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Religion

Our Faculty

Our Religion faculty spans a broad scope of experience and focus, counting among its ranks authors of books on topics ranging from feminist theory to Hindu goddess worship to the role of animals in the Christian tradition.

Click on a faculty member's name to learn more about their educational background and research interests.

  • Elaine Craddock

    Professor of Religion
    (512) 863-1963
    Kyle E. White 101
    email
    Specialty: Hinduism; Feminism and Religion; Tamil literature; Religion and the Body

  • Laura Hobgood-Oster

    Professor of Religion
    (512) 863-1669
    Kyle E. White 105
    email
    Specialty: Animals in the history of the Christian tradition; human-dog history; contemporary religious-ethical issues related to other-than-human animals; religion and ecology; environmental studies; Ecofeminism; human-animal studies.

  • Molly Jensen

    Assistant Professor of Religion
    (512) 863-1797
    Kyle E. White 107
    email
    Specialty: Jewish relational ethics; Religion and Literature; Food and Farming in the Judeo-Christian Traditions; Borderlands religious identities;Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Sense Perception

  • Kenneth Mello

    Assistant Professor of Religion
    (512) 863-1964
    Kyle E. White 111
    email
    Specialty: I am a specialist in Native American religious studies, and am particularly interested in narrative/folklore, issues of identity, and the active role of land and landscape in native religious activity