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”
Dissertations 2008
Steven Larson
"What Temples Stood For: Constantine, Eusebius, and Roman Imperial Practice"
Jordan D. Rosenblum
"They Sit Apart at Meals: Early Rabbinic Commensality Regulations and Identity Construction"
Dissertations 2009
Jeanne-Nicole Saint-Laurent
“Apostolic Memories: Religious Differentiation and the Construction of Orthodoxy in Syriac Missionary Literature"
Daniel Ullucci
“The End of Animal Sacrifice”
Dissertations 2010
Erin J. Roberts
"Anger, Emotion, and Desire in the Gospel of Matthew"
James Elliott Swan Tuite
"Nietzsche's Critique of Christian Neighbor-love"