Faculty and Staff
Staff
Rossitza Guenkova-Fernandez
Department Assistant
r-guenkova@northwestern.edu
(847) 491-3611
Ganka Ivanova
Graduate Program Assistant
givanova@northwestern.edu
(847) 491-5488
We are available to answer your questions from 9:00 to 5:00 Monday to Friday at the Department of Religious Studies, 1860 Campus Drive, Crowe Hall, 5-179, Evanston, IL 60208-2164.
Faculty
The department has faculty distinguished for their research, their teaching, and for working with students in the development of their research projects. The faculty have a long-standing commitment to teaching and are committed to giving students personal attention. Several of the department's faculty have won local or national teaching awards.
The faculty have a wide range of special interests, including religious ethics, socially engaged Buddhism, religion and the environment, American Catholic culture, bioethics, Rabbinic Judaism and Jewish law, theology, sainthood and mysticism, witchcraft and magic, Buddhist philosophy, Sufism in African society, and religious architecture. Having distinguished themselves for their research on these subjects, they bring their special expertise into the classroom.
| Last Name | First Name | Title / Contact Information | Areas of Research | |
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| Balberg | Mira | Assistant Professor 847-467-1746 m-balberg@northwestern.edu |
Specializes in ancient Judaism, with a focus on early rabbinic literature |  |
| Bond | George | Professor 847-491-2619 gbond@northwestern.edu |
Buddhism in South Asia, specializing in Sri Lanka |  |
| Englander | Yakir | Postdoctoral Fellow in Israel Studies and vissiting professor in Religious Studies yakir.englander@northwestern.edu |
Modern Jewish Philosophy, |
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| Gordan | Rachel | Postdoctoral Fellow 847-491-3080 rachel.gordan@northwestern.edu |
American Jewish Religion and Culture |  |
| Helmer | Christine | Professor 847-491-2616 c-helmer@northwestern.edu |
Christian studies, theology, German intellectual thought |  |
| Ingram | Brannon | Assistant Professor 847-467-4170 brannon.ingram@northwestern.edu |
Islamic Studies with a focus on Sufism and modern South Asia |  |
| Jacoby | Sarah | Assistant Professor 847-467-1304 s-jacoby@northwestern.edu |
Indo-Tibetan Buddhism |  |
| Johnson | Sylvester | Associate Professor of African American Studies and Religious Studies sylvester.johnson@northwestern.edu |
African American religions Colonialism & Black Atlantic religions Religion and American empire Religion, Democracy, and the Intelligence State |
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| Kieckhefer | Richard | Professor 847-491-2614 kieckhefer@northwestern.edu |
Late medieval Christianity, church architecture, witchcraft and magic |  |
| Lassner | Jacob | Professor Emeritus j-lassner@northwestern.edu |
Medieval Near Eastern history |  |
| Lowe | Eugene | Senior Lecturer 847-491-5255 eyljr@northwestern.edu |
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| Molina | Michelle | John W. Croghan Assistant Professor in Catholic Studies 847-467-1304 molina@northwestern.edu |
History of Christianity in early modern Europe and Latin America |  |
| Mortensen | Beverly | Adjunct Lecturer m-beverly@northwestern.edu |
Temple cult and Hebrew bible Dead Sea Scrolls New Age thought |
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| Newman | Barbara | Professor 847-491-5679 bjnewman@northwestern.edu |
Christian medieval religious culture Women's spirituality |
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| Orsi | Robert | Professor Grace Craddock Nagle Chair in Catholic Studies 847-467-5175 r-orsi@northwestern.edu |
American Catholicism Theory and method in the study of religion |
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| Seeskin | Kenneth | Philip M. and Ethel Klutznick Professor of Jewish Civilization, Department Chair 847-491-2560 k-seeskin@northwestern.edu |
Jewish Philosophy |  |
| Taylor | Sarah | Associate Professor 847-491-4361 sarah@northwestern.edu |
American Religion Religion and Ecology Women's studies in religion |
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| Terrone | Antonio | Visiting Assistant Professor 847-467-1368 a-terrone@northwestern.edu |
Sino-Tibetan Buddhism Contemporary religion and politics in the People's Republic of China |
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| Traina | Cristina | Professor 847-491-2938 c-traina@northwestern.edu |
Roman Catholic studies Ethics Feminist thought |
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| Vaux | Sara | Lecturer 847-491-2617 scv@northwestern.edu |
Religion and film | |
| Vogel | Manfred | Professor Emeritus 847-491-2618 mhvogel1@aol.com |
Modern Jewish thought Philosophy of religion Jewish-Christian dialogue |
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| Wimpfheimer | Barry | Assistant Professor 847-491-2618 barry@northwestern.edu |
Classical Rabbinic Literature Babylonian Talmud |
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| Zoloth | Laurie | Professor 312-926-2990 lzoloth@northwestern.edu |
Bioethics |  |
