Staff in Theology and Religion

Professors, Readers, Senior Lecturers and Lecturers


Professor Wolfgang Vondey 
Head of Department
Professor of Christian Theology and Pentecostal Studies


Professor Nicholas Adams
Professor of Philosophical Theology


Dr Daniela C Augustine
Reader in World Christianity and Pentecostal Studies


Dr Ali-Reza Bhojani
Teaching Fellow in Islamic Ethics and Theology


Dr Katherine E Brown
Reader in Religion and Global Security 


Professor Jocelyne Cesari
Professor of Religion and Politics 


Professor David Cheetham  
Professor of Philosophical Theology


Professor Andrew Davies  
Professor of Public Religion


Dr Amy Daughton 
Associate Professor in Practical Theology


Dr Marie-Hélène Gorisse
Dharmanath Assistant Professor in Jain Studies


Professor Charlotte Hempel
Head of School of Philosophy, Theology and Religion
Professor of Hebrew Bible and Second Temple Judaism


Professor Hugh Houghton
Professor of New Testament Textual Scholarship 


Dr Jagbir Jhutti-Johal 
Professor of Sikh Studies


Dr Jeremy Kidwell
Senior Lecturer in Theological Ethics


Dr U-Wen Low
Assistant Professor of Public Religion


Professor Candida Moss
Edward Cadbury Professor of Theology 


Dr Carissa Sharp
Assistant Professor in Psychology of Religion


Dr Richard Todd 
Lecturer in Islamic Studies


Dr Sophia Vasalou
Birmingham Fellow in Philosophical Theology 


Professor Wolfgang Vondey 
Professor of Christian Theology and Pentecostal Studies


Dr Karen Wenell
Senior Lecturer in New Testament and Theology


Dr Isabel Wollaston 
Associate Professor in Jewish and Holocaust Studies


Research and Teaching Fellows

Dr Josef Boehle 
Research Fellow in Globalisation, Religion and Politics


Dr Saleema F. Burney
Postdoctoral Research Fellow


Dr Amy Myshrall
Research Fellow, Institute for Textual Scholarship and Electronic Editing


Dr Oliver Norris
Research Fellow, Institute for Textual Scholarship and Electronic Editing


Dr Rachael Shillitoe
Research Associate


Dr Shoko Watanabe
Research Fellow, "New Perspectives on Social Psychology and Religious Cognition for Theology: Training and Developing Science-Engaged Theologians"


Associate, Emeritus and Honorary Staff

Professor Allan Anderson
Professor of Mission and Pentecostal Studies


Dr Ann Conway-Jones
Honorary Research Fellow


Professor Ben Pink Dandelion
Honorary Professor of Quaker Studies


Professor Francis Davis
Professor of Religion, Communities and Public Policy


Dr Marius Felderhof
Honorary Senior Research Fellow


Dr Rhiannon Grant 
Honorary Lecturer in Modern Quaker Thought


Dr Deryn Guest
Honorary Senior Lecturer


Dr Elizabeth Harris
Honorary Senior Research Fellow


Dr Haifaa Jawad 
Honorary Senior Lecturer


Professor Jorgen Nielsen 
Emeritus Professor of Contemporary European Islam


Professor David Parker FBA 
Emeritus Professor of Digital Philology 


Professor Stephen Pattison
Emeritus Professor of Religion, Ethics and Practice


Dr Tanya Riches
Honorary Research Fellow


H.E. Bhai Sahib Bhai Mohinder Singh
Honorary Professor in Global Faith Leadership


Professor R. S. Sugirtharajah
Emeritus Professor of Biblical Hermeneutics


Dr Sharada Sugirtharajah 
Honorary Senior Research Fellow


Professor David Thomas FBA
Emeritus Professor of Christianity and Islam


Professor Werner Ustorf
Emeritus Professor of Mission


Professor Frances Young FBA
Emerita Edward Cadbury Professor of Theology