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New members of the ASSR are elected on an annual basis by vote of the society. They are nominated by current members of the ASSR and chosen on the basis of their contributions to the field, achievements and interest in the comparative study of religion, and record of collegial engagement.

Current Members

Said Arjomand

Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Sociology

Stony Brook University

Annette Aronowicz

Robert F. and Patricia G. Ross Weis Professor Emerita of Judaic Studies and Professor Emerita of Religious Studies

Franklin and Marshall College

Talal Asad

Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and Middle Eastern Studies

City University of New York

Robert Baum

Professor of African and African-American Studies, and Religion

Dartmouth College

Gustavo Benavides

Associate Professor Emeritus of Theology and Religious Studies

Villanova University

Courtney Bender

Tremaine Professor of Religion

Columbia University

Jeremy Biles

Associate Professor of Liberal Arts

School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Janice Boddy

Professor Emerita of Anthropology

University of Toronto

Stephen Bokenkamp

Regents Professor of Religious Studies and Chinese

Arizona State University

Elias K. Bongmba

Harry and Hazel Chavanne Chair in Christian Theology and Professor of Religion

Rice University

John Bowen

Dunbar-Van Cleve Professor of Sociocultural Anthropology

Washington University in St. Louis

Virginia Burrus

The Bishop W. Earl Ledden Professor of Religion

Syracuse University

Caroline Walker Bynum

Professor Emerita of European Medieval History

School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study

José Cabezón

Dalai Lama Professor Emeritus of Tibetan Buddhism and Cultural Studies

University of California, Santa Barbara

Wendy Cadge

Professor of Sociology and College President

Bryn Mawr College

John B. Carman

Parkman Professor Emeritus of Divinity

Harvard Divinity School

Davíd Carrasco

Neil L. Rudenstine Professor of the Study of Latin America

Harvard Divinity School

J. Kameron Carter

Professor of African American Studies

University of California, Irvine

Elizabeth Castelli

Professor of Religion

Barnard College

Carolyn E. Chen

Professor of Ethnic Studies

University of California, Berkeley

Michael Como

Tōshū Fukami Associate Professor of Shinto Studies

Columbia University

John E. Cort

Professor Emeritus of Religion

Denison University

Thomas Csordas

Distinguished Professor of Anthropology

University of California, San Diego

Edward Curtis

William M. and Gail M. Plater Chair of the Liberal Arts and Professor of World Languages & Cultures

Indiana University

Jacob Dalton

Khyentse Foundation Distinguished University Professor in Tibetan Buddhism

University of California, Berkeley

Corinne G. Dempsey

Professor of Religious Studies

Nazareth University

David A. Dilworth

Professor of Philosophy

Stony Brook University

Wendy Doniger

Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor Emerita of the History of Religions

University of Chicago

H. Byron Earhart

Professor Emeritus of Comparative Religion

Western Michigan University

Richard M. Eaton

Professor of History

University of Arizona

Gary L. Ebersole

Professor Emeritus of History and Religious Studies

University of Missouri–Kansas City

Diana L. Eck

Professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies and Fredric Wertham Professor of Law and Psychiatry in Society

Harvard University

Susanna Elm

Professor of European History and Classics

University of California, Berkeley

Carl W. Ernst

William R. Kenan, Jr., Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Tamara Cohn Eskenazi

Effie Wise Ochs Professor Emerita of Biblical Literature and History

Hebrew Union College

John L. Esposito

Distinguished University Professor and Professor of Religion, International Affairs, and Islamic Studies

Georgetown University

Katherine Ewing

Professor of Religion

Columbia University

Nancy Falk

Professor Emerita of Comparative Religion

Western Michigan University

Georgia Frank

Professor of the Study of World Religions and Professor of Religion

Colgate University

Gillian Feeley-Harnik

Professor Emerita of Anthropology

University of Michigan

Anne Feldhaus

Professor Emerita of Religious Studies

Arizona State University

David Frankfurter

William Goodwin Aurelio Professor of the Appreciation of Scripture and Professor of Religion

Boston University

Kambiz GhaneaBassiri

Professor of Religion

Carleton College

Ann Grodzins Gold

Thomas J. Watson Professor Emerita of Religion and Professor Emerita of Anthropology

Syracuse University

Daniel Gold

Professor Emeritus of South Asian Religions and Culture

Cornell University

Peter Gottschalk

Professor of Religion

Wesleyan University

Fritz Graf

Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Classics

Ohio State University

William A. Graham

Murray A. Albertson Professor Emeritus of Middle Eastern Studies

Harvard University

Ronald M. Green

Eunice and Julian Cohen Professor Emeritus for the Study of Ethics and Human Values in Religion

Dartmouth College

Janet Gyatso

Hershey Professor of Buddhist Studies

Harvard Divinity School

Rosalind I. Hackett

Chencellor's Professor Emerita of Religious Studies

University of Tennessee

Charles Hallisey

Yehan Numata Senior Lecturer on Buddhist Literatures

Harvard Divinity School

Helen Hardacre

Reischauer Institute Professor of Japanese Religions and Society

Harvard University

John Stratton Hawley

Claire Tow Professor of Religion

Columbia University

Richard D. Hecht

Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies

University of California, Santa Barbara

Robert Hefner

Professor of Anthropology

Boston University

Susannah Heschel

Eli M. Black Distinguished Professor of Jewish Studies

Dartmouth College

Barbara A. Holdrege

Professor of Religious Studies

University of California, Santa Barbara

Jess Hollenback

Associate Professor Emeritus of History

University of Wisconsin–La Crosse

John Clifford Holt

William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor Emeritus of the Humanities in Religion and Asian Studies

Bowdoin College

Tracey Hucks

Victor S. Thomas Professor of Africana Religious Studies

Harvard Divinity School

Elizabeth Shakman Hurd

Professor of Political Science

Northwestern University

Roger Jackson

John W. Nason Professor Emeritus of Asian Studies and Religion

Carleton College

Martin S. Jaffee

Professor Emeritus of Jewish Studies and Comparative Religion

Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington

Greg B. Johnson

Professor of Religious Studies

Director, Walter H. Capps Center for the Study of Ethics, Religion, and Public Life

University of California, Santa Barbara

Paul C. Johnson

Professor of History and Afroamerican and African Studies

University of Michigan

Sylvester A. Johnson

Professor of Religion and Culture

Director, Center for Humanities

Virginia Tech

Sarah Iles Johnston

College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of Religion

Ohio State University

Mark Juergensmeyer

Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Global Studies

University of California, Santa Barbara

Ousmane Oumar Kane

Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Professor of Contemporary Islamic Religion and Society and Professor of African and African American Studies

Harvard University

Thomas P. Kasulis

University Distinguished Scholar and Professor Emeritus of Comparative Studies

Ohio State University

Steven T. Katz

Alvin J. and Shirley Slater Chair in Jewish and Holocaust Studies

Boston University

Webb Keane

George Herbert Mead Distinguished University Professor of Anthropology

University of Michigan

Laurel Kendall

Curator of Asian Ethnology

Professor, Richard Gilder Graduate School

American Museum of Natural History

Pamela Klassen

Professor of the Study of Religion

University of Toronto

Anne C. Klein

Professor of Religion

Rice University

David M. Knipe

Professor Emeritus of Asian Languages and Cultures

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Ross S. Kraemer

Professor Emerita of Religious Studies and Judaic Studies

Brown University

Jeffrey J. Kripal

J. Newton Rayzor Chair in Philosophy and Religious Thought

Rice University

Charles Kurzman

Professor of Sociology

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Michael Lambek

Professor Emeritus of Antrhopology

University of Toronto Scarborough

Bruce B. Lawrence

Nancy and Jeffrey Marcus Humanities Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Religion

Duke University

E. Thomas Lawson

Professor Emeritus of Comparative Religion

Western Michigan University

Nancy Levene

Brooks and Suzanne Ragen Professor of Religious Studies

Yale University

Peggy Levitt

Mildred Lane Kemper Professor of Sociology

Wellesley College

Kathryn Lofton

Lex Hixon Professor of Religious Studies and American Studies

Yale University

Kathryn Gin Lum

Professor of Religious Studies

Stanford University

Shaul Magid

Distinguished Fellow in Jewish Studies

Dartmouth College

William Malandra

Professor Emeritus of Classical and Near Eastern Religions and Cultures

University of Minnesota

Gurinder Singh Mann

Director, Global Institute for Sikh Studies

New York, NY

Tomoko Masuzawa

Professor Emerita of Comparative Literature and History

University of Michigan

Elizabeth McAlister

Professor of Religion

Wesleyan University

Jane D. McAuliffe

Distinguished Senior Research Fellow

Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs

Georgetown University

Kathryn McClymond

President

Oglethorpe University

Rachel McDermott

Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures

Barnard College

Vasudha Narayanan

Distinguished Professor of Religion

University of Florida

Gordon D. Newby

Goodrich C. White Professor Emeritus of Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies

Emory University

Christian Novetzke

Professor of South Asia, Comparative Religion, and

International Studies

Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies,

University of Washington

Robert A. Orsi

Professor of Religious Studies

Northwestern University

Laurie L. Patton

President

Middlebury College

James L. Peacock

Kenan Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Anthropology

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Anthony B. Pinn

Agnes Cullen Arnold Professor of Humanities and Professor of Religion

Rice University

Sally M. Promey

Professor of American Studies and Religious Studies

Yale University

Stephen Prothero

C. Allyn and Elizabeth V. Russell Professor of Religion

Boston University

Justine Quijada

Associate Professor of Religion and of Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies

Wesleyan University

Fabio Rambelli

International Shinto Foundation Chair in Shinto Studies and Professor of Religious Studies and East Asian Cultural Studies

University of California, Santa Barbara

Paula Richman

William H. Danforth Professor Emerita of South Asian Religions

Oberlin College

Vernon K. Robbins

Winship Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus of New Testament and Comparative Sacred Texts

Emory University

James Robson

James C. Kralik and Yunli Lou Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations

Harvard University

Andy Rotman

Sydenham Clark Parsons Distinguished Professor of Religion, Buddhist Studies, and South Asian Studies

Smith College

Mary-Jane Rubenstein

Professor of Religion and Science in Society

Wesleyan University

Noah Salomon

Irfan and Noreen Galaria Research Chair and Associate Professor in Islamic Studies

University of Virginia

Asuka Sango

John W. Nason Professor of Asian Studies and Religion

Carleton College

Jonathan Sheehan

Professor of History

University of California, Berkeley

Stephen J. Shoemaker

Professor of Religious Studies

University of Oregon

C. Peter Slater

Professor Emeritus of Theology

Trinity College, University of Toronto

Dianne Stewart

Emory University

Ivan Strenski

Holstein Family and Community Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies

University of California, Riverside

John S. Strong

Charles A. Dana Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies

Bates College

Lawrence E. Sullivan

Professor Emeritus of Theology and Anthropology

University of Notre Dame

Donald K. Swearer

Charles and Harriet Cox McDowell Professor Emeritus of Religion

Swarthmore College

Ann Taves

Distinguished Professor Emerita of Religious Studies

University of California, Santa Barbara

Stephen F. Teiser

D. T. Suzuki Professor in Buddhist Studies and Professor of Religion

Princeton University

Thomas A. Tweed

W. Harold and Martha Welch Professor of American Studies and Professor of History

University of Notre Dame

Hugh Urban

College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of Comparative Studies

Ohio State University

Archana Venkatesan

Professor of Religious Studies and Comparative Literature

University of California, Davis

Christian K. Wedemeyer

Associate Professor of the History of Religions and Associate Faculty in South Asian Languages and Civilizations

University of Chicago

Judith Weisenfeld

Agate Brown and George L. Collord Professor of Religion

Princeton University

Robert R. Wilson

Hoober Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies and Professor Emeritus of Old Testament

Yale Divinity School

Elliot R. Wolfson

Marsha and Jay Glazer Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies

University of California, Santa Barbara

Chün-fang Yü

Sheng Yen Professor Emerita of Chinese Buddhism

Columbia University

Malika Zeghal

Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Professor in Contemporary Islamic Thought and Life

Harvard University

Eric Ziolkowski

Helen H. P. Manson Professor Emeritus of Bible

Lafayette College