Alumni News
Job Placements
- Alumna Ariel Schwartz (Ph.D.'16) has accepted a position as the director of the Emerging Leaders Program at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. Congratulations Ariel!
- Alumnus Joel Harrison (Ph.D. '19) has accepted a position as an Associate Professor of Religion at the Northern Virginia Community College, Manassas Campus. Congratulations Joel!
- Congratulations to Stephanie Brenzel, who has accepted the position of the Igor Kaplan Post-Doctoral Fellow in Christain-Jewish Relations at the Toronto School of Theology in Toronto, Canada.
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Aaron Moldenhauer, a doctoral candidate in Religious Studies, has accepted a position as Assistant Professor of Theology at Concordia University in Wisconsin!
- Congratulations to alumna Justine Howe (Ph.D. '13) who has been promoted to Associate Professor at the Department of Religious Studies at Case Western Reserve University, OH.
- Alumnus Michael Nichols (Ph.D. '10) who accepted a position as the Associate Director and dean of Saint Joseph's College of Marian University in Indianapolis, IN.
- Alumna Myev Rees (Ph.D. '18) has accepted a tenure track job at Cypress College in California.
- Alumna Hannah Tebbetts (Ph.D. '18) has accepted a position as "Lecturer in Religious Studies" at Lake Forest College in Lake Forest, IL, for the 2019-20 school year. She will be teaching two courses: "Religion and Capitalism" and "Religion and Politics.”
- Congratulations to Stephanie Brenzel, who has accepted the position of the Igor Kaplan Post-Doctoral Fellow in Christain-Jewish Relations at the Toronto School of Theology in Toronto, Canada.
- Rachelle Jacobs (Ph.D. '02) is assistant professor of religion, University of Tennessee.
- Alumna Candace L. Kohli (Ph. D. '17) recently published a new book, In the Spirit: Human Subjectivity Under Law and Gospel. Candace currently teaches at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago.
- Alumna Michael Nichols (Ph.D. '10) recently published a new book, Religion and Myth in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. He is also an author of Malleable Mara: Transformations of a Buddhist Symbol of Evil published in 2019.
- Congratulations to Alumna Justine Howe (Ph.D. ’13), who has published her new book, “The Routledge Handbook of Islam and Gender." Justine Howe is an Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Case Western Reserve University.
- Congratulations to Alumna Michal Raucher (Ph.D. ’13), who has published her new book, “Conceiving Agency: Reproductive Authority among Haredi Women” with Indiana University Press. Michal Raucher is Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies and affiliate faculty in Women's and Gender Studies at Rutgers University.
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- Congratulation to Alumna Katherine Dugan, Ph.D., who has published Millennial Missionaries with Oxford University Press. Katherine Dugan is Assistant Professor of Religion at Springfield College, where she teaches courses on religion in the U.S., world religions, and global Catholicism
- Make sure to read alumna Justine Howe’s new book Suburban Islam, just published by Oxford University Press. Justine is a 2013 NU Religious Studies PhD and an assistant professor of Religious Studies at Case Western Reserve University.”.
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Ananda Abeysekara (Ph.D. '99) is associate professor of religion at Virginia Tech. Institute. She is an author of Colors of the Robe: Religion, Identity, and Difference. The latest book Ananda Abeysekara has published is titled, The Politics of Postsecular Religion: Mourning Secular Futures (New York: Columbia University Press, 2008). It was selected by CHOICE as An Outstanding Academic Title, in 2009.
Other News
- "Notes from the Funhouse: Disciplinarity and the Haunting Aporia of Black Lived Religion in the United States" by alumnus Dr. James Howard Hill Jr. (Ph.D. '22)
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- Alumnus Jeffrey Wheatley Explores American Fanaticism and Game Design
- Alumna Darcie Price-Wallace (Ph.D. '22) has just published an article in the Journal of Global Buddhism: “Buddhist Pro-Woman Attitudes Towards Full Ordination: Tibetan and Himalayan Monastics’ Views”
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Alumna Annie Krall (BA, MSJ Northwestern University '19, '20), will be joining WBAY in June as an on-air news reporter. Congratulations, Annie!!!
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- Congratulations to Alumnus Adam Beyt ('12) who was awarded a doctoral degree from Fordham University (Ph.D. '21) this Spring, working with former Religious Studies faculty, Professor Cristina Traina. His dissertation is titled, "Enfleshing the Reign Of God: Embodiment and Praxis in the Thought of Edward Schillebeeckx and Judith Butler."
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Congratulations to alumna Elizabeth Sager ('20), a student in Professor Traina’s Religion and Bioethics course on the acceptance of her article, “"Components of Successful Spiritual Care", for publication in the Journal of Religion and Health.
- Alumna Maeve Callan, Ph.D., is the author of the most widely-read recent article in The Irish Times: "How England Sought to Turn Colonizing Ireland Into a Crusade".
- 2014 Religious Studies honors alumna Krishni Metivier outlines anti-racist practices for higher education.
- Religious Studies Alumnus, Ryan DuVal (’02), A Modern Michelangelo, famed for painting a version of the Sistine Chapel on his dorm room ceiling, left muralism to share Buddhist teachings.
- Ethics Forward | Maternal Experience And Religious Ethics (among the panelists are Professor Cristina Traina and Alumna Michal Raucher, Ph.D.
- Alumna Hannah Scheidt has been accepted into the "American Examples" (AE) young scholars working group program at the University of Alabama.
- Amanda Downs ('03) has returned from three years of teaching in Japan with the JET program.
- Paul D. Rotolo ('01) earned a Masters in Science and is enrolled in medical school at Chicago Medical School.
- Nathan Berken ('02) is a student at the New England Conservatory of Music. His email is nberken@rcn.com
- Noelle Page ('01) has been accepted into the doctoral program at Princeton Seminary.
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