Interim Director
Cooper Harriss is Interim Director fo the Center for Religion and the Human. He is Associate Professor of Religious Studies and co-editor-in-chief of the journal American Religion.
Associate Director
Luca Fitzgerald is Associate Director of the Center for Religion and the Human.
Executive Committee
Constance Furey is Professor of Religious Studies and Co-Principal Investigator of the “Being Human” project grant from the Henry Luce Foundation.
Executive Committee
Sarah Imhoff is Associate Professor in the Department of Religious Studies and the Borns Jewish Studies Program. She is co-editor-in-chief of the journal American Religion.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Hannah C. Garvey is the Center for Religion and the Human's postdoctoral fellow and organizes the Teaching Religion in Public projects.
Charles H. Long Memorial Lectures
J. Kameron Carter is Professor of African American Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of California Irvine. He created and continues to oversee the Charles H. Long Memorial Lectures.
Iris Book Award at UCSB
Lisa Sideris is Professor of Environmental Studies at UCSB and Co-Principal Investigator of the “Being Human” project grant from the Henry Luce Foundation. She created and continues to oversee the Iris Book Award.
Professor Emerita
Winnifred Fallers Sullivan is Professor Emerita of Religious Studies. She was Co-Principal Investigator of the grants "Being Human," "Unstately Black Religion: A Three-Year Study," and "In support of the Center for Religion and the Human," from the Henry Luce Foundation.