Professor Balmer. Ann Whitney Olin Professor of American Religious History, received the Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1985. He has wide-ranging interests in the intersection of religion and American culture.  His first book, A Perfect Babel of Confusion: Dutch Religion and English Culture in the Middle Colonies, won several awards, and his second book, Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory: A Journey into the Evangelical Subculture in America, was made into a three-part documentary for PBS.   Prof. Balmer was nominated for an Emmy for his script-writing on that series.  His second documentary, Crusade: The Life of Billy Graham, was aired on PBS and also appeared in A&E’s Biography series. "In the Beginning": The Creationist Controversy, a two-part documentary on the creation-evolution debate, was first broadcast over PBS in May 1995.  Prof. Balmer has co-written a history of American Presbyterians, and his book on mainline Protestantism, Grant Us Courage: Travels Along the Mainline of American Protestantism, was released by Oxford University Press early in 1996.

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Professor Castelli (A.B., Brown University, 1979; M.A./Ph.D., Claremont Graduate School, 1987)  teaches courses on early Christianity and the religions of the ancient mediterranean. She is the author of Imitating Paul: A Discourse of Power (Westminster/John Knox, 1991) and, as a member of the Bible and Culture Collective, of The Postmodern Bible (Yale, 1995) as well as the co-editor (with Hall Taussig) of Reimagining Christian Origins (Trinity Press, 1996). Her research interests include feminist interpretation of the Bible, women's history in late antiquity, and the Bible and contemporary culture.

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Professor Deutsch received her M.A. and Ph.D. from St. Michael's College/University of Toronto.  She works in the area of Second Temple Judaism and New Testament, and is the author of Hidden Wisdom and the Easy Yoke and Lady Wisdom, Jesus and the Sages: Metaphor and Social Context in Matthew's Gospel (Trinity Press).  She is active nationally and internationally in Jewish-Christian dialogue.

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Professor Hawley (A.B., Amherst; M.Div., Union Theological Seminary; Ph.D., Harvard)  is a specialist in the devotional traditions of North India. Several of his books (At Play with Krishna; Krishna, the Butter Thief; Sur Das: Poet, Singer, Saint; The Divine Consort ) focus especially on the worship of Krishna and his consort Radha. Others (Songs of the Saints of India and the edited volume Sati: The Blessing and the Curse ) take a broader view, exploring themes in Hindu poetry and hagiography and in modern Hindu religion. Two additional edited volumes are comparative: one on religous exemplitude (Saints and Virtues) and another on Fundamentalism and Gender. His most recent book, Devi: Goddesses of India (co-edited with Donna Wulff), appeared in 1996. Until recently, Professor Hawley was Director of the National Resource Center for South Asia at Columbia.

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Professor Segal (Amherst College (B.A. 1967), Brandeis University (M.A. 1969) Hebrew Union College--Jewish Institute of Religion (B.H.L. 1971) and Yale University (M.A. 1971, M.Phil 1973, Ph.D. 1975).  His studies have included English literature, psychology, anthropology, comparative religion, Judaica, Christian origins, and Rabbinics. His publications include Two Powers in Heaven (Brill), Deus Ex Machina: Computers in the HumanitiesRebecca's Children: Judaism and Christianity in the Roman World (Harvard), The Other Judaisms of Late Antiquity (Scholars Press) for the Brown University Judaica Series and Paul the Convert: The Apostasy and Apostolate of Saul of Tarsus.

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Professor Weisenfeld (A. B., Barnard; M. A., Princeton University; Ph. D., Princeton University , 1992) teaches in the areas of African-American Religious history and religion in American culture. She is the co-editor (with Richard Newman) of This Far By Faith: Readings in African American Women's Religious Biography (Routledge, 1996), the author of the forthcoming African-American Women and Christian Activism: New York's Black YWCA, 1905-1945 (Harvard), and the founder and co-editor of The North Star: A Journal of African-American Religious History.  She is currently working on Through a Glass Darkly: On Religion, Race, and Gender in American Film which is part of the Material History of American Religion Project funded by the Lilly Endowment.

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Professor Zito received her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1989.  Her areas of specialization include the history of Chinese religion and philosophy, the history of ritual in China, the history of the Chinese monarchy, ritual and the family in china, and the history of the body and gender in China.   Prof. Ziot teaches courses in cultural studies and critical theory. Professor Zito's publications include an edited volume on Body, Subject and Power in China (University of Chicago) and the forthcoming Of Body and Brush: Grand Sacrifice as Text/Performance in 18th Century China (University of Chicago).

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