
Francis Christopher Oakley Third Century Professor of Religion, Chair of Science & Technology Studies
413-597-2339
Hollander Hall Rm 302
Education
B.A. Hampshire College (1999)
M.A. Harvard University, Theology (2001)
Ph.D. Stanford University, Religion (2006)
M.A. Harvard University, Theology (2001)
Ph.D. Stanford University, Religion (2006)
Courses
REL 102 LEC
The Meaning of Life (not offered 2025/26)REL 219 / STS 219 SEM
Realizing Utopias (not offered 2025/26)REL 251 / ASIA 251 LEC
Zen Buddhism: History and Historiography (not offered 2025/26)REL 271 / ASIA 271 / COMP 279 / WGSS 279 SEM
Erotic, Grotesque, Sublime: Ghosts and Monsters in East Asian Religion and Popular Culture (not offered 2025/26)REL 278 / ASIA 278 SEM
Tantra (not offered 2025/26)REL 290 TUT
Explorations of the Afterlife (not offered 2025/26)REL 297 / COMP 289 / ANTH 297 TUT
Theorizing Magic (not offered 2025/26)REL 300 SEM
Dialectics and the Archaeology of Knowledge (not offered 2025/26)REL 301 / SOC 301 / STS 301 / WGSS 302 / COMP 315 SEM
Social Construction (not offered 2025/26)REL 316 / STS 316 SEM
Social Ontology (not offered 2025/26)REL 317 SEM
Disenchantment, Modernity, and the Death of God (not offered 2025/26)REL 327 SEM
Theory after Postmodernism: New Materialisms and Realism (not offered 2025/26)REL 337 / ASIA 337 SEM
Zen and Philosophy: The Kyoto School and its Legacy in Japanese Thought (not offered 2025/26)REL 347 / STS 411 SEM
Monstrosity (not offered 2025/26)REL 350 / COMP 349 / SOC 350 SEM
Max Weber & Critical Theory or Rationalization & Its Discontents (not offered 2025/26)REL 354 / COMP 351 SEM
Friedrich Nietzsche: Philosophizing with a Hammer (not offered 2025/26)REL 355 / STS 355 / COMP 359 SEM
Foucault: Confessions of the Flesh (not offered 2025/26)Current Committees
- Calendar and Schedule Committee