Religion, Power, Culture

Faculty & Staff

Faculty

Yogesh Chandrani
Assistant Professor
(719) 389-6617
Expertise: Modern South Asia, Colonialism, Anthropology of Religion and Secularism, Ethnography, Postcolonial Theory, Religion and Modernity, Political Hinduism
Tracy Coleman
she/her
Professor
(719) 389-6195 | Armstrong Hall #141
Expertise: Hinduism and Early Indian Buddhism, Women, Men, and Gender in Religion, Krishna Traditions, Feminisms in Religion, Bhakti Literature
David Gardiner
Associate Professor
(719) 389-6616 | Armstrong Hall #140
Expertise: Religion in China and Japan, Buddhism
Christopher Hunt
he/him or they/them
Assistant Professor
(719) 227-8136 | Armstrong Hall, #122
Expertise: Literature of James Baldwin, Religion and Race, Contemporary Theologies - Black, Womanist, Feminist, and Queer Theologies, African American Religions, African American Religious History
Pamela Reaves
Associate Professor, Chair
(719) 389-6615 | Armstrong #121
Expertise: History of Christianity, Hebrew Bible, Greco-Roman Religions, Second Temple Judaism, New Testament and Early Christianity
Peter Wright
Associate Professor
(719) 227-8137 | Armstrong Hall #139
Expertise: Islamic Sacred Literature and its Interpretation, Religion and Violence, History of Religions, Islam in the Americas, Theory and Method in Religious Studies

Staff

Cathy Gillis
she/her
Academic Administrative Assistant, Religion & Philosophy
(719) 389-6636
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