Elizabeth Allen
eallen@uci.edu
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Professor of English
Interests: Comparative Literature; Religious Studies (Chaucer, Gower, 15th century poetry; exemplary literature, romance, chronicle, episodic form; intersections between ethics and politics, politics and religion; hospitality, sovereignty, legal and constitutional history of England)
Julius Bailey
juliushbailey@gmail.com
Lecturer, Religious Studies
Interests: African American Religious History, Religion in America, New Religious Movements, and Religion and Popular Culture
Emily Baum
baume@uci.edu
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Professor of History
Interests: Modern China; history of medicine and psychiatry in China; comparative medical history; popular religion
Houri Berberian
houri.berberian@uci.edu
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Director of the Armenian Studies Program and Meghrouni Family Chair in Armenian Studies and Professor of History
Interests: Modern Armenian and Middle Eastern History; revolution, women and gender
Roland Betancourt
roland.betancourt@uci.edu
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Chancellor's Fellow and Associate Professor of Art History
Interests: Byzantine Art, Visual Culture, and Theology; Critical Theory; Queer Theory; Popular Culture; Theme Parks; Simulacral Spaces
Matthew Canepa
matthew.canepa@uci.edu
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Elahe Omidyar Mir-Djali Presidential Chair and Professor of Art History
Interests: Art and Archaeology of Persia and the Ancient Iranian World; Achaemenid, Seleucid, Arsacid, Sasanian empires; Hellenistic Iran and Central Asia; Eurasian late antiquity; cross-cultural interaction; critical theory
Carlogiovanni Cereti
ccereti@uci.edu
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Presidential Chair in Zoroastrian Studies and Professor of Religious Studies and Classics
Interests: Zoroastrianism, Iranian Studies, comparative religious studies; eechatology & apocalyptics; Indo-Iranian mythology; interplay between tangible and intangible cultural heritage; material culture
J. Kameron Carter
jc1@uci.edu
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Professor of African American Studies
Interests: Black study of religion, Blackness, race, colonialism, political theology and ecology
Vinayak Chaturvedi
vinayak@uci.edu
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Professor of History
Interests: South Asia, Social and Intellectual History
Yong Chen
y3chen@uci.edu
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Associate Dean of Curriculum and Student Services and Professor of History
Interests: Asian American Studies; Religious Studies(Asian American history and immigration, food and culture, U.S./China economic and cultural interactions)
Chungmoo Choi
cchoi@uci.edu
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Professor of Korean Culture
Interests: Religious Studies (modern Korea, postcolonial and colonial discourse, popular culture, anthropology)
David Colmenares
dhcolmen@uci.edu
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Ph.D. Columbia University, Assistant Professor, Comparative Literature
Interests: Colonial Mexico, Mesoamerican Studies, Visual Culture, Antiquarianism, Early Modern Iberia
Susan B. Coutin
scoutin@uci.edu
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Professor of Criminology, Law and Society
Interests: Religious Studies (law, culture, immigration, human rights, citizenship, political activism, sanctuary, Central America)
Touraj Daryaee
tdaryaee@uci.edu
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UCI Endowed Chair in Persian Studies and Culture and Professor of History
Interests: Religious Studies (Iran, Zoroastrianism, Ancient Medieval World)
Rebecca Davis
radavis@uci.edu
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Associate Professor , Religious Studies
Interests: Religious Studies (Old and Middle English literature, Piers Plowman, medieval religious culture, women’s writing, medieval philosophy
Brianne Donaldson
b.donaldson@uci.edu
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Associate Professor, Philosophy and Religious Studies and Shri Parshvanath Presidential Chair in Jain Studies
Interests: Jainism, South Asian Religions and Philosophy, Ethics/Bioethics, Critical Animal Studies, Whitehead's Process-relational Philosophy
John Gamber
john.gamber@uci.edu
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Ph.D. UC Santa Barbara, Associate Professor,Comparative Literature
Interests: Environmental Humanities, Ethnic Studies, Settler Colonialism, Native American Studies
Christina Ghanbarpour
cgharbr@uci.edu
Lecturer, Religious Studies, East Asian Studies, History
Interests: 19th- 20th century Japan, women, gender, sexuality, rural areas, modernization, material culture, everyday life history
Zina Giannopoulou
zgiannop@uci.edu
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Associate Professor, Classics
Interests: Plato; 20th and 21st centuries classical receptions (esp. in prose and film); Greek tragedy and epic; philosophy and fiction; narrative; cognitive Classics; medical humanities; psychoanalysis and critical theory
Sherine Farouk Hamdy
shamdy@uci.edu
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Professor, Anthropology
Interests: bioethics, medical anthropology, comics, Arab world, Egypt, SWANA diaspora in North America, narrative, ethno-fiction
Anneeth Kaur Hundle
ahundle@uci.edu
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Presidential Chair of Sikh Studies and Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Interests: Religious Studies, Sikh Studies; African and South Asian diaspora studies;, Afro-Asianism; citizenship, race and decolonization; , minoritization and community formation; postcolonial and transnational feminisms, gender and sexuality; university studies; , Uganda, East Africa, Indian Ocean, global south
Andromache Karanika
karanika@uci.edu
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Department Chair and Associate Professor of Classics
Interests: Religious Studies (Greek epic poetry, Greek lyric, folklore)
Jeffrey Kopstein
kopstein@uci.edu
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Department Chair and Professor of Political Science
Interests: Religious Studies
James K. Lee
jkl@uci.edu
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Professor of Asian American Studies
Interests: Culture and Theory; Religious Studies (Asian American literature and culture, contemporary U.S. literature, race and ethnic studies, urban studies, religious studies)
Daniel Levine
daniel.levine@moishehouse.org
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Lecturer
Interests: Hebrew Bible, Talmud, Jewish Philosophy in the Medieval and Modern ages, Kabbalah and Jewish Mysticism, American Jewish History
Mark LeVine
mlevine@uci.edu
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Professor of History
Interests: Culture and Theory; Religious Studies (modern Middle Eastern history, Islamic studies, histories of empire and globalization)
Jayne Elizabeth Lewis
jelewis@uci.edu
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Professor of English
Interests: Religious Studies (literature and medicine, restoration and 18th century British literature, literature of the supernatural and gothic fiction, history and/of fiction, atmosphere as literary concept and construct within natural philosophy)
Julia R. Lupton
jrlupton@uci.edu
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Associate Dean for Research and Professor of English
Interests: Comparative Literature; Education; Religious Studies (Renaissance literature, literature and psychology)
Cecelia M. Lynch
clynch@uci.edu
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Professor of Political Science
Interests: Religious Studies (international relations, religion and ethics; social movements and civil society actors; humanitarianism)
JB Manchak
jmanchak@uci.edu
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Professor of Logic and Philosophy of Science
Interests: Religious Studies
Michael McBride
mcbride@uci.edu
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Professor of Economics
Interests: Logic and Philosophy of Science; Religious Studies
Joe McKenna
mckenna@uci.edu
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Continuing Lecturer, Religious Studies and History
Interests: Western belief and unbelief; 19th-century British freethought; History of the devil idea; History of the God idea.
Professor McKenna has been teaching at UCI since 1999 and received the School of Humanities Non-Senate Faculty Teaching Award in 2020–21
Nancy Ann McLoughlin
nmclough@uci.edu
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Associate Professor of History
Interests: European Languages and Studies; Religious Studies (late Medieval Europe, intellectual history, gender)
Bojan Petrovic
bojan.petrovic@uci.edu
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Continuing Lecturer, Religious Studies and Social Sciences
Interests: Islam and politics, the status of Muslims in western democracies, religion in international relations, and ethnic and religious intra-state conflicts with a geographic focus in the Middle East, North Africa, Europe and Central Asia.
Rasul Miller
rasulm@uci.edu
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Assistant Professor of History
Interests: 20th Century African American History, Islam in the Atlantic World, Black Internationalism
Maria C. Pantelia
mcpantel@uci.edu
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Professor of Classics & Director of Thesaurus Linguae Graecae
Interests: Religious Studies (Greek epic, Hellenistic poetry, digital technologies in the humanities)
Alka Patel
alkap@uci.edu
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Professor of Art History
Interests: History; Religious Studies;, Visual Studies (South Asian and Islamic art and architecture, historiographies, Islamic diasporas in Cuba)
John Pit
jpitt@uci.edu
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Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies
Interests: Japanese literature, Japanese cinema, Japanese sound media, critical plant studies, environmental humanities, environmental media theory
Adrian Preda
apreda@hs.uci.edu
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Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, Psychiatry & Human Behavior
Interests: schizophrenia, Alzheimer's dementia, clinical trials methodology
Gary Richardson
garyr@uci.edu
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Professor of Economics
Interests: European Languages and Studies; Religious Studies
Catherine Zehra Sameh
csameh@uci.edu
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Associate Professor, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Interests:I ranian feminism; human rights; transnational feminisms; gender and social movements in the Middle East and Muslim world; Islam; women of color feminisms
Ian Straughn
ian.straughn@uci.edu
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Assistant Professor of Teaching of Anthropology
Interests: Religious Studies
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Roxanne Varzi
rvarzi@uci.edu
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Professor of Anthropology and Film & Media Studies
Interests: Anthropology, multi-modal and visual, Iran, Media, War, sound ethnography, Film studies, creative and experimental writing, experimental ethnography, theater
