Graduate Students

Prince Acquah

Research Interest

African Christianity, Decolonial Ethics, Politics of Grievability and Violence, Critical Theory, Religion, Gender and Sexuality

Jaewoo Kim

Research Interest

East Asian Religions, Early Modern Korea and Japan, Subjectivity, Space, Material Culture

Daniel Lazar

Research Interest

Eschatology, Political Theology, Religion and Ecology, Jewish Philosophy, Early Christianity, Indigenous Religions, Phenomenology, Critical Theory

Sherab Chomphel

Research Interest

Tibetan Buddhist scholars of the thirteenth century.

Cecelia Fischer

Research Interest

19th and 20th century Judaism, Interreligious encounters, Historiography, Intellectual history, Theology

Arkadeep Mitra

Research Interest

18th and 19th century politics and religions in British Bengal, Nationalism, South-Asian politics, German Romanticism, Continental Philosophy

Tianxin Chen

Elizabeth Ferauge

Research Interest

Material Culture, Mind, Bioethics, Media, Christianity, Judaism, Popular Religion, Death, Texts

Arju Khatun

Research Interest

South Asian Religions, Islam, Rituals, Conversion, Space

Jessica Spencer

Jonah Sampson Boyarin

Research Interest

Judaism, North American Religions, Post-Colonial Studies, Racial Capitalism, Climate Justice, Jewish Futurities, Yiddish, Secularism and Modernity, Ethnography

Jialin Cao

Research Interest

Buddhism

Millie Forman

Catherine Miki Otachime

Research Interest

Catherine Miki Otachime, Buddhism, Connecting Histories, Religion and the Senses, Religion and Literature, Religion and Science, Artistic, Religious, and Scientific Interactions, Mediterranean Societies and Religions, Religion and Art/Visual Culture/Material Culture, Religion and Music, Premodern Japanese History, History of Emotions

Nathan Blackwell

Research Interest

North American Religious, Critical Indigenous Studies, Indigenous Religions, Critical Theory, Race and Religion

Saila Sri Kambhatla

Research Interest

South Asian Religions, Philosophy and Critical Thought, Goddess Studies, Transmission, Anthropology

Cella Masso-Rivetti

Research Interest

North American Religions, Secularism, Catholicism, Gender and Sexuality, Science and Medicine

Stephanie A Bell

Research Interest

Buddhism, Religion and Art, Material Culture

Mehreen Zahra Jiwan

Research Interest

Islam

Gabriella Lee

Research Interest

North American Religions, New Religious Movements, Media, Anthropology of Religion, Semiotics, Linguistic Anthropology, Apostasy, Christianity, Evangelicalism, Ex-religious Identity

Shweta Radhakrishnan

Research Interest

South Asian Religions

Khadeeja M. Majoka

Research Interest

South Asian Religions

Nanea Renteria

Research Interest

North American Religions, Religion and Law, Indigenous Feminisms, Gender and Sexuality, Secularism, Ethnobotany

David E. Silverberg

Research Interest

South Asian Religions

Grace Anne Bickers

Research Interest

Islam

Tianran Hang