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Department Faculty
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.
Wayne Coppins
Assistant Professor (PhD, Cambridge, England)
New Testament
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Lecturer
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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Dr.
Randy Sturman
Lecturer (PhD, Univ. of California-San Diego)
Religion and Anthropology, Religion and Law
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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
Brad Downs, RELI 1001, 1003,
bodowns@yahoo.com
Jason Eaglen, RELI 1001, jeaglen@uga.edu
Jordan Rothacker, RELI 1001,
jordanr@uga.edu
Kai Riedl, RELI 1002, 2002H,
4405, 4401, kriedl@uga.edu
Wesley Schwein, RELI 1001, ywnswsly@uga.edu
Amanda Smith, Hebrew, ansmith@uga.edu
Adam
Ware , RELI 1002, amware@uga.edu
Laura Weaver, RELI 1100, laweaver@uga.edu
Wanda Wilcox, RELI 1003, wanda@franklin.uga.edu
Graduate Teaching Instructors
Crystal Aycock, RELI 1001, RELI
1100, cga99@uga.edu
David McDuffie, RELI 1001, davidmc@uga.edu
Matthew Hopper, RELI 1001, mthopper@uga.edu
Holly Jordan, RELI 1001, hajordan@uga.edu
Michelle Schingler, RELI 1001,
schinglr@uga.edu
Michael Ward, RELI 1002, kakugari@uga.edu
Svend White, RELI 1001,svendw@uga.edu
Kathleen Williams, RELI 1001, williams@uga.edu
Graduate Assistants
James Henriques, jhenriq@uga.edu
Dan Marcec, dmarcec@uga.edu
Hugo Mendez, mendez@uga.edu
Michael Mizell, chael@uga.edu
Sarah Richards, sericha@uga.edu
Karen Schwerin, schwer3@uga.edu
Omer Tasgetiren, omer@uga.edu
John Starke, jstarke@uga.edu
Foreign
Language Teaching Assistants
Abdelkader Ben Rhit (Arabic),
benrhit@uga.edu
Akbar Cheraghi (Persian), cheraghi@uga.edu
Zaki Nur'aeni (Indonesian),
nuraeni@uga.edu
Betul Tarhan (Turkish), tarhan@uga.edu