Name (Last, First) Email
Agha Kalsoum,
Maha
Area: Islamic Studies; Women in Islamic law
m_aghakalsoum@ucsb.edu
Armine-Klein,
Zak
zarmine-klein@ucsb.edu
Ballmes,
Victoria
vballmes@umail.ucsb.edu
Baoagudamu,
Uudam
Area: Tibetan Buddhism; Mongolian Buddhism; Transregional Buddhism; Tibet-Mongol Interface in the late imperial period.
uudam@ucsb.edu
Bussières,
Bastien
Area: New Religious Movements, Contemporary Satanism, Religion and Popular Culture
bbussieres@ucsb.edu
Carpinteri,
Mariangela
Area: Japanese Buddhism and Confucianism. Concepts and ideas of nature and ecology in Japanese religions of the Edo period.
m_carpinteri@umail.ucsb.edu
Cooper,
Kelsey
Area: Religion and Politics in Brazil; Queer and Trans Studies in Religion; Ethnography; Afro-Diasporic Religions; Latin American Christianity
kelseycooper@ucsb.edu
Dawadi,
Jyohomson
Area: Comparative Religion, Hindu Philosophy, Ancient Greek Philosophy
jyohomson@ucsb.edu
Deslippe,
Philip
Area: Religions in North America, Asian American Religions, New Religious Movements
pdeslippe@umail.ucsb.edu
Duoer,
Daigengna
Area: Tibeto-Mongolian Buddhism in modern Northeast Asia; Buddhism and Colonialism; Buddhism and War; Transnational and Diasporic Buddhism; Tibeto-Mongolian Buddhism in Taiwan; Religion in Manchukuo
daigengna@ucsb.edu
Eksici,
Abdulmecid Yasir
Area: Islamic Law and Theology, Ethics, Philosophy of Law and Politics
abdulmecidyasir@umail.ucsb.edu
Ellerton,
David
Area: Buddhist Studies, Indian and Tibetan Buddhism, Buddhist Prophecy, Buddhist Theories of Mind
davidellerton@umail.ucsb.edu
Fisher,
Nathan
Area: Jewish Studies, Cognitive Science of Religion, Contemplative Studies
Nathan_fisher@ucsb.edu
Forer,
Chelsea E
Area: Indigenous Ways of Knowing; Indigenous Peoplehood; Religion and Law; Religious Freedom
ceforer@ucsb.edu
Fredrickson,
Nathan
Area: Religions in North America, Religion and Literature, Cognitive Science of Religion, Translation Studies, Writing Studies, Global Studies, Ancient Mediterranean Studies
nfredrickson@umail.ucsb.edu
Fujihara,
Tomoya
Gilbert,
Dominique
Goddard,
Eileen
Area: Hindu Traditions; Comparative Indian Philosophy; Bhakti; Rasa Theory; Sanskrit; Gender and Sexuality
eileengoddard@umail.ucsb.edu
Hahn,
Jennifer Lois
Area: Religions in North America and Cognitive Science of Religion
jhahn@umail.ucsb.edu
Hale,
Eliz
Area: Religion in North America, Islamic Studies, Psychology of Religion
ehale@ucsb.edu
Hamburger,
Miriam
Area: Indigenous Religion(s), Repatriation, Secularity, Materiality
miriamhamburger@ucsb.edu
Hanlon,
Emma
Area: American Religion, Secularism, Political Economy
ehanlon@ucsb.edu
Hanshaw,
Grace
Area: Religion and the Environment, Indigenous Religions, Understanding Life and Death in the climate crisis
gracehanshaw@ucsb.edu
Hawley Suárez,
Abraham
Area: Religion and the Secular in Latin America; Church-State Relations in Modern Mexico; Religion and the Public Sphere; Sociology of Religion.
ahawleysuarez@ucsb.edu
Hegazy,
Wael
Area: Digital religion, Online rituals, Virtual Islam, Cyber Sufism, classical and Modern Sufism, and Body theory in Islam.
wael_hegazy@umail.ucsb.edu
Hickman,
Mitchel
Area: Philosophy and Religion, Philosophy of Technology, Virtuality
mitchelehickman@ucsb.edu
Johnson,
Mason
mason_johnson@umail.ucsb.edu
Kang,
Samantha L. C.
Area: Continental Philosophy and Religion; Nostalgia
samanthakang@ucsb.edu
Kaplan,
Kyle
Area: Buddhist Studies, Medieval Chinese Religion
kylekaplan@ucsb.edu
Kestenbaum,
Sam
Area: Religions in North America
kestenbaum@ucsb.edu
King,
Shelby
Area: Religion in North America, New Religious Movements, Religion and Popular Culture, History of Religions, Secrecy and Religion in the Cold War
sking@ucsb.edu
Knight,
Kolby
Area: Religions in North America; Catholic Studies; Religion, Visual Culture, and Economy
kknight@umail.ucsb.edu
Kodani,
Mayumi
Area: Tibetan Buddhist scholasticism, Tibetan translation
mayumi@umail.ucsb.edu
Lambelet,
Patrick
Area: Indo-Tibetan Buddhism, Tantric Buddhism, Buddhist philosophy, Buddhist ethics
pglambelet@ucsb.edu
Lanahan-Kalish,
Damian
Area: American Religion, New Religious Movements, Science Fiction and Religion, Invented Religions
damian@umail.ucsb.edu
Mansouri,
Soodeh
soodehmansouri@ucsb.edu
Mondragón,
Delores
Area: Native American & Indigenous Religious Traditions
mondragon@umail.ucsb.edu
Papoliyazdi,
Ali
alipapoliyazdi@umail.ucsb.edu
Parikh,
Sahaj
Area: History of Religions, South Asian Religions, Hindu Traditions, Bhakti Traditions, Vernacular Bhakti Traditions, Lived Religious Traditions
sahajparikh@ucsb.edu
Ramsurat,
Sarita
Runkevich,
Yevgeniy
Area: Archaeology in the study of early Christianity and other ancient Mediterranean religions; New Testament and the Book of Revelation; mobility, migration, and diasporas in the Roman Empire
runkevich@umail.ucsb.edu
Sibley,
Collin
Area: Modern South Asian Religion, Tamil Religion, Caste, Ethnicity and Race, Dravidian Social Movements
cmsibley@umail.ucsb.edu
Sikandar,
Sarah
Smith,
Macy
Area: American Religion, Religion and Reality TV, Religious Influencers
macymsmith@umail.ucsb.edu
Snediker,
Timothy
Area: Philosophy of Religion
tsnediker@ucsb.edu
Snell,
Laura
Area: Religion of the Americas/Japanese American Religion; Shinto in the United States, secularism, space/place, visual and material culture, transpacific
laurasnell@ucsb.edu
Solakoglu,
Enes
Area: Anthropology of Religion, Middle Eastern History, Islamic Legal Studies
enessolakoglu@ucsb.edu
Spadafora,
Neal
Area: Continental Philosophy, History and Theory of Mystical Literatures, Political Theology
nealspadafora@ucsb.edu
Stephen,
Shakir
Area: Religions in North America, Secularism, Christianity in the US, Religion and Science
shakirstephen@ucsb.edu
Stephenson,
Jackson
Area: South Asian Religions, Esoteric Buddhism, Tantra, Sanskrit, Tibetan, Sociolinguistics
jbj@ucsb.edu
Thonnart,
Morgane
m_thonnart@umail.ucsb.edu
Toribio,
Shannon
Area: Asian American Religion, Southeast Asian Religion, New Religious Movements, Mystic Traditions, Material Religion, Transnationalism
shannon_toribio@ucsb.edu
Veeck,
Sarah
Area: Religion in contemporary China, Popular religion, Religion and economy
sveeck@umail.ucsb.edu
Vyas,
Maharshi
Area: Hinduism, South Asia, Subaltern Studies, Anthropology of Religion
mvyas@umail.ucsb.edu
Westland,
Isadora
Area: Chinese Religion
isadoraw@ucsb.edu
Whitesides,
Kevin
kevinwhitesides@umail.ucsb.edu
Zimmerman,
Daniel
Area: Early Christianity, Late Antique Christianity, New Testament Literature, Nag Hammadi Literature
dszimmerman@umail.ucsb.edu