Islam and Muslim communities in Britain; religious leadership, chaplaincy in public institutions, ethnographic research methodology.
Elected 2024
The anthropology and sociology of ritual, symbolism, belief, and emotions. Mormonism; mortality, and funerary practices of burial and cremation. The theology of death. The relationship between anthropology and theology
Medieval intellectual history; medieval philosophy & theology; history of medieval universities, notably Oxford & Paris; paleography & codicology
Modern theology; doctrine in the context of ideas of wisdom and suffering; the relation of theology to the philosophy and creative arts of late-modern culture, particularly in interface with literature
