Religion Faculty | Department of Religion | The University of Vermont(title)

Faculty Directory

Erica Andrus

Senior Lecturer

Religion in America, Judaism in America, religion and popular culture, and religion and science fiction.

Erica.Andrus@uvm.edu (802) 656-0227

Thomas Borchert

Chair • Professor

Religions of Asia, Buddhism, religion and law, religion and nationalism, and secularities.

thomas.borchert@uvm.edu (802) 656-3488

Vicki L. Brennan

Associate Professor • Director of Global and Regional Studies

Religions in Africa & the African Diaspora, Religion & Art, Religion, Music, & Sound, Religion and Health, Bodies, and Gender

vicki.brennan@uvm.edu (802) 656-9301

Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst

Associate Professor • Director UVM Humanities Center

Religions in South Asia, history of religion, Islam and race, religion, and empire, and antisemitism and islamophobia.

ilyse.morgenstein-fuerst@uvm.edu (802) 656-0232

Kenneth Richards

Lecturer

Settler-Colonial Studies, Philosophy of Nature, Religion and Law, Environmental Humanities. 

kenneth.richards@uvm.edu

Emeritus Professors

Anne Clark
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Professor Emerita

  • Medieval Christianity
  • Women in the Middle Ages
  • Medieval devotional practices
  • Monasticism
Richard Sugarman
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Professor Emeritus

  • Phenomenology
  • Philosophy of religion
  • Jewish philosophy, existentialism, and the humanities, ancient and present
Kevin Trainor
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Professor Emeritus

  • South Asian Buddhist traditions
  • Ritual studies