North American Religions
Affiliated Faculty
Core Faculty
Courtney Bender
Tremaine Professor of Religion, Department of Religion
Research Interest
Core Faculty
Tiffany Hale
Assistant Professor, Department of Religion, Barnard College
Research Interest
Core Faculty
Gale Kenny
Associate Professor, Department of Religion, Barnard College
Research Interest
Core Faculty
Josef Sorett
Dean, Columbia College; Vice President of Undergraduate Education; Professor, Departments of Religion and African American and African Diaspora Studies
Research Interest
Affiliated Graduate Students
Jonah Sampson Boyarin
PhD Student
Research Interest
Judaism, North American Religions, Post-Colonial Studies, Racial Capitalism, Climate Justice, Jewish Futurities, Yiddish, Secularism and Modernity, Ethnography
Gabriella Lee
PhD Student
Research Interest
North American Religions, New Religious Movements, Media, Anthropology of Religion, Semiotics, Linguistic Anthropology, Apostasy, Christianity, Evangelicalism, Ex-religious Identity
Cella Masso-Rivetti
PhD Student
Research Interest
North American Religions, Secularism, Catholicism, Gender and Sexuality, Science and Medicine
Nanea Renteria
PhD Student