Shaheer Afaqi
Graduate Student
- mafaqi@indiana.edu
- Sycamore Hall 0027
Office Hours
Thursday: Online 12:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Research Interests
Medieval Muslim thought; Religion and the Senses; Theories of Emotion; Muslim Identity in Modern South Asia
Graduate students
Sabina Ali
Graduate Student
- alisab@iu.edu
Research Interests
religion, race, and power; contemporary formations and boundary negotiations of Jewish identities; religious histories in the Americas
Morgan Barbre
Graduate Student
- mebarbre@iu.edu
Research Interests
domesticity and homemaking; religion in the Americas; cultures of pregnancy and birth; critical theories
Jacob Boss
Graduate Student
- jaboss@indiana.edu
Research Interests
religion, science, and technology; Asian religions; critical theory
Jason Browning
Graduate Student
- jb15@iu.edu
Research Interests
transmission of Buddhism in Central Asia from antiquity into the medieval period, to include its encounter with Islam, Zoroastrianism, Manichaeism and Christianity
Allison Darmody
Graduate Student
- adarmody@indiana.edu
Research Interests
Japanese Buddhism; Japanese religions; material culture; ethnography; gender; youth subcultures; religion and/as tourism; fashion; and popular culture
Joseph Decker
Graduate Student
- josdecke@iu.edu
- Sycamore Hall 0020
Office Hours
Thursday: Online 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Research Interests
Buddhist studies; Japanese Buddhism; religious pilgrimage; Japanese literature, ethnography, religious texts, art, and material culture
Kristin Francoeur
Graduate Student
- kfrancoe@indiana.edu
Research Interests
contemporary Hinduism and Islam in South Asia; feminist critical theory; LGBTQIA+ advocacy and queer religious formations; relationships of religions and secularisms with contemporary Indian civil society; transnational feminism(s) and post-nationalisms; sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR); NGOs and discourses of development, empowerment, and gender mainstreaming
Rowena Galavitz
Graduate Student
- rgalavit@indiana.edu
Research Interests
convent writers in the early modern Spanish-speaking world; sixteenth- and seventeenth-century religion and literature in Europe and the Americas; mysticism, sainthood; gender and sexuality; textuality; translation theory and practice
David Garner
Graduate Student
- dgarner6@iu.edu
Research Interests
20th-century American, Jewish, and Holocaust literatures, specifically examining the precise relationship between modern literature and politics and rethinking that relationship in terms of the Ancient Hebrew Prophets
Hannah Garvey
Graduate Student
- hcgarvey@indiana.edu
- Sycamore Hall 007
Office Hours
Wednesday: Online 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Research Interests
religion, textuality, and cultural imagination; literature; racial identities and constructions of race; American religious histories
Prakriti Goswami
Graduate Student
- perkgoswami93@gmail.com
Research Interests
Hindu devotional traditions, sanskrit commentaries of the Bhagavata, music and worship in Hinduism, living religions of India
Matt Graham
Graduate Student
- mattgrah@indiana.edu
Research Interests
Hermeneutics; concord and discord between theology and religious studies; method in religious studies
Ahmed Hassan
Graduate Student
- ahhassan@iu.edu
Research Interests
medieval reception to classical writings by Islamic scholars
Brian Hillman
Graduate Student
- bghillma@iu.edu
Research Interests
modern Jewish thought; Jewish mysticism
Nai-Yi Hsu
Graduate Student
- naiyhsu@umail.iu.edu
Research Interests
early Chinese thought; ritual theories; virtue ethics; comparative religious ethics; and aesthetics
Steve Kaplin
Graduate Student
- skaplin@iu.edu
- Sycamore Hall 0027
Research Interests
Jewish studies; American Judaism; Jewish spirituality and mysticism; Hasidism and neo-Hasidism; Jewish feminism; Jewish thought and theology
Maidah Khalid
Graduate Student
- maikhal@iu.edu
- Sycamore Hall 0020
Office Hours
Tuesday: Online 9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Research Interests
Islamic intellectual history; Islamic law and theology; medieval Islamicate historiography; Islam in South Asia
Mihee Kim-Kort
Graduate Student
- rkimkort@iu.edu
Research Interests
religion in the Americas; evangelical Protestantism; race and embodiment; queer theory
Abby Kulisz
Graduate Student
- alkulisz@iu.edu
- Sycamore Hall 007
Office Hours
Monday: 9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Research Interests
late antiquity; Arabic Christianity; early Islam; literary and affect theory
Daniel Layton
Graduate Student
- djlayton@indiana.edu
- Sycamore Hall 0020
Office Hours
Thursday: Online 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Research Interests
Secular Buddhism; Religion and modernity; Buddhism in the West; Japanese Buddhism; Zen; Buddhist philosophy
Jessica Merritt
Graduate Student
- jessmerr@iu.edu
Research Interests
comparative Indian philosophy; Bhakti movements; Sanskrit literature; commentarial traditions
Gheorghe Pacurar
Graduate Student
- gpacurar@iu.edu
- Sycamore Hall 0027
Office Hours
Thursday: Online 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Research Interests
relations between eastern Christianity and evangelical Protestantism; church-state relations; social representations of religious minorities
Erin Parks
Graduate Student
- emparks@iu.edu
- Sycamore Hall 007
Office Hours
Wednesday: 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm, or online by appointment
Research Interests
personal narrative in uncertainty, mysticism, Protestant Reformation, female mystics, the feminine
Tola Rodrick
Graduate Student
- krodrick@indiana.edu
- Sycamore Hall 007
Research Interests
Egyptian monasticism; Coptic language and literature; late ancient religious and philosophical traditions
Nicolò Sassi
Graduate Student
- nsassi@iu.edu
Research Interests
Eastern Christianities; oriental patristics; textual transmission; Silk Road
Sean Sidky
Graduate Student
- ssidky@iu.edu
Research Interests
American Judaism and American Jewish literature; Yiddish; poetics; responses to catastrophe and trauma; the Holocaust
Maggie Slaughter
Graduate Student
- mgslaugh@iu.edu
- Sycamore Hall 0020
Office Hours
Thursday: Online 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Research Interests
religion and visual / material culture; early modern / late medieval Europe; cultures of death and the body; Catholicism; Judaism
Dale Spicer
Graduate Student
- daespice@iu.edu
- Sycamore Hall 0027
Office Hours
Thursday: Online 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm or by appointment
Research Interests
Classical Arabic biography; Al-Jahiz and Mu’tazili theology; religion and the body; early Muslim asceticism
Emily Stratton
Graduate Student
- strattoe@iu.edu
Research Interests
religion and urbanity; moral and occult economies; visual and material culture; popular, lived, and implicit religion; contemporary Ghana
Taylor Thomas
Graduate Student
- thomta@iu.edu
- Sycamore Hall 005
Office Hours
Wednesday: Online 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Research Interests
religion, textuality, and cultural imagination; Kantian critique in late 19th/early 20th century Russia; religion and modernity; Jewish-Russian intellectual history
Josie Wenig
Graduate Student
- jwenig@indiana.edu
- Sycamore Hall 005
Office Hours
Friday: Online 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
Research Interests
late ancient Christianity; intellectual history; transgender hermeneutics, theory, and visual cultures
Meng Zhang
Graduate Student
- zhang319@indiana.edu
Research Interests
comparative religious ethics; Confucianism; virtue ethics; Hume; moral sentimentalism; early Chinese thought
Yuyuan Zhang
Graduate Student
- zhanyuyu@iu.edu
- Sycamore Hall 005
Research Interests
comparative religious ethics; Confucianism and Neo-Confucianism; early modern French philosophy; Voltaire, Jesuit missionaries; human nature
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