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Administrative Faculty<\/h2>\r\n

Joseph Rife<\/b><\/a>
Department Chair
<\/em> Anand Taneja<\/b><\/a>
Vice Department Chair<\/em> Issam Eido<\/strong><\/a>
Director of Undergraduate Studies – Religious studies, Arabic studies, and Islamic studies
<\/em>(615) 875-8376<\/p>\r\n

Administrative Staff<\/h2>\r\n

Melissa Combs<\/a><\/p>\r\n

Administrative Officer<\/p>\r\n

615.322.2848<\/p>\r\n

Ian Seasholtz<\/a><\/p>\r\n

Administrative Manager<\/p>\r\n

615.322.2516<\/p>\r\n

Marina Hyham<\/a><\/p>\r\n

Program Coordinator<\/p>\r\n

615.343.6120<\/p>\r\n

Riley Ellingson<\/a><\/p>\r\n

Program Specialist<\/p>\r\n

615.322.2307<\/p>\r\n

Gabriel Ugarte<\/a><\/p>\r\n

Administrative Specialist 615.343.9736<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Administrative Faculty Joseph RifeDepartment Chair Anand TanejaVice Department Chair Issam EidoDirector of Undergraduate Studies – Religious studies, Arabic studies, and Islamic studies(615) 875-8376 Administrative Staff Melissa Combs Administrative Officer 615.322.2848 Ian Seasholtz Administrative Manager 615.322.2516 Marina Hyham Program Coordinator 615.343.6120 Riley Ellingson Program Specialist 615.322.2307 Gabriel Ugarte Administrative Specialist 615.343.9736<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page_onecolumn.php","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/religious-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/280"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/religious-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/religious-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/religious-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/religious-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/religious-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":570,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/religious-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/280\/revisions\/570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/religious-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/religious-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}