Current Graduate Students
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Andrew Aghapour
B.A., College of Charleston
M.Phil., Cambridge University
Field of Specialization: Religion and Culture
Research Interests: Religion and science in the modern and postmodern west; religion in literature; critical theory
Jared Anderson
H.B.A., University of Utah
Field of specialization:Ancient Mediterranean Religions
Research interests: Formation, transmission, and translation of biblical texts, especially relating to the New Testament, manuscripts, and versions; formation and transmission of Gospel texts and traditions
Rose Aslan
B.A., University of British Columbia
M.A., American University in Cairo
Field of specialization: Islamic Studies
Research interests: Pilgrimage, sainthood and sacred space; Islamic ritual and performance; Qur'anic hermeneutics; poetic tradition in Sufism and Shi'ism
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Zahra Ayubi
B.A., Brandeis University
M.A., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Field of Specialization: Islamic Studies
Research Interests: Islam and gender; modern and classical Islamic ethics; American Muslim history; feminist theory
Candace Buckner
B.A., Wesleyan University
Post-Bac, Georgetown University
M.A., University of Minnesota
Field of Specialization: Ancient Mediterranean Studies
Research Interests: Early Christianity, in particular saint's lives, martyrology, church fathers (Paulinus of Nola, Augustine, Gregory of Nyssa, and others); Early Christian art and architecture and it's representation in literature; the eye and memory in Early Christian thought.
B.A., Brigham Young University
M.A.R., Yale Divinity School
M.A., Columbia University
Field of Specialization: Ancient Mediterranean Religions
gResearch Interests: New Testament; early Christianity (second century); Hellenistic Judaism; religious identity formation; orthodoxy and heresy; method and theory in the study of religion and history
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Brian A. Coussens
B.A., Georgia Southern University
M.A., Wheaton College
Field of Specialization: Ancient Mediterranean Religions
Research Interests: Archaeology of the early New Testament / Late Second Temple world; theories on the creation, sustainability, and transformation of concepts of place; material remains and their contribution to perceptions of place; confluence of Greco-Roman and Jewish ideas and their material reflections
Matthew Dougherty
B.A., Amherst College
M.T.S., Harvard Divinity School
Field of Specialization: Religion in the Americas
Research Interests: Masculinity in the history of American Christianity; missions in the Americas
Stephanie Gaskill
B.A., Bowling Green State University
M.A., Bowling Green State University
Field of Specialization: Religion in the Americas
Research Interests: CAfrican American religious history, religion, and prisons
Joseph Gindi
B.A., Wesleyan University
M.A., Brandeis University
Field of Specialization: Religion and Culture
Research Interests: Jewish cultural studies; religion, ethnicity, and identity; religion and social justice
Vincent Gonzalez
B.A., Arizona State UniversityM.A., Emory University
Field of Specialization: Religion in the Americas
Research Interests: Cultural anthropology; new religious movments; identity formation and management; Christian Hebraism; ninteenth- and twentieth-century occultism
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Megan Goodwin
B.S., Boston University
M.A., Drew University
M.A., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Field of Specialization: Religion and Culture
Research Interests: North American religions; religion and gender/sexuality; religious intolerance; minority religions; religion and language/literature; contemporary critical thought
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Shannon Harvey
B.A., University of Texas at Austin
M.A., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Field of Specialization: Religion in the Americas
Research Interests: religious history of the American South and Appalachi; religion and social activism; memory studies; environmental history
Cynthia Hogan
B.A., Wells College
M.A., North Carolina State University
M.A., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Field of Specialization: Religion and Culture
Research Interests: theory and methods of religion; material religion; visual culture of religion
Matthew Hotham
B.A., Colgate University
M.F.A., Syracuse University
M.T.S., Harvard Divinity School
Field of Specialization: Islamic Studies
Research Interests:Mystical poetry and literary theory; Apophatic mysticism; Sufism and the body; Ascension narratives and devotion to Muhammad
Trevor Hyde
B.A., Trinity College
M.A.R, Yale Divinity School
Field of Specialization: Ancient Mediterranean Religions
Research Interests: Christian and Jewish apocalyptic literature; mystical understandings of the divine and society; rise of eastern monasticism; early Christian heresy; gnosticism; history in the New Testament
Samuel J. Kessler
B.A., New York University
Field of Specialization: Religion and Culture
Research Interests: Religion and science in the early modern West; Darwinism and natural theology; secularization and the theological response; religion and architecture.
Michael Muhammad Knight
B.A., Skidmore College
M.T.S., Harvard Divinity School
Field of Specialization: Islamic Studies
Research Interests: Islam as an American religion; new religious movements; race, ethnicity, immigration, and identity formation; orthodoxy and heresy; theories of religion
Gregory A. Lipton
B.A., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
M.A., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Field of Specialization: Islamic Studies
Research Interests: Sufism and Islamic intellectual traditions; the Euro-American reception of Islam; Islam in South Asia; comparative mysticisms and esoteric discourse; religion-making, secularism, coloniality, and race
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Leonard J. Lowe
B.A. Kentucky Christian University
M.T.S. Duke University
Field of Specialization: Religion and Culture
Research Interests: Haitian religious economy; critical ethnography; religion and poverty; surrealism and Négritude
Matthew B. Lynch
B.A., Marlboro College
M.A., University of Chicago
Field of Specialization: Islamic Studies
Research Interests: Early modern Persian literature and thought; Sufism; mysticism; Persian poetry; hermeneutics; aesthetics
David McDuffie
B.A., University of Georgia
M.A., Religion, University of Georgia
M.A., Philosophy, University of Georgia
Field of Specialization: Religion and Culture
Research Interests: Western philosophy of religion; religion and ecology; environmental ethics; the relationship between contemporary Christian thought and ecological conservation in America
Katherine Merriman
B.A., Vassar College
M.T.S, Islamic Studies, Harvard University
Field of Specialization: Islamic Studies
Research Interests: contemporary expressions of Islam in America; urban ethnography; race and religion; social networks and the formation of community
Candace Mixon
B.A., Vanderbilt University
M.A., McGill University
Field of Specialization: Islamic Studies
Research Interests: Islamic Reform; the religious and the secular, Iranian and Central Asian Islamic traditions; Sufism and reform
Shenandoah Nieuwsman
B.A., Taylor University
M.A., University of Wyoming
Field of Specialization: Religion and Culture
Research Interests: The relationship between visual impairment and religious experience; the hegemony of function in scholarly discourses of embodiment
Helen M. Orr
B.A., Trinity University
M.T.S., Harvard University
Field of Specialization: Religion and Culture
Research Interests: Religion and trauma studies; post-Holocaust theology; phenomenological anthropology; Balkan studies
Shaily Shashikant Patel
B.A., Wake Forest University
M.A., The University of Chicago Divinity School
M.T.S., Vanderbilt Divinity School
Field of Specialization: Ancient Mediterranean Religions
Research Interests: The construction of spiritual and political identity and authority in formative Christianity
Travis Proctor
B.A., Washington University in St. Louis
Field of Specialization: Ancient Mediterranean Religions
Research Interests: Early Christian apologetics and heresiology (1st-2nd centuries CE); demonologies of the Ancient Mediterranean; the body in early Christian literature; formation and function of authoritative scriptural collections; critical theory and historiography.
Kenny Richards
B.A., College of Charleston
M.A., Religious Studies, University of Colorado, Boulder
Field of Specialization: Religion and Culture
Research Interests: religious freedom in the United States; American Indian religious traditions
Shannon Trosper Schorey
B.A., Northern Arizona University
M.A., University of Colorado Boulder
Field of Specialization: Religion and Culture
Research Interests: Negotiations of religious identity between legal and media spheres; fraud and authenticity; religious pluralism; secularism; religion in the Americas; information politics and esotericism
Jason Staples
B.A., Florida State University
M.A., Florida State University
Field of Specialization: Ancient Mediterranean Religions
Research Interests: New Testament, Second Temple Judaism, Paul and Israel, Paul and the Torah, Jewish-Christian Relations, Hebrew Bible, Apocalypticism, Exile and Restoration, Race and Ethnicity, Imperial Platonism, Wisdom & Apocalyptic Literature, Hebrew Bible Prophets, Gospels, Historical Jesus, Dead Sea Scrolls
Jenna Supp-Montgomerie
B.A., Swarthmore College
M.Div., Union Theological Seminary
Field of Specialization: Religion and Culture
Research Interests: Religion and media, religion in America, 19th century America, communication technology, contemporary critical thought, public culture, and cultural studies
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Stanley Thayne
B.A., Brigham Young University
M.A., Brigham Young University
Field of Specialization: Religion in the Americas
Research Interests: New religious movements; religion in the American West
Tehseen Thaver
B.Com, McGill University
M.A. University of Virginia
Field of Specialization: Islamic Studies
Research Interests: Shi'i theology; Qur'anic hermeneutics; interpretation theory
Leif C. Tornquist
B.A., The College of New Jersey
M.A., University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Field of Specialization: Religion in the Americas
Research Interests: Critical theory; religion and culture; religion and biopolitics; religion and eugenics in the United States; the historiography of American religions