Full-time Faculty

Elizabeth Antus

Assistant Professor, Ph.D., University of Notre Dame, 2015
Interests: Systematic theology, feminist theology, theological anthropology, Augustine, Teresa of Ávila, mental health, suicide, disability, and sexual violence
Email: ea840@georgetown.edu

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Dr. Belser

Julia Watts Belser

Professor, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley and the Graduate Theological Union, 2008
email: jwb84@georgetown.edu

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Dr. Butticci

Annalisa Butticci

Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Religious Studies
Interests: Anthropology and sociology of religion, historical anthropology, World Christianities, Afro-Catholicism(s), Pentecostalism(s), African religions, African diasporas, mobility and migration, religion and mental health, visual and material studies, and life stories
Email: annalisa.butticci@georgetown.edu

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Jamall Calloway

Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Union Theological Seminary, 2017
Interests: Black liberation theology, African American Religion, systematic theology, black literature, theological anthropology, the thought of James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Reinhold Niebuhr, Paul Tillich, Richard Wright, philosophy of religion, existentialism
email: jc3512@georgetown.edu

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Dr. Min-Ah CHo

Min-Ah Cho

Assistant Teaching Professor
Interests: Constructive Theology, Mysticism, Contemplative Spirituality, Asian and Asian American Religion and Politics, Theology and Film, Feminist Theology, Postcolonial Theology
Email: mc2486@georgetown.edu

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Erin M. Cline

Professor, Ph.D., Baylor, 2006
Interests: Chinese philosophy and religion, comparative ethics, political philosophy, feminist philosophy, Ignatian spirituality
Email: Erin.Cline@georgetown.edu

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Brandon Dotson

Director of Graduate Studies and Director of Intellectual Life
Professor and Thomas P. McKenna, C’63 Family Term Endowed Chair in Buddhist Studies, D.Phil. 2007, University of Oxford
Interests: Tibetan religions, divine kingship, religious historiography and epic, Dunhuang studies, divination, medieval Tibetan law, and animals and religion
email: bbd12@georgetown.edu

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Fr. Fields

Stephen M. Fields, S.J.

Hackett Family Professor in Theology
Interests: Thomas Aquinas; the thought of Karl Rahner, Hans Urs von Balthasar, John Henry Newman; the problem of nature and grace; metaphysics and the philosophy of religion; theories of natural law ethics
email: fieldss@georgetown.edu

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Fr. Folan

Peter Folan, S.J.

Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Boston College, 2019
Interests: Systematic theology; ecumenical dialogue; biblical hermeneutics; ecclesiology
Email: peter.folan@georgetown.edu

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Dr. Glucklich

Ariel Glucklich

Department Chair
Professor
Interests: Hindu law and rituals, Magic in India, Religion and the body in India, Psychology of religion, Religion and pain, Religion and pleasure, Religious communities, Mysticism, Contemplation and work
email: glucklia@georgetown.edu

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Dr. Heck

Paul L. Heck

Professor, Ph.D., University of Chicago, 2000; Post-Doctorate, Society of Fellows, Princeton University, 2001-2004
Interests: Political theology, religious skepticism, epistemology, history of Sufism, comparative ethics (Islam and Christianity), theo-humanism, empire & religion, classical Arabic literature and adab, Islamic history
email: plh2@georgetown.edu

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Dr. Lamm

Julia A. Lamm

Professor of Theology
Julia A. Lamm is a historical theologian specializing in the thought of Friedrich D. E. Schleiermacher (1768-1834); the theology of Julian of Norwich (1343-ca. 1416); the history of Christian thought; the doctrine of God; Christian understandings of grace; Christian mysticism; feminist theology
Email: Julia.Lamm@georgetown.edu

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Dr. Lefebure

Leo D. Lefebure

Professor and Matteo Ricci Chair
Interests: Christian responses to religious pluralism in the USA; interpretation of the Bible in interreligious relationships; Buddhist-Christian relations; Christian theologies’ response to Buddhism
email: ll253@georgetown.edu

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Dr. Linafelt

Tod Linafelt

Professor, Ph.D., Emory 1997
Interests: Hebrew Bible, Literary theory, and criticism, narrative and poetry, doughnuts
email: linafelt@georgetown.edu

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Dr. Mitchell

Alan C. Mitchell

Associate Professor of New Testament and Christian Origins; Director, The Reverend Joseph A. Fitzmyer, S.J. Institute on Sacred Scripture at Georgetown University; Ph.D., Yale University, 1986.
Interests: Hebrews; Letters of Paul; Gospel of Luke; Acts of the Apostles; New Testament Reception History; New Testament Social Description; Hellenistic Moralists and the New Testament; Second Temple Judaism; Early Christian History and Literature; Roman Catholic-Jewish Dialogue
email: Alan.Mitchell@georgetown.edu

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Peter C. Phan

Professor and Ellacuria Chair of Catholic Social Thought Doctor of Sacred Theology, Universitas Pontificia Salesiana, 1979. Doctor of Philosophy, University of London, 1996. Doctor of Divinity, University of London, 2000.
Interests: Catholic systematic theology (in particular Trinity, Christology, eschatology, liberation theology, and Karl Rahner); history of Christian missions, especially in Asia; religion and culture; interreligious dialogue; religious pluralism; and the impact of migration on Christianity
email: pcp5@georgetown.edu

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Dr.Andrew Prevot

Andrew Prevot

Professor and Joseph and Winifred Amaturo Chair in Catholic Studies, Ph.D., University of Notre Dame, 2012
Interests: Systematic theology; spirituality and mystical theology; philosophy of religion; theological engagements with race, gender, poverty, ecology, and colonialism
Email: andrew.prevot@georgetown.edu

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Jonathan S. Ray

Professor and Samuel Eig Professor of Jewish Studies
Interests: Jewish Studies, Sephardic history, Diaspora Studies, Mediterranean Studies
email: jsr46@georgetown.edu

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Frederick J. Ruf

Associate Professor
Interests: Modern Religious Thought, William James, Pragmatism, Travel and Pilgrimage, Post-modernism, the Religious Construction of the Self
email: rufb@georgetown.edu

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Mehmet Salih Sayilgan

Assistant Teaching Professor
Interests: Islamic Theology and Practice, Qur’anic Studies, Islam in America, and Christian-Muslim Relations
Email: mss249@georgetown.edu

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Dr.Slater

Michael R. Slater

Director of Graduate Admissions
Associate Professor, Ph.D., Brown, 2005
Interests: American pragmatism, philosophy of religion, modern religious thought, religious ethics
Email: Michael.Slater@georgetown.edu

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Fr. Steck

Christopher W. Steck, S.J.

Associate Professor,  Ph.D., Yale, 1999
Interests: Christian ethics, Catholic moral theology, comparative ethics, animal rights, Hans Urs von Balthasar
Email: Christopher.Steck@georgetown.edu

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Dr. Steenhuisen

Lauve H. Steenhuisen

Teaching Professor
Interests: Religion in America, Cults, Women’s & Gender Studies, Islamic Veiling
Email: steenhul@georgetown.edu

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Dr. Trotter

Christine Trotter

Assistant Teaching Professor
Interests: Ancient Consolation Literature, Bible and Ecology, Hebrew Bible/Old Testament, New Testament, Paul and Paulinism, Reception History of the Bible, Second Temple Judaism, Septuagint, The Gospels, The Historical Jesus, Women, Gender, and Sexuality In Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity
Email: ct915@georgetown.edu

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Stephen M. Wilson

Director of Undergraduate Studies
Associate Professor, Ph.D., Duke University, 2013
Interests: Hebrew Bible; masculinity and coming of age in the Bible; the problem of biblical violence; ancient historiography; social-scientific interpretation of the Bible; conceptions of death and the afterlife in the ancient Near East
Email: wilsonsm@georgetown.edu

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