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Department Faculty

Religion faculty members are also affiliated with the African Studies Institute, the Institute for African-American Studies, the Center for Asian Studies, and the Institute for Native American Studies

Professor

Dr. Richard Elliott Friedman
Ann and Jay Davis Professor of Jewish Studies (PhD, Harvard)
Hebrew Language and Literature, Jewish Studies

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Dr. Russell Kirkland
Professor (PhD, Indiana)
Asian Religions, Taoism, Chinese and Japanese Religions
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Dr. Sandy D. Martin
Professor and Department Head (PhD, Columbia)
History of Christianity, American and African American Religious History
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Dr. William L. Power
Professor (PhD, Emory)
Historical, Systematic and Philosophical Theology, Philosophy of Religion
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Dr. Jace Weaver
Professor (PhD, Union Theological Seminary), Director of the Institute of Native American Studies
Native American Cultures and Religious Traditions, Eschatology, Apocalypticism
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Dr. David S. Williams
Professor (PhD, Hebrew Union College) , Director of UGA Honors Program
Judaism, Hebrew, Intertestamental Literature, Hebrew Bible

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Associate Professor

Dr. Alan Godlas
Associate Professor (PhD, Berkeley)
Islam, Quranic & Hadith Studies, Arabic & Persian, Sufism

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Dr. Kenneth Honerkamp
Associate Professor (PhD, Aix-en-Provence)
Arabic, Islamic texts, Shariah (Islamic Law), North African Sufism
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Dr. Carolyn Jones Medine
Associate Professor (PhD, Virginia)
Religion and Literature, African American Religions and Literatures, Religious Theory and Thought, Women's Spirituality and Writings
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Assistant Professor
Dr. Ibigbolade Simon Aderibigbe
Assistant Professor (PhD, University of Ibadan, Nigera)
African Traditional Religions

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Dr. Wayne Coppins
Assistant Professor (PhD, Cambridge, England)
New Testament

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Lecturers/Instructors

Mr. Haider Bhuiyan
Lecturer (PhD candidate, University of Utah)
Arabic

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Dr. Rouslan Elistratov
Lecturer (PhD, Claremont)
Philosophy of Religion, Theology

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Dr. Elizabeth LaRocca-Pitts
Part-time Lecturer (PhD, Harvard)
Old Testament and New Testament Studies

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Ms. Laura Weaver
Instructor
(PhD Candidate, U of CA-Santa Barbara)
Native American Studies and Literature

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Professor Emeriti

Dr. Robert H. Ayers
(Vanderbilt)
Historical and Philosophical Theology

Dr. George Howard

(Hebrew Union College)
New Testament and Early Christian Literature, Greek and Semitic Languages, Intertestamental Studies

Dr. Shanta Ratnayaka

(Northwestern)
Buddhism, Indian Philosophy, Asian Religions

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Temporary Instructors
Holly Jordan, RELI 1002 hajordan@uga.edu
Derrick Lemons, RELI 1003, dlemons@uga.edu
Michael Mizell, RELI 1001 chael@uga.edu
Yassin Mohamed
, ARAB 2003 yassin10@gmail.com
Wanda Wilcox, RELI 1003, RELI 4105, wanda@franklin.uga.edu


Graduate Teaching Instructors
Nabil Ali , nabilali@uga.edu
Kristen Cox, kcox86@uga.edu
Sarah D'Andrea, sdandrea@uga.edu
James Henriques, jhenriq@uga.edu
Hugo Mendez, mendez@uga.edu
Rachel Nabulsi, rnabulsi@uga.edu
William Pinner, redertai@uga.edu
Amanda Smith, Hebrew, ansmith@uga.edu
Omer Tasgetiren
, omer@uga.edu

Graduate Assistants
Erin Barrentine, ebarrent@uga.edu
Jonathan Brown, jonnyb23@uga.edu
Andrea Cluck, abcluck@uga.edu
Logan Edwards, ledwards@uga.edu
Theresa Flemming, theresaf@uga.edu
Meghan Goyer, msgoyer@uga.edu
Xuewen Liu, xuewen81@uga.edu
Elizabeth Martin, ebmartin@uga.edu
Mark Mayfield, markm1@uga.edu
Thomas Sorlie
, vertov@uga.edu

Foreign Language Teaching Assistants
Difiani Apriyanti (Indonesian) difi@uga.edu
Mahmudul Haque (Bengali) mahmud@uga.edu
Parviz Hussaini (Persian)parviz@uga.edu
Emrah Ozcan (Turkish) eozcan@uga.edu
Maryam Shaheen (Urdu) mshaheen@uga.edu
Mohammad Sharif (Pashtu) mdarvesh@uga.edu