Sabina Ali
Graduate Student
- alisab@iu.edu
Office Hours
SY 334: Tuesday & Thursday 2:50pm - 3:50pm
Research Interests
Religion, race, and colonialism, especially settler articulations of relationship to land
Graduate students
Samuel Allen
Graduate Student
- allesa@iu.edu
Office Hours
SY 331: Mondays 10:30am -12:00pm
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
Office Hours
SY333: Friday 11:30am -12:30pm or by appointment
Research Interests
Science fiction and religion; religious critiques of technology; apocalypticism; weird fiction, secularism, and the numinous
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
SY333: Monday 1pm - 3pm or by appointment
Research Interests
Buddhist studies; Japanese Buddhism; religious pilgrimage; Japanese literature, ethnography, religious texts, art, and material culture
Sweta Dutta
Graduate Student
- swdutta@iu.edu
Office Hours
SY 334: Tuesday 12:00pm - 1:00pm
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
SY 332: Mondays 10:00am - 12:00pm
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
SY 332: Mondays 2:45pm - 3:45pm 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
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
Religion in the Americas and Atlantic Worlds, Religion and Literature, Postsecular Critique, Christianity and Modernity, US and European Christianity, Modern Christian Theology, Dickinson, Kierkegaard
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Thomas Jackson
Graduate Student
- jacksthc@iu.edu
Research Interests
Global philosophy; Huang-Lao Daoism; syncretic methodology; creolization; self-cultivation; Madhyamaka; all kinds of underappreciated philosophical thought.
Steve Kaplin
Graduate Student
- skaplin@iu.edu
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
Ellen Loucks
Graduate Student
- elloucks@iu.edu
Research Interests
Modern missions movement, globalism, US and the world, 19th c. American evangelicalism, sympathy and sentimentalism
Amber Louisa Lowe
Graduate Student
- ambelowe@iu.edu
Research Interests
Afrofuturism, Black Speculative Fiction, Phenomenology of Religion, Womanist Theology, and Myth
Jessica Merritt
Graduate Student
- jessmerr@iu.edu
Office Hours
SY 331: Wednesdays 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Research Interests
Comparative Indian philosophy; Bhakti movements; Sanskrit literature; commentarial traditions
Grace Morris
Graduate Student
- graemorr@iu.edu
Office Hours
SY 333: Tuesday 10:00am - 12:00pm
Research Interests
Medieval Christianity with a focus on the voices of women and queer narratives within theological and literary traditions
Moriah Reichert
Graduate Student
- moreich@iu.edu
Office Hours
SY 332: Tuesday and Thursday 12:00pm - 1:00pm
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
SY 332: 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
SY 331: By appointment
Research Interests
Anthropology of religion, lived Catholicisms, Christianity in Eastern Europe, and modern Hungary
Borong Zhang
Graduate Student
- zhangbor@iu.edu
Research Interests
Religious practices and philosophy in early China, with a specific emphasis on Mohism, Confucianism and epistemology; Comparative religious ethics; Comparative hermeneutics in religion
Yuyuan Zhang
Graduate Student
- zhanyuyu@iu.edu
Office Hours
SY 331: Mondays 2:40pm - 4:40pm
Research Interests
Comparative religious ethics; Confucianism and Neo-Confucianism; early modern French philosophy; Voltaire, Jesuit missionaries; human nature
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