Religion, war and society in the English-speaking world, c.1700 to the present day, with a particular focus on the experience of military service.
Elected 2024
Political theory: theories of law and the state, pluralism, toleration, republicanism, global justice, secularism and religion
The textual criticism of the New Testament; the study of Greek & Latin manuscripts of the New Testament; editing the New Testament; digital tools for textual scholarship
Indo-Iranian and Indo-European comparative linguistics, poetics, mythology, religion, and customary law; concentrating especially on Vedic Sanskrit philology and the development of early Sanskrit and Middle-Indo-Aryan