LEARN ABOUT DIVERSITY
Diversity Researchers
Religion
| NAME | RESEARCH DESCRIPTION | CONTACT INFORMATION |
|---|---|---|
Baum, Robert | African religious and social history | Religious Studies 882-3066 BaumR@missouri.edu |
| Bednar, Michael | Hindu and Muslim interactions within the Delhi Sultanate, South Asia's first pan-Indic Muslim empire from 1206 to 1526 | History 882-7566 BednarM@missouri.edu |
| Brekhus, Rachel L. | Jewish literature and identity | MU Libraries 882-7563 BrekhusR@missouri.edu |
| Brown, Larry | Cultural geography of North and Middle America; the theocratic right, Christian Identity (Israel) movement, militant hate groups and their effect on public and educational policy; white supremacy movements in the USA, geography of religion; political and religious movements in Latin America | Geography 884-7851 BrownLar@missouri.edu |
| Callahan, Richard J. | Religion in America; the ways that people creatively and constantly negotiate identity, significance, and power through religious idioms in the dense contexts of their everyday lives; how particular occupational cultures, material settings, and relations of exchange inform and are informed by religious idioms | Religious Studies 882-0060 CallahanRJ@missouri.edu |
| Campbell, James D. | Culture and cultural diversity; end-of-life care; health literacy; literature and medicine; medical education; religion/spirituality and medicine | Family and Community Medicine 882-2190 CampbellJ@health.missouri.edu |
| Cohen, Signe | Hinduism and South Asian Buddhism | Religious Studies 882-4769 CohenS@missouri.edu |
| Colaner, Colleen | Family communication and religious identity; how parental communication influences the development of religious identities as well as the communicative management occurring when parents and children have differing religious orientations; the intergenerational transmission of mothering, feminist, and generativity identities via gender socialization in mother-daughter dyads | Communication 882-3522 ColanerC@missouri.edu |
| Drott, Edward | East Asian religions; the nexus of religious and medical knowledge in pre-modern China and Japan | Religious Studies 882-3427 DrottE@missouri.edu |
| Esbeck, Carl H. | Constitutional law; religious liberty; civil rights | School of Law 882-6543 EsbeckC@missouri.edu |
| Flanagan, Bob | Religion and American culture; diversity within Christianity | Religious Studies 882-0059 FlanaganJ@missouri.edu |
| Gilles, Jere L. | Rural social organization; social change and development; the rural church in changing landscapes | Rural Sociology 882-3791 GillesJ@missouri.edu |
| Gregory, Rabia | History of Christianity; medieval women's religious literature from Germany and the Low Countries; manifestations of religion in virtual worlds | Religious Studies 882-5505 GregoryRa@missouri.edu |
| Gupta, Bina | Comparative philosophy; Asian philosophy; Indian philosophy; Buddhist philosophy; Indian Epistemology | Philosophy 882-3065 GuptaB@missouri.edu |
| Hofer, Nathan | Social and religious history of Sufism (Islamic mysticism) in medieval Egypt; social and religious history of the Jews of the medieval Islamicate world | Religious Studies 882-5427 HoferN@missouri.edu |
| Kelley, Dennis | Religious traditions of indigenous peoples especially Native North Americans | Religious Studies KelleyDF@missouri.edu |
| Mason, Debra L. | Religion and media research | Journalism Studies 882-9257 MasonDL@missouri.edu |
| Milyo, Jeff | Effects of religion in public goods and trust games; individual health status and minority racial concentration in U.S. states and counties | Economics 882-7785 MilyoJ@missouri.edu |
| Neitz, Mary Jo | Gender and religion; sociology of culture; qualitative methodologies and feminist theories | Women's and Gender Studies 882-4572 NeitzM@missouri.edu |
| Schwain, Kristin | Conflicts and issues generated by cultural encounters; the politics of representation; visual culture of American religions | Art History and Archaeology 882-3366 SchwainK@missouri.edu |
| Wigger, John H. | American religious and cultural history; Methodism and the rise of popular Christianity in America, 1770-1820 | History 882-6019 WiggerJ@missouri.edu |
| Yoon, Dong Pil | Religiousness/spirituality; human diversity; gerontology; rural social work; welfare reform | School of Social Work 882-0916 YoonD@missouri.edu |
