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  • Frank S. Alexander, J.D. and M.T.S. (Harvard). Professor of Law, Founding Director and Co-Director, Law and Religion Program. Specialties: Law and Theology, Real Property Law, Real Estate Finance, State and Local Government Law.
  • Patrick Allitt, Ph.D. (Berkeley). Associate Professor of History. Specialties: History of Religion, Catholic Intellectual History, American Religious History.
  • Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im, LL.B. (Khartoum), LL.M. (Cambridge), Ph.D. (Edinburgh). Charles Howard Candler Professor of Law, Director, Religion and Human Rights Project. Specialties: Human Rights, Islamic Law and Theology, African Politics and Constitutionalism, Criminal Law and Criminology.
  • Thomas C. Arthur, J.D. (Yale). Professor of Law, Interim Director, Halle Institute for Global Learning. Specialties: Antitrust, Civil Procedure, International Relations, American History.
  • David J. Bederman, J.D. (Virginia), Ph.D. (University of London), Dipl. (Hague Academy of International Law). Professor of Law. Specialties: Public International Law, Legal History, Ancient Law, Legal Hermeneutics.
  • Michael S. Berger, Ph.D. (Columbia). Associate Professor of Religious Authority and Ethics in Judaism. Specialties: Jewish Ethics, History of Jewish Law, Jewish Intellectual History.
  • Harold J. Berman, LL.B. (Yale), M.A. (Yale). Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Law, Fellow of The Carter Center. Specialties: Western Law and Religion, Russian and Soviet Law, Legal History, Legal Philosophy.
  • Anita Bernstein, J.D. (Yale). Sam Nunn Professor of Law. Specialties: Torts, Professional Responsibility, Feminist Jurisprudence.
  • David R. Blumenthal, M.H.L. Ordination (Jewish Theological Seminary), Ph.D. (Columbia). Jay and Leslie Cohen Professor of Judaic Studies. Specialties: Constructive Jewish Theology, Medieval Jewish Philosophy, Jewish Mysticism, Holocaust Studies.
  • Elizabeth M. Bounds, M.Div. and Ph.D. (Union Theological Seminary). Associate Professor of Christian Ethics. Specialties: Social Ethics, Feminist and Liberation Ethics, Poverty and Welfare, Reconciliation and Peacemaking.
  • Michael J. Broyde, J.D. (New York University), Ordination (Yeshiva University). Associate Professor of Law, Academic Director, Law and Religion Program, Director, Law, Religion and Family Project. Specialties: Jewish Law and Ethics, Religion and Science, Federal Courts, Bankruptcy.
  • Paul B. Courtright, M.Div. (Yale), Ph.D. (Princeton). Professor of History of Religion. Specialties: Religions of the South Asian Subcontinent, Popular Religion, Religious Change in Colonial India.
  • Nancy L. Eiseland, M.Div. and Ph.D. (Emory). Assistant Professor of Sociology of Religion. Specialties: Gender and Religion, Globalization and Religion, Sociology and Theology of Illness and Disability.
  • Eliza Ellison, M.T.S. (Emory), Ph.D. Candidate (Wales). Administrative Director, Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Religion. Specialties: Peace Studies, Human Rights, Feminism and Literature, Anabaptism.
  • Noel Erskine, M.Th. (Duke), M.T.S. and Ph.D. (Union Theological Seminary). Associate Professor of Theology and Ethics. Specialties: Black Church History and Theological Method; Theologies of Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, James Cone.
  • Joyce Flueckiger, Ph.D. (Wisconsin-Madison). Associate Professor of Religion. Specialties: South Asian Religions, Hinduism in India, Women and Religion.
  • Thomas R. Flynn, Ph.D. (Columbia). Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Philosophy. Specialties: Religious Philosophy, Christian Ethics, Comparative Ethics.
  • James W. Fowler, Ph.D. (Harvard). Charles Howard Candler Professor of Theology and Human Development, Director, Center for Ethics and Public Policy in the Professions. Specialties: Faith and Moral Development, Professional Ethics, Christian Theology, Religious Education
  • Thomas E. Frank, M.Div. and Ph.D. (Emory). Associate Professor of Church Administration and Congregational Life, Director of Methodist Studies. Specialties: Church Administration, Congregational Studies, and United Methodist History and Polity.
  • Jon P. Gunnemann, B.D. (United), Ph.D. (Yale). Professor of Social Ethics. Specialties: Political, Social, and Business Ethics, Calvinism.
  • W. Stephen Gunter, Ph.D. (Leiden). Arthur J. Moore Associate Professor of Theology. Specialties: History and Theology of Methodism, Theology and History of Evangelism, Christian Identity and Post-Modern Culture.
  • Susan Henry-Crowe, M.Div. (Emory). Dean of the Chapel and Religious Life. Specialties: Interreligious Dialogue, United Methodist History and Polity, Applied Practices in Ministry.
  • Brooks Holifield, Ph.D. (Yale). Charles Howard Candler Professor of American Church History. Specialties: American Religion, History of Theology in America, Colonial American, American and European Religious Thought.
  • Howard O. Hunter, J.D. (Yale). Dean of Emory Law School and Professor of Law. Specialties: Contracts, First Amendment Law, Constitutional Law, Legal Education.
  • Timothy P. Jackson, Ph.D. (Yale). Associate Professor of Christian Ethics. Specialties: Professional Ethics, Philosophy of Religion, Christian Ethics.
  • Luke Timothy Johnson, Ph.D. (Yale). Robert W. Woodruff Professor of New Testament and Christian Origins. Specialties: New Testament, Christian Ethics, Church History.
  • Mark D. Jordan, Ph.D. (Texas). Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Religion. Specialties: Catholic Moral Theology, Medieval Latin Theology and Philosophy, Christianity and Sexuality.
  • Richard A. Joseph, D.Phil. (Oxford). Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Political Science. Specialties: African and Caribbean Politics, Comparative Constitutionalism, Democratization.
  • Deborah E. Lipstadt, Ph.D. (Brandeis). Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish and Holocaust Studies. Specialties: Modern Jewish History, History of the Holocaust, Holocaust Denial.
  • Richard C. Martin, Ph.D. (New York University). Professor of Religion. Specialties: Islamic Studies; Comparative Studies in Religion; Religion and Conflict.
  • Gordon Newby, Ph.D. (Brandeis). Professor and Chair, Department of Middle Eastern Studies; Chair, Graduate Program in West and South Asian Religions. Specialties: Islamic Society, Culture and Language, Jewish-Muslim Relations, History of Religion.
  • Laurie Patton, M.A. and Ph.D. (Chicago). Chair, Department of Religion, Associate Professor of Religion. Specialties: History of Indian Religions, Vedic Interpretation, Comparative Mythology, Poetics, and Literature, Theory in the Study of Religion.
  • Janette B. Pratt, LL.B (London School of Economics), LL.M. (New York University). Administrative Professor for Field Placement. Specialties: Lawyering Skills, Child Advocacy.
  • Polly Price, M.A. (Emory), J.D. (Harvard). Associate Professor of Law. Specialties: Legal History, Torts, Health Law.
  • Lyndon P. Reynolds, Ph.D. (Harvard). Associate Professor of Religion. Specialties: Catholic Theology, Catholic History, Family Law and Ethics.
  • Robert A. Schapiro, J.D. (Yale), M.A. (Stanford). Associate Professor of Law. Specialties: Federal and State Constitutional Law, Federal Courts, Civil Procedure.
  • M. Thomas Thangaraj, Ph.D. (Harvard). Brooks Professor of World Christianity. Specialties: Modern Christianity, Christian-Hindu Dialogue, Religions of India.
  • Steven M. Tipton, Ph.D. (Harvard). Professor of Sociology of Religion, Director, Graduate Division of Religion. Specialties: Sociology of Morality, Culture, and Religion, American Institutions and Religious Organizations.
  • Johan D. van der Vyver, LL.D. (Pretoria). I.T. Cohen Professor of International Law and Human Rights, Director of Human Rights Program. Specialties: International Human Rights, Comparative Constitutionalism, Jurisprudence, Human Rights in South Africa.
  • John Witte, Jr., J.D. (Harvard). Jonas Robitscher Professor of Law and Ethics, Director of Law and Religion Program. Specialties: Legal History, Religious Liberty, Western Marriage Law, American Constitutional Law.

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