Dr. Erica Ferg teaches courses on Islam, Christianity, Judaism, Mediterranean religious history, and religious studies theories and methods. Her doctorate is in the Study of Religion, and her area of specialization is Eastern Mediterranean comparative religious history. Her research focuses on Mediterranean comparative religion, religious texts, comparative linguistics, and archaeoastronomy. Prior to academia, Erica was a Persian linguist in the United States Air Force. Erica's first book, Geography, Religion, Gods, and Saints in the Eastern Mediterranean, was published in paperback in January 2022 by Routledge. Erica currently is at work on two book projects, titled Starry Nights: A Celestial History of Religion in the Mediterranean, and a co-authored philosophy and religious studies book, titled Benighted Enlightenment: Belief, Religious Toleration, and the Legacy of the Christian Enlightenment.
