Faculty and Staff
Faculty
Jeffrey Kosky
Head of the Department, Professor of Religion
- Tucker Hall 203
- Email: koskyj@wlu.edu
- Phone: 540-458-8930
Professor Kosky’s courses study religion and humanistic inquiry, secularity and Christianity. His research interests include spirituality and contemporary art, the question of happiness, and the borders of philosophy and religion.
Kameliya N. Atanasova
Assistant Professor of Religion
- Tucker Hall 207
- Email: atanasovak@wlu.edu
- Phone: 540-458-8797
Atanasova researches the intersection of religion, law and politics by studying the social role of Sufism in the early-modern Ottoman Empire. She teaches Islamic Civilization, Sufism, Islam in America, and Muslims in the Movies.
Alexandra R. Brown
Fletcher Otey Thomas Professor in Bible
On Sabbatical 2024-2025
- Tucker Hall 206
- Email: browna@wlu.edu
- Phone: 540-458-8789
Brown teaches courses on the New Testament and other ancient Christian texts, Bible and film, gender and religion, Christian mysticism, and theory and method in the study of religion. Her primary research is in New Testament, particularly the Pauline letters.
Jawanza (Eric) Clark
Visiting Assistant Professor of Religion
- Tucker Hall 316
- Email: jclark3@wlu.edu
- Phone: 540-458-8234
Emily Filler
Assistant Professor of Religion
- Tucker Hall 208
- Email: efiller@wlu.edu
- Phone: 540-458-8788
Filler teaches The Hebrew Bible/Old Testament and Topics in American Judaism. Her research focuses on modern Jewish and continental philosophy, political and ethical theory, and classical Jewish texts.
Timothy Lubin
Jessie Ball DuPont Professor of Religion
- Tucker Hall 204
- Email: lubint@wlu.edu
- Phone: 540-458-8146
Professor Lubin teaches courses on Asian religions and comparative study of religion and law. He researches Hindu religious history, law in ancient Asia, and texts and inscriptions in Sanskrit, Prakrit, Old Javanese and Old Tamil.
Emeritus Faculty
Related Faculty in Other Departments
Michelle D. (Mikki) Brock
Professor of History
- Newcomb Hall 219
- Email: brockm@wlu.edu
- Phone: 540-458-8780
Brock teaches courses on British and Atlantic history, the Reformation, witchcraft and the devil, and the history of poverty. Her research focuses on the supernatural and religious beliefs and identities in early modern Scotland.
George P. Carras
Senior Research Professor (Classical studies, Religion)
Kevin Crotty
Professor of Classics, The J. Donald Childress Professor in Foreign Languages
- Tucker Hall 102
- Email: crottyk@wlu.edu
- Phone: 540-458-8910
Crotty’s courses include Classical Mythology; Homer; and Law, Litigation and Justice in the Ancient World. His research interests include myth, archaic Greek poetry, Plato and legal theory.
Jonathan Eastwood
Department Head, Sociology and Anthropology; Professor of Sociology
- Newcomb Hall 104
- Email: eastwoodj@wlu.edu
- Phone: 540-458-8777
Professor Eastwood is a social theorist who also has a strong interest in quantitative methods. He teaches seminars on classical and contemporary theory as well as a series of courses that train students how to use quantitative and computational tools to answer sociological questions.
Genelle Gertz
Associate Dean of Strategic Initiatives and Thomas H. Broadus Professor of English
- Payne Hall 108
- Email: gertzg@wlu.edu
- Phone: 540-458-8763
Gertz teaches courses on Milton, the Tudors and the Bible. She is currently working on methods of social network analysis as they apply to our understanding of the rise and fall of women mystics in English literary history.
Sascha L. Goluboff
Professor of Cultural Anthropology
- Newcomb Hall 208
- Email: goluboffs@wlu.edu
- Phone: 540-458-8807
Goluboff teaches courses such as Food, Culture, and Society, and Gender and Sexuality. Her research focuses on the anthropology of emotion in a variety of geographic and historic contexts.
Melissa R. Kerin
Professor of Art History
- Mattingly House 209
- Email: kerinm@wlu.edu
- Phone: 540-458-8858
Kerin teaches courses in South Asian and East Asian art and architecture. Her research focuses on the intricate and multifaceted relationships between art and identity formation, cultural memory and religious praxis.
Harvey Markowitz
Professor Emeritus of Anthropology
- Newcomb Hall 308
- Email: markowitzh@wlu.edu
- Phone: 540-458-8214
Markowitz taught courses such as Lakota Land Culture, Economics and History. His courses drew from both anthropology and environmental studies. He has researched American Indians extensively.
Holly Pickett
Department Head and Associate Professor of English
- Payne Hall 124
- Email: picketth@wlu.edu
- Phone: 540-458-8078
Pickett teaches courses on Shakespeare, early modern drama and contemporary drama. Her research interests include religion and drama, history of the senses, and early modern religious identities and controversies.
Howard Pickett
Director of the Shepherd Program; Professor of Ethics and Poverty Studies; Adjunct Professor of Law
Pickett teaches poverty studies courses on dignity and human rights, oppression and privilege, human capability and Martin Luther King Jr. He researches ethics, poverty, distributive justice and modern religious thought.
Staff
Department Info
- P: 540-458-8180
- F: 540-458-8283
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Tucker 202
Washington and Lee University
Lexington, Virginia 24450