AAR would like to thank the following Program Unit Chairs whose terms ended in 2018. We are very grateful for their dedicated service!
Andrew Aghapour
National Museum of American History
Religion, Media, and Culture Unit
Laura Alexander
University of Nebraska, Omaha
Interreligious Reflections on Immigration Seminar
Michael Altman
University of Alabama
North American Hinduism Unit
Anna Bigelow
North Carolina State University
Material Islam Seminar
Valerie Bridgeman
Methodist School of Theology in Ohio
Bible in Racial, Ethnic, and Indigenous Communities Unit
Kelly Bulkeley
The Sleep and Dream Database
Psychology, Culture, and Religion Unit
Holly Taylor Coolman
Providence College
Christian Systematic Theology Unit
Heather D. Curtis
Tufts University
Religion and US Empire Seminar
Katie Day
United Lutheran Seminary, Philadelphia
Religion and Cities Unit
Keri Day
Princeton Theological Seminary
Ethics Unit
Ken Derry
University of Toronto
Religion, Film, and Visual Culture Unit
Markus Dressler
Leipzig University
Religion in Europe Unit
Emily Filler
Earlham College
Sacred Texts and Ethics Unit
Spencer Fluhman
Brigham Young University
Mormon Studies Unit
Richard Fox
University of Victoria
Religion in Southeast Asia Unit
Anya P. Foxen
California Polytechnic State University
North American Hinduism Unit
Eugene V. Gallagher
Connecticut College
Promoting Religious Literacy College-Wide Seminar
Kambiz GhaneaBassiri
Reed College
Material Islam Seminar
Todd Gooch
Eastern Kentucky University
Nineteenth Century Theology Unit
Juliane Hammer
University of North Carolina
Study of Islam Unit
Erik Hammerstrom
Pacific Lutheran University
Holmes Welch and the Study of Buddhism in Twentieth-Century China Seminar
M. Gail Hamner
Syracuse University
Religion, Affect, and Emotion Unit
Mona Hassan
Duke University
Religion, Memory, History Unit
Aysha Hidayatullah
University of San Francisco
Islam, Gender, Women Unit
Syed Adnan Hussain
Saint Mary’s University, Halifax
Religion, Colonialism, and Postcolonialism Unit
Alexander Y. Hwang
Saint Leo University
Interreligious Reflections on Immigration Seminar
Sarah Imhoff
Indiana University
Study of Judaism Unit
Andrea Jain
Indiana University - Purdue University, Indianapolis
Yoga in Theory and Practice Unit
Michael Jerryson
Youngstown State University
Comparative Approaches to Religion and Violence Unit
Tamsin Jones
Trinity College, Hartford
Theology and Religious Reflection Unit
Mary Keller
University of Wyoming
Feminist Theory and Religious Reflection Unit
Jens Kreinath
Wichita State University
Ritual Studies Unit
Avron Kulak
York University
Kierkegaard, Religion, and Culture Unit
Tracy Leavelle
Creighton University
Religion and US Empire Seminar
LeRhonda Manigault-Bryant
Williams College
Afro-American Religious History Unit
Eboni Marshall Turman
Yale University
Women of Color Scholarship, Teaching, and Activism Unit
Richard D. McBride
Brigham Young University, Hawaii
Korean Religions Unit
Sara L. McClintock
Emory University
Buddhist Philosophy Unit
Colleen McDannell
University of Utah
Mormon Studies Unit
David McMahan
Franklin and Marshall College
Buddhism in the West Unit
James Miller
Duke Kunshan University
Religion and Ecology Unit
Amy Milligan
Old Dominion University
Lesbian-Feminisms and Religion Unit
Diane L. Moore
Harvard University
Promoting Religious Literacy College-Wide Seminar
Mariann Moyaert
Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam
Comparative Theology Unit
Richard Nance
Indiana University
Buddhist Philosophy Unit
John Nemec
University of Virginia
Tantric Studies Unit
Brian J. Nichols
Mount Royal University
Space, Place, and Religion Unit
Jennifer Howe Peace
Andover Newton Theological School
Interreligious and Interfaith Studies Unit
Michelene Pesantubbee
University of Iowa
Native Traditions in the Americas Unit
Andrea Marion Pinkney
McGill University
Religion in South Asia Unit
Daniel Ramirez
Claremont Graduate University
History of Christianity Unit
George D. Randels
University of the Pacific
Bioethics and Religion Unit
Jeremy Rapport
College of Wooster
New Religious Movements Unit
Darby Ray
Bates College
Transformative Scholarship and Pedagogy Unit
Stephen G. Ray
Chicago Theological Seminary
Tillich: Issues in Theology, Religion, and Culture Unit
Kenneth A. Reynhout
United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities
Ricoeur Unit
Joerg Rieger
Vanderbilt University
Class, Religion, and Theology Unit
Robert Rozehnal
Lehigh University
Islamic Mysticism Unit
Nora L. Rubel
University of Rochester
Religion and Food Unit
Walid Saleh
University of Toronto
Qur'an Unit
Arlene Sanchez-Walsh
Azusa Pacific University
Pentecostal–Charismatic Movements Unit
Donovan Schaefer
University of Pennsylvania
Religion, Affect, and Emotion Unit
Gregory Adam Scott
University of Manchester
Holmes Welch and the Study of Buddhism in Twentieth-Century China Seminar
Vera Shevzov
Smith College
Eastern Orthodox Studies Unit
Devin Singh
Dartmouth College
Asian North American Religion, Culture, and Society Unit
David Stowe
Michigan State University
Music and Religion Unit
Jonathan Tan
Case Western Reserve University
World Christianity Unit
Jonathan VanAntwerpen
Henry Luce Foundation
Secularism and Secularity Unit
Jamel Velji
Claremont McKenna College
Comparative Approaches to Religion and Violence Unit
Andrea C. White
Union Theological Seminary
Black Theology Unit
Carol Wayne White
Bucknell University
Feminist Theory and Religious Reflection Unit
Danielle Widmann Abraham
Ursinus College
Contemporary Islam Unit
Homayra Ziad
Institute for Islamic, Christian, and Jewish Studies
Interreligious and Interfaith Studies Unit
Laurel Zwissler
Central Michigan University
Anthropology of Religion Unit
