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Beck, Guy L
Adjunct Faculty, Religious Studies, School of Continuing Studies, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
Research: Agra Gharana: History and Performance
ITC Sangeet Research Academy, Calcutta, India
January 2010 - July 2010

Curtis, Edward E.
Millennium Chair of the Liberal Arts, Department of Religious Studies and American Studies Program, School of Liberal Arts, Indiana University-Purdue University--Indianapolis, Indianapolis, IN
Lecturing and Research: Studying Muslim Americans in Jordan
University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan
September 2009 - June 2010

Dobe, Timothy Stephen
Assistant Professor, Department of Religious Studies, Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA
Research: Faqirs in the Colony: Rama Tirtha, Sundar Singh and Comparative Sainthood in Punjab
Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
September 2009 - March 2010

Hopkins, Steven P.
Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Religion, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA
Research: Bodies of Desire, Bodies of Lament: Time, Love and Landscape in a Messenger Poem of Medieval South India
French Institute of Pondicherry, Pondicherry, India
December 2009 - March 2010

Large, Ron
Professor, Department of Religious Studies, College of Arts and Sciences, Gonzaga University, Spokane, WA
Lecturing and Research: Nonviolence and Violence Approaches to the Ethics of Social Change and Conflict Resolution; The Influence of Martin Luther King and Mohandas Gandhi on the Irish Peace Process
Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
September 2009 - January 2010

MacWilliams, Mark W.
Professor, Department of Religious Studies, St. Lawrence University, Canton, NY
Research: Defining Shinto: Conceptualizing Religion in Modern Japan
Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan
January 2010 - August 2010

Pentiuc, Eugen Jenica
Associate Professor, Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology, Hellenic College, Brookline, MA
Research: The Old Testament in Eastern Orthodox Tradition
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
October 2009 - February 2010

Rutherford, Harold Richard
Professor, Department of Theology, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Portland, Portland, OR
Lecturing and Research: Early Byzantine Baptismal Churches of Cyprus in Regional Comparison
Cyprus American Archeological Research Institute, Nicosia, Cyprus
February 2010 - July 2010

Sayeed, Asma
Assistant Professor, Department of Religious Studies, Lafayette College, Easton, PA
Research: Women and Religious Education in Damascus (12th-14th Centuries)
Ministry of Culture--Syria, Damascus, Syria
January 2010 - July 2010

Tsomo, Karma Lekshe
Associate Professor, Department of Theology and Religious Studies, School of Arts and Sciences, University of San Diego, San Diego, CA
Research: Buddhist Ethics and Society: South Asian Women’s Perspectives
Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal
Chittagong University, Chittagong, Bangladesh
September 2009 - May 2010

Vargas-O'Bryan, Ivette Maria
Associate Professor, Department of Religious Studies, Austin College, Sherman, TX
Lecturing: Religions and Society in Asia
City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
September 2009 - February 2010