M. Zakyi Ibrahim, Ph.D. 
Professor & Department Chair
Specializations: Islam; Qur'an and its Exegesis; History of Islamic Thought; Women in Islam; Religions in Africa
Office: GH-312
Phone: 657-278-8241
Email:
zibrahim@fullerton.edu
Paul J. Levesque, Ph.D.
Professor
Specializations: Afterlife; Christianity; Religions of the World
Office: GH-309
Phone: 657-278-5902
Email:
plevesque@fullerton.edu
Jeanette Reedy Solano, Ph.D.
Professor
Specializations: Religion & Film/Pop Culture; Latin America & Religion
Office: GH-311
Phone: 657-278-7554
Email:
jsolano@fullerton.edu
Mugdha Yeolekar, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Specializations: Hindu traditions; living religions of India; women and religion; religious reading
Office: G H-315
Phone: 657-278-4419
Email:
myeolekar@fullerton.edu
Emeriti Faculty
Benjamin J. Hubbard, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus
Specializations: Judaism, Religion & Media
Office: GH-308
Phone: 657-278-3452
Email:
bhubbard@fullerton.edu
James A. Santucci, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus
Specializations: Theosophy, Vedic literature, Theravada Buddhism, and Samkhya
Email:
jsantucci@fullerton.edu
Bradley E. Starr, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus
Specializations: Religion & Violence, Christianity, Religion & Sociological Analysis
Part-Time Faculty
Janet Bregar, Ph.D.
Lecturer
Specializations: History of Religions, the study of Comparative Religions and Christian Studies
Office: GH-308
Email:
jbregar@fullerton.edu
Andrew Bridges, Ph.D.
Lecturer
Specializations: Jain Studies, Utopian Studies
Office: GH-130
Email:
abridges@fullerton.edu
Matthew Pitts, M.A., JD
Lecturer
Specializations: Judaism, American Religion, Mormonism and the intersection of law and religion
Email: mpitts@fullerton.edu
James Rietveld, Ph.D.
Lecturer
Specializations: History of Christianity in the Early, Medieval, and Byzantine periods, New Testament Studies, and Greco-Roman religions
Office: H-735L
Phone: 657-278-8730
Email:
jrietveld@fullerton.edu
Karen F. Scialabba, Ph.D.
Lecturer
Specializations: Intersection of Religion, Media, & Culture; Interfaith Relations; Perspectives of Marriage & Family in Religion, Religious Education
Office: GH-308
Email:
kscialabba@fullerton.edu
Rodgir Cohen, Ph.D.
Lecturer
Specializations:
Religions of the World; Politics and Religion; Psychology and Religion
Email:
rcohen@fullerton.edu
Shahrzad Shirvani
Lecturer
Specializations: Spatial Representations of Identities; Women and Subjectivity in Islamic Societies, Gender Segregation in the Middle East; Spaces of Everyday Life; Public and Private Spaces in Post-Revolutionary Iran; Space and Spirituality; History of Islamic Art, Architecture, and Urbanism; Sacred Spaces, Pilgrimage, and Ritual Practices in Contemporary Islamic Societies; Urban Memories and Commemorative practices.
Email:
sshirvani@fullerton.edu
