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
Graduate students
Samuel Allen
Graduate Student
- allesa@iu.edu
Office Hours
Wednesday: 3:00pm - 5:00pm via Zoom
Research Interests
Religions of the Mediterranean in late antiquity; the Platonic tradition; political theology; social and political philosophy
Solomon Bogdanoff
Graduate Student
- sbogdano@iu.edu
- Lindley Hall 115
Office Hours
Tuesdays 11:00am - 12:00pm via Zoom
or Lindley Hall 115 by appointment
Research Interests
Science fiction and religion; religious critiques of technology; apocalypticism; weird fiction, secularism, and the numinous
Jacob Boss
Graduate Student
- jaboss@indiana.edu
Research Interests
Religion, science, and technology; Asian religions; critical theory
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
Office Hours
Friday: 10:00am -12:00pm and by appointment (via Zoom)
Research Interests
Buddhist studies; Japanese Buddhism; religious pilgrimage; Japanese literature, ethnography, religious texts, art, and material culture
Sweta Dutta
Graduate Student
- swdutta@iu.edu
Research Interests
Religious traditions in early modern Bengal; authorship, audience, literary cultures and practices; political economy of deltaic Bengal; Islam and knowledge production in South Asia
Blake Garland-Tirado
Graduate Student
- blagarla@iu.edu
Office Hours
By appointment
Research Interests
Religious art and making practices of West Africans and the African Diaspora during Western colonialism; Yoruba culture; African domestic and international trade networks; weaving and textile work; African ancestry, ethnography, and spirituality
David Garner
Graduate Student
- dgarner6@iu.edu
Office Hours
Thursday: 2:00pm - 3:00pm via Zoom
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
Hannah Garvey
Graduate Student
- hcgarvey@indiana.edu
Research Interests
Religion, textuality, and cultural imagination; literature; racial identities and constructions of race; American religious histories
Prakriti Goswami
Graduate Student
- prgoswam@iu.edu
Office Hours
By appointment
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
Steve Kaplin
Graduate Student
- skaplin@iu.edu
Office Hours
Wednesday: 10:00am - 11:30am via Zoom
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
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, Asian American literary studies, American Protestantism, race and embodiment
Amber Louisa Lowe
Graduate Student
- ambelowe@iu.edu
Office Hours
Thursday: 10:00am - 12:00pm via Zoom
Research Interests
Afrofuturism, Black Speculative Fiction, Phenomenology of Religion, Womanist Theology, and Myth
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
Research Interests
Relations between eastern Christianity and evangelical Protestantism; church-state relations; social representations of religious minorities
Moriah Reichert
Graduate Student
- moreich@iu.edu
Office Hours
Monday and Wednesday: 10:30am - 11:30am at GISB 0001
or online by appointment
Research Interests
Religion and the body, religion, textuality, and cultural imagination, contemporary theology
Maggie Slaughter
Graduate Student
- mgslaugh@iu.edu
Research Interests
Ireland; Catholicism; Material Culture; History of Christianity; Museum Studies; Jewish Studies
Jason Smith
Graduate Student
- js156@iu.edu
Office Hours
By appointment
Research Interests
Medieval-Early Modern Japanese Buddhism; Conceptual metaphors; Literary tropes; Sengoku-Tokugawa transition; Neo-Confucianism, Zen, Pure Land, and Shintō; Japanese warriors
Dale Spicer
Graduate Student
- daespice@iu.edu
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
Colby Townsend
Graduate Student
- colbtown@iu.edu
Research Interests
Religion in the Americas; the long eighteenth century; religion and literature; critical theories; gender and race studies; gothic literature
Josie Wenig
Graduate Student
- jwenig@indiana.edu
Research Interests
Transgender studies of religion; craft, aceticism, and the body; race and religion in feminist and transgender politics
Alina Williams
Graduate Student
- williali@indiana.edu
Office Hours
Monday: 10:00am - 11:00am via Zoom
Research Interests
Anthropology of religion, lived Catholicisms, Christianity in Eastern Europe, and modern Hungary
Yuyuan Zhang
Graduate Student
- zhanyuyu@iu.edu
Office Hours
By appointment
Research Interests
Comparative religious ethics; Confucianism and Neo-Confucianism; early modern French philosophy; Voltaire, Jesuit missionaries; human nature
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