PhD, Religion, Princeton University;
BA, Philosophy, Politics and Economics, Worcester College, Oxford

The study of religion and liberal education are indispensable to each other because religion is so often illiberal and liberals so often anti-religious.

• Theorizing Religion
  
• Cultures of the Religious Right
• Exploring Religious Ethics
• The Book of Job
  
• Religion and Democracy
• Religious Geography of New York
• Secularism at the Crossroads
• Religion and Theater
  

• “Antinomies of Race: Diversity and Destiny in Kant,” in Naming Race, Naming Racisms, ed. Jonathan Judaken, 2009 
• "Evil as Privation: Seeing Darkness, Hearing Silence,” in Deliver Us from Evil, ed. M. David Eckel and Bradley L. Herling, 2008  
• The German Invention of Race, edited with Sara Eigen (SUNY Press), 2006
• “Evil” and “Theodicy” in New Dictionary of the History of Ideas, 2005
• “Ethical challenges and dangers of mésologie: Watsuji Tetsurô between stasis and contingency,” in Modernity in Milieux and Technique, ed. Nobuo Kioka, 2005
• “Evil and wonder in early modern philosophy,” in Teaching New Histories of Philosophy, ed. J. B. Schneewind, 2004
• The Problem of Evil: A Reader (Blackwell), 2001

Tues. 2-4 & by appointment

The problems of evil and good; historicity of concepts of religion and ethics; race, religion and ethics in Kant; Watsuji Tetsuro

• American Academy of Religion
• Japan Ethics Association (Nihon Rinri Gakkai)

• 2005, Distinguished Teaching Award, New School University