Sabina Ali
Graduate Student
- alisab@iu.edu
Research Interests
Religion, race, and colonialism, especially settler articulations of relationship to land
Graduate students
Samuel Allen
Graduate Student
- allesa@iu.edu
Office Hours
Zoom: Wednesdays 10:00am -12:00pm
Research Interests
Greco-Roman intellectual and reception history, theories of providence, the ecclesiastical historians, Iamblichus, political theology, social and political philosophy
Allison Darmody
Graduate Student
- adarmody@iu.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
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
Zoom: Mondays 1:00pm - 3:00pm by appointment
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
Anton Ermakov
Graduate Student
- antermak@iu.edu
Office Hours
By appointment
Research Interests
Buddhism in Mongolia and Eastern Siberia; history of Buddhist studies, particularly in Russia and the USSR; religion and atheism in the Soviet Union; secular ritual
Connor Feliu
Graduate Student
- cfeliu@iu.edu
Office Hours
Morrison 420: Mondays 10:30am - 12:30pm
Research Interests
The intellectual and personal relationships of Chrisitan clerical learned magic practitioners (1200-1550); Islamic influences on Christian magic traditions; theurgy; monastic identity; methods of constructing Catholic orthodoxy
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
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
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@iu.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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Benjamin Huston
Graduate Student
- bendhust@iu.edu
Office Hours
TBD
Research Interests
Catholic monastic communities in the United States, and their relationship to the communities that surround them, both secular and religious
Thomas Clarke Jackson
Graduate Student
- jacksthc@iu.edu
Office Hours
By appointment
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
Office Hours
SGIS 0001 (lobby): Wednesdays 1:00pm - 3:00pm
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
Phenomenology of Religion, Religion and Literature, Black Speculative Thought, Black Atlantic Religions, Critical Theory, Myth, Theories of Time, Toni Morrison, and Octavia Butler
Joanna Martin
Graduate Student
- jem35@iu.edu
Office Hours
Zoom: Thursdays from 11:00am - 12:00pm or by appointment
Research Interests
Jewishness/Judaism; Messianic Judaism; identity and religious authenticity; African, African American, and Caribbean communities; Igbo people of Nigeria; identity, diaspora, genetics, and religious boundaries; interpretations of genetic science
Jessica Merritt
Graduate Student
- jessmerr@iu.edu
Research Interests
Comparative Indian philosophy; Bhakti movements; Sanskrit literature; commentarial traditions
Grace Morris
Graduate Student
- graemorr@iu.edu
Office Hours
Morrison 420: Tuesdays & Thursdays 10:00am - 11:00pm
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
Wednesdays 10:00am - 12:00pm via Zoom
Research Interests
Religion and the body, religion, textuality, and cultural imagination, contemporary theology
Jason Smith
Graduate Student
- js156@iu.edu
Office Hours
TBD
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
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
Ryo Uehara
Graduate Student
- ruehara@iu.edu
Office Hours
Mondays 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Research Interests
Japanese religion and folklore; Modern Japanese spirituality and its influences on cultural psychology and identity; stories derived from folk belief
Kathryn Vandrey
Graduate Student
- kvandrey@iu.edu
Research Interests
Confucianism, ritual studies, epistemology of early China, religion and gender, religious borrowing, funerary practices
Peter Warren
Graduate Student
- pewarre@iu.edu
Research Interests
American Methodism as social change agent, schisms in the American Christian experience, and the rise of the Christian Nationalist movement
Josie Wenig
Graduate Student
- jwenig@iu.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@iu.edu
Research Interests
Anthropology of religion, lived Catholicisms, Christianity in Eastern Europe, and modern Hungary
Borong Zhang
Graduate Student
- zhangbor@iu.edu
Office Hours
TBD
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
Research Interests
Comparative religious ethics; Confucianism and Neo-Confucianism; early modern French philosophy; Voltaire, Jesuit missionaries; human nature
Alex Zhou
Graduate Student
- yz181@iu.edu
Office Hours
TBD
Research Interests
Comparative studies between Greek and China, Classical Chinese thoughts, Zhuangzi, Ancient Greek philosophy, Plato
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