Faculty
Professor
- Mark A. Chaves
- Professor of Sociology, Religion, and Divinity and Professor of Religion
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- Hans J. Hillerbrand
- Professor Emeritus of Religion and Germanic Languages & Literature
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Interplay of religion and society, espeically in early modern Europe
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- Wesley A. Kort
- Professor in the Department of Religion
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Religion and Modern Culture;
Religion and Literary Studies
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- Ebrahim Moosa
- Professor of Religion and Islamic Studies
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Ebrahim E.I. Moosa is Professor of Religion and Islamic Studies in the Department of Religion.
His interests span both classical and modern Islamic thought with a special focus on Islamic law, history, ethics and theology.
Dr Moosa is the author of Ghazali and the Poetics of Imagination, winner of the American Academy of Religion's Best First Book ...
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- David Morgan
- Professor and Department Chair
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David Morgan is Professor of Religion with a secondary appointment in the Department of Art, Art History, and Visual Studies at Duke. He also chairs the Department of Religion at Duke. Morgan received his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago in 1990. He has published several books and dozens of essays on the history of religious visual culture, on art history ...
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- Lucas Van Rompay
- Professor in the Department of Religion
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Religion, history, and culture of Christian communities in the Middle East, from Late Antiquity to the present day. Most of my work relates to the Syriac (i.e., Aramaic) Christian tradition, but I am also interested in Armenian, Coptic, Arabic, and Ethiopic Christianity.
Additional research interests, which also inform my teaching, include: (1) Aramaic languages ...
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Associate Professor
- Mark S Goodacre
- Associate Professor
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Mark Goodacre is a Professor in the Department of Religion, Duke University. He specializes in the New Testament and Christian Origins. He earned his MA, M.Phil and DPhil at the University of Oxford and was Senior Lecturer at the University of Birmingham until 2005. His research interests include Jesus and early Christian Gospels including the Gospel of Thomas, film, Paul and Christology. Goodacre is editor of ...
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- Laura S Lieber
- Associate Professor for the Department of Religion, Assistant Director of Jewish Studies and Associate Professor of Germanic Languages and Literature and Director of the Center for Late Ancient Studies
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My primary area of research is in the area of synagogue poetry ("piyyut") from Late Antiquity and the Byzantine period. I examine these works from a variety of perspectives, including literary, performative, and comparative (particularly with early Christian hymnography in Syriac and Greek), and also as a genre of early Jewish biblical interpretation. ...
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Assistant Professor
- Mona F Hassan
- Assistant Professor
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Mona Hassan is Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies and History in the Department of Religion at Duke University, with a secondary appointment in the Department of History. She obtained her Ph.D. from Princeton University in 2009. She recently received fellowships from both the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) and the Social Science ...
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Recent Emeriti
- Bruce B Lawrence
- Nancy and Jeffrey Marcus Professor and Emeritus
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The Comparative Study of Religious Movements; Institutional Islam, especially in Asia; Indo-Persian Sufism; the Religious Masks of Violence; Contemporary Islam as Abrahamic Faith and Religious Ideology
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Postdoctoral Fellow
- Cavan W. Concannon
- Postdoctoral Associate and Visiting Assistant Professor
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