Faculty & Staff

headshot of Dr. Mimi  Hanaoka

Associate Professor of Religious Studies in Islam

Chair, Department of Religious Studies


Specialties:
  • Islam
  • Islamic history
Contact:
(804) 287-6308

Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Emeritus


Specialties:
  • Christian origins
  • Early Judiasm
Contact:
(804) 288-5885
headshot of Dr. L. Stephanie  Cobb

George and Sallie Cutchin Camp Professor of Bible


Specialties:
  • New Testament
  • Early Christianity
Contact:
(804) 287-6343
headshot of Dr. G. Scott  Davis

Lewis T. Booker Professorship in Religion & Ethics

Professor of Religious Studies and Philosophy, Politics, Economics and Law (PPEL)


Specialties:
  • Ethics
  • Western Religious Thought
Contact:
(804) 289-8331
headshot of Dr. Jane M. Geaney

Professor of Religious Studies


Specialties:
  • Conceptions of the body and language in early Chinese texts
Contact:
(804) 289-8330

Professor of Religious Studies, Emeritus

Contact:
(804) 289-8325
headshot of Dr.  Peter Iver Kaufman

Professor, George Matthews & Virginia Brinkley Modlin Chair in Leadership Studies


Specialties:
  • Modern and Postmodern Political Theory
  • Political Culture (Late Antiquity through Early Modern Period)
Contact:
(804) 289-8003
headshot of Dr. William L. Kelly

Visiting Assistant Professor of Religious Studies


Specialties:
  • Hebrew Bible
  • Early Judaism
  • Ancient Near Eastern Religion
Contact:
headshot of  Emily  Peebles

Academic Administrative Coordinator

Contact:
(804) 289-8325
headshot of Dr. Miranda E. Shaw

Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Emeritus


Specialties:
  • History of religions
  • Buddhism
  • Religions of India
  • Gender and Religion
Contact:
(804) 289-8692
headshot of Dr. Kathleen Roberts Skerrett

University Professor


Specialties:
  • Christian Tradition
  • Contemporary Religious Thought
  • Theory in Gender and Women's Studies
  • Religion and Political Theory
Contact:
(804) 289-1743
headshot of Dr. Douglas L. Winiarski

Professor of Religious Studies


Specialties:
  • Religion in early America
  • Native American religions
  • Religion and popular/material culture
Contact:
(804) 289-8329