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Officers and Faculty

The University of Chicago

Paul Alivisatos, President of the University
Joseph Neubauer, Chairman of the Board of Trustees
Katherine Baicker, Provost

The Divinity School

Administration

James T. Robinson, Dean; Nathan Cummings Professor of Jewish Studies; Professor of the History of Judaism, Islamic Studies, and the History of Religions in the Divinity School and the College
Sara Bigger, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Strategic Initiatives
Emily Crews, Executive Director of the Martin Marty Center for the Public Understanding of Religion
Erika Dornfeld, Director of Field Education and Community Engagement
Russell Johnson, Assistant Director, Undergraduate Religious Studies Program and Core Sequence
Kathryn LeBoeuf, Director of Development
Cynthia Gano Lindner, Director of Ministry Studies
Nathan J. Hardy, Assistant Dean of Students
Mimi Maduff, Dean of Students
Madison McClendon, Assistant Director of Development
Suzanne Riggle, Senior Associate Dean for Administration and Finance

Faculty

Sarah Hammerschlag, Ph.D., John Nuveen Professor of Religion and Literature, Philosophy of Religions and History of Judaism; also in the College
Kevin Hector, Ph.D., Naomi Shenstone Donnelly Professor of Theology and the Philosophy of Religions; also in the College.
Dwight N. Hopkins, Ph.D., Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor; also in the College.
Margaret M. Mitchell, Ph.D., Shailer Mathews Distinguished Service Professor of New Testament and Early Christian Literature; also in the College.
Willemien Otten, Ph.D., Dorothy Grant Maclear Professor of the History of Christianity and Theology; also in the College; Associate Faculty in the Department of History; Director of the Martin Marty Center for the Public Understanding of Religion.
James T. Robinson, Ph.D., Dean; Nathan Cummings Professor of Jewish Studies; Professor of the History of Judaism, Islamic Studies, and the History of Religions, also in The Program on Medieval Studies, Religious Studies, Fundamentals: Texts and Issues, and the Greenberg Center for Jewish Studies; also in the College
William Schweiker, M.Div., Ph.D., Edward L. Ryerson Distinguished Service Professor of Theological Ethics; also in the College.
Brook A. Ziporyn, Ph.D., Mircea Eliade Professor of Chinese Religion, Philosophy, and Comparative Thought; also in the College.
Laurie Zoloth, Ph.D., Margaret E. Burton Professor of Religion and Ethics, also in the College; he Program in Jewish Studies; and the MacLean Center for Biomedical Ethics at the Pritzker School of Medicine
Daniel A. Arnold, Ph.D., Professor of the Philosophy of Religions; also in the College; Associate Faculty in South Asian Languages and Civilizations.
Sheila E. Jelen, Ph.D., Professor of Religion, Literature and Visual Culture and History of Judaism; also in the College
Carolina Lopez-Ruiz, Ph.D., Professor of Ancient Mediterranean Religions and Mythologies in the Divinity School and the Department of Classics; also in the College
Jeffrey Stackert, Ph.D., Professor of Hebrew Bible; also in the College; Associate Faculty, Department of Classics and the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilitizations; also in the College and the Greenberg Center for Jewish Studies; Director of MA Studies.
Yousef Casewit, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Qur’anic Studies; also in the College
Simeon Chavel, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Hebrew Bible; also in the College; Associated Faculty in the Center for Middle Eastern Studies and the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations.
Ryan Coyne, Ph.D., Associate Professor of the Philosophy of Religions and Theology; also in the College
Kristine A. Culp, M.Div., Ph.D., Dean of Disciples Divinity House and Associate Professor of Theology; also in the College.
Alireza Doostdar, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Islamic Studies and the Anthropology of Religion; also in the College.
Curtis J. Evans, Ph.D., Associate Professor of American Religions and the History of Christianity; also in the College.
Sarah Fredericks. Ph.D., Associate Professor of Environmental Ethics; Affiliated Faculty in the Program on the Global Environment and the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality; Director of Doctoral Studies.
Angie Heo, Ph.D., Associate Professor of the Anthropology and Sociology of Religion; also in the College
Karin Krause, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Byzantine Art and Religious Culture; also in the College; Affiliated Faculty in the Department of Art History; Affiliated Faculty in the Center for Hellenic Studies; Faculty Member in the Medieval Studies Program
Kirsten Macfarlane; Associate Professor; also in the College
David Martinez, M.Div., Ph.D., Associate Professor of Biblical Studies and Classics; also in the Department of Classics and the College.
Richard A. Rosengarten, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Religion and Literature; also in the College.
Christian K. Wedemeyer, Ph.D., Associate Professor of the History of Religions; also in the College.
Raissa de Rande, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Religious Ethics; also in the College
Matthew Harris, Ph.D., Assistant Professor; also in the College
Stephan Licha, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Japanese Buddhism; also in the College
William Schultz, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of American Religions; also in the College
Sarah Pierce Taylor, Ph.D., Assistant Professor; also in the College
Anand Venkatkrishnan, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of the History of Religion in South Asia; also in the College
Erin Galgay Walsh, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of New Testament and Early Christian Literature and Director of Undergraduate Studies; also in the College
Cynthia Gano Lindner, D.Min., Director of Ministry Studies and Clinical Faculty for Preaching and Pastoral Care.
Jas Elsner, Ph.D., Visiting Professor of Art and Religion; Associate Faculty, Department of Art History
Maliha Chishti, Assistant Instructional Professor of International Development and Peace in the Muslim World
Elham Mireshghi, Assistant Instructional Professor in the Divinity School and the College

Associated Faculty

Hussein Ali Agrama, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Anthropology ; also in the College.
Philip Bohlman, Ph.D., Ludwig Rosenberger Distinguished Service Professor of the Humanities and of Music and the College.
Daniel Brudney, Ph.D., Florin Harrison Pugh Professor in the Department of Philosophy; also in the College; Associate Faculty, MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics.
Julie Chu, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Anthropology and Social Sciences in the College; Director of Graduate Studies, Anthropology
Ahmed El Shamsy, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Islamic Thought in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Christopher Faraone, Ph.D.,The Edward Olson Professor of Classics in the Department of Classics; Associate Faculty
Omar McRoberts, Ph.D., Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and the College.
Stephen Meredith, Ph.D., Professor in the Department of Pathology, the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and the College.
Kenneth Moss, Harriet and Ulrich E. Meyer Professor of Jewish History and the College.
Martha C. Nussbaum, Ph.D., Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics in the Law School, the Department of Philosophy, and the College; Associate Faculty in the Departments of Classics and Political Science and in the Divinity School; Member of the Committee on Southern Asian Studies; Board Member of the Human Rights Program; Coordinator of the Center for Comparative Constitutionalism
Stephan Palmie, Ph.D., Norman & Edna Freehling Professor of Anthropology and of Social Sciences in the College and Director of Undergraduate Studies
Na'ama Rokem, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Modern Hebrew Literature & Comparative Literature
Eric Santner, Ph.D., Philip and Ida Romberg Distinguished Service Professor in Modern Germanic Studies, Professor of Germanic Studies, Committee on Jewish Studies, and the College; Chair of the Department of Germanic Studies
J. David Schloen, Ph.D., Professor of Near Eastern Archaeology in the Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures and the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations.
Eric Slauter, Ph.D., Associate Professor in the Department of English; Director, The Karla Scherer Center for the Study of American Culture
Sofia Torallas Tovar, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Classics and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Kris Trujillo, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature
Christopher J. Wild, Ph.D., Peter B. Ritzma Professor of Germanic Studies and the College; Director of Undergraduate Studies of the Department of Germanic Studies

Members Emeriti

Hans Dieter Betz, Dr. Theol. Habil., Shailer Mathews Professor Emeritus and Professor Emeritus of New Testament; also in the Department of New Testament and Early Christian Literature and the Committee on the Ancient Mediterranean World.
Bernard O. Brown, D.B., Ph.D., Dean of Rockefeller Chapel (retired) and Associate Professor Emeritus of Religious Ethics; also in the College.
Arnold Davidson, Ph.D., Robert O. Anderson Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of the Philosophy of Judaism and Philosophy of Religions in the Divinity School; also in the Department of Philosophy, the Department of Comparative Literature, the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, and the Committee on the Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science
Wendy Doniger, Ph.D., Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor Emerita of the History of Religions; also in the Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, the Committee on Social Thought
Brian A. Gerrish, S.T.M., Ph.D., D.D., John Nuveen Professor Emeritus and Professor Emeritus of Historical Theology.
Michael Fishbane, Ph.D., Nathan Cummings Distinguished Service Professor Emeritusof Jewish Studies; also in the Committee on Jewish Studies and the College.
W. Clark Gilpin, D.B., Ph.D., Margaret E. Burton Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of the History of Christianity and Theology; also in the College.
Hans-Josef Klauck, Dr. Theol. Habil., Naomi Shenstone Donnelley Professor Emeritus of New Testament and Early Christian Literature
Bruce Lincoln, Ph.D., Caroline E. Haskell Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of the History of Religions
Martin E. Marty, M.Div., S.T.M., Ph.D., LITT.D., L.H.D., LL.D. D.HUM., D.D., D. Theol., Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of the History of Modern Christianity; also in the Committee on the History of Culture.
Bernard McGinn, S.T.L., Ph.D., Naomi Shenstone Donnelley Professor Emeritus of Historical Theology and the History of Christianity; also in the Committees on Medieval Studies and General Studies.
Paul Mendes-Flohr, Ph.D., Dorothy Grant MacLear Professor of Modern Jewish History and Thought; also in the Committee on Jewish Studies; Associate Faculty in the Department of History; also in the College.
Françoise Meltzer, PhD, Professor of the Philosophy of Religions; Edward Carson Waller Distinguished Service Professor in the Humanities; also in the College
Richard B. Miller, Ph.D., Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Religious Ethics; also in the College
Susan Schreiner, M.Div., Ph.D., Professor Emerita of the History of Christianity and Theology; also in the College.
Michael Sells, Ph.D., John Henry Barrows Professor Emeritus of Islamic History and Literature.
David Tracy, S.T.L., S.T.D., Andrew Thomas Greeley and Grace McNichols Greeley Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Catholic Studies and Professor of Theology and the Philosophy of Religion; also in the Committee on Social Thought.

Board of Trustees of the Baptist Theological Union

Larry L. Greenfield, President
John M. Schloerb, Vice President
Lori Berko, Associate Secretary of the University (ex officio)

Honorary Trustees

Ralph H. Elliott
Arthur B. Francis

Trustees

William L. Allen
Jesse M. Brown
Gregg W. Dwyer
Larry L. Greenfield
David C. Gregg
Marshall Hatch, Sr.
Sarah Jay
Susan B. W. Johnson
Thomas J. Litwiler
John Mills
Joseph L. Price II
John M. Schloerb
Phyllis R. P. Tessieri