Affiliated Faculty | Core Faculty

Annalisa Azzoni, Assistant Professor of Hebrew Bible and Ancient Near East Studies; Laurea (Instituto di Glottologia, Università degli Studi di Milan 1989); Ph.D. (Johns Hopkins 2001)

Gregory F. Barz, Associate Professor of Musicology (Ethnomusicology); Associate Professor of Anthropology; Associate Professor of Religion; B.A. (North Carolina School of the Arts 1982); M.A. (Chicago 1992); Ph.D. (Brown 1997)

Joy H. Calico, Associate Professor of Musicology; B.M. (Baylor 1988); M.M. (Illinois 1992); Ph.D. (Duke 1999)

Beth Ann Conklin, Associate Professor of Anthropology; Associate Professor of Religious Studies; A.B. (Colorado College 1976); Ph.D. (California, San Francisco 1980)

Dan Cornfield, Professor of Sociology; Acting Director of the Vanderbilt Institute for Public Policy Studies, A.B., A.M., Ph.D. (Chicago 1974, 1977, 1980)

Robert Drews, Professor of Classics; B.A. (Northwestern College 1956); M.A. (Missouri 1957); Ph.D. (Johns Hopkins 1960)

Kathleen Flake, Assistant Professor of American Religious History; B.S. (Brigham Young 1974); J.D. (Utah 1980); M.A. (Catholic 1995); Ph.D. (Chicago 2000)

William Franke, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Italian; B.S. (Williams 1978); M.A. (Oxford 1980); M.A. (California, Berkeley 1988); Ph.D. (Stanford 1991)

Gary Gerstle, James Stahlman Professor of History; Professor of History; B.A. (Brown 1976); M.A., Ph.D. (Harvard 1978, 1982)

Ellen Goldring, Professor, Education Policy and Leadership, Peabody College; B.S. (Wisconsin 1978); M.A. (Tel Aviv 1982); Ph.D. (Chicago 1985)

Peter Guralnick (scroll down in link), Writer-in-Residence in English; B.A., M.A. (Boston University 1967, 1968)

Lenn E. Goodman, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Humanities; Professor of Philosophy; A.B. (Harvard 1965); D.Phil. (Oxford 1968)

Barbara Hahn, Distinguished Professor of German; Professor of German Staatsexamen für den Höheren Schuldienst (Marburg 1976); Dr.phil (Free University of Berlin 1989); Habilitation Hamburg 1993)

Miriam Halachmi, Lecturer in Hebrew; B.A. (Hebrew University 1968); B.A. (SUNY, Buffalo 1973)

Cathy Login Jrade, Professor of Spanish and Chair of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese B.A. (City University of New York, Queens 1969); A.M., Ph.D. (Brown 1971, 1974)

Konstantin V. Kustanovich, Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures Engineering Diploma (Leningrad Polytechnical Institute 1969); M.A. (New York 1977); M.Phil., Ph.D. (Columbia 1983, 1986)

Lorraine M. Lopez, Associate Professor of English; Ph.D., M.A. (University of Georgia [Athens, Georgia] 2000, 1997); B.A. (California State University [Los Angeles, California] 1989)

Elizabeth Lunbeck, Nelson Tyrone Jr. Professor of American History; Professor of History and Chair of the Department; Professor of Psychiatry; B.A. (Duke 1975), Ph.D. (Harvard 1984)

Richard McGregor, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies; B.A. (Toronto 1990); M.A., Ph.D. (McGill 1993, 2001)

Beverly Moran, Professor of Law; A.B. (Vassar 1977), J.D. (Pennsylvania 1981), LL.M. (New York 1986)

Richard N. Pitt, Jr., Assistant Professor of Sociology; B.S., M.Ed. (Pennsylvania State 1991, 1994); M.A., Ph.D. (Arizona 1999, 2003)

Matthew Ramsey, Associate Professor of History; A.B., A.M., Ph.D. (Harvard 1969, 1971, 1978)

Michael Alec Rose, Associate Professor of Composition; B.A., M.A. (Pennsylvania 1981, 1982); Ph.D. (Eastman 1985)

Edward Rubin, Dean of the Law School; John Wade–Kent Syverud Professor of Law A.B. (Princeton 1969); J.D. (Yale 1979)

Sarah Diane Sasson, Lecturer in Women’s Studies; Lecturer in Theology; B.A. (North Carolina 1968); M.A. (Illinois 1971); Ph.D. (North Carolina 1980)

Jeffrey A. Schoenblum, Professor of Law; Centennial Professor of Law B.A. (Johns Hopkins 1970); J.D. (Harvard 1973)

Mark Schoenfield, Associate Professor of English; B.A. (Yale 1981), A.M., M.P.W., Ph.D. (Southern California 1986, 1986, 1989)

Thomas Alan Schwartz, Professor of History; A.B. (Columbia 1976); M.A. (Oxford 1978); A.M., Ph.D. (Harvard 1979, 1985)

Helmut Walser Smith, Martha Rivers Ingram Professor of History; Professor of History; Director, Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities; A.B (Cornell 1984); M.Phil., Ph.D. (Yale 1988, 1992)

Jeffrey Tlumak, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Department; B.A. (City University of New York, Brooklyn College 1969); M.A., Ph.D. (Massachusetts 1972, 1975)

Meike G. Werner, Associate Professor of German; Director, Vanderbilt in Germany Program M.A. (Washington University 1980); Staatsexamen (Tübingen [Germany] 1984); M.Phil., Ph.D. (Yale 1991, 1995)