Curricula Vitae in Religious Studies

Name	Personal Focus	Summary
Professor Noah Daedalus Gardiner Assistant Professor	spread and development of the “science of letters and names” (ʿilm al-huruf wa-al-asmaʾ), ways that ideas and practices move from the fringes to the mainstream (and sometimes back again), role of “the book” in religion—as material artifact, transcendent text, and everything in-between	Noah Gardiner is a scholar of Islamic thought and culture with particular research interests in Sufism, esotericism and the occult sciences, manuscript culture, and the Arabic-speaking Mediterranean of the 12th-15th centuries C.E.
Marko Geslani Associate Professor	role astrological tradition (jyotiḥśāstra) - problems of personhood & state formation early Hinduism, recent history of Hindu studies in North American Academy from perspective of Asian American studies, Orientalism	Marko Geslani (PhD, Yale 2011) is a historian of religion specializing in ritual studies and medieval Hinduism. His first book, Rites of the God-King: Śānti and Ritual Change in Early Hinduism (OUP 2018), forms a historiographic critique of Hinduism through a history of omen-appeasement (śānti) rituals, from late Vedic ritual manuals to medieval Hindu purāṇas.
John Mandsager Assistant Professor	English Language and Literature, Jewish Studies	John Mandsager teaches and writes about Late Antique Jewish literature, practices, materiality, and history, with particular focus on Jewish spaces in Roman Palestine. His teaching and research emphasize questions of space, gender, class, materiality, interpretation, religious practice, and religious innovation. He received his Ph.D. in Religious Studies from Stanford University in 2014.
Dr. Stephanie Y Mitchem Professor	Contemporary religious thought, with emphasis on feminist methodologies;, African American women in the African diaspora; , interdisciplinarity	I work at an interdisciplinary intersection of religion, American history, race studies, feminisms, & liberatory practice in order to better understand contemporary problems. I use different research methods to understand religions as complex and problematic realities in our cultures. I have written four books, co-edited one, and have begun the next in these explorations. My teaching reflects these cross disciplinary foci as I encourage students to look beyond the obvious in their research.
Erin J. Roberts Associate Professor	Early Christian History and Literature, Hellenistic Moral Philosophy, Theory and Method for the Study of Religion	Dr. Roberts' current research focuses on the ways that ancient writers interested in Judean traditions (including the apostle Paul, Philo of Alexandria, and the authors of gospels about Jesus) participated in the discourse of Greek and Roman moral philosophy. Additionally, she is interested in the ways that theological agenda continue to shape the modern study of Christian origins and is involved in projects aimed at naturalizing the study of religion.
Professor Daniel Malinowski Stuart Associate Professor	Asian Studies, Literature and Cultures, Religion	Daniel Stuart is a scholar of South Asian religions, literary cultures, and meditation traditions who specializes in the texts and practices of the Buddhist tradition. He has worked extensively on sutra literature and Buddhist manuscripts in various Asian languages and scripts. He is particularly interested in the interrelationships between Buddhist practice traditions, theories of mind, and scriptural production in premodern and modern India.