Faculty & Staff
Associate Professor of Religious Studies in Islam
Chair, Department of Religious Studies
Specialties:
- Islam
- Islamic history
(804) 287-6308
Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Emeritus
Specialties:
- Christian origins
- Early Judiasm
(804) 288-5885
George and Sallie Cutchin Camp Professor of Bible
Specialties:
- New Testament
- Early Christianity
(804) 287-6343
Lewis T. Booker Professorship in Religion & Ethics
Professor of Religious Studies and Philosophy, Politics, Economics and Law (PPEL)
Specialties:
- Ethics
- Western Religious Thought
(804) 289-8331
Professor of Religious Studies
Specialties:
- Conceptions of the body and language in early Chinese texts
(804) 289-8330
Dr. Rhiannon Graybill
She/Her
Professor of Religious Studies
Marcus M. and Carole M. Weinstein & Gilbert M. and Fannie S. Rosenthal Chair of Jewish Studies
Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Advisory Board Member
Specialties:
- Hebrew Bible
- Feminist biblical interpretation
- Queer biblical interpretation
- Literary approaches
(804) 289-8692
Professor, George Matthews & Virginia Brinkley Modlin Chair in Leadership Studies
Specialties:
- Modern and Postmodern Political Theory
- Political Culture (Late Antiquity through Early Modern Period)
(804) 289-8003
Visiting Assistant Professor of Religious Studies
Specialties:
- Hebrew Bible
- Early Judaism
- Ancient Near Eastern Religion
Emily Peebles
She/Her
Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Emerita
Specialties:
- History of religions
- Buddhism
- Religions of India
- Gender and Religion
(804) 289-8692
University Professor
Specialties:
- Christian Tradition
- Contemporary Religious Thought
- Theory in Gender and Women's Studies
- Religion and Political Theory
(804) 289-1743
Professor of Religious Studies
Specialties:
- Religion in early America
- Native American religions
- Religion and popular/material culture
(804) 289-8329