Faculty

Department of Religion and Culture Faculty

Click on the tabs below for a list of the Department of Religion and Culture faculty members alphabetically and by discipline.

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
Brian Britt	Professor	243 Lane Hall	540-231-5118	bbritt@vt.edu
Megan Case	Postdoctoral Fellow	342 Lane Hall	540-231-6885	mlcase@vt.edu
Danille Christensen	Assistant Professor	216 Lane Hall	540-231-5528	dec09@vt.edu
Komal Dhillon	Instructor	108 Surge Hall #22		kdhillon@vt.edu
Taulby Edmondson	Instructor	441 Major Williams		taulby1@vt.edu
Matthew Gabriele	Professor and Department Chair	111 Lane Hall	540-231-1618	gabriele@vt.edu
John Hennen	Instructor			johnch51@vt.edu
Sylvester Johnson	Professor and Director of the Center for the Humanities	315 Lane Hall	540-231-9120	saj240@vt.edu
Jordan Laney	Postdoctoral Fellow	224 Lane Hall		jlaney@vt.edu
Zhange Ni	Associate Professor	205 Major Williams	540-231-1823	nizhange@vt.edu
Shaily Patel	Assistant Professor	207 Major Williams	540-232-8456	shailyp@vt.edu
Anita Puckett	Associate Professor	207 Solitude	540-231-9526	apuckett@vt.edu
Michael Saffle	Professor	204 Major Williams	540-231-6080	msaffle@vt.edu
Emily Satterwhite	Associate Professor and Director of Appalachian Studies	344 Lane Hall	540-231-8779	satterwhite@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
Balbir K. Singh	Assistant Professor	211 Major Williams	540-231-6810	bksingh@vt.edu
Andrew Sorber	Instructor	324 Lane Hall		asorber@vt.edu

Name	Position	Office	Phone	Email
Elizabeth Fine	Professor Emerita, Humanities			bfine@vt.edu
Elizabeth Struthers Malbon	Professor Emerita			malbon@vt.edu

Name	Position	Office	Phone	Email
Ashley Reed	Assistant Professor of English			akreed@vt.edu
Mauro J. Caraccioli	Assistant Professor of Political Science			mauroj@vt.edu