Faculty

Department of Religion and Culture Faculty

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Graduate Teaching Assistants

Name	Position	Office	Phone	Email
Ananda Abeysekara	Associate Professor	209 Major Williams	540-231-5788	ananda@vt.edu
Aaron Ansell	Associate Professor	242 Lane Hall	540-231-0491	aansell@vt.edu
Anita Puckett	Associate Professor	207 Solitude	540-231-9526	apuckett@vt.edu
Betty Fine	Professor Emerita			bfine@vt.edu
Brian Britt	Professor and Department Chair of Religion and Culture	111 Lane Hall	540-231-5118	bbritt@vt.edu
Christine Steer	Instructor	243 Lane Hall		cygnet@vt.edu
Danille Christensen	Assistant Professor	216 Lane Hall	540-231-5528	dec09@vt.edu
Elizabeth Fine	Professor Emerita, Humanities		540-231-6551	bfine@vt.edu
Elizabeth Struthers Malbon	Professor Emerita		540-231-6551	malbon@vt.edu
Emily Satterwhite	Associate Professor	344 Lane Hall	540-231-8779	satterwhite@vt.edu
John Hennen	Instructor			johnch51@vt.edu
Jordan Laney	Instructor	Curator's Office, Solitude	540-231-0610	jlaney@vt.edu
Katie Cross	Instructor	111 Lane Hall		kcathar@vt.edu
Komal Dhillon	Instructor	108 Surge Hall #22		kdhillon@vt.edu
Matthew Gabriele	Associate Professor	342 Lane Hall	540-231-1618	gabriele@vt.edu
Michael Saffle	Professor	204 Major Williams	540-231-6080	msaffle@vt.edu
Peter L. Schmitthenner	Associate Professor	321 Lane Hall	540-231-8377	pschmitt@vt.edu
Rachel M. Scott	Associate Professor	203 Major Williams	540-231-4848	rmscott@vt.edu
Samuel Kessler	Postdoctoral Fellow	211 Major Williams	540-231-6810	kesslers@vt.edu
Shaily Patel	Assistant Professor	207 Major Williams	540-232-8456	shailyp@vt.edu
Sylvester Johnson	Professor and Director of the Center for the Humanities	315 Lane Hall	540-231-9120	saj240@vt.edu
Zhange Ni	Associate Professor	205 Major Williams	540-231-1823	nizhange@vt.edu

Name	Position	Office	Phone	Email
Ashleigh Breske	MCPH GTA	206 Major Williams		aslilly@vt.edu
Christopher Kelly	MCPH GTA	206 Major Williams		cpkelly@vt.edu
Emma Stamm	ASPECT GTA	212 Lane Hall		stamm@vt.edu
Galen Olmsted	ASPECT GTA	313 Lane Hall		galeneo1@vt.edu
James “Drew” Walton	MCPH GTA	206 Major Williams		dreww92@vt.edu
Mohammed Pervaiz	ASPECT GTA	211 Lane Hall		mpervaiz@vt.edu
Sarah Plummer	ASPECT GTA	313 Lane Hall		splummer@vt.edu