Graduate Student
Office Hours
Thursday: 6:30pm - 8:30pm (online)
Research Interests
medieval Muslim thought; religion and the senses; Muslim identity in modern South Asia and America; Muslim-Christian comparative theology
Graduate Student
Research Interests
religion, race, and power; contemporary formations and boundary negotiations of Jewish identities; religious histories in the Americas
Graduate Student
Office Hours
Thursday: 3:00pm - 5:00pm
Research Interests
religions of the Mediterranean in late antiquity; the Platonic tradition; political theology; social and political philosophy
Graduate Student
Office Hours
Thursday: 10:00am - 11am or by appointment
Research Interests
domesticity and homemaking; religion in the Americas; cultures of pregnancy and birth; critical theories
Graduate Student
Research Interests
religion, science, and technology; Asian religions; critical theory
Graduate Student
Research Interests
transmission of Buddhism in Central Asia from antiquity into the medieval period, to include its encounter with Islam, Zoroastrianism, Manichaeism and Christianity
Graduate Student
Research Interests
Japanese Buddhism; Japanese religions; material culture; ethnography; gender; youth subcultures; religion and/as tourism; fashion; and popular culture
Graduate Student
Research Interests
Buddhist studies; Japanese Buddhism; religious pilgrimage; Japanese literature, ethnography, religious texts, art, and material culture
Graduate Student
Office Hours
Wednesday: 3:00-4:00 pm (online)
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
Graduate Student
Office Hours
Wednesday: 11:00am - 12:30pm
Research Interests
gender and sexual identity in black religious environments
Graduate Student
Office Hours
Wednesday: 10:00am - 11:00am or by appointment
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
Graduate Student
Office Hours
Thursday: 2:00pm - 4:00pm (8W1 online; 8W2 in SY007)
Research Interests
religion, textuality, and cultural imagination; literature; racial identities and constructions of race; American religious histories
Graduate Student
Office Hours
Tuesday: 12:30pm - 1:30pm
Research Interests
Hindu devotional traditions, sanskrit commentaries of the Bhagavata, music and worship in Hinduism, living religions of India
Graduate Student
Research Interests
Hermeneutics; concord and discord between theology and religious studies; method in religious studies
Graduate Student
Research Interests
modern Jewish thought; Jewish mysticism
Graduate Student
Research Interests
early Chinese thought; ritual theories; virtue ethics; comparative religious ethics; and aesthetics
Graduate Student
Office Hours
Wednesday: 10:00 am - 12:00 pm (online)
Research Interests
Jewish studies; American Judaism; Jewish spirituality and mysticism; Hasidism and neo-Hasidism; Jewish feminism; Jewish thought and theology
Graduate Student
Office Hours
Tuesday: 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Research Interests
Islamic intellectual history; Islamic law and theology; medieval Islamicate historiography; Islam in South Asia
Graduate Student
Research Interests
religion in the Americas, Asian American literary studies, American Protestantism, race and embodiment
Graduate Student
Research Interests
late antiquity; Arabic Christianity; early Islam; literary and affect theory
Graduate Student
Office Hours
Thursday: 3:00pm - 4:30pm
Research Interests
Afrofuturism, Black Speculative Fiction, Phenomenology of Religion, Womanist Theology, and Myth
Graduate Student
Research Interests
comparative Indian philosophy; Bhakti movements; Sanskrit literature; commentarial traditions
Graduate Student
Office Hours
Tuesday and Thursday: 10:00am - 11:30am
Research Interests
relations between eastern Christianity and evangelical Protestantism; church-state relations; social representations of religious minorities
Graduate Student
Office Hours
Tuesday: 1pm-2pm and by appointment
Research Interests
personal narrative in uncertainty, mysticism, Protestant Reformation, female mystics, the feminine
Graduate Student
Office Hours
Tuesday & Thursday: 9:30am - 10:30am
Research Interests
religion and the body, religion, textuality, and cultural imagination, contemporary theology
Graduate Student
Research Interests
Eastern Christianities; oriental patristics; textual transmission; Silk Road
Graduate Student
Research Interests
American Judaism and American Jewish literature; Yiddish; poetics; responses to catastrophe and trauma; the Holocaust
Graduate Student
Research Interests
religion and visual / material culture; early modern / late medieval Europe; cultures of death and the body; Catholicism; Judaism
Graduate Student
Office Hours
Monday: 2:45pm - 4:45pm
Research Interests
Medieval-Early Modern Japanese Buddhism; Conceptual metaphors; Literary tropes; Sengoku-Tokugawa transition; Neo-Confucianism, Zen, Pure Land, and Shintō; Japanese warriors
Graduate Student
Research Interests
Classical Arabic biography; Al-Jahiz and Mu’tazili theology; religion and the body; early Muslim asceticism
Graduate Student
Research Interests
religion and urbanity; moral and occult economies; visual and material culture; popular, lived, and implicit religion; contemporary Ghana
Graduate Student
Office Hours
Tuesday: 1:00pm - 3:00 pm
Research Interests
late ancient Christianity; intellectual history; transgender hermeneutics, theory, and visual cultures
Graduate Student
Office Hours
Thursday: 2:30pm - 3:30pm
Research Interests
anthropology of religion, lived Catholicisms, Christianity in Eastern Europe, and modern Hungary
Graduate Student
Office Hours
Thursday: 2:30pm - 4:00pm
Research Interests
comparative religious ethics; Confucianism and Neo-Confucianism; early modern French philosophy; Voltaire, Jesuit missionaries; human nature
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