Department of Religious Studies

Alumni

Learn about our graduates.

2025

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Chris DiBona

    Deans' Faculty Fellow at Brown University

    Dissertation: "The Fate of Reason in Modernity" Hegel on Religion, Love, and Alterity

  • Nechama Juni

    Assistant Professor of Religion at Carleton College (MN)

    Dissertation: Halakhic Woman: Gender, Practice, and Obligation in American Orthodox Judaism

  • 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

  • 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

  • Tanner Walker

    Visiting Assistant Professor at Wesleyan College (CT)

    Dissertation: Constructing the Human: Defining Humanness in Ancient West Asia

2020

  • 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

  • Reyhan Durmaz

    Associate Professor of Religion at the University of Pennsylvania

    Dissertation: Stories, Saints, and Sanctity between Christianity and Islam in the Middle Ages

  • Adrien Stoloff

    Assistant Teaching Professor at Worcester Polytechnic Institute

    Dissertation: Mind Like a Mirror: Toward a Modern Understanding of Classical Daoist Wuwei

2018

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • David Le

    Free-lance editor, writer, and public archivist, New York

    Dissertation: The Sacred Commons: Reconstructing Hegel, Religion, and National Memory

  • 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

  • Kerry Sonia

    Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Colby College

    Dissertation: The Enduring Dead: the Cult of Dead Kin in Ancient Israel

2016

  • 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

  • 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)

  • Jonathan Sozek

    Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Religion at Albert Magnus College, New Haven, CT

    Dissertation: The Politics of Personalism

  • Stephen Young

    Lecturer at Appalachian State University

    Dissertation: Paul the Mythmaker

2015

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Robyn Faith Walsh

    Assistant Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at the University of Miami

    Dissertation: The Beginnings of Gospel Literature

2013

  • Matthew Duperon

    Associate Professor of Religion, Susquehanna University (PA)

    Dissertation: "The Way Comes about as We Walk It": The Huainanzi and Classical Daoist Ethics

  • Paul Firenze

    Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston

    Dissertation: Value and the Economics of Religious Capital

  • 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

  • Alissa A. MacMillan

    Research Fellow at the University of Antwerp

    Dissertation: 'There Goes HOBBS, the Atheist!' On Hobbes on Religion

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • James Swan Tuite

    Visiting Assistant Professor of Religion University of Indiana - Bloomington

    Dissertation: Nietzsche's Critique of Christian Neighbor-love

2009

  • 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

  • Daniel Ullucci

    Associate Professor at Stonehill College

    Dissertation: The End of Animal Sacrifice

2008

  • 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

  • Nathaniel DesRosiers

    Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Stonehill College. 

  • 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

  • Terrence L. Johnson

    Mary Lee Hardin Willard Dean of the Candler School of Theology at Emory University.

  • 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

  • Jianshe Kong

    Lecturer at Marist College.

    Dissertation: On the Penal Substitution Model of the Atonement

  • Nathaniel Levtow

    Associate Professor of Global Humanities and Religions at the University of Montana -Missoula.  

  • Karen Stern (Gabbay)

    Professor of History at Brooklyn College - CUNY

2005

  • 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

  • Arthur Urbano

    Professor of Theology at Providence College

2003

  • Matthew Day

    Professor of Religion at Florida State University at Tallahassee

    Dissertation: The Gods in Design Space: A Darwinian Essay on Mind and Religion

  • 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

  • Caroline Johnson Hodge

    Professor in the Religious Studies Department at Holy Cross

  • 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

  • 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

  • William Gilders

    Associate Professor of Religion at Emory University, GA

    Dissertation: Representation and Interpretation: Blood Manipulation in Ancient Israel and Early Judaism

2000

  • 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

  • Aaron Stalnaker

    Professor and Chair of Religious Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington

1998

  • Susan Holman

    Senior Research Professor at Valparaiso University, with an affiliation in Christ College, the Honors College

1997

  • James P. Gubbins

    Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at Salem State College (MA)

1994

  • Richard Wright

    Professor of New Testament, at the Graduate School of Theology, Abilene Christian University, Abilene, TX

1992

  • Keith Green

    Professor in the Department of Philosophy, and Director of the Program in Religious Studies, Eastern Tennessee State University