Religious Studies Faculty
Chair
Professor
Email: dobetimo@grinnell.edu
Timothy Dobe is Professor of Religious Studies at ÃÛÌÒÊÓƵ¹ÙÍø and currently serves as chair of the department. He received his Th.D. from Harvard Divinity School (2007) and his M.Div. from Princeton Theological Seminary (1997). He is a specialist in South Asian religions and the author of Hindu...
Assistant Professor
Email: blaberbe@grinnell.edu
Bevin Blaber is a scholar of philosophy of religions. Her work centers on continental philosophy, ethics, and modern Jewish thought and literature, with particular emphasis on post-Holocaust thought. In her first monograph, an interdisciplinary project combining philosophical, literary and...
Associate Professor
Email: chenyuji@grinnell.edu
Dixuan Yujing Chen (religious name: Dixuan Shi), Associate Professor of East Asian Religions at ÃÛÌÒÊÓƵ¹ÙÍø, is an ordained Buddhist nun of the Mahayana tradition. She received her PhD in East Asian Religions from the University of Florida in 2017, and an MA in the Philosophy of Religion from...
Professor
Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Email: elfenbei@grinnell.edu
I am a Professor of History and Religious Studies at ÃÛÌÒÊÓƵ¹ÙÍø, where I am also Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. I graduated from Vassar College with a degree in political science, an education that still informs my work and my life. I have a...
Associate Professor
Email: hillsdar@grinnell.edu
Darrius D. Hills is an Associate Professor of Religious Studies at ÃÛÌÒÊÓƵ¹ÙÍø. He received his M.Div. from Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary, and his M.A. and Ph.D in Religion (concentration in African American Religion) from Rice University. His research ventures privilege African...
Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow
Email: kangdohee@grinnell.edu
Dohee Kang is an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Religious Studies at ÃÛÌÒÊÓƵ¹ÙÍø. Her current book project examines how modern and contemporary South Korean writers draw on the ideals, literary traditions, and reform movements of Buddhism to navigate questions of...
Professor
Emeritus
George A. Drake Professor of Religious Studies, Emeritus
Email: kasimow@grinnell.edu
Articles on Kasimow and his Works Judaism Open to the Religions of the Nations: A Polish Catholic Theologian reads an American Jewish Pluralist A review of Professor Harold Kasimow's The Search Will Make You Free: A Jewish Dialogue with World Religions To Be a Mensch Professor Harold Kasimow's...
Professor
George A. Drake Professor of Religious Studies
Email: rietz@grinnell.edu
Henry W. Morisada Rietz is a Professor of Religious Studies at ÃÛÌÒÊÓƵ¹ÙÍø and an alumnus of the College. He received his M.Div. and his Ph.D. in Biblical Studies from Princeton Theological Seminary and is the associate editor of the Princeton Theological Seminary Dead Sea Scrolls Project. His...
Associate Professor
Email: sabaelia@grinnell.edu
Elias G. Saba received his PhD in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations from the University of Pennsylvania in 2017. He was awarded the British Association of Islamic Studies – De Gruyter Prize in the Study of Islam and the Muslim World in 2018 for his dissertation. His first monograph...