Experts Directory: History: Religious

Susan Fitzpatrick-Behrens

Department of History
work: (818) 677-3566
email: susan.fitzpatrick@csun.edu
Also speaks: Spanish

History of Peru
History of Guatemala
U.S. relations in Central America
Religion (Catholicism) in Latin America
Indigenous communities

Elaine Goodfriend

Department of Religious Studies
work: (818) 677-3392
email: Elaine.goodfriend@csun.edu
Also speaks: Hebrew

Hebrew Bible/Old Testament
Jewish History
Jewish law
Ancient Mesopotamia

Kenneth Lee

Department of Religious Studies
work: (818) 677-2357
email: klee@csun.edu
Also speaks: some French, Japanese, Korean

Eastern Asian religions
Buddhism with a concentration on Japanese Buddhism
Korean Christianity

Lara Medina

Department of Chicana/o Studies
work: (818) 677-3392
email: lara.medina@csun.edu
Also speaks: Spanish

U.S. Latinos and religion
Chicana/o religious history
Religion and ethnicity
Women and religion
Liberation theology
Popular religious traditions and transformations
Dia de los Muertos
Chicana/o Catholic healing traditions

Jody Myers

Jewish Studies Interdisciplinary Program
Department of Religious Studies
work: (818) 677-3007 / 3392 / 6762
email: jody.myers@csun.edu
Also speaks: Hebrew

Jewish studies
Jewish history
Judaism

Clementine Oliver

Department of History
work: (818) 677-7199
email: Coliver@csun.edu
Also speaks: French, Latin

Medieval Europe
Renaissance Europe
England in the Middle Ages
Political history of Medieval Europe
Cultural history of Medieval Europe
Religious history of Medieval Europe

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Rick Talbott

Department of Religious Studies
work: (818) 677-2741
email: rick.talbott@csun.edu

Bible
Early Christianity
Gnosticism
Jesus of Nazareth
Paul of Tarsus
History of religious
Intersection of ancient Christian texts with contemporary Christianity
Author: “Sacred Sacrifice: Ritual Paradigms in Vedic Religion and Early Christianity”