Program Faculty
![Kristen Lucken](../images/faculty/lucken-kristen.jpg)
Expertise: Immigration, religious and ethnic identity, nationalism, sociology of religion.
![Photograph of Darlene Brookshedstrom](../images/darlenebrookshedstrom.jpg)
![Wendy Cadge](../images/faculty/cadge-wendy.jpg)
Expertise: Sociology of religion, culture, health and medicine; immigration; sexuality; research methods, Buddhism, chaplaincy.
![Abigail Cooper](../images/faculty/cooper-abigail.jpg)
Expertise: U.S. history; slavery and emancipation; the Civil War and Reconstruction; American religion and culture; 19th-century United States; social history of marginalized peoples.
![Maura Jane Farrelly](../images/faculty/farrelly-maura-jane.jpg)
Expertise: Religion in America; American journalism; colonial and early America.
![Charles McClendon](../images/faculty/mcclendon-charles.jpg)
Expertise: The art and architecture of western Europe in Late Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the early modern period.
![Photograph of Madadh Richey](../images/faculty/mrichey.jpg)
Expertise: Hebrew Bible, religion, literature, and history of the Late Bronze and Iron Age Levant, Northwest Semitic languages and texts (Ugaritic, Phoenician, Aramaic), critical theory and the ancient Middle East
![Jonathan Sarna](../images/faculty/sarna-jonathan.jpg)
Expertise: American Jewish history and life; Jews in the Americas; American religion.
![Ellen Schattschneider](../images/faculty/schattschneider-ellen.jpg)
Expertise: Religion; psychoanalytic theory; memory and trauma; anthropology of the body; commodification; East Asia; Japan.
![Jerome Tharaud](../images/faculty/tharaud-jerome.jpg)
Expertise: Early American and 19th-century U.S. literature and culture; American religious history; print culture and media; art history and visual culture; geography and literature; cultural and environmental history of the American landscape; the American West.