties:<\/strong> 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<\/p>\n

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\n Sheila Briggs<\/a>\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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Associate Professor of Religion and Gender Studies<\/strong><\/p>\n

Email: sbriggs@usc.edu<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Office: ACB 232
\nPhone: (213) 740-0267<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

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\n Cavan Concannonn<\/a>\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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John R. Tansey Chair in Christian Ethics and Professor of Religion<\/strong>
\nPh.D. New Testament and Early Christianity, Harvard University<\/p>\n

Email: concanno@usc.edu<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Office: ACB 426
\nPhone: (213)-821-8391<\/p>\n

Research Specialties: <\/strong>New Testament, Early Christianity, Pauline Studies, Historical Jesus, Greek and Roman Archaeology, Theory and Method in the Study of Religion, Continental Philosophy<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

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\n Lynn Swartz Dodd<\/a>\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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Professor of the Practice of Religion and Spatial Sciences<\/strong>
\nPh.D. Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, University of California, Los Angeles<\/p>\n

E-mail: swartz@usc.edu<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Office: ACB 329
\nPhone: (213)740-0266<\/p>\n

Research Specialties: <\/strong>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)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

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\n Jill Hicks-Keeton<\/a>\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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Professor of Religion
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E-mail: jill.hk@usc.edu<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Office: ACB 235<\/p>\n

Research Specialties: <\/strong>Ancient Judaism, Early Christianity, Biblical Studies, Evangelical Christianity in the U.S.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

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\n Sherman Jackson<\/a>\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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King Faisal Chair in Islamic Thought and Culture and Professor of Religion and American Studies and Ethnicity<\/strong>
\nPh.D. Oriental Studies: Islamic Near East, University of Pennsylvania<\/p>\n

E-mail: sajackso@usc.edu<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Office: ACB 230
\nPhone: (213) 821-6386<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

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\n Paul Lichterman<\/a>\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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Professor of Sociology and Religion<\/strong>
\nPh.D. Sociology, University of California, Berkeley<\/p>\n

E-mail: lichterm@usc.edu<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Office: KAP 352
\nPhone: (213) 740-3533<\/p>\n

Research Specialties: <\/b>Culture – Public Culture, Civic and Political Culture, Organizational Culture, Religion, Political Sociology, Civic Engagement, Theory, Qualitative Methodology, Ethnographic Methods<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

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\n Jessica Marglin<\/a>\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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Ruth Ziegler Chair in Jewish Studies and Professor of Religion, Law and History<\/strong><\/p>\n

E-mail: marglin@usc.edu<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Office: ACB 326
\nPhone: (213) 821-2912<\/p>\n

Research Specialties: <\/b>Jews and Muslims in Modern North Africa and the Mediterranean, Legal History, Non-Muslims in the Islamic World, Mediterranean Studies<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

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\n Lori Meeks<\/a>\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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Associate Professor of Religion and East Asian Languages and Cultures<\/strong>
\nPh.D. East Asian Religions, Princeton University<\/p>\n

Email: meeks@usc.edu<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Office: ACB 129
\nPhone: (323) 719-0984<\/p>\n

Research Specialties: <\/strong>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<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

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\n Arjun Nair<\/a>\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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Assistant Professor of Religion<\/strong><\/p>\n

E-mail: arjunnai@usc.edu<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Office: ACB 328
\nPhone: (213) 821-3043<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

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Associate Professor of Religion<\/strong><\/p>\n

E-mail: strassfe@usc.edu<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Office: ACB 339<\/p>\n

Research Specialties: <\/strong>Rabbinic literature, Late Antiquity , Trans Studies, Jewish Studies<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

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\n Duncan Williams<\/a>\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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Alton M. Brooks Professor of Religion, American Studies and Ethnicity and East Asian Languages and Cultures<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ph.D. Religion (Japanese Religions), Harvard University<\/p>\n

E-mail: duncanwi@usc.edu<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Office: ACB 231
\nPhone: (213) 740-0272<\/p>\n

Research Specialties: <\/strong>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<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

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\n Diane Winston<\/a>\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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Professor of Journalism and Communication; Knight Center Chair in Media and Religion<\/strong><\/p>\n

Email: dianewin@usc.edu<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Office:\u00a0 ASC 332B
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\n Jessica Zu<\/a>\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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Assistant Professor of Religion<\/strong><\/p>\n

E-mail: xzu@usc.edu<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Office: ACB 233<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

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\n Richard Flory\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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Executive Director – Center for Religion and Civic Culture<\/strong>
\nAdjunct Associate Professor (Research) of Religion<\/strong><\/p>\n

Email: rflory@usc.edu<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Research Specialties: <\/b>Sociology of religion, religion and social change, youth and religion, civic engagement, faith-based organizations<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

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\n Reuven Firestone<\/a>\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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Regenstein Professor of Medieval Judaism and Islam<\/strong>
\nPh.D. New York University<\/p>\n

Email: fireston@usc.edu<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Office: HUC 018
\nPhone: (213) 765-2139<\/p>\n

Research Specialties: <\/strong>Holy War, Qur’anic Narrative, History of Judaism, History of Islam, Phenomenology of Religion, Scriptural Intertextuality, Emergent Religion and New Religious Movements<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

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\n Joshua D. Garroway<\/a>\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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Bronstein Professor of Judaeo-Christian Studies, Early Christianity and Second Commonwealth<\/strong>
\nPh.D. Religious Studies, Yale University<\/p>\n

E-mail: jgarroway@usc.edu<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Office: HUC 012
\nPhone: (213) 765-2175<\/p>\n

Research Specialties: <\/strong>Pauline Studies, Historical Jesus, Luke-Acts, History of the Early Church, Jewish Identity in Antiquity, Jewish-Christian Relations<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

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\n Leah Hochman<\/a>\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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Associate Professor of Jewish Thought and Director, Louchheim School for Judaic Studies<\/strong><\/p>\n

Email: hochman@usc.edu<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Office: HUC 208
\nPhone: (213) 765-2114<\/p>\n

Research Specialties: <\/strong>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<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n <\/div>\n\n \n

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\n Janet Hoskins<\/a>\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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Professor of Anthropology and Religion<\/strong><\/p>\n

E-mail: jhoskins@usc.edu<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Office: GFS 131
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\n Sonya Lee<\/a>\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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Professor of Art History, East Asian Languages & Cultures, and Religion<\/strong>
\nPh.D. Art History, University of Chicago<\/p>\n

E-mail: sonyasle@usc.edu<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Office: THH 355
\nPhone: (213) 821-2582<\/p>\n

Research Specialities: <\/strong>Buddhist Art and Architecture of China and Central Asia, Material Culture of the Ancient Silk Road, Art and Ecology, Asian Art Collecting, Heritage Conservation<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

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\n Kelsey Moss<\/a>\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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Adjunct Assistant Professor of Religion<\/strong><\/p>\n

E-mail: mossk@usc.edu<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Office: ACB 235<\/p>\n

Research Specialties: <\/strong>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<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

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\nInstitute for Advanced Catholic Studies<\/p>\n

E-mail: woodrich@usc.edu<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Office: GSF 304
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\n Robert Ellwood<\/a>\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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Professor Emeritus of Religion
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\n Ronald Garet<\/a>\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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Carolyn Craig Franklin Chair Emeritus in Law and Religion<\/strong>
\nPh.D. Religious Studies, Yale University<\/p>\n

E-mail: rgaret@law.usc.edu<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

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\n Ron Hock<\/a>\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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Professor Emeritus of Religion
\n<\/strong>Ph.D. New Testament, Yale University<\/p>\n

E-mail: hock@usc.edu<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

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\n Donald Miller<\/a>\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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Professor Emeritus of Religion<\/strong>
\nPh.D. Social Ethics and Religion, University of Southern California<\/p>\n

E-mail: demiller@usc.edu<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

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\n Bruce Zuckerman<\/a>\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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Professor Emeritus of Religion<\/strong>
\nPh.D. Ancient Near Eastern Languages, Yale University<\/p>\n

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Director of Undergraduate Studies<\/strong>
\nJill Hicks-Keeton
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825 Bloom Walk, ACB 130
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Director of Graduate Studies<\/strong>
\nCavan Concannon
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