People

Our faculty includes both our department’s core faculty and an extensive network of associated faculty in other departments.

Anthea Butler

Geraldine R. Segal Professor in American Social Thought Chair of Religious Studies

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Reyhan Durmaz

Assistant Professor of Religious Studies

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Jamal J. Elias

Walter H. Annenberg Professor of the Humanities Professor of Religious Studies, Director, Wolf Humanities Center, Director, Penn Forum for Global Islamic Studies

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Justin McDaniel

Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Endowed Professor of the Humanities

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Megan Eaton Robb

Associate Professor of Religious Studies

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Donovan Schaefer

Donovan Schaefer

Associate Professor of Religious Studies

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226 Cohen HallRead Bio

Jolyon Thomas Portrait

Jolyon Baraka Thomas

Associate Professor of Religious Studies Graduate Studies Chair

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Steven Weitzman

Abraham M. Ellis Professor of Hebrew and Semitic Languages and Literatures Ella Darivoff Director of the Katz Center of Advanced Judaic Studies, Religious Studies Undergraduate Chair

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