Religious Studies: Affiliated Faculty

HYAEWEOL CHOI (Ph.D., 1993, SUNY-Buffalo) is an associate professor of Korean Studies in the School of International Letters and Cultures with research interests in transcultural and religious encounters, missionary discourse, intellectual history of Korea, gender and modernity in East Asia, and Asian diaspora.
Department Home Page: http://www.asu.edu/clas/silc/kor/korean.html

JEFFRIE MURPHY (Ph.D., 1966, University of Rochester/Philosophy Department) is a Regents' Professor of Law and Philosophy specializing in Philosophy of Law/Jurisprudence, Criminal Law, Moral Philosophy (including Moral Psychology), Philosophy in Literature/Law and Literature, Kant's Moral, Political and Legal Philosophy.
Department Home Page: http://www.law.asu.edu/Apps/Faculty/Faculty.aspx?individual_id=135

HAVA SAMUELSON (Ph.D., Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel/Department of Jewish Thought) is a Full Professor of History specializing in Jewish Studies and European intellectual history.
Department Home Page: http://www.asu.edu/clas/history/department/facbios/samuelson.html

GEORGE THOMAS (Ph.D., 1979, Stanford University/Department of Sociology) is a Professor of Sociology. He is especially interested in the worldwide pattern of the simultaneous emergence of public, political religious nationalisms, private, personal spiritualities and sociology of religion.

HOYT TILLMAN (Ph.D., 1976, Harvard University/History and East Asian Languages) is a Professor of History specializing in Chinese Thought and Traditions.
Department Home Page: http://www.asu.edu/clas/history/department/facbios/tillman.html

ROSALYN VOADEN (Ph.D., University of York) is an Associate Professor of English with research interests in Medieval mysticism (particularly women visionaries; hagiography; women in the Middle Ages; gender in Medieval literature and visionary literature.
Department Home Page: http://www.asu.edu/english/who/voaden.htm