D. James Atwood, Instructor and Assistant to the Dean of Admissions (Ph.D, Vanderbilt). History of Religion in America, Sects and Cults in American Religion.

  Claudia V. Camp, Professor (Ph.D., Duke). Religion and the Search for Meaning in the Old Testament, Love and Sex in the Biblical World, Religion and Politics in Latin America.

Mark Dennis, Assistant Professor (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin). East Asian Religious Perspectives, Buddhism, Religion and Violence.)

Elizabeth H. Flowers, Assistant Professor (Ph.D., Duke) History of Religion in America, Women in American Religion, Evangelicalism.

  Andrew O. Fort, Professor  (Ph.D., Pennsylvania). Hindu Religious Perspectives, East Asian Religious Perspectives, Buddhism: Thought and Practice, Mysticism, India: Texts and Traditions.

  C. David Grant, Professor and Chair of the Department (Ph. D., Harvard). Thinking about Christian Faith, Philosophy of Religion, God in Modern Thought, Religion and Science.

  David M. Gunn, A. A. Bradford Professor of Religion (Ph.D., Newcastle-Upon-Tyne). Interpreting Biblical Narrative: Gender and Violence, The Bible in Western Culture: Word and Image. How to Read the Bible: Story and Politics.

Melanie Harris, Assistant Professor. (Ph.D., Union Theological Seminary). Black Religion in the U.S., Womanist Ethics, Black Literature & Religion.

Jack A. Hill, Associate Professor, (Ph.D., Vanderbilt). Christian Ethics, Ethics in Global Perspective, Christianity and Contemporary Society, Religion and Environmental Ethics.

  Nadia M. Lahutsky, Associate Professor (Ph.D., Vanderbilt). Christian Tradition: Emergence to the Renaissance, Christian Tradition: Reformation to Modernity, Contemporary Catholicism, Women and Womanhood in Western Religion.

Hjamil Martínez-Vázquez, Assistant Professor (Ph.D., Lutheran School of Theology). Latina/o Religious History, Religion in the Borderlands

  Darren J. N. Middleton, Associate Professor (Ph.D., University of Glasgow). Theology and Literature, Jesus in Fiction and Film, Literary Images of God.

David Nelson, Rosalyn and Manny Rosenthal Assistant Professor (Ph.D., Hebrew Union College). Judaism.

Jan Jaynes Quesada, Instructor (Ph.D., Baylor). Understanding Religion: Texts and Ideas.

S. Brent Rodriguez-Plate, Associate Professor (Ph.D., Emory). Religion and the Visual Arts, Religion and Film.

   Yushau Sodiq, Associate Professor (Ph.D., Temple). Islam, African Religions

Janet Spittler, Assistant Professor (Ph.D., University of Chicago) Hellenistic Greek, New Testatment and Early Christian Literature. Jesus in the Gospels. Paul and the Early Church.