Faculty & Staff
Full Time Faculty
- Erik Davis
- Chair, Professor, Religious Studies
- Current focus: collective and ritual creativity associated with social protest movements in urban Cambodia and Southeast Asia
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- 651-696-6152
- Susanna Drake
- Professor of Religious Studies
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- 651-696-6544
- James W. Laine
- Arnold H. Lowe Professor of Religious Studies
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- 651-696-6789
- Ahoo Najafian
- Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies
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- 651-696-6186
Part Time Faculty
- Nicholas Schaser
- Assistant Professor of Religious Studies (NTT)
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- 651-696-6038
Visiting Faculty
- Ethan Besser Fredrick
- Visiting Assistant Professor of History
- history of peasants, popular religion and political movements, and the intersection of violence, media, and fascism
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- Brittany Landorf
- Visiting Assistant Professor of Religious Studies
- ethics of madness, gender, and sexuality in North African Islamic Mysticism; narratives of water and relationship of ecology to the divine; digital humanities
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Retired Faculty
- William Hart
- Margaret W. Harmon Professor, Religious Studies
- Religion, Ethics, Politics
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- 651-696-6596
- Rabbi Barry Cytron
- (Retired) Visiting Assistant Professor and Jewish Chaplain
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Staff
- Sara Dion
- Department Coordinator
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- 651-696-6141