Department of Religious Studies Alumni
Dissertations 2001
Tracy Dawn Coleman
Making Love and Meaning: Constructing Krishna’s Lila with the Gopis and Wives in the Harivamsa, Visnu Purana, Bhagavata Purana and Sridhara’s Commentary
William Keith Gilders
Representation and Interpretation: Blood Manipulation in Ancient Israel and Early Judaism
Aaron Dean Stalnaker
Overcoming Our Evil: Spiritual Exercises and Personhood in Xunzi and Augustine
Dissertations 2002
Caroline Elizabeth Johnson Hodge
"If Sons, Then Heirs": A Study of Kinship and Ethnicity in Paul's Letters
Dayna Sue Kalleres
Exorcising the Devil to Silence Christ's Enemies: Ritualized Speech Practices in Late Antiquity
Nelson Maldonado Torres
Thinking from the Limits of Being: Lévinas, Fanon, Dussel, and the Cry of Ethical Revolt
Dissertations 2003
Matthew Christopher Day
“The Gods in Design Space: A Darwinian Essay on Mind and Religion”
Jung Hyup Lee
“Ethics From a Daocentric Perspective: Normativity, Virtue, and Self-Cultivation in Early Daoist Thought”
Dissertations 2004
Rachel White
“Recovering the Past, Renewing the Present: Martin Buber, Gershom Scholem and the History of Historical Consciousness in German-Jewish Thought”
Joukowsky Family Foundation Outstanding Dissertation Award for the 2003-04 year
Dissertations 2005
Randy Friedman
“The Reconstruction of Religion in Classical American Philosophy”
Michael Ryan Slater
"The Metaphysician and the Moral Life: Religion and Metaphysics in William James’s Ethical Thought”
Arthur Peter Urbano
"Lives in Competition: Biographical Literature and the Struggle for Philosophy in Late Antiquity"
Dissertations 2006
Andrew Jonathan Hunter
“‘Attending to Hope’:
History, Ethics, and Religion in Jacques Derrida’s Thought”
Nathaniel Levtow
“Images of Others: Icon and Iconic Politics in Ancient Israel”
Winner, Joukowsky Family Foundation Outstanding Dissertation Award in the Humanities
Karen Stern
“Inscribing Devotion and Death in Context: Deciphering Jewish Culture of Roman North Africa (2nd - 6th centuries C.E.)”
Dissertations 2007
Nathaniel Patrick Desrosiers
“Establishment of Proper Mental Disposition and Practice: The Origin, Meaning, and Social Purpose of the Prohibition of Oaths in Matthew”
Curtis Michael Hutt
“The Ethics of the Representation of the Religious Past”
Terrence Lamark Johnson
“Tragic Soul-Life: W.E.B. DuBois and the Redemption of American Democracy”
Jianshe Kong
“On the Penal Substitution Model of the Atonement”
Judson Bryce Murray
“The Consummate Dao: The Way (Dao) and Human Affairs (Shi) in the Huainanzi”