Governing Board 
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PROFESSOR S. SCOTT BARTCHY, Director Dr. Bartchy has been teaching at UCLA since 1981. Previously he taught in the internationally-renowned theological faculty of the University of Tuebingen, Germany, and directed the Institut zur Erforschung des Urchristentums there. He earned his Master's degree from Harvard Divinity School and his Ph.D. in the History of Religion from Harvard University, specializing in Christian Origins and Early Christian History. His research interests focus on the relation of the early Christian movement to such social problems as slavery, racial identity, social and economic inequalities, imperial domination, female and male gender formation, and violence.
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR CAROL BAKHOS Dr. Boustan is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Departments of History and Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at UCLA teaching courses on all aspects of Jewish history (society, culture, literature, and language) within its broader ancient Mediterranean context from approximately 300 BCE to 750 CE.
Before coming to UCLA in September 2006, Dr. Boustan served for two
years as an Assistant Professor of early Judaism in the Department of
Classical and Near Eastern Studies at the University of Minnesota.
During the 2003–2004 academic year, he was a research fellow at
University of Pennsylvania's Center for Advanced Judaic Studies in a
group working on the interface between Anthropology and History in
Jewish Studies. Dr. Boustan completed his PhD in 2004 in the Department
of Religion at Princeton University with a dissertation on the
historical development of early Jewish mystical literature.
PROFESSOR DONALD COSENTINO
Professor Cosentino's research interests
include Black Atlantic oral narrative traditions, myths, rituals and
popular cultures. He has done extensive fieldwork in Nigeria (1966-68;
1976-78), Sierra Leone (1972-3; 1983), Haiti (1986-2005) and Los
Angeles (1979-present). He is the author of "Defiant Maids and Stubborn
Farmers: Tradition and Invention in Mende Story Performance"
(Cambridge, 1982) and "Vodou Things: The Art of Pierrot Barra and Marie
Cassaise" (University of Mississippi Press, 1998). He is the editor and
chief writer of the award winning catalogue for "The Sacred Arts of
Haitian Vodou" (1995), and for Divine Revolution: the Art of Edouard
Duval-Carrié (2004). As a Guggenheim Fellow (2006), Cosentino recently
completed fieldwork for a book on Afro-Angeleno Spiritism. Ph.D.,
African Languages and Literatures, University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Jacco Dieleman is currently working as
Assistant Professor of Egyptology at the Department of Near Eastern
Languages and Cultures of UCLA. He obtained his Ph.D. degree last year
from Leiden University, the Netherlands, on a dissertation dealing with
the social and cultural contexts of two Egyptian magical handbooks
written in Demotic and Greek. Trained as a philologist at the
universities of Leiden, Würzburg and Chicago his research topics are
primarily concerned with cultural, religious and linguistic change in
Greco-Roman Egypt as reflected in the hieroglyphic, hieratic, Demotic,
Coptic and Greek sources of that period. Department of History PROFESSOR EMERITUS DAVID RAPOPORT Political Science
PROFESSOR AMY RICHLIN As director of UCLA's famed African Studies Center, Roberts participates in multi-disciplinary research ranging from art and AIDS awareness in Africa to social pressures on the biodiversity of central African rainforests, from cultural history linking eastern Africa with islands and lands along the rim of the Indian Ocean to issues concerning recent African immigrants to the U.S. He also conducts research, writes, teaches, and organizes museum exhibitions with his spouse, Dr. Mary Nooter Roberts (Deputy Director and Chief Curator, UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History and an Adjunct Professor in WAC). Their recent books are Memory: Luba Art and the Making of History (1997), A Sense of Wonder (1997) and A Saint in the City: Sufi Arts of Urban Senegal 2003). The latter accompanies a major exhibition currently on national tour, and is previewed at " www.fmch.ucla.edu/passporttoparadise.htm”. The Roberts' current projects include cross-cultural comparison of religious visual culture in Senegal and Mauritius, and an initiative shared with WAC colleagues called "Searching for God in the City of Angels." University Religious Conference PROFESSOR WILLIAM SCHNIEDEWIND Near Eastern Languages & Cultures PROFESSOR RONALD VROON Slavic Languages & Literature
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