Dissertations
Lily Stewart (Ph.D '22) | The Holy Malady: Leprosy, Identity, and the Anatomy of a Medieval Stereotype |
Darcie Price-Williams (Ph.D '22) | Telling Stories Differently: Changing Landscapes of Ordination for Buddhist Monastic Women in the Tibetan Tradition |
James Hill (Ph.D '22) | Religion, (Anti)blackness, and Michael Jackson |
Ashley King (Ph.D. '21) | Hard Femme Religion |
Matthew Smith (Ph.D. '21) | The Age of Plastic(s): Race, Religion, Ecology, and the Biopolitics of Conversion |
Kristin Doll (Ph.D. '20) |
Policing Fanaticism, Religion, & Church Aflame: The 1112 Fire and Repair of the Cathedral of Laon |
Jeffrey Wheatley (Ph.D. '20) |
Policing Fanaticism, Religion, & Race in the American Empire, 1830–1930 |
Aaron Moldenhauer (Ph.D. '19) |
Luther's Doctrine of Christ: Language, Metaphysics, Logic |
Benjamin Ricciardi (Ph.D. '19) |
The Weekday Amidah as a Performative Anti-Theodicy |
Stephanie Brenzel (Ph.D. '19) |
As Strong as Death: Franz Rosenzweig’s Philosophy of Love in The Star of Redemption |
Joel Harrison (Ph.D. '19) |
Between Normativity and History: Ernst Troeltsch's Mystic Type and the Creative Possibility of Values |
William Caldwell (Ph.D. '18) |
The Fugitive Islamicate: African Muslims and Black Radicalism across the Atlantic (1492-1925) |
Sarah Wolf (Ph.D. '18) |
The Rabbinic Legal Imagination: Narrativity and Scholasticism in the Babylonian Talmud |
Hannah Tebbetts (Ph.D. '18) |
Practicing Atheism: Culture, Media, and Ritual in the Contemporary Atheist Network |
Myev Rees (Ph.D. '18) |
Martyr Mothers, Angel Babies: Conservative Christian Pronatalism in the Media Age |
Jennifer Callaghan (Ph.D. '17) |
Mass Public: God's Word, the People's Language, and U.S. Catholic Liturgical Reform (1940-1974) |
Stephanie Brehm (Ph.D. '17) |
America’s Most Famous Catholic: Religion, Authority, Infotainment, and Persona in the Works of Stephen Colbert |
Candace Kohli (Ph.D. '17) |
Help for Moral Good: The Soul, the Spirit, and the Law in Martin Luther's Antinomian Disputations (1537-40) |
Lynn Hillberg Jencks (Ph.D. ’16) |
'Bendecidos, Encendidos, y En Victoria': Transformative Theology Strategies amongst Latina/o Immigrant Charismatic Catholics in the United States |
Ariel Schwartz (Ph.D. ’16) |
In the Wake of Hate: Rebuilding Religion, Place, and Community in Sacramento and Joplin |
Matthew Ryan Robinson (Ph.D. '15) |
Redeeming Relationship, Relationship that Redeems: Free Sociability and the Completion of Humanity in the Thought of Friedrich Schleiermacher |
Brian Clites (Ph.D. ’15 |
Breaking of Silence: The Catholic Sexual Abuse Survivor Movement in Chicago |
Vanessa Crosby (Ph.D. ’15) |
Death od Merchant: Trade and Commemoration in Late Medieval England, 1350 -1520 |
Kate Dugan (Ph.D. ’15) |
Catholicism Remixed: Catholic Prayer and the Making of Millennial Catholic Subjectivity |
Joshua Feigelson (Ph.D. ’15) |
Relationship, Power, and Holy Secularity: Rabbi Yitz Greenberg and American Jewish Life, 1966-1983 |
Alyssa Henning (Ph.D. ’15) |
Experiments in Judaism: Jewish Sources, Ethics, and Research with Human Subjects |
Joseph Moser (Ph.D. ’15) |
Impossible Forgiveness: Levinas and Rwanda in Dialogue |