Graduate Students PhD Students 2024Leah Rose AlpernPhD StudentResearch Interest19th & 20th Century JudaismAesthetics and Metaphysics of Cultural TransmissionHistorical MaterialismReligion and PoliticsHistoriographyTianxin ChenPhD StudentElizabeth FeraugePhD StudentResearch InterestMaterial CultureMindBioethicsMediaChristianityJudaismPopular ReligionDeathTextsArju KhatunPhD StudentResearch InterestSouth Asian ReligionsIslamRitualsConversionSpaceJessica SpencerPhD Student2023Jialin CaoPhD StudentResearch InterestBuddhismMillie FormanPhD StudentCatherine Miki OtachimePhD StudentResearch InterestEast Asian ReligionsBuddhismConnecting HistoriesReligion and the SensesReligion and LiteratureReligion and ScienceArtistic, Religious, and Scientific InteractionsMediterranean Societies and ReligionsReligion and Art/Visual Culture/Material CultureReligion and MusicPremodern Japanese HistoryHistory of Emotions2022Nathan BlackwellPhD StudentResearch InterestNorth American ReligiousCritical Indigenous StudiesIndigenous ReligionsCritical TheoryRace and ReligionJordan DeSantoPhD StudentResearch InterestNorth American ReligionsChristianityPolitical TheologyCritical Medical AnthropologyBlack Religion in the AmericasBio-ethicsRace and ReligionSaila Sri KambhatlaPhD StudentResearch InterestSouth Asian ReligionsPhilosophy and Critical ThoughtGoddess StudiesTransmissionAnthropologyCella Masso-RivettiPhD StudentResearch InterestNorth American Religions2020Stephanie A BellPhD StudentResearch InterestBuddhismReligion and ArtMaterial CultureMehreen Zahra JiwanPhD StudentResearch InterestIslamGabriella LeePhD StudentResearch InterestNorth American ReligionsNew Religious MovementsMediaAnthropology of ReligionSemioticsLinguistic AnthropologyApostasyChristianityEvangelicalismEx-religious IdentityShweta RadhakrishnanPhD StudentResearch InterestSouth Asian Religions2019Mohit V. KayceePhD StudentResearch InterestSouth Asian ReligionsKhadeeja M. MajokaPhD StudentResearch InterestSouth Asian ReligionsConnor MartiniPhD StudentResearch InterestNorth American ReligionsMediaAnthropologyScience and Technology StudiesReligion and ScienceAstronomy and Outer SpaceEnchantmentScience FictionDissertation / Thesis TitleThe Evidence of Things Not Seen: The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence and the Making of Scientific ReligionNanea RenteriaPhD StudentResearch InterestNorth American ReligionsReligion and LawIndigenous FeminismsGender and SexualitySecularismEthnobotany2018David E. SilverbergPhD StudentResearch InterestSouth Asian ReligionsSam StellaPhD Student2017Grace Anne BickersPhD StudentResearch InterestIslamTianran HangPhD StudentResearch InterestEast Asian ReligionsKit HermansonPhD StudentResearch InterestNorth American ReligionsQueer StudiesTrans StudiesKripanand R. KomanapalliPhD StudentResearch InterestSouth Asian Religions2015Xiao XiaoPhD Student MA Students 2024Elizabeth M BeuggMaster's StudentResearch InterestRitualsPhilosophyNorth American ReligionsSpencer Kyle BohmMaster's StudentResearch InterestNorth American ReligionsQueer ReligionPolitical TheologyChristianityMarc MaMaster's StudentResearch InterestWritingPhilologyOrdinary LanguageGalen OngMaster's StudentResearch InterestJudaismChristianityNandini RawalMaster's StudentResearch InterestSouth Asian ReligionsMaterial Culture2023James Cole GasperMaster's StudentResearch InterestBuddhismPhilosophy and Critical ThoughtMindfulnessMeditationPsychologyJes WittigMaster's Student2022Cole FishmanMaster's StudentResearch InterestPhilosophyLennox NemethMaster's StudentResearch InterestQueer Religion2020Judy ZhuMaster's StudentResearch InterestBuddhism
Leah Rose AlpernPhD StudentResearch Interest19th & 20th Century JudaismAesthetics and Metaphysics of Cultural TransmissionHistorical MaterialismReligion and PoliticsHistoriography
Elizabeth FeraugePhD StudentResearch InterestMaterial CultureMindBioethicsMediaChristianityJudaismPopular ReligionDeathTexts
Catherine Miki OtachimePhD StudentResearch InterestEast Asian ReligionsBuddhismConnecting HistoriesReligion and the SensesReligion and LiteratureReligion and ScienceArtistic, Religious, and Scientific InteractionsMediterranean Societies and ReligionsReligion and Art/Visual Culture/Material CultureReligion and MusicPremodern Japanese HistoryHistory of Emotions
Nathan BlackwellPhD StudentResearch InterestNorth American ReligiousCritical Indigenous StudiesIndigenous ReligionsCritical TheoryRace and Religion
Jordan DeSantoPhD StudentResearch InterestNorth American ReligionsChristianityPolitical TheologyCritical Medical AnthropologyBlack Religion in the AmericasBio-ethicsRace and Religion
Saila Sri KambhatlaPhD StudentResearch InterestSouth Asian ReligionsPhilosophy and Critical ThoughtGoddess StudiesTransmissionAnthropology
Gabriella LeePhD StudentResearch InterestNorth American ReligionsNew Religious MovementsMediaAnthropology of ReligionSemioticsLinguistic AnthropologyApostasyChristianityEvangelicalismEx-religious Identity
Connor MartiniPhD StudentResearch InterestNorth American ReligionsMediaAnthropologyScience and Technology StudiesReligion and ScienceAstronomy and Outer SpaceEnchantmentScience FictionDissertation / Thesis TitleThe Evidence of Things Not Seen: The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence and the Making of Scientific Religion
Nanea RenteriaPhD StudentResearch InterestNorth American ReligionsReligion and LawIndigenous FeminismsGender and SexualitySecularismEthnobotany
Spencer Kyle BohmMaster's StudentResearch InterestNorth American ReligionsQueer ReligionPolitical TheologyChristianity
James Cole GasperMaster's StudentResearch InterestBuddhismPhilosophy and Critical ThoughtMindfulnessMeditationPsychology