Professor
Robert
Segal
BA (Wesleyan University), MA, PhD (Princeton University)
Chair in Religious Studies
- Overview
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Professor Robert Segal Contact Details
- Telephone
- work +44 (0)1224 273990
- r.segal@abdn.ac.uk
- Address
- The University of Aberdeen School of Divinity, History and Philosophy, King's College, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen. AB24 3UB
Biography
- 2019-to date Honorary Professor, University of Essex
- 2019-to date Professorial Research Felllow, University of Vienna
- 2006-date Sixth Century Chair in Religious Studies, University of Aberdeen
- 1999-2006 Professor of Theories of Religion, Lancaster University
- 1996-99 Reader in Theory of Religion, Lancaster University
- 1994-96 Lecturer, Department of Religious Studies, Lancaster University
- 1993-94 Visiting Professor of Jewish Studies and Classics, Acting Director of the Jewish Studies Program, Tulane University, New Orleans
- 1988 Visiting Associate Professor of Religious Studies, University of Pittsburgh
- 1984-94 Program in Religious Studies, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies (1984-87); Associate Professor of Religious Studies (1987-89); Full Professor of Religious Studies (1989-94)
- 1982-84 Lecturer, Western Culture Program, Stanford University
- 1981 (fall) Visiting Associate Professor of Religious Studies, University of Toronto
- 1975-82 Assistant Professor of Religion and Humanities, Reed College, Portland, Oregon
- Research
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Research Funding and Grants
Fellowships and Grants:
- 1985 American Council of Learned Societies Travel Grant
- 1986 Fellow, Institute for the Advanced Study of Religion, Divinity School, University of Chicago
- 1986 American Philosophical Society Research Grant
- 1986-87 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship
- 1987 National Endowment for the Humanities Travel Grant
- 1987-88 Mellon Fellowship, University of Pittsburgh
- 1992 National Endowment for the Humanities Travel Grant
- 1994 American Philosophical Society Research Grant
- 1995 British Academy Small Personal Research Grant
- 1995 Fellow, Thomas Reid Institute, University of Aberdeen
- 1995 British Academy Overseas Conference Grant
- 1997-98 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship
- 1997 British Academy Small Personal Research Grant
- 1997-98 Fellow, National Humanities Center, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina
- 2000 British Academy Small Personal Research Grant
- 2001 Visiting Fellow, Clare Hall, Cambridge (October-December 2001)
- 2002 Life Member, Clare Hall
- 2009 Carnegie Trust Grant