Alumni
2025
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Carolina Mendoza
Assistant Professor within the TCLAS School of Historical Philosophical and Religious Studies at Arizona State University.
Dissertation: The Language of Light: The Epic of Muhammad in Early Modern Hispanophone Islam
2023
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Samuel Goldstein
Post-doctoral appointment at the Literature and Philosophy Institute of Academia Sinica in Taipei, Taiwan, for 2023-24.
Dissertation: The Authenticity, Rhymes, and Mantic Philosophy of the Unearthed Yin Gaozong wen yu San Shou 'The High Progenitor of Yin Questions the Three Venerables
2021
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Tanvir Ahmed
Assistant Professor within the TCLAS School of Historical Philosophical and Religious Studies at Arizona State University
Dissertation: Radical Shadows of God: Islam and Sociopolitical Dissent, 1240-1600
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Chris DiBona
Deans' Faculty Fellow at Brown University
Dissertation: "The Fate of Reason in Modernity" Hegel on Religion, Love, and Alterity
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Nechama Juni
Assistant Professor of Religion at Carleton College (MN)
Dissertation: Halakhic Woman: Gender, Practice, and Obligation in American Orthodox Judaism
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Shane Thompson
Assistant Professor of Religion at North Carolina Wesleyan College
Dissertation: Power in Public: Displays of Cultural Hegemony and Counter-Hegemony in the Late Bronze and Iron Age Levant
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Cyril Uy
Assistant Professor of Religion at James Madison University
Dissertation: Lost in a Sea of Letters: Saʿd al-Dīn Ḥamūya (d. 1252) and the Plurality of Sufi Knowledge
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Tanner Walker
Visiting Assistant Professor at Wesleyan College (CT)
Dissertation: Constructing the Human: Defining Humanness in Ancient West Asia
2020
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Michael Payne
Postdoctoral fellow at Ludwig-Maximilians University - Munich
Dissertation: Kalām as a Way of Life: al-Jāḥiẓ, Natural Philosophy, and the Ontology of Human Difference
2019
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Reyhan Durmaz
Associate Professor of Religion at the University of Pennsylvania
Dissertation: Stories, Saints, and Sanctity between Christianity and Islam in the Middle Ages
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Adrien Stoloff
Assistant Teaching Professor at Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Dissertation: Mind Like a Mirror: Toward a Modern Understanding of Classical Daoist Wuwei
2018
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Larson DiFiori
Visiting Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Brown University
Dissertation: Early Intertextual Uses of Parallels with the Laozi and Their Role as Sources of Authority
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Daniel Picus
Assistant Professor of Global Humanities and Religions at Western Washington University
Dissertation: Ink Sea, Parchment Sky: Rabbinic Reading Practices in Late Antiquity
2017
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Nicholas Friesner
Head of Collections Services at the Phillips Memorial Library
Dissertation: "From a Calmer Height of Love and Wisdom": Emerson, Religious Sentiment, and Environmental Intimacy
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David Le
Free-lance editor, writer, and public archivist, New York
Dissertation: The Sacred Commons: Reconstructing Hegel, Religion, and National Memory
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Megan McBride
Fellow in the Division of Policy Translation and Leadership Development (working P/CVE and terrorism issues) at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health; Research Scientist for Strategy, Policy, Plans and Programs at CNA in Arlington, VA
Dissertation: Religion and Violence: ISIS and the Study of Terrorism
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Kerry Sonia
Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Colby College
Dissertation: The Enduring Dead: the Cult of Dead Kin in Ancient Israel
2016
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Anna F. Bialek
Assistant Professor of Religion and Politics, John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics at Washington University in St. Louis
Dissertation: Vulnerability and Its Power: Recognition, Response, and the Problem of Valorization
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Elizabeth Cecil
Associate Professor of Religion at Florida State University (FSU)
Dissertation: ‘Mapping the Pāśupata Landscape: The Skandapurāṇa, Lakulīśa, and the Śaiva Imaginary in Early Medieval North India (6th-10th century CE)
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Jonathan Sozek
Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Religion at Albert Magnus College, New Haven, CT
Dissertation: The Politics of Personalism
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Stephen Young
Lecturer at Appalachian State University
Dissertation: Paul the Mythmaker
2015
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Rebecca Falcasantos
Assistant Professor of Early Christianity at Amherst College
Dissertation: "A Land Cleansed of Heretics”: Cult Practice and Contestation in the Christianization of Late Antique Constantinople
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Andrew Tobolowsky
Associate Professor of Religion at the College of William and Mary
Dissertation: The Sons of Jacob and the Sons of Herakles: Myth, Genealogy, and the Construction of Identity
2014
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Niki Kasumi Clements
Watt J. and Lilly G. Jackson Associate Professor of Religion with a courtesy appointment in the Department of Philosophy at Rice University (TX)
Dissertation: "Inflamed by Daily Practices": John Cassian and Ethical Formation
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Laura Dingeldein
Clinical Associate Professor of Catholic Studies at the University of Illinois - Chicago
Dissertation: Gaining Virtue, Gaining Christ: Moral Development in the Letters of Paul
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Brian Rainey
Assistant Professor of Hebrew Bible at Interdenominational Theological Center in Atlanta
Dissertation: Non-Peoples and Foolish Nations: Religion, Xenophobia and Ethnic Foreigners in the Hebrew Bible and Mesopotamia
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Jennifer Elizabeth Singletary
Assistant Research Professor of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies at the Pennsylvania State University
Dissertation: Non-Anthropomorphic Gods? Manufactured Entities and Divine Qualities and Attributes Characterized As Gods in the Textual Evidence from Ancient Mesopotamia, Syria, North Arabia, Palestine, and Elephantine
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Robyn Faith Walsh
Assistant Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at the University of Miami
Dissertation: The Beginnings of Gospel Literature
2013
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Matthew Duperon
Associate Professor of Religion, Susquehanna University (PA)
Dissertation: "The Way Comes about as We Walk It": The Huainanzi and Classical Daoist Ethics
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Paul Firenze
Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston
Dissertation: Value and the Economics of Religious Capital
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Omar Haque
House Staff Officer in Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Brown University; Research Fellow in Psychiatry and Law at Harvard University; Postdoctoral Fellow in Psychology, Harvard University
Dissertation: Reform of the Clinic: Social and Psychological Causes and Cures for Dehumanization in Hospitals
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Alissa A. MacMillan
Research Fellow at the University of Antwerp
Dissertation: 'There Goes HOBBS, the Atheist!' On Hobbes on Religion
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Paul Robertson
Senior Lecturer in the Department of Classics and Humanities at the University of New Hampshire
Dissertation: Paul's Letters and Contemporary Greco-Roman Literature: Theorizing a New Taxonomy
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Miguel Segovia
Chair of the English Department at The Masters School, Dobbs Ferry, NY
Dissertation: Reading Through Race, Gender, and Class Lines: Towards A Recuperative Ethics of Reading
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Heidi Wendt
Assistant Professor of Religions, Greco-Roman World, Department of History and Classical Studies, and School of Religious Studies at McGill University
Dissertation: At the Temple Gates: The Religion of Freelance Experts in Early Imperial Rome
2012
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Debra Scoggins Ballentine
Associate Professor of Religion in the Department of Religion at Rutgers University (NJ)
Dissertation: "You Divided Sea by Your Might": The "Conflict Myth" and the Biblical Tradition
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Jennifer Eyl
Associate Professor in the Department of Religion at Tufts University; Recipient of the National Endowment for the Humanities Grant for participation in a seminar in Greece.
Dissertation: "By the Power of Signs and Wonders": Paul, Divinatory Practices, and Symbolic Capital
2010
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Erin Roberts
Associate Professor and Chair of Philosophy and Religion at the University of South Carolina
Dissertation: Anger, Emotion, and Desire in the Gospel of Matthew
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James Swan Tuite
Visiting Assistant Professor of Religion University of Indiana - Bloomington
Dissertation: Nietzsche's Critique of Christian Neighbor-love
2009
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Jeanne-Nicole Saint-Laurent
Associate Professor in the Theology Department at Marquette University (WI)
Dissertation: Apostolic Memories: Religious Differentiation and the Construction of Orthodoxy in Syriac Missionary Literature
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Daniel Ullucci
Associate Professor at Stonehill College
Dissertation: The End of Animal Sacrifice
2008
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Jordan Rosenblaum
Belzer Professor of Classical Judaism, Department of Religious Studies, and the Mosse/Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies; Max and Freida Weinstein-Bascom Professor of Jewish Studies; and Chair, Art History Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Dissertation: “They sit apart at meals”: Early Rabbinic Commensality Regulations and Identity Construction
2007
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Nathaniel DesRosiers
Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Stonehill College.
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Curtis Hutt
Associate Professor of Religious Studies, the Executive Director of the Goldstein Center for Human Rights, and the Director of Programming, Schwalb Center for Israel and Jewish Studies at the University of Nebraska at Omaha.
Dissertation: The Ethics of the Representation of the Religious Past
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Terrence L. Johnson
Mary Lee Hardin Willard Dean of the Candler School of Theology at Emory University.
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Judson Murray
Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Wright State University (Ohio)
Dissertation: The Consummate Dao: The Way (Dao) and Human Affairs (Shi) in the Huainanzi
2006
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Jianshe Kong
Lecturer at Marist College.
Dissertation: On the Penal Substitution Model of the Atonement
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Nathaniel Levtow
Associate Professor of Global Humanities and Religions at the University of Montana -Missoula.
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Karen Stern (Gabbay)
Professor of History at Brooklyn College - CUNY
2005
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Randy Friedman
Associate Professor of Philosophy and Jewish Studies, and Director of the Center for Israel Studies at SUNY Binghamton
Dissertation: The Reconstruction of Religion in Classical American Philosophy
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Arthur Urbano
Professor of Theology at Providence College
2003
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Matthew Day
Professor of Religion at Florida State University at Tallahassee
Dissertation: The Gods in Design Space: A Darwinian Essay on Mind and Religion
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Jung Lee
Associate Professor of Religion at Northeastern University (MA)
Dissertation: Ethics From A Daocentric Perspective: Normativity, Virtue, and Self-Cultivation in Early Daoist Thought
2002
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Caroline Johnson Hodge
Professor in the Religious Studies Department at Holy Cross
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Nelson Maldonado-Torres
Professor of Comparative Literature at Rutgers University (NJ)
Dissertation: Thinking from the Limits of Being: Levinas, Fanon, Dussel and the Cry of Ethical Revolt
2001
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Tracy Coleman
David Packard Professor at Colorado College
Dissertation: Making Love and Meaning: Constructing Krishna's Lila with the Gopīs and Wives in the Harivaṃśa, Viṣṇu Purāṇa, Bhāgavata Purāṇa and Śrīdhara's Commentary
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William Gilders
Associate Professor of Religion at Emory University, GA
Dissertation: Representation and Interpretation: Blood Manipulation in Ancient Israel and Early Judaism
2000
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Andrew Flescher
Professor of Family, Population, and Preventive Medicine and Professor of English, at State University of New York, Stony Brook. He is also core faculty in Public Health
Dissertation: Going Beyond the Call of Duty: A Re-examination of the Nature of Heroes, Saints and Supererogation
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Aaron Stalnaker
Professor and Chair of Religious Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington
1998
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Susan Holman
Senior Research Professor at Valparaiso University, with an affiliation in Christ College, the Honors College
1997
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James P. Gubbins
Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at Salem State College (MA)
1994
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Richard Wright
Professor of New Testament, at the Graduate School of Theology, Abilene Christian University, Abilene, TX
1992
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Keith Green
Professor in the Department of Philosophy, and Director of the Program in Religious Studies, Eastern Tennessee State University