Faculty
Our Religion and Philosophy 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 web page to learn more about each member's educational background and research interests.
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Professor of Religion
(512) 863-1963
Kyle E. White 101
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Specialty: Hinduism; Feminism and Religion; Tamil literature; Religion and the Body -
Professor of Religion
(512) 863-1669
Kyle E. White 105
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Specialty: Animals in the history of the Christian tradition; contemporary religious-ethical issues related to other-than-human animals; religion and ecology; environmental studies; EcofeminismDr. Hobgood-Oster is coordinating a lecture series and conference - "Real" Animals and the Humanities - that will take place February 17-18, 2010 at Southwestern University. Dr. Paul Waldau, Dr. Marc Bekoff, and Carol Adams will all be presenting keynote addresses on February 17. On February 18 a roundtable of scholars studying animals and the humanities/social sciences will meet from 9:00-11:00 am. Any interested parties are welcome to join this roundtable conversation. For more information contact Dr. Hob-O at hoboster@southwestern.edu or call at 512-863-1669. -
Assistant Professor of Religion
(512) 863-1797
Kyle E. White 107
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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 -
Part-Time Assistant Professor of Religion
(512) 863-1497
Kyle E. White 110
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Specialty: African cultural studies; Islamic cultural studies; postcolonial studies and theories of globalization; performance studies (including ritual, theater and everyday performances of identity); media studies; African and Middle Eastern literature and film/video; poetics and politics of ethnography; discourses of human rights and humanitarianism; Sudan -
Assistant Professor of Religion
(512) 863-1964
Kyle E. White 111
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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 -
Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy
(512) 863-1209
Kyle E. White 110
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Specialty: Continental Philosophy, Feminism, Aesthetics
