PhD Students 2024 Leah Rose Alpern PhD Student Research Interest 19th & 20th Century Judaism Aesthetics and Metaphysics of Cultural Transmission Historical Materialism Religion and Politics Historiography Tianxin Chen PhD Student Elizabeth Ferauge PhD Student Research Interest Material Culture Mind Bioethics Media Christianity Judaism Popular Religion Death Texts Arju Khatun PhD Student Research Interest South Asian Religions Islam Rituals Conversion Space Jessica Spencer PhD Student 2023 Jialin Cao PhD Student Research Interest Buddhism Millie Forman PhD Student Catherine Miki Otachime PhD Student Research Interest East Asian Religions 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 2022 Nathan Blackwell PhD Student Research Interest North American Religious Critical Indigenous Studies Indigenous Religions Critical Theory Race and Religion Saila Sri Kambhatla PhD Student Research Interest South Asian Religions Philosophy and Critical Thought Goddess Studies Transmission Anthropology Cella Masso-Rivetti PhD Student Research Interest North American Religions 2020 Stephanie A Bell PhD Student Research Interest Buddhism Religion and Art Material Culture Mehreen Zahra Jiwan PhD Student Research Interest Islam Gabriella Lee PhD Student Research Interest North American Religions New Religious Movements Media Anthropology of Religion Semiotics Linguistic Anthropology Apostasy Christianity Evangelicalism Ex-religious Identity Shweta Radhakrishnan PhD Student Research Interest South Asian Religions 2019 Mohit V. Kaycee PhD Student Research Interest South Asian Religions Khadeeja M. Majoka PhD Student Research Interest South Asian Religions Connor Martini PhD Student Research Interest North American Religions Media Anthropology Science and Technology Studies Religion and Science Astronomy and Outer Space Enchantment Science Fiction Dissertation / Thesis Title The Evidence of Things Not Seen: The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence and the Making of Scientific Religion Nanea Renteria PhD Student Research Interest North American Religions Religion and Law Indigenous Feminisms Gender and Sexuality Secularism Ethnobotany 2018 David E. Silverberg PhD Student Research Interest South Asian Religions Sam Stella PhD Student 2017 Grace Anne Bickers PhD Student Research Interest Islam Tianran Hang PhD Student Research Interest East Asian Religions Kit Hermanson PhD Student Research Interest North American Religions Queer Studies Trans Studies Kripanand R. Komanapalli PhD Student Research Interest South Asian Religions 2015 Xiao Xiao PhD Student
Leah Rose Alpern PhD Student Research Interest 19th & 20th Century Judaism Aesthetics and Metaphysics of Cultural Transmission Historical Materialism Religion and Politics Historiography
Elizabeth Ferauge PhD Student Research Interest Material Culture Mind Bioethics Media Christianity Judaism Popular Religion Death Texts
Catherine Miki Otachime PhD Student Research Interest East Asian Religions 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 PhD Student Research Interest North American Religious Critical Indigenous Studies Indigenous Religions Critical Theory Race and Religion
Saila Sri Kambhatla PhD Student Research Interest South Asian Religions Philosophy and Critical Thought Goddess Studies Transmission Anthropology
Gabriella Lee PhD Student Research Interest North American Religions New Religious Movements Media Anthropology of Religion Semiotics Linguistic Anthropology Apostasy Christianity Evangelicalism Ex-religious Identity
Connor Martini PhD Student Research Interest North American Religions Media Anthropology Science and Technology Studies Religion and Science Astronomy and Outer Space Enchantment Science Fiction Dissertation / Thesis Title The Evidence of Things Not Seen: The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence and the Making of Scientific Religion
Nanea Renteria PhD Student Research Interest North American Religions Religion and Law Indigenous Feminisms Gender and Sexuality Secularism Ethnobotany