Faculty and Staff
Department Chair
Jeffrey Kosky
Professor of Religion
Tucker 203
koskyj@wlu.edu
Religion and Inquiry in the Humanities; Secularity and religion; Religion and Philosophy; History of Christian Thought.
Faculty
Kameliya N. Atanasova
Assistant Professor of Religion
Tucker 207
540-458-8797
atanasovak@wlu.edu
Alexandra Brown
Fletcher Otey Thomas Professor in Bible
on sabbatical 2024-2025
Tucker 206
540-458-8789
browna@wlu.edu
Early Christian Writings and Culture from the New Testament to Late Antiquity, Bible and Film, Pilgrimage, Mysticism, Gender and Religion, Early Irish Religion, Theory and Method in the Study of Religion
Jawanza (Eric) Clark
Visiting Assistant Professor of Religion
Tucker Hall 316
540-458-8234
jclark3@wlu.edu
Emily Filler
Assistant Professor of Religion
Tucker Hall 208
540-458-8788
efiller@wlu.edu
Jewish and continental philosophy; Biblical and rabbinic interpretation; Religion and politics; American Judaism; Jewish feminist thought; Religion and science fiction; Interreligious dialogue
Timothy Lubin
Jessie Ball duPont Professor of Religion and Adjunct Professor of Law
Tucker 204
540-458-8146
lubint@wlu.edu
History of religion and law of South and Southeast Asia, working on texts and inscriptions in Sanskrit, Prakrit, Old Javanese, and Old Tamil; National Endowment for the Humanities fellow and American Council of Learned Societies fellow, 2020-2021 (h)
Emeritus
Richard G. Marks
Professor Emeritus of Religion
marksr@wlu.edu
Lad Sessions
Professor Emeritus of Philosophy
sessionsl@wlu.edu
O. Kendall White, Jr.
Professor Emeritus of Sociology
Not Available
Related Faculty in Other Departments
Michelle D. Brock
Professor of History
Newcomb 219
540-458-8780
brockm@wlu.edu
The Age of the Witch-hunts, history of Medieval, early modern, and modern Britain, Scottish history, the British Reformations
George P. Carras
Senior Research Professor (Classical studies, Religion)
434-409-1703
gcarras@wlu.edu
Kevin Crotty
Professor of Classics, The J. Donald Childress Professor in Foreign Languages
on sabbatical Fall 2024
Tucker Hall 102
540-458-8910
crottyk@wlu.edu
Mythology, Greek Law, Plato, Ancient Greek literature
Jonathan Eastwood
Professor of Sociology and Department Chair, Department of Sociology & Anthropology
Newcomb Hall 104
540-458-8777
eastwoodj@wlu.edu
Genelle Gertz
Associate Dean of Strategic Initiatives and Thomas H. Broadus, Jr. Professor of English
Payne 108
540-458-8763
gertzg@wlu.edu
Sascha L. Goluboff
Director of Community-Based Learning, Professor of Cultural Anthropology
Newcomb 208
540-458-8807
goluboffs@wlu.edu
Melissa R. Kerin
Director of the Mudd Center for Ethics and Professor of Art History
Mattingly 209
540-458-4073
kerinm@wlu.edu
Harvey Markowitz
Professor Emeritus of Anthropology
Newcomb 308
540-458-8214
markowitzh@wlu.edu
Holly Pickett
Professor of English
Payne 124
540-458-8078
picketth@wlu.edu
Howard Pickett
Director of the Shepherd Program, Associate Professor of Ethics and Poverty Studies
Mattingly 301
540-458-4592
picketthy@wlu.edu
Staff
Kerri Ritter
Administrative Assistant
Tucker 103
540-458-8180
ritterk@wlu.edu