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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

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Paul J. Levesque, Ph.D.  
Professor 

Specializations: Afterlife;  Christianity; Religions of the World 

Office: GH-309
Phone: 657-278-5902 
Email: plevesque@fullerton.edu

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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

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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

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Benjamin J. Hubbard, Ph.D. 
Professor Emeritus

Specializations: Judaism, Religion & Media

Office: GH-308
Phone: 657-278-3452 
Email: bhubbard@fullerton.edu 

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Professor Emeritus

Specializations: Theosophy, Vedic literature, Theravada Buddhism, and Samkhya

Email: jsantucci@fullerton.edu

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Bradley E. Starr, Ph.D.  Professor Emeritus

Specializations: Religion & Violence, Christianity, Religion & Sociological Analysis
 

Part-Time Faculty

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Janet Bregar, Ph.D.
Lecturer

Specializations: History of Religions, the study of Comparative Religions and Christian Studies
 
Office: GH-308      
Email: jbregar@fullerton.edu

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Andrew Bridges, Ph.D.
Lecturer

Specializations: Jain Studies, Utopian Studies 

Office:
GH-130      
Email: abridges@fullerton.edu

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Matthew Pitts, M.A., JD
Lecturer 

Specializations:  Judaism, American Religion, Mormonism and the intersection of law and religion

Email: mpitts@fullerton.edu

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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

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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

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Rodgir Cohen, Ph.D. 
Lecturer

Specializations:

Religions of the World; Politics and Religion; Psychology and Religion
                
Email: rcohen@fullerton.edu

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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