This is the personal scholarship page for Timothy Gutmann. My PhD in religion is from the University of Chicago. I focus on Islamic and East Asian thought.
My research and teaching also focus on diverse traditions of educational theory and practice, the politics of belonging and the minority question, and liberalism in contemporary society.
Having taught at the UChicago and elsewhere, I am Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Religion at the University of Southern Mississippi. I split my time between Hattiesburg and Chicago.
Here’s my review in Marginalia at the LA Review of Books of Kristian Petersen’s insightful, provocative, and engaging book Interpreting Islam in China: Scripture, Pilgrimage, and Translation in the Han Kitab. Petersen asks new questions about the history Islamic thought through and among Chinese traditions, and he also takes that history forward to consider new periods and new questions. Check it out!