# Department of Religious Studies: professors and courses

Course codes R S

Who teaches here

**30** people

Teaching 31 courses in Spring 2026 and Fall 2026.

16 professors · 3 lecturers and instructors · 11 graduate and other instructors

## Who teaches here

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**Department of Religious Studies professors and instructors**

| Name | Teaches |
| --- | --- |
| Professors · 16 |  |
| [Khytie Brown](https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/rs/faculty/kb43783) [Evaluations](https://utaustin.guide/ut/colleges/professor-evaluations?q=Khytie%20Brown#lookup) [CV](https://utdirect.utexas.edu/apps/student/coursedocs/courses/nlogon/download/16275738/) Assistant professor | [R S 346O](https://utaustin.guide/courses/r-s/346o), [R S 375S](https://utaustin.guide/courses/r-s/375s), [R S 383E](https://utaustin.guide/courses/r-s/383e) |
| Jonathan Crosson [CV](https://utdirect.utexas.edu/apps/student/coursedocs/courses/nlogon/download/10518060/) Associate professor | [R S 373L](https://utaustin.guide/courses/r-s/373l), [R S 391L](https://utaustin.guide/courses/r-s/391l) |
| [Oliver Freiberger](https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/rs/faculty/of63) [Evaluations](https://utaustin.guide/ut/colleges/professor-evaluations?q=Oliver%20Freiberger#lookup) [CV](https://utdirect.utexas.edu/apps/student/coursedocs/courses/nlogon/download/16989021/) Professor | [R S 302](https://utaustin.guide/courses/r-s/302), [R S 312C](https://utaustin.guide/courses/r-s/312c), [R S 342F](https://utaustin.guide/courses/r-s/342f) |
| [Tony Keddie](https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/rs/faculty/gak528) Associate professor Class · and Empire | No classes listed this year |
| [Brent Landau](https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/rs/faculty/bl23254) [Evaluations](https://utaustin.guide/ut/colleges/professor-evaluations?q=Brent%20Landau#lookup) [CV](https://utdirect.utexas.edu/apps/student/coursedocs/courses/nlogon/download/17251000/) Associate professor of instruction | [R S 310](https://utaustin.guide/courses/r-s/310), [R S 315C](https://utaustin.guide/courses/r-s/315c), [R S 315N](https://utaustin.guide/courses/r-s/315n), [R S 373D](https://utaustin.guide/courses/r-s/373d) |
| [David L Leal](https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/rs/faculty/lealdl3) [CV](https://utdirect.utexas.edu/apps/student/coursedocs/courses/nlogon/download/10506121/) Professor Latino Politics and Policy | No classes listed this year |
| [Mallory Emiko Matsumoto](https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/rs/faculty/mm97298) [Evaluations](https://utaustin.guide/ut/colleges/professor-evaluations?q=Mallory%20Matsumoto#lookup) [CV](https://utdirect.utexas.edu/apps/student/coursedocs/courses/nlogon/download/11303917/) Assistant professor | [R S 310](https://utaustin.guide/courses/r-s/310) |
| [A Azfar Moin](https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/rs/faculty/amoin) Associate professor Art · & Architecture of Early Modern Iran · Central Asia · and South Asia \| Persian Historiography | No classes listed this year |
| [Jason Edward Roberts](https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/rs/faculty/jer2527) [CV](https://utdirect.utexas.edu/apps/student/coursedocs/courses/nlogon/download/16285806/) Associate professor of instruction representations of time and space in systems of divination · Siberian shamanism · Russian Orthodoxy | [R S 315K](https://utaustin.guide/courses/r-s/315k), [R S 320](https://utaustin.guide/courses/r-s/320), [R S 346M](https://utaustin.guide/courses/r-s/346m) |
| [Jonathan Wyn Schofer](https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/rs/faculty/js76458) [Evaluations](https://utaustin.guide/ut/colleges/professor-evaluations?q=Jonathan%20Schofer#lookup) [CV](https://utdirect.utexas.edu/apps/student/coursedocs/courses/nlogon/download/17376294/) Associate professor Classical Rabbinic and Medieval Judaism · Hebrew Bible · law · ethics | [R S 313M](https://utaustin.guide/courses/r-s/313m), [R S 315C](https://utaustin.guide/courses/r-s/315c) |
| [Chad Eugene Seales](https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/rs/faculty/cs42729) [Evaluations](https://utaustin.guide/ut/colleges/professor-evaluations?q=Chad%20Seales#lookup) [CV](https://utdirect.utexas.edu/apps/student/coursedocs/courses/nlogon/download/17362886/) Associate professor | [R S 311F](https://utaustin.guide/courses/r-s/311f), [R S 346E](https://utaustin.guide/courses/r-s/346e) |
| [Geoffrey Smith](https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/rs/faculty/gs25494) [CV](https://utdirect.utexas.edu/apps/student/coursedocs/courses/nlogon/download/16996714/) Associate professor | [R S 353P](https://utaustin.guide/courses/r-s/353p), [R S 375S](https://utaustin.guide/courses/r-s/375s) |

**Show all 30 peopleDepartment of Religious Studies professors and instructors, continued**

| Name | Teaches |
| --- | --- |
| Professors · 16 |  |
| [Marina Smith](https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/rs/faculty/maralex) [CV](https://utdirect.utexas.edu/apps/student/coursedocs/courses/nlogon/download/17359165/) Associate professor of instruction Russian Cultural History · Spirituality in Imperial Russia · Theosophy · Comparative Literature | [R S 316C](https://utaustin.guide/courses/r-s/316c) |
| [Alexander Sogo](https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/asianstudies/faculty/acs6979) [Evaluations](https://utaustin.guide/ut/colleges/professor-evaluations?q=Alexander%20Sogo#lookup) [CV](https://utdirect.utexas.edu/apps/student/coursedocs/courses/nlogon/download/17380650/) Assistant professor of instruction; Director of the JapanLab | [R S 352D](https://utaustin.guide/courses/r-s/352d) |
| [Denise A Spellberg](https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/rs/faculty/dams21) [Evaluations](https://utaustin.guide/ut/colleges/professor-evaluations?q=Denise%20Spellberg#lookup) [CV](https://utdirect.utexas.edu/apps/student/coursedocs/courses/nlogon/download/17375535/) Professor | [R S 314K](https://utaustin.guide/courses/r-s/314k), [R S 345](https://utaustin.guide/courses/r-s/345) |
| [Katherine Taronas](https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/rs/faculty/kt27758) [Evaluations](https://utaustin.guide/ut/colleges/professor-evaluations?q=Katherine%20Taronas#lookup) [CV](https://utdirect.utexas.edu/apps/student/coursedocs/courses/nlogon/download/13545198/) Assistant professor | [R S 318](https://utaustin.guide/courses/r-s/318), [R S 357I](https://utaustin.guide/courses/r-s/357i), [R S 361](https://utaustin.guide/courses/r-s/361) |
| Lecturers and instructors · 3 |  |
| [Ambrose Arralde](https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/classics/faculty/txa59) [Evaluations](https://utaustin.guide/ut/colleges/professor-evaluations?q=Ambrose%20Arralde#lookup) [CV](https://utdirect.utexas.edu/apps/student/coursedocs/courses/nlogon/download/17371297/) Assistant instructor Hebrew Bible/Ancient Near East · Historical Linguisitics · Comparative Semitics | [R S 315C](https://utaustin.guide/courses/r-s/315c) |
| Christian Blake Pye [CV](https://utdirect.utexas.edu/apps/student/coursedocs/courses/nlogon/download/16987557/) Lecturer | [R S 304](https://utaustin.guide/courses/r-s/304), [R S 310](https://utaustin.guide/courses/r-s/310) |
| Fateh Saeidi Lecturer | No classes listed this year |
| Graduate and other instructors · 11 |  |
| Sara Boljevic [CV](https://utdirect.utexas.edu/apps/student/coursedocs/courses/nlogon/download/16258071/) | [R S 305](https://utaustin.guide/courses/r-s/305) |
| Katie Brown [CV](https://utdirect.utexas.edu/apps/student/coursedocs/courses/nlogon/download/16990049/) | [R S 318](https://utaustin.guide/courses/r-s/318) |
| [Sari Fein](https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/rs/faculty/sf32799) [Evaluations](https://utaustin.guide/ut/colleges/professor-evaluations?q=Sari%20Fein#lookup) [CV](https://utdirect.utexas.edu/apps/student/coursedocs/courses/nlogon/download/17388878/) Postdoctoral Fellow in Religion, Healing, and Magic in Late Antiquity | [R S 304](https://utaustin.guide/courses/r-s/304) |
| Aditi Jain [CV](https://utdirect.utexas.edu/apps/student/coursedocs/courses/nlogon/download/16989554/) | [R S 302](https://utaustin.guide/courses/r-s/302) |
| Michael Leff [Evaluations](https://utaustin.guide/ut/colleges/professor-evaluations?q=Michael%20Leff#lookup)[CV](https://utdirect.utexas.edu/apps/student/coursedocs/courses/nlogon/download/16990585/) | [R S 315C](https://utaustin.guide/courses/r-s/315c), [R S 353R](https://utaustin.guide/courses/r-s/353r) |
| Brian Madaj [Evaluations](https://utaustin.guide/ut/colleges/professor-evaluations?q=Brian%20Madaj#lookup)[CV](https://utdirect.utexas.edu/apps/student/coursedocs/courses/nlogon/download/17373949/) | [R S 315C](https://utaustin.guide/courses/r-s/315c) |
| [Martin Miller](https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/rs/faculty/mgm2634) [Evaluations](https://utaustin.guide/ut/colleges/professor-evaluations?q=Martin%20Miller#lookup) [CV](https://utdirect.utexas.edu/apps/student/coursedocs/courses/nlogon/download/17434783/) Postdoctoral Fellow in Religion and Health Anthropology of Science and Technology · Environmental Anthropology · Secularism Studies · History of Biology | [R S 373M](https://utaustin.guide/courses/r-s/373m) |
| Tobias Sandoval [Evaluations](https://utaustin.guide/ut/colleges/professor-evaluations?q=Tobias%20Sandoval#lookup)[CV](https://utdirect.utexas.edu/apps/student/coursedocs/courses/nlogon/download/16258762/) | [R S 305](https://utaustin.guide/courses/r-s/305) |
| Dylan Smith [Evaluations](https://utaustin.guide/ut/colleges/professor-evaluations?q=Dylan%20Smith#lookup)[CV](https://utdirect.utexas.edu/apps/student/coursedocs/courses/nlogon/download/17369875/) | [R S 315C](https://utaustin.guide/courses/r-s/315c) |
| [Jordan Swanson](https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/rs/faculty/jas25744) [Evaluations](https://utaustin.guide/ut/colleges/professor-evaluations?q=Jordan%20Swanson#lookup) [CV](https://utdirect.utexas.edu/apps/student/coursedocs/courses/nlogon/download/17376725/) ISAC Postdoctoral Fellow | [R S 310](https://utaustin.guide/courses/r-s/310) |
| Peyton White [Evaluations](https://utaustin.guide/ut/colleges/professor-evaluations?q=Peyton%20White#lookup)[CV](https://utdirect.utexas.edu/apps/student/coursedocs/courses/nlogon/download/17372085/) | [R S 311E](https://utaustin.guide/courses/r-s/311e) |

## Who teaches each course

**Department of Religious Studies: who teaches each course**

| Course | Taught by |
| --- | --- |
| [R S 302](https://utaustin.guide/courses/r-s/302) | Oliver Freiberger, Aditi Jain |
| [R S 304](https://utaustin.guide/courses/r-s/304) | Christian Blake Pye, Sari Fein |
| [R S 305](https://utaustin.guide/courses/r-s/305) | Sara Boljevic, Tobias Sandoval |
| [R S 310](https://utaustin.guide/courses/r-s/310) | Brent Landau, Mallory Emiko Matsumoto, Christian Blake Pye, Jordan Swanson |
| [R S 311E](https://utaustin.guide/courses/r-s/311e) | Peyton White |
| [R S 311F](https://utaustin.guide/courses/r-s/311f) | Chad Eugene Seales |
| [R S 312C](https://utaustin.guide/courses/r-s/312c) | Oliver Freiberger |
| [R S 313M](https://utaustin.guide/courses/r-s/313m) | Jonathan Wyn Schofer |
| [R S 314K](https://utaustin.guide/courses/r-s/314k) | Denise A Spellberg |
| [R S 315C](https://utaustin.guide/courses/r-s/315c) | Brent Landau, Jonathan Wyn Schofer, Ambrose Arralde, Michael Leff, Brian Madaj, Dylan Smith |
| [R S 315K](https://utaustin.guide/courses/r-s/315k) | Jason Edward Roberts |
| [R S 315N](https://utaustin.guide/courses/r-s/315n) | Brent Landau |

**Show all 31 coursesDepartment of Religious Studies: who teaches each course, continued**

| Course | Taught by |
| --- | --- |
| [R S 316C](https://utaustin.guide/courses/r-s/316c) | Marina Smith |
| [R S 318](https://utaustin.guide/courses/r-s/318) | Katherine Taronas, Katie Brown |
| [R S 320](https://utaustin.guide/courses/r-s/320) | Jason Edward Roberts |
| [R S 342F](https://utaustin.guide/courses/r-s/342f) | Oliver Freiberger |
| [R S 345](https://utaustin.guide/courses/r-s/345) | Denise A Spellberg |
| [R S 346E](https://utaustin.guide/courses/r-s/346e) | Chad Eugene Seales |
| [R S 346M](https://utaustin.guide/courses/r-s/346m) | Jason Edward Roberts |
| [R S 346O](https://utaustin.guide/courses/r-s/346o) | Khytie Brown |
| [R S 352D](https://utaustin.guide/courses/r-s/352d) | Alexander Sogo |
| [R S 353P](https://utaustin.guide/courses/r-s/353p) | Geoffrey Smith |
| [R S 353R](https://utaustin.guide/courses/r-s/353r) | Michael Leff |
| [R S 357I](https://utaustin.guide/courses/r-s/357i) | Katherine Taronas |
| [R S 361](https://utaustin.guide/courses/r-s/361) | Katherine Taronas |
| [R S 373D](https://utaustin.guide/courses/r-s/373d) | Brent Landau |
| [R S 373L](https://utaustin.guide/courses/r-s/373l) | Jonathan Crosson |
| [R S 373M](https://utaustin.guide/courses/r-s/373m) | Martin Miller |
| [R S 375S](https://utaustin.guide/courses/r-s/375s) | Khytie Brown, Geoffrey Smith |
| [R S 383E](https://utaustin.guide/courses/r-s/383e) | Khytie Brown |
| [R S 391L](https://utaustin.guide/courses/r-s/391l) | Jonathan Crosson |

**Bachelor’s degrees 1 program**

- [Religious studies](https://utaustin.guide/majors/religious-studies) BA [Catalog](https://catalog.utexas.edu/undergraduate/liberal-arts/)

**Master’s degrees 1 program**

- [Religious studies](https://utaustin.guide/majors/religious-studies) MA [Catalog](https://catalog.utexas.edu/graduate/areas-of-study/liberal-arts)

**Doctoral degrees 1 program**

- [Religious studies](https://utaustin.guide/majors/religious-studies) PhD [Catalog](https://catalog.utexas.edu/graduate/areas-of-study/liberal-arts)

**About the department**

Department of Religious Studies is part of College of Liberal Arts, led by Dean David Sosa. Its course codes are R S.

**Sources UT catalog, HB 2504**

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- [UT Austin undergraduate catalog 2026-2028](https://catalog.utexas.edu/undergraduate/colleges-schools/)
- [UT Austin HB 2504 public course information](https://utdirect.utexas.edu/apps/student/coursedocs/nlogon/)

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