Full Time Faculty
![Erik Davis](https://www.macalester.edu/religiousstudies/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/2017/10/erikdavis-150x0-c-default.jpg)
- Erik Davis
- Chair, Professor, Religious Studies
- Current focus: collective and ritual creativity associated with social protest movements in urban Cambodia and Southeast Asia
- [email protected]
- 651-696-6152
![William Hart](https://www.macalester.edu/religiousstudies/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/2017/10/williamhart-150x0-c-default.jpg)
- William Hart
- Margaret W. Harmon Professor, Religious Studies
- Religion, Ethics, Politics
- [email protected]
- 651-696-6596
![Susanna Drake](https://www.macalester.edu/religiousstudies/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/2021/10/IMG_5805-1-scaled-150x0-c-default.jpg)
- Susanna Drake
- Professor of Religious Studies
- [email protected]
- 651-696-6544
![James W. Laine](https://www.macalester.edu/religiousstudies/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/2017/10/jameslaine-150x0-c-default.jpg)
- James W. Laine
- Arnold H. Lowe Professor of Religious Studies
- [email protected]
- 651-696-6789
![Ahoo Najafian](https://www.macalester.edu/religiousstudies/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/2020/08/images-150x0-c-default.jpg)
- Ahoo Najafian
- Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies
- [email protected]
- 651-696-6186
Part Time Faculty
![Nicholas Schaser](https://www.macalester.edu/religiousstudies/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/2017/10/nicholasschaser-150x0-c-default.jpg)
- Nicholas Schaser
- Assistant Professor of Religious Studies (NTT)
- [email protected]
- 651-696-6038
Visiting Faculty
![Jenna Rice Rahaim](https://www.macalester.edu/religiousstudies/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/2023/06/JDRice-140x0-c-default-150x0-c-default.jpg)
- Jenna Rice Rahaim
- Visiting Assistant Professor
- Charity, Humanitarianism, and Gifts; Empathy and Obligation; Migration and Refugees; National and Sectarian Sentiment; Genealogy and Kinship; Postcolonial and feminist literatures; the Middle East and Islamic World
- [email protected]
- 651-696-6847
![Brittany Landorf](https://www.macalester.edu/religiousstudies/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/2023/09/Landorf_Headshot-4-scaled-150x0-c-default.jpg)
- 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
- [email protected]
Retired Faculty
![Rabbi Barry Cytron](https://www.macalester.edu/religiousstudies/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/2017/10/e81e2b12-ff82-4e4c-9867-220337ba0f87-150x0-c-default.jpg)
- Rabbi Barry Cytron
- (Retired) Visiting Assistant Professor and Jewish Chaplain
- [email protected]
Staff
![Sara Dion](https://www.macalester.edu/religiousstudies/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/2020/02/IMG_2291-2-150x0-c-default.jpg)
- Sara Dion
- Department Coordinator
- [email protected]
- 651-696-6141