Core Faculty
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David Amico
Professor of Art
Chair, Art DepartmentResearch Interests
Art, Painting
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Matthew Bowman
Associate Professor of Religion and History
Howard W. Hunter Chair of Mormon StudiesResearch Interests
Mormonism, new religious movements, evangelicalism, religion and American politics
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Peter Boyer
Professor of Music
Helen M. Smith Chair in MusicResearch Interests
Composition, Conducting, American film music, 20th- and 21st-Century music, American composers
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Eric Bulson
Andrew W. Mellon All-Claremont Chair in the Humanities
Professor of English
Chair, English DepartmentPrograms
Research Interests
James Joyce, Modernism, Critical theory, Media studies, World literature, Visual storytelling, British and Anglophone literature (1850–2000)
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Nicola Denzey Lewis
Professor of Religion
Margo L. Goldsmith Chair in Women’s Studies in ReligionResearch Interests
Social and Intellectual History of the Roman Empire, Gnosticism, Women’s Studies, Religion in the Roman Empire and Late Roman Empire, Late Antiquity
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Patricia Easton
Professor of Humanities
Research Interests
Philosophy, History of modern philosophy, Philosophy of mind, History of science
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Lori Anne Ferrell
Dean, School of Arts & Humanities
Director, Early Modern Studies Program
Director, Kingsley & Kate Tufts Poetry AwardsResearch Interests
English Renaissance and Reformation Literature; Early Modern British and European History; Reformation Studies, Protestantism, the Bible and English-language Culture; the Bible in America; William Shakespeare
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Joshua Goode
Associate Professor of Cultural Studies and History
Chair, Cultural Studies (Fall 2022)Research Interests
Modern Spain, 19th- and 20th-century Europe, Genocide and racial thought, Museums and commemoration, Memory
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Romeo Guzmán
Assistant Professor of History
Programs
Research Interests
Citizenship, Migration, Sport, Public history, Digital humanities
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Ruqayya Y. Khan
Professor of Religion
Malas Chair of Islamic StudiesResearch Interests
The Qur'an, Arabic literatures, progressive Islamic theologies, women in Islam, Islam and environmental ethics, Islam and the digital age, late antiquity and Islam, origins of Islam, cultures of Umayyad Damascus and Abbasid Baghdad
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Jenny Soonjin Kim
Assistant Professor of Practice
Research Interests
Piano, Fortepiano, 18th & 19th-century performance practices, 20th century atonal piano compositions, digital keyboard laboratory, the board of directors of Los Angeles Master Chorale: Education Committee and Gala Host Committee
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Rachel Lachowicz
Professor of Studio Art
Research Interests
Conceptual practices in feminism, materiality, and social politics
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David Luis-Brown
Associate Professor of Cultural Studies and English
Chair, Cultural Studies DepartmentResearch Interests
Hemispheric Americas studies, Latino/a/x studies, Black diaspora studies, American literature and culture
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Wendy Martin
Professor of American Literature and American Studies
Research Interests
American literature and culture, American poetry, American studies, Women’s studies, Death and Dying in American Literature and Culture; Jazz in American Culture
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Darrell Moore
Visiting Associate Professor of Cultural Studies
Philosophy Teachout CoordinatorResearch Interests
Aesthetics, Africana Intellectual Thought, Critical Theory, Continental Philosophy
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Eve Oishi
Associate Professor of Cultural Studies
Research Interests
Cultural studies, Media studies, Feminist and queer theory, Asian American studies
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David Pagel
Professor of Art Theory and History
Roland Reiss Endowed Chair in Art
Faculty Coordinator, Center for Business & Management of the ArtsResearch Interests
Art, Art media, Painting, Contemporary Art, Art Criticism, Museums and Creativity
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Linda Perkins
University Professor
Director, Applied Gender StudiesResearch Interests
Women and African-American higher education, history and contemporary issues on women in higher education, especially Black women, global gender issues.
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JoAnna Poblete
Professor of History
John D. and Lillian Maguire Distinguished Professor in the Humanities
Chair, History DepartmentResearch Interests
Colonialism and empire, unincorporated territories, migration and labor, comparative ethnic studies, Asian-American and Pacific Islander studies, 20th-century United States, indigenous issues, environmental history, oral history, U.S. expansionism
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Daniel Ramírez
Associate Professor of Religion
Research Interests
American religious history; Latin American religious history; Religion, migration, and transnationalism; Religion in borderlands; Contemporary theories of religion
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Tammi J. Schneider
Danforth Professor of Religion
Chair, Religion DepartmentResearch Interests
Ancient Near Eastern history, literature, archaeology, and religion;
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Kevin Wolfe
Assistant Professor of Religion
Horton Chair of Religion and Africana StudiesResearch Interests
Religion and Critical Thought; Critical Philosophy of Race; Africana Religious and Political Thought; Religion, Ethics, and Politics; Moral Philosophy; Philosophy of Religion.
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Robert Zappulla
Professor of Music
Fred W. Smith and Grace Hobson Smith Chair in Music
Chair, Department of MusicResearch Interests
Harpsichord, Historical performance practices, Baroque music