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Dr. Hector Avalos is Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Director of the U.S. Latino/a Studies Program at Iowa State University, where he was named Professor of the Year in 1996 and a Master Teacher in 2003-04. Trained as both an anthropologist and a biblical scholar, he is the author of Fighting Words: The Origins of Religious Violence (Amherst, NY: Prometheus, 2005), and four other books on religion, biblical studies, Latino/a Studies, and ancient health care.
For more, see:
http://www.las.iastate.edu/newnews/avalos1114.shtml
http://www.las.iastate.edu/departments/latinostudies/lsfac.htm
Veena Das
Veena Das, Krieger-Eisenhower Professor and Department Chair, Department of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University. See bio.
Bruce Lincoln
Bruce Lincoln is the Caroline E. Haskell Professor of the History of Religions in the Divinity School at the University of Chicago, where he also serves on the Committees on the Ancient Mediterranean World and the History of Culture, and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies and as an Associate Faculty member in the Departments of Anthropology and Classics. His work emphasizes critical approaches to the study of religion, and he is particularly interested in issues of discourse, practice, power, conflict, and the construction of social borders. He works in the religions of pre-Christian Europe and pre-Islamic Iran, with occasional excurses into African, Melanesian, and Native American traditions. His most recent publications include Holy Terrors: Thinking about Religion after September 11 and Theorizing Myth: Narrative, Ideology, and Scholarship, which won the American Academy of Religion Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion in 2000 and the Gordon J. Laing Prize from the University of Chicago Press in 2002.
Regina Schwartz
Regina Schwartz is Professor of English at Northwestern University and Director of the Institute of Religion, Ethics, and Violence. She teaches seventeeth-century literature, especially Milton; Hebrew Bible; philosophy and literature, law and literature, and religion and literature. Her publications include Remembering and Repeating: Biblical Creation in Paradise Lost (1988), which won the James Holly Hanford prize for the best book on Milton; The Book and the Text: The Bible and Literary Theory (1990); Desire in the Renaissance: Psychoanalysis and Literature (1994); and The Postmodern Bible (1995). Her most recent book, The Curse of Cain: The Violent Legacy of Monotheism, a study of monotheism, national identity, and violence in the Hebrew Bible, was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. She has served as President of the Milton Society of America, Chair of the Modern Language Association Religion and Literature Division and Chair of Northwestern's Interdisciplinary Hiring Initiative in the Humanities.
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