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Affiliated Faculty
The innovative Faculty Associates Program enhances interdisciplinary teaching and research on topics related to the academic study of religion. Faculty Associates are selected by invitation from a variety of programs and departments at the University of South Carolina (USC) and other local institutions for higher education. They welcome Religious Studies Master of Arts students in their classes and are willing to discuss independent study courses appropriate to a student's area of specialization. With the approval of their advisor, Master of Arts students may invite Faculty Associates to serve as comprehensive examiners and as readers on a Master of Arts thesis committee. Prospective students are encouraged to visit the departmental and personal web pages of the Faculty Associates listed below.
- Shahrough Akhavi,
Department of Political
Science (USC - Columbia)
- Comparative politics; specializing in Middle East politics, with particular focus on stratification, social movements, and social thought.
- Junko Baba, Japanese Program (USC - Columbia)
- Medieval and contemporary Japanese theater, film and literature; Buddhism in Japanese culture.
- Keen Butterworth,English Department (USC - Columbia)
- Religious aspects of 19th and 20th century American prose and poetry; American Indian religious practices.
- Kathryn Edwards,History Department (USC - Columbia)
- "popular" religion and folklore in early modern Christian Europe; Reformation society and culture.
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Agnetta Enermalm,New Testament Studies(Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary)
- Hellenistic Jewish historiography; Gospel of Matthew in literary and socio-cultural context; literary aspects of the Book of Acts.
- Jill Frank,Department of Political Science (USC - Columbia)
- Researches and teaches in legal and political philosophy; specializing in the history of political thought with particular focus on questions of property, justice, and law.
- Hal French, Department of Religious Studies (USC - Columbia)
- Zen Buddhism in Asia and the Americas; 19th and 20th century Hindu reform movements; religion and psychology.
- Jeremiah Hackett, Department of Philosophy (USC - Columbia)
- Medieval and Renaissance philosophy. Current research: Roger Bacon; Medieval and Renaissance science; George Berkeley.
- Karl Heider,Department of Anthropology (USC - Columbia)
- Psychological Anthropology: cultural shaping of emotions: (ongoing research in West Sumatra, Indonesia) ; Visual Anthropology; ethnographic film; material culture.
- Judith James,English Department (USC - Columbia)
- Writes and teaches in the fields of 19th- and 20th-century American literature, textual criticism, women's studies, and literature by women.
- Ann Kingsolver,Department of Anthropology (USC - Columbia)
- Cultural anthropology focused on interpretations of transnational capitalism(s); interpretations of identity, place, and livelihood through development discourses with particular attention to conceptualizations of, and methods for studying, power.
- Jessica Kross,History Department (USC - Columbia)
- Teaching and research focus:Colonial America; Current Research: Recreation and Leisure in the Colonies.
- Jonathan Leader,Department of Anthropology - South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology (USC - Columbia)
- Near East, Micronesia, Eastern United States pre and proto-history; anthropology of magic and religion.
- Lamontte Luker,Hebrew Bible(Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary)
- Literary criticism and theology of the Hebrew Bible; the history of the land of Israel-Palestine.
- Ed Madden,English Department (USC - Columbia)
- 19th and 20th century British culture; Irish literature; gay and lesbian studies including research on Christian discourse in 20th century gay and lesbian literature.
- Paul Allen Miller,Department of Comparative Literature (USC)
- Teaching and research interests are critical theory, lyric poetry, and the classical tradition; edited or co-edited volumes addressing literary theory, gender studies, and topics in classics.
- Ken Perkins,History Department (USC - Columbia)
- Muslim and non-Muslim perceptions of appropriate roles for Islam in the European ruled dependencies of North Africa and the Middle East in the 19th and 20th centuries.
- Lawrence Rhu,English Department (USC - Columbia)
- Renaissance literature; Shakespeare; Milton; biblical texts.
- Yoshitaka Sakakibara,Japanese Program (USC - Columbia)
- Teaching interests: Japanese Language, Business Japanese, Japanese Culture; research interests: Business Japanese Education, Intercultural Education involving Japan.
- Michael Scardaville,History Department (USC - Columbia)
- Cultural history of Latin America, with an emphasis on Mexico and Hispanics in the United States; particular interests in legal history (and its ecclesiastical origins in Ibero-American law), church-state relations, popular religion, and emergence of Buddhism in Latin America.
- Meili Steele,English Department (USC - Columbia)
- The relationships among philosophy, literature, and politics in modern American and European cultures.
- Chris Tollefsen,Philosophy Department (USC - Columbia)
- Ethics and ethical theory. Current research: Moral objectivity, commitment and community.
- Mark Whitaker,Department of Sociology and Anthropology (USC-Aiken)
- Assistant Professor of Anthropology: cultural anthropology focused on religion and politics generally; religion and nationalist politics among the Tamil speaking Hindus of Sri Lanka's Batticaloa District.
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