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

Anthea Butler
Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Africana Studies Interim Chair of Religious Studies
201 Cohen HallRead Bio

Reyhan Durmaz
Assistant Professor of Religious Studies
Cohen Hall 230Read Bio
Jamal J. Elias
Walter H. Annenberg Professor of the Humanities Professor of Religious Studies
Justin McDaniel
Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Endowed Professor of the Humanities Undergraduate Studies Chair
Cohen HallRead Bio

Megan Eaton Robb
Julie and Martin Franklin Assistant Professor of South Asian Religions
Cohen HallRead Bio

Donovan Schaefer
Assistant Professor of Religious Studies
he/him/his
226 Cohen HallRead Bio

Jolyon Thomas
Assistant Professor of Religious Studies Interim Graduate Studies Chair
he/him/his
213 Cohen HallRead Bio

Steven Weitzman
Abraham M. Ellis Professor of Hebrew and Semitic Languages and Literatures Ella Darivoff Director of the Katz Center of Advanced Judaic Studies
wsteve@sas.upenn.edu215 746-1290
222 Cohen HallRead Bio