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Barbara Ambros Assistant Professor Ph.D., Harvard University, 2002
118 Saunders Hall (919) 962-5666 bambros@email.unc.edu
Speciality field: Religions of Asia
Research interests: East Asian Buddhism; Shinto; pilgrimage and sacred space in Japan; ethnicity and religion in Asian diaspora communities in Japan

Yaakov S. Ariel Professor Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1986
129 Saunders Hall (919) 962-3930 yariel@email.unc.edu	Biographical profile  Curriculum vitae
Speciality field: American Religions
Research interests: Evangelicals and Jews; Jewish renewal; Jewish new religious movements; Christianity and Israel

Jonathan Boyarin Leonard and Tobee Kaplan Distinguished Professor Ph.D. New School for Social Research, 1984 J.D., Yale Law School, 1998
125F Saunders Hall (919) 962-3937 jboyarin@unc.edu	Biographical profile  Curriculum vitae
Speciality field: Religion and Culture
Research interests: Yiddish language and culture; Jewish cultural studies; Jewishness as it relates to comparative diasporas and nationalisms, critical theory, medieval and early modern Christianity

Bart D. Ehrman James A. Gray Distinguished Professor Ph.D., Princeton Theological Seminary, 1985
117 Saunders Hall (919) 962-3940 behrman@email.unc.edu	Biographical profile  Curriculum vitae  Personal website
Speciality field: Ancient Mediterranean Religions
Research interests: New Testament interpretation; Apostolic Fathers; early Christian apocrypha; orthodoxy and heresy in early Christianity; New Testament textual criticism

Carl W. Ernst Kenan Distinguished Professor Ph.D., Harvard University, 1981
107 Saunders Hall (919) 962-3924 cernst@email.unc.edu	Personal website
Speciality field: Islamic Studies; Religions of Asia
Research interests: Sufism, with a focus on west and south Asia; Muslim interpretations of Hinduism; the Qur'an as literature

Peter Iver Kaufman Professor Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1975
121 Saunders Hall (919) 962-3939 pkaufman@email.unc.edu
Speciality field: Medieval and Early Modern Studies
Research interests: Patristic, medieval, and Reformation studies

Lauren G. Leve Assistant Professor Ph.D., Princeton University, 1999
112 Saunders Hall (919) 962-3925 leve@email.unc.edu	Curriculum vitae
Speciality field: Religions of Asia
Research interests: Ethnography of religion; Buddhism in south and southeast Asia; personhood and identity; gender and feminist theory; globalism, nationalism, and postcoloniality; anthropology of religion; religions of south Asia and Nepal

Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp Associate Professor Ph.D., Yale University, 1990
128 Saunders Hall (919) 962-3927 maffly@email.unc.edu	Curriculum vitae
Speciality field: American Religions
Research interests: African-American religion; ethnicity, race, and religion; religious and cultural history of the American West

Jodi Magness Kenan Distinguished Professor Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1989
116 Saunders Hall (919) 962-3928 magness@email.unc.edu	Biographical profile  Curriculum vitae  Yotvata Dig website
Speciality field: Ancient Mediterranean Religions; Islamic Studies
Research interests: Early Judaism; archaeology of Palestine

Zlatko Plese Associate Professor Ph.D., Yale University, 1996
120 Saunders Hall (919) 962-3936 plese@email.unc.edu	Biographical profile  Curriculum vitae
Speciality field: Ancient Mediterranean Religions
Research interests: Gnosticism and Manichaeism; Hellenistic religions, philosophy,and rhetoric; Plutarch and Platonism; Coptic language and literature

Omid Safi Associate Professor Ph.D., Duke University, 2000
130 Saunders Hall (919) 962-4890 omid@email.unc.edu	Curriculum vitae  Personal website
Speciality field: Islamic Studies; Religions of Asia
Research interests: Progressive Islamic thought; social and intellectual history of pre-modern Islam; Islamic mysticism

Randall G. Styers Associate Professor J.D., Yale Law School, 1984; Ph.D., Duke University, 1997
125G Saunders Hall (919) 962-3938 rstyers@unc.edu	Curriculum vitae
Speciality field: Religion and Culture
Research interests: Modern Western religious thought; contemporary critical thought; religion and magic; religion and law; gender theory

Thomas A. Tweed Professor and Chair Ph.D., Stanford University, 1989
125C Saunders Hall (919) 962-3934 tatweed@email.unc.edu	Biographical profile  Curriculum vitae
Speciality field: American Religions; Religion and Culture; Religions of Asia
Research interests: Catholicism in America; Asian religions in America; religion and transnationalism; religion and place; method and theory in the study of religion

Ruel W. Tyson Professor B.D., Yale University, 1957; Manchester, Chicago, Oxford
113 Saunders Hall (919) 962-3935 tyson@email.unc.edu	Curriculum vitae
Speciality field: Religion and Culture
Research interests: History of social thought; epistemology and rhetoric of ethnographic practices; symbol and allegory in the ritual practices of the Blue Ridge Primitive Baptists