Profiles in "Religious Studies" Expertise Area

  • Gharavi specializes in collaborating with transdisciplinary teams of artists, scientists, designers, and engineers to create compelling experiences and advance research.
  • Woodward is affiliated with the Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict at Arizona State University. His research focuses on Islam, religion-state-society relations and religion and conflict in Southeast Asia.
  • Daughtre'ys primary research interests have been in religion in the Americas, religious hybridity, religion and gender, and religion and popular culture.
  • Vega's research ethnographically explores the every day lived experiences of Latina/os in the U.S. with an emphasis on gender and religion.
  • Moore has taught American and African American religious history at William and Mary; the University of Missouri-Columbia; and Arizona State University.
  • Prof. Bruner's research engages the history of religion, violence, photography, and ethnography. He is currently engaged in a variety of community-based projects in the desert Southwest of the United States.
  • Talebi's research interests include Islam and nation-state, violence and memory, language and metaphor, prison and incarceration in contemporary Iran.
  • Park teaches religious traditions of Korea. Her research has focused on the interplay among Buddhism, modernity, gender, and globalization.
  • Cady is the founding director of the Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict at Arizona State University.
  • Terry Shoemaker is an Assistant Teaching Professor in Religious Studies interested in current changes occurring in religion in America and the topic of religion and sport.