Our research areas
Department of Classics and Religion researchers are involved with a broad variety of research interests.
Afrikaner Nationalism
Irving Hexham
Ancient Biography
Noreen Humble
Ancient Medicine
Amber Porter, Lesley Bolton
Ancient Technology
Lesley Bolton
Art and architecture in ancient Greece
Amber Porter
Buddhist Philosophy
Christopher Framarin
Chinese religions
Wendi Adamek
Christian Fundamentalism
Irving Hexham
Christianity
Laura Jurgens
Comparative Philosophy
Tinu Ruparell
Cultural History of Medicine
Amber Porter, Peter Toohey
Dutch neo-Calvinism
Irving Hexham
East Asian Buddhism
Wendi Adamek
Epigraphy and Curse Tablets
Lesley Bolton
Ethics
Clara Joseph, Christopher Framarin
Gender and Sexuality
Laura Jurgens, Peter Toohey
Greek and Roman Epic Poetry
Peter Toohey
Greek and Roman historiography
Lindsay Driediger-Murphy
Greek Epic and Lyric Poetry
Reyes Bertolin Cebrian
Greek Sport
Reyes Bertolin Cebrian
Hermeneutics
Tinu Ruparell, Morny Joy
Hinduism
Morny Joy, Elizabeth Rohlman
History of Indian Religions
Ron Neufeldt
History of Madness
Peter Toohey
History of the Emotions
Amber Porter, Peter Toohey
Idealism and Indian Philosophy
Tinu Ruparell
Indian and Tibetan Buddhism
James Apple
Indian Philosophy (esp.Ethics and Metaphysics)
Christopher Framarin
Intellectual History of the Roman Imperial Period
John Vanderspoel
Issues of Orality and Literacy
Reyes Bertolin Cebrian
Judaism
Eliezer Segal
Late Roman History
John Vanderspoel
Latin epigraphy
Hanne Sigismund Nielsen
Mahayana Buddhism
James Apple
Medical Manuscripts
Lesley Bolton
Medieval Chinese Buddhism
Wendi Adamek
Methodology
Ron Neufeldt
Methods and Theory in the Study of Religion
Irving Hexham, Morny Joy
Nationalism and Religion
Irving Hexham
National Socialism and political extremism
Irving Hexham
New Religious Movements
Irving Hexham, Ron Neufeldt
Origins of Christianity
Wayne McCready
Pagan and Christian theology
Lindsay Driediger-Murphy
Philosophy of Religion
Terence Penelhum, Christopher Framarin, Morny Joy
Plutarch
Noreen Humble
Political History of the Roman Republic
Lindsay Driediger-Murphy
Political Philosophy
Katrin Froese
Political Religions
Morny Joy, Irving Hexham
Postcolonial Theory
Morny Joy, Clara Joseph
Process theologies
Virginia Tumasz
Puranas
Elizabeth Rohlman
Radical Reformation Studies
Laura Jurgens, Douglas Shantz
Reception of ancient authors in Byzantium and in the Renaissance
Noreen Humble
Regional and sectarian religious movements
Elizabeth Rohlman
Regionally-produced Sanskrit literature
Elizabeth Rohlman
Religion and Culture
Morny Joy
Religion and Place Studies
Wayne McCready
Religion and Politics
Irving Hexham
Religion in Modern India
Ron Neufeldt
Religious geography
Elizabeth Rohlman
Religious Pluralism and interreligious dialogue
Tinu Ruparell
Roman art and archaeology
Lisa Hughes
Roman Children
Hanne Sigismund Nielsen
Roman divination
Lindsay Driediger-Murphy
Roman Family
Hanne Sigismund Nielsen
Roman Imperial History
John Vanderspoel
Romano-British Archaeology, particularly Hadrian's Wall area
Leslie Bolton
Roman Religion
Lindsay Driediger-Murphy
Roman Republican History
John Vanderspoel
Roman social history
John Vanderspoel, Hanne Sigismund Nielsen, Lisa Hughes, Lindsay Driediger-Murphy
Roman Women
Hanne Sigismund Nielsen
Sanskrit
James Apple
Science and Religion
Virginia Tumasz, Tinu Ruparell
Second Temple Judaism
Wayne McCready
South Asian religious history
Elizabeth Rohlman
Sparta
Noreen Humble
Special interest: non-elite representations of the early empire
Lisa Hughes
The philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead
Virginia Tumasz
Tibetan
James Apple
Western Religions
Eliezer Segal, Laura Jurgens
Women and Religion
Morny Joy, Laura Jurgens
Women in the ancient world
Amber Porter
Xenophon
Noreen Humble
Meet our researchers
Meet the researchers in the Department of Classics and Religion