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 Students in residence, 2007-2008

Shawna Anderson, Duke Sociology
Research: religion and family; conflict in religious organizations

Annie Blakeney-Glazer, UNC Religious Studies
Research: American evangelicals and sports; pop culture

Anne Blankenship, UNC Religious Studies
Research: religion in the American West; apocalypticism; evangelicalism; religion and politics

Catherine Bowler, Duke Religion
Research: prosperity theology

Elesha Coffman, Duke Religion
Research: Protestant mainline; religious journalism

Brandilyn Denison, UNC Religious Studies
Research: religion and politics; religion and the American West

John-Charles Duffy, UNC Religious Studies
Research: Mormonism; politics of religious pluralism; religion in academia

Steven Frenk, Duke Sociology
Research: religion and medicine

Vincent Gonzalez, UNC Religious Studies
Research: new religious movments; Christian Hebraism; 19th- and 20th-century occultism

Shanny Luft, UNC Religious Studies
Research: evangelical popular culture

Mandy McMichael, Duke Religion
Research: religion and beauty pageants in the South

Jill Peterfeso, UNC Religious Studies
Research: religion in literature and the dramatic arts; religious experience of adolescents; religion and social justice; religion and suffering

Brendan Pietsch, Duke Religion
Research: Fundamentalism; religion and science

Angela Tarango, Duke Religion
Research: Native American Pentecostalism

Isaac Weiner, UNC Religious Studies
Research: religious pluralism; religion and public policy; religion and law


 Sample dissertations

"Almost Certainly Called: Images of Protestant Missionaries in American Culture, 1945-2000"
Sarah Johnson, Duke, 2007

"Defending Manhood: Gender, Social Order, and the Rise of the Christian Right in the South, 1965-1995"
Seth Dowland, Duke, 2007

"Varieties of Evangelical Womanhood: Southern Baptists, Gender, and American Culture"
Elizabeth Flowers, Duke, 2007

"Christianity Imprisoned: Religion and the Making of the Penitentiary, 1797-1860"
Jennifer Graber, Duke, 2006

"Strangers in a Strange Land: The Rise and Demise of the Early Latter-day Saint Japan Mission, 1901-24"
Reid Neilson, UNC, 2006

"Migrating Faiths: A Social and Cultural History of Pentecostalism in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands"
Daniel Ramirez, Duke, 2005

"Purifying the Poisoned Chalice: Grape Juice and Common Sense Realism in the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1860-1900"
Jennifer Woodruff Tait, Duke, 2005

"Seaborne Conversions, 1700-1800"
Stephen Berry, Duke, 2005