Faculty By Area

ETHICS AND SOCIETY

VICTOR ANDERSON
Professor of Ethics and Society; Professor of African American Studies; Associate Professor of Religious Studies
Graduate School, Divinity School, College of Arts and Science)

SANDRA BARNES
Professor of Sociology of Religion
Professor of Human and Organizational Development

LARRY CHURCHILL
Ann Geddes Stahlman Professor of Medical Ethics
Graduate School, School of Medicine

STACEY M. FLOYD-THOMAS
Associate Professor of Ethics and Society
Graduate School, Divinity School

GRAHAM RESIDE, Executive Director, Cal Turner Program in Moral Leadership for the Professions;
Assistant Professor, Vanderbilt University Divinity School

C. MELISSA SNARR
Associate Professor of Ethics and Society
Graduate School, Divinity School

 

HEBREW BIBLE

ANNALISA AZZONI
Assistant Professor of Hebrew Bible
Graduate School, Divinity School

DOUGLAS A. KNIGHT
Drucilla Moore Buffington Professor of Hebrew Bible
Graduate School, Divinity School

HERBERT MARBURY
Assistant Professor of Hebrew Bible
Graduate School, Divinity School

JACK M. SASSON
Mary Jane Werthan Professor of Jewish Studies and Hebrew Bible; Professor of Classics
Graduate School, Divinity School, College of Arts and Science

 

HISTORICAL STUDIES

LEWIS BALDWIN
Professor of Religious Studies
Graduate School, College of Arts and Science

JAMES P. BYRD
Associate Dean; Assistant Professor of American Religious History
Graduate School, Divinity School

DENNIS C. DICKERSON
James M. Lawson, Jr. Professor of History
Graduate School, College of Arts and Science

KATHLEEN FLAKE
Associate Professor of American Religious History
Graduate School, Divinity School

JOEL HARRINGTON
Associate Professor of History; Director, European Studies Program
Graduate School, College of Arts and Science

JAMES HUDNUT-BEUMLER
Anne Potter Wilson Professor of American Religious History; Dean of the Divinity School
Graduate School, Divinity School

ROBIN M. JENSEN
Luce Chancellor's Professor of the History of Christian Art and Worship
Graduate School, Divinity School

PETER LAKE
Professor of History; Professor of the History of Christianity
Graduate School, Divinity School

PAUL CHANG-HA LIM
Associate Professor of the History of Christianity
Graduate School, Divinity School
 
DAVID MICHELSON
Assistant Professor of Early Christianity
 
 

HISTORY AND CRITICAL THEORIES OF RELIGION

VICTOR ANDERSON
Professor of Christian Ethics; Professor of African American Studies; Associate Professor of Religious Studies
Graduate School, Divinity School, College of Arts and Science)

LEWIS BALDWIN
Professor of Religious Studies
Graduate School, College of Arts and Science

GREGORY BARZ
Associate Professor of Musicology (Ethnomusicology); Professor of Religious Music
Graduate School, Blair School of Music, Divinity School

ROBERT CAMPANY
Professor of Asian Studies
Graduate School, College of Arts and Science

BETH ANN CONKLIN
Associate Professor of Anthropology; Associate Professor of Religious Studies
Graduate School, College of Arts and Science

IDIT DOBBS-WEINSTEIN
Associate Professor of Philosophy
Graduate School, College of Arts and Science

JUAN M. FLOYD-THOMAS , Associate Professor of Black Church Studies
Graduate School, Divinity School

WILLIAM FRANKE
Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Italian; Associate Professor of Religious Studies
Graduate School, College of Arts and Science

VOLNEY P. GAY
Professor of Religious Studies; Professor of Psychiatry; Professor of Anthropology; Chair of the Department of Religious Studies
Graduate School, College of Arts and Science, School of Medicine

JAY GELLER
Associate Professor of Modern Jewish Culture and Religious Studies
Graduate School, Divinity School, College of Arts and Science

LENN GOODMAN
Professor of Philosophy; Professor of Religious Studies
Graduate School, College of Arts and Science

THOMAS A. GREGOR
Professor of Anthropology; Professor of Religious Studies; Chair of the Department of Anthropology
Graduate School, College of Arts and Science

LEOR HALEVI, Associate Professor of History
Graduate School, College of Arts and Science

JOEL HARRINGTON
Associate Professor of History; Director, European Studies Program
Graduate School, College of Arts and Science

DOUGLAS A. KNIGHT
Professor of Hebrew Bible
Graduate School, Divinity School

AMY-JILL LEVINE
E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Professor of New Testament Studies
Graduate School, Divinity School

RICHARD MCGREGOR
Associate Professor of Religious Studies
Graduate School, College of Arts and Science

DANIEL M. PATTE
Professor of Religious Studies; Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity
Graduate School, College of Arts and Science, Divinity School

TONY STEWART, Professor of Religious Studies
Graduate School, College of Arts and Science

MARTINA URBAN
Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and Jewish Studies
Graduate School, Jewish Studies, College of Arts and Science

GAY HOUSE WELCH
University Chaplain; Assistant Professor of Religious Studies
Graduate School, College of Arts and Science

 

HOMILETICS AND LITURGICS

DALE P. ANDREWS
Distinguished Professor of Homiletics, Social Justice and Practical Theology

ROBIN M. JENSEN
Luce Chancellor's Professor of the History of Christian Art and Worship
Graduate School, Divinity School

AMY-JILL LEVINE
E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Professor of New Testament Studies

JOHN S. MCCLURE
Charles G. Finney Professor of Preaching and Worship
Graduate School, Divinity School

BRUCE T. MORRILL
Edward A. Malloy Chair of Catholic Studies, Professor of Theological Studies

 

JEWISH STUDIES

(See Jewish Studies website)

 

NEW TESTAMENT

AMY-JILL LEVINE
E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Professor of New Testament Studies
Graduate School, Divinity School

DANIEL M. PATTE
Professor of Religious Studies; Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity
Graduate School, College of Arts and Science, Divinity School

FERNANDO F. SEGOVIA
Oberlin Graduate Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity
Graduate School, Divinity School

 

RELIGION, PSYCHOLOGY, AND CULTURE

DALE P. ANDREWS
Distinguished Professor of Homiletics, Social Justice & Practical Theology
Graduate School, Divinity School

SANDRA BARNES
Professor of Sociology of Religion, Professor of Human and Organizational Development
Graduate School, Peabody College

PAUL R. DOKECKI
Professor of Psychology
Graduate School, Peabody College

VOLNEY P. GAY
Professor of Religious Studies; Professor of Psychiatry; Professor of Anthropology
Graduate School, College of Arts and Science, School of Medicine

JACO HAMMAN
Associate Professor of Religion, Psychology, and Culture
Director of the Program in Theology and Practice

BARBARA J. MCCLURE
Assistant Professor of Religion, Psychology, and Culture
Graduate School, Divinity School

KEITH MEADOR
Professor of Preventative Medicine, Professor of Psychiatry,
Professor, Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society
 
BONNIE J. MILLER-McLEMORE
E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Professor of Religion, Psychology, and Culture
Graduate School, Divinity School

GRAHAM RESIDE
Executive Director and Assistant Professor of Sociology of Religion,
Cal Turner Program in Moral Leadership for the Professions;
Graduate School, Divinity School

 

THEOLOGICAL STUDIES

ELLEN T. ARMOUR
E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Chair in Feminist Theology; Director of the Carpenter Program in Religion, Gender, and Sexuality
Graduate School, Divinity School

PAUL DEHART
Associate Professor of Theology
Graduate School, Divinity School

M. DOUGLAS MEEKS
The Cal Turner Professor of Theology and Wesleyan Studies
Graduate School, Divinity School

BRUCE T. MORRILL
Edward A. Malloy Chair of Catholic Studies, Professor of Theological Studies
Graduate School, Divinity School

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