Religion

Rachel Arteaga is Associate Director of the Simpson Center.

Denise Grollmus is a writer, scholar, teacher, web designer, and translator who was the Simpson Center's Communications Manager from 2018-2020. 

Mika Ahuvia is an Associate Professor of Classical Judaism and the Marsha and Jay Glazer Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies at the University of Washington.

Oscar Aguirre-Mandujano studies early modern Ottoman intellectual history, and its connections to literature, poetry, and bureaucracy.

Adriana Vazquez joined the Classics Department at UCLA in 2017 after completing my Ph.D. at the University of Washington and my MA and BA in Classics at Stanford University (2010 and 2009, respectively).

Christian Lee Novetzke is Professor in the South Asia Program, the Comparative Religion Program, and the International Studies Program at the University of Washington’s Jackson School of International Studies. He is also Professor in the Comparative History of Ideas department.

Ayda's research interests center around forced migration studies, critical humanitarian studies, and anthropology of religion. Ayda has currently finalized her field research in Gaziantep, Turkey.

Katia Chaterji was a 2020 Mellon Collaborative Fellow for Reaching New Publics with 

 Charles LaPorte is a scholar of poetry who specializes in the intersection of literature and religion. With Lori Peterson Branch, he co-edits the new Elements in Literature and Religion since 1500 Series for Cambridge University Press. His books

Christopher Tounsel (Associate Professor, History, and Director, African Sudies Program) is an historian of modern Sudan, with special focus on race and religion as political technologies.