Robert Segal to come to Aberdeen

The University is delighted to announce that Professor Robert Segal, currently at Lancaster University, will be joining the staff at Aberdeen in the autumn of 2006. Professor Segal has previously taught at Reed College, Stanford University, University of Pittsburgh and Tulane University. Professor Segal is well-known internationally for his research into Myth and for his expertise on Gnosticism. He is editor of the Blackwell Companion to the Study of Religion. He already has intellectual ties with Aberdeen through his research interest into the nineteenth century Aberdeen academic William Robertson Smith.

Segal's many publications include monographs and edited volumes such as Joseph Campbell: An Introduction (1987), Theorizing about Myth (1999), Jung on Mythology (1998), In Quest of the Hero (1990), and The Myth and Ritual Theory: An Anthology (1998), and Hero Myths: A Reader (2000). For further details click here.

Religious Studies is currently a growth area in the University of Aberdeen, with a wide range of expertise in contemporary religions, religious theory and the anthropology of religion.