2020 Graduates

Shakir Stephen
Into the Science Classroom: Creationism, Leveraging the Law, and Post-Fact Epistemes

Robyn Nadine Lanz
Religious Studies ProJect: 

Mediating Heathen Identities:
How Adherents of a Small Neo-Pagan Religion in America Engage with Formal Media Structures in Attempt to Legitimize and Discredit Specific Identities in America’s Public Discourse

Journalism Project: 
Those Worthy of Valhalla: The Conflict at the Heart of Heathen Identity in America

Natalya Titova
Evaluating the Plausibility of Nancy Eiesland’s Presentation of the Post-Resurrection Jesus Christ as “the Disabled God”

2019 Graduates

Ariana Dimock
A Land that Time Forgot, Remembered: Tarantism and the Question of Historical Agency

Madysen Luebke
Religious Studies Project: 

Sociality of Protestant Schisms:
A Brooklyn Church’s Social Isolation from its Conservative Synod Creates a Non-Schismatic District 

Journalism Project: 
“MISFIT FUNDAMENTALIST IN THE CITY” By refusing to embrace the changing landscape of the 21st century, conservative Lutheranism is fostering its own death.

2018 Graduates

Samuel Kent Argyle
"What Is Identitarian Religion?: Counter-Memory, Power, and an Unmasked Other"

Fortune Onyiorah
"The Makeup Reformation: Racial Discrimination in the Makeup Industry and Youtube Activism"

Alexandra Kirby Sokolow
"Materializing Postmemory: A Study of Embodiment in Second- And Third- Generation Holocaust Documentaries"

Richard Ramos
"Mau a Mau: Hawaiian Continuity and Georeligious Practice"

2017 Graduates

Esra Tunc
Islamic Schools in the United States: Performing thr Quran and Constructing Identities

Zachary Leja
The Money of Mindfulness: Meditation in America in the Twenty-First Century

Rawan Hammoud
The Human as a Vicegerent of God: A Modality of Ethics in the Sermons of Amr Khaled

Conor Dube
"The Mark of Mud and Water:" Laylat al-Qadr in Islamic Exegesis and Modern Scholarship

2016 Graduates

Jaspal Chana
The Lost Art of Damascus - How the story of Syrian master craftsman elucidated recent Jewish history in the Islamic World and its relationship with Zionism

2015 Graduates

Kathryn Newman
From Virtual Jews to Shabbos Goyim: The Role of Gentiles in Krakow's Jewish Revival

Eden Consenstein
Buying into Ordinary: Consumerism and Polygamy on Reality Television

Ethan Poe
"The Importance of The Mormon Worker": The Construction of Identities of Dissent and Empowerment in a Digital Religious Landscape

2014 Graduates

Andrew Walker-Cornetta
Eugenic Feminism, Religion, and the Secular: Salvific Reproduction in the Works of Victoria Woodhull, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and Margaret Sanger

Janaki Challa
German-Turkish Identity and Sufism in Fatih Akin’s Gegen die Wand

Don Jolly
Religion, Scientology and the Etic Narrative of Mark “Marty” Rathbun

2013 Graduates

Beiyin Deng
Death Rituals and the Possibilitiy of Negotiations

Jenna Johnson
From Hillbilly Hymns to Multimedia Confessionals: Investigating the Theology of Country Music

Jacob Rosen
History, the Tea Party, and Parallel Cultures: Politics of Religion in Twenty-First Century America

Nathan Schradle
Sites Unseen: The Otherkin and Unassimilable Identity Positions

2012 Graduates

Ashley Baxstrom
The World-Building Web: Religious Identity Formation and Meaning-Making in the Blogosphere

Amy Levin
Beyond the Re-Written Word: Historiography and the Politics of American Religious Liberalism

Abigail Ohlheiser
Anti-Islam and American: The Anti-Sharia Movement

Clint Rainey
End Times - The Impossibility of the Religious Right in a Nation of Independent Voters and Religious Apostates

Ruben Sanchez
Theoretical Reflection on The war of my life

2011 Graduates

William Caldwell
Reorientation: A Reconstruction of the Mooring-American Religious Imagination

Frederick Folmer
 ‘Heaven’s a Small Town’: The Conservative Protestant Re-materialization of an American Spatial Icon

Elissa Lerner
Life After Wandering: Bedouin Women at the Edge of the Desert

Eli Lieberman
I am Who I Am: Gay and Lesbian Orthodox Jews and the Orthodox Community

Johanna Piazza
Rebranding Nuns for the Digital Generation: How Women Religious are Borrowing the Celebrity Business Model to Attract New Recruits

Jinwoo Shin
Observing and Grasping Religious Experience Through Visual Experience and Economic Perspective

2010 Graduates

Meredith Baldi
Moved to Speak: Religious Experience, Speech, and Action in Unprogrammed Quaker Meeting for Worship

Maggie Beeler
Clarifying Mortuary Consumption in Prepalatial Crete: Stone Vessel Use and Cult Practice in the Mesara-Asterousia Region

Kati Curts
Collections of the (Re)Collected: Theory and Case Studies of Knowledge Production and Transmission

Seren Gates Amador
Screening the Apocalypse: Religion, Anxiety and Apocalyptic Genre Film

2009 Graduates

Unlu Nesrin
The Transformation of Islamists in Turkey