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BARBARA AMBROS, Ph.D. (Harvard University, 2002)
Specialization: Japanese Religions; Religion in East Asia; East Asian
Buddhism
Research Interests: Pilgrimage and Sacred Space in Japan; Shinto;
Ethnicity
and Religion in Asian Diaspora Communities in Japan
contact: bambros @email.unc.edu
YAAKOV S. ARIEL, Ph.D. (University
of Chicago, 1986)
Specialization: Religion in America; American Judaism; Jewish-Christian
Relationship
Research Interests: Evangelicals and Jews; The Jewish Renewal
Movement; Jewish New Religious Movements; Christianity and Israel
contact: yariel@email.unc.edu
BART D. EHRMAN, Ph.D. (Princeton Theological
Seminary, 1985);
Specialization: New Testament; Early Christianity
Research Interests: New Testament interpretation; Apostolic
Fathers; Early Christian Apocrypha; Orthodoxy and Heresy in Early Christianity;
New Testament Textual Criticism
contact: behrman@email.unc.edu
CARL W. ERNST, Ph.D.
(Harvard University, 1981);
Specialization: Islam in South Asia; Sufism
contact: cernst@email.unc.edu
GREG SCHMIDT GOERING,Th.D. (Harvard Divinity School, 2006)
Specialization: Hebrew Bible; Second Temple Judaism
Research Interests: nature and revelation in Jewish wisdom literature;
Jewish religious practices in the Second Temple Period; Jewish and Christian
biblical interpretation; ethnicity and religious identity in antiquity
contact: goering@email.unc.edu
PETER IVER KAUFMAN, Ph.D. (University of Chicago, 1975);
Specialization: Patristic, Medieval and Reformation Studies
contact: pkaufman@email.unc.edu
LAUREN G. LEVE, PhD, (Princeton 1999)
Specialization: Religion and Culture, Ethnography of Religion, Buddhism in South and Southeast Asia
Research Interests: Personhood and Identity; Gender and Feminist Theory; Globalism, Nationalism and Postcoloniality; Anthropology of Religion; South Asia and Nepal
contact: leve@email.unc.edu
LAURIE MAFFLY-KIPP, Ph.D. (Yale
University, 1990);
Specialization: American Religious History
Research Interests: African-American Religion; Ethnicity,
Race and Religion; Religious and Cultural History of the American West
contact: maffly@email.unc.edu
JODI MAGNESS, Ph.D. (University
of Pennsylvania, 1989);
Specialization: Classical Archaeology
Research Interests: Roman, Byzantine and early Islamic pottery
of Palestine; Roman military equipment; the archaeology of Qumran and
the Dead Sea Scrolls; and ancient synagogues
contact: magness@email.unc.edu
ZLATKO PLESE, Ph.D. (Yale University,
1996);
Specialization: Classical Languages and Literature
Research Interests: Gnosticism and Manichaeism; Hellenistic religion(s),philosophy,and
rhetoric; Plutarch and Platonism; Coptic language and literature
contact: plese@email.unc.edu
RANDALL G. STYERS, J.D., Ph.D.
(Yale Law School, 1984; Duke University, 1997)
Specialization:Religion and Culture; Modern Western Religious
Thought
Research Interests: Contemporary Critical Thought; Religion and
Magic; Religion and Law; Gender Theory
contact: rstyers@email.unc.edu
THOMAS A. TWEED, Ph.D.
(Stanford University, 1989);
Specialization: American Religions; Religion and Culture
Research Interests: Catholicism in America; Asian Religions
in America, Religion and Transnationalism; Religion and Place; Method
and Theory in the Study of Religion
contact: tatweed@email.unc.edu
RUEL W. TYSON, JR. (Yale University,
B.D., 1957; Manchester, Chicago, Oxford);
Specialization: History of Social Thought; Theories of
Religion and Culture; Ethnography and the Rhetoric of Religion
Research Interests: Symbol and Allegory in the Ritual Practices
of the Blue Ridge Primitive Baptists; the epistemology and rhetoric of
ethnographic practices
contact: tyson@email.unc.edu
Emeriti
WILLIAM J. PECK, Ph.D. (Harvard University,
1962); EMERITUS
Specialization: Modern Western Religious Thought; Psychology
of Religion
contact: wpeck@email.unc.edu
JAMES H. SANFORD, Ph.D. (Harvard
University, 1972); EMERITUS
Specialization: Far Eastern Religions
Research Interests: Tantric Buddhism in China and Japan; Buddhist
Poetry; Literature associated with the Taoist Inner Alchemy Tradition
contact: jhsanfor@email.unc.edu
JACK M. SASSON, Ph.D. (Brandeis University, 1966); EMERITUS
Specialization: Ancient Near East
Research Interests: Old Babylonian archives from Mari and Hebrew
narratives
contact: jsasson@email.unc.edu
JOHN VAN SETERS, Ph.D; D.Theol h.c. (Yale University, 1965; University of Lausanne, 1999) EMERITUS;
Specialization: Hebrew Bible; Ancient Near East
Research Interests: Pentateuchal studies; history of law; ancient historiography; history of biblical scholarship
contact: john.vanseters@sympatico.ca
The Staff
Hope Toscher, Administrative Assistant and Office Manager, Saunders
125E, 962-5668
contact: toscher@email.unc.edu
Cathy Ashworth, Department Secretary, Saunders 125, 962-5666
contact: epresley@email.unc.edu
Myra Quick, Program Assistant and Registrar, Saunders 125D, 962-5667
contact: quick@email.unc.edu
The Department of Religious Studies
125 Saunders Hall, CB# 3225
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3225
Phone: (919) 962-5666
Fax: (919) 962-1567
Chair: Bart Ehrman, (919) 962-3940
For Undergraduate Admissions, Please Contact Either:
Professor Jodi Magness- Director
of Undergraduate Studies
Ms. Myra Quick - Religious Studies
Department Registrar
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