Faculty and Staff
Faculty
James C. Hanges
Professor
Department Chair
203 Upham Hall
(513) 529-2029
hangesjc@MiamiOH.edu
Areas of expertise: Religion and politics; New Testament; early Christianity and rabbinic Judaism; Pentecostalism and evangelicalism
John-Charles Duffy
Assistant Teaching Professor
Co-chair, META Collective
200G Upham Hall
(513) 529-4304
duffyjc@MiamiOH.edu
Areas of expertise: Religious pluralism in the U.S.; church and state; science and religion; Mormonism; dynamics of new religious movements
Nathan French
Assistant Professor
Chief Departmental Adviser
200E Upham Hall
(513) 529-4305
frenchns@MiamiOH.edu
Areas of expertise: Islamic law (sharīʿa); histories and theories of jihad; Islamism; religion and politics; religion and violence
Also affiliated with: International Studies
Hillel Gray
Assistant Teaching Professor
200H Upham Hall
(513) 529-4309
grayhc@MiamiOH.edu
Areas of expertise: Judaism; Jewish law; religious bioethics; transgender; environmental ethics; fundamentalism or religious "extremism"
Scott Kenworthy
Associate Professor
200C Upham Hall
(513) 529-4308
kenwors@MiamiOH.edu
Areas of expertise: Religion in Russia; Eastern Orthodox Christianity; history of Christianity; global Christianity
Also affiliated with: Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet Studies; Russian, Eastern European, and Eurasian Studies; Department of History
Liz Wilson
Professor
200F Upham Hall
(513) 529-4307
wilsone@MiamiOH.edu
Areas of expertise: Religions of South Asia; Buddhism; religion and gender; visible religious dress; marriage and same-sex unions
Also affiliated with: Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Affiliates
Affiliates are faculty in other departments who teach courses or do research related to the study of religion.
James Bielo
Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology
124A Upham Hall
(513) 529-8777
bielojs@MiamiOH.edu
Related area: Anthropology of Christianity in the contemporary United States
Jana Evans Braziel
Western College Endowed Professor
Latin American, Latino/a and Caribbean Studies Program
(Department of Global & Intercultural Studies)
34 MacMillan Hall
(513) 529-3996
brazieje@MiamiOH.edu
Related area: Haitian Vodou and other African diasporic religions in the Americas
John Cinnamon
Associate Professor
Department of Anthropology
Currently on leave
cinnamjm@MiamiOH.edu
Related area: Intersections of religion, politics, ethnicity, and nationalism in Africa
Sandra Garner
Associate Professor
American Studies Program
(Department of Global & Intercultural Studies)
120 MacMillan Hall
(513) 529-5333
garners2@MiamiOH.edu
Related area: Native American cultures and religions; interreligious dialogue between Native and non-Native Americans
Experiential learning: Dr. Garner has developed a long-term research partnership with the Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma, in which Miami students collaborate with tribal members on community-driven research and creative work.
Deborah Lyons
Associate Professor
Department of French, Italian, and Classical Studies
104 Irvin Hall
(513) 529-1487
lyonsd@MiamiOH.edu
Related area: Greek mythology and religion
Homayun Sidky
Professor
Department of Anthropology
116D Upham Hall
(513) 529-1591
sidkyh@MiamiOH.edu
Related area: Anthropology of shamanism in Nepal