Meet the Fellows (past and present)
Dissertation Fellows
2007-2008
Sean Anthony, Humanities/NELC
"'Abd Allah b. Saba' and the Saba'īya: The Origins of Shī'ism and Ghulūw
between History and Theologoumena"
Barbra Barnett, Religious Ethics
"Religious Arguments in the Public Square: An Examination of Religious
Freedom in Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy"
Brian Collins, History of Religions
"Themes of Matricide, Mass Killing, Cattle Theft, and Mixed Birth in the
Mythology of Parashurama"
Adam Darlage, History of Christianity
"Priests Under Pressure: Catholic Polemics and Propaganda in Nikolsburg,
Moravia (1575-1610)"
Erik Davis, History of Religions
"Society After Trauma; Buddhims and the Dead in Contemporary Cambodia"
Spencer Dew, Religion and Literature
"Pedagogy and Community: Kathy Acker's 'Talmudic Mode'"
Joel Harter, Religion and Literature
"The Word Made Flesh: Symbol and Coleridge's Theological Hermeneutics"
Elizabeth Hopp-Peters, Biblical Studies
"Breaking Pots, Making Metaphors: Prophetic Action Narratives in the Book
of Jeremiah"
Jeff Israel, Religious Ethics
"Jewish Humor and Political Civility: On Moral Play with Tradition, Self,
and Others"
Meira Kensky, Biblical Studies
"Trying Man, Trying God: The Divine Courtroom in Jewish and Christian
Literature"
David Monaco, Biblical Studies
"The Sentences of the Syriac Menander: Introduction, Text and Translation,
and Commentary"
Ed Silver, History of Judaism
"The Schools of Jeremiah: Signs, Symbols and Text-Formation in the Book
of Jeremiah"
Sandra Sullivan, Religious Ethics
"I Was Hungry and You Gave Me Food: Agape, Justice and Special
Relations Seen Through the Lens of Dependent Care""
Melissa Weininger, Humanities/Committee on Jewish Studies
"Imagining "That Man": Three Jewish Writers on Jesus"
Hong You, Anthropology and Sociology of Religion
"Popular Religious Revival in Contemporary China: Religion, Local Culture,
and the State"
Thomas Zebrowski
"Theology and Philosophy in the Ethics of Alasdair MacIntyre"
2006-2007
Robert Baird, Theology
"Theological Novelty in Dante’s Commedia"
Jessica Vantine Birkenholtz, SALC
“Translating Tradition, Creating Culture: A Reconstruction of the History
and Development of the Svasthani Vrata Katha of Nepal”
Kristin Bloomer, Theology & History of Religions
“Maataa Mary: Women and Popular Catholicism in Tamil Nadu"
Warren Chain, Religious Ethics
“Individualism, Justice and Christian Self Help: An Encounter with Ralph
Waldo Emerson and Martin Luther King, Jr.”
Laura Desmond, History of Religions
“Constituting Pleasure: An Analysis of Vatsyanyana’s Kamasutra”
Chris Dorsey, Theology
“Reading Bodies, Writing Health: Theological Analysis of Traditional Medicine
in Senegal”
Matthew Drever, Theology
"Augustine’s Anthropology in Christological Perspective: A Soteriological
Hermeneutics of the Word"
Courtney Handman, Anthropology
“Bible Translation and Missionization in the Waria Valley, Papua New Guinea”
Elizabeth Musselman, Theology
“Either/Or or Both/And: A Study of Luther and Kierkegaaard on the Spatial,
Temporal, and Logical Conjunctivity/Disjunctivity of Divine and Human
Activity"
Zhange Ni, Religion and Literature
“Displacement and Integration: Secularization, Migration and Religion
in Contemporary Novel”
Timothy Peebles, Theology
"Explicit and Implicit Faith: Faith Seeking Epistemological and Metaphysical
Understanding"
Gabriel Robinson
Marsaura Shukla, Theology
“Ortholexis: Reading and Theology in the Twentieth Century”
Alicia Turner
Edward Upton, Religion and Literature
“India and Identity in T.S. Eliot’s Poetics of the Self”
Alexander van der Haven, History of Religions
“Daniel Paul Schreber and the Religions of the Kaiserzeit”
Philip Venticinque
"Common Causes: The Social World of Guilds and Associations in Roman and
Late Antique Egypt"
2005–2006
Catherine Adcock, History of Religions
“Contested Categories: Religion and Politics in the Arya Samaj”
Anthony Cerulli, History of Religions
“Somatic Lessons: Mythic Discourse on the Body and Embodiment in Classical
Indian Medical Literature.”
Fanny Dolansky, Department of Classics
"Ritual, Gender, and Status in the Roman Family"
Annette Huizenga, Biblical Studies
“What’s a Woman To Do?: Training Women to Virtue in the Pastoral Epistles
and Texts by Pythagorean Women.”
Rory Johnson, Psychology & Sociology of Religion
“The Persistent Conversation: Religion, Communication and Community.”
Karin Meyers, Philosophy of Religions
“Free Will and Causal Determinism in Indian Scholastic Buddhism: Can We
Decide to Become More Compassionate and Are We Free to Become Liberated?”
Lisa Perez, History of Religions
“Without Illness the Gods Would Die: Healing and Conversion to Santería
in the Urban Midwest”
David Possen, Committee on Social Thought and the Department
of Philosophy
"Søren Kierkegaard and the Very Idea of Advance Beyond Socrates"
Steven Sacks, History of Judaism
“’In His Hand is a Sceptre of Fire, and a Veil is Spread Before Him:’
The Pirke de-Rabbi Eliezer and the Exposition of Medieval Midrash”
Adam Shapiro, Conceptual and Historical Studies of
Science
"Biology Textbook Publishing in the Scopes Era"
Joyce Shin, Religious Ethics
“Faith in an Age of Cultural Pluralism: An Aesthetic Approach to Transformation.”
Justin Tiwald, Committee on Social Thought
"Acquiring 'Feelings that Do Not Err': Moral Deliberation and the
Sympathetic Point of View in the Ethics of Dai Zhen"
Alex Vishio, Religious Ethics
“The Logic of All-Inclusivity: Toward a Revisionary Understanding of the
Divine-World Relation.”
Courtney Wilder, Theology
“Existentialism and Exegesis: Being and the Bible in Bultmann and Tillich.”
2004–2005
Elizabeth Bucar, Religious Ethics
Dissertation: “Rhetorical Analysis as a Strategy for Feminist
Religious Ethics: The Case of John Paul II and Ayatollah Khomeini”
Aimee Burant, Theology
Dissertation: “Imagining Christianity: Nation, Culture, and the
Theology of Ernst Troelscht”
William Elison, History of Religions
Dissertation: “Subjects of Filmistan: Visuality, Lived Spaces,
and Indian Public Culture”
Hillel Gray, History of Judaism
Dissertation: “Rethinking Rabbinic Law in a Policy Context: R.
Moses Feinstein on Cigarette Smoking and Dying”
Michael Johnson, Religious Ethics
Dissertation: “Attestation and Injunction: The Phenomenology
of Conscience in Paul Ricoeur’s Hermeneutics of the Capable Self (A Comparative
Study of Heidegger, Lévinas, and Ricoeur)
Mike Hogue, Religious Ethics
Dissertation: “’The Tangled Bank’: Biology, Ethics, and Theology”
Shubha Pathak, History of Religions
Dissertation: “Odysseus and Nala, Kléos and Dharma: The Interrogations
of Epic Values by Poetic Kings”
Ajay Rao, History of Religions
Dissertation: “Srivaisnava Hermeneutics, 1200–1700: The Practice
of Reading in an Intellectual Community”
Benjamin Sax, History of Judaism
Dissertation: “Between Goethe and Rabbi Akiba: Franz Rosenzweig’s
Hermeneutic of Citation”
Lea Schweitz, Philosophy of Religion
Dissertation: “'The Difference between the Mirror and the One
Who Sees': The Theological Anthropology of G.W. Leibniz”
David Simmons, Religion and Literature
Dissertation: “Poetry and Method in the Eighteenth Century: Johann
Gottfried Herder's Hermeneutics of the Hebrew Bible”
Janet Spittler, Department of New Testament and Early
Christian Literature
Dissertation: “Wild Kingdom: Zoology, Anthropology and Theology
in the Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles”
Ian Straughn, Department of Anthropology
Dissertation: “Surveying the Syrian Landscape: An Archaeological
Investigation of Islamic Socio-Spatial Practice in the Qinnasrin Region,
Northern Syria, 640–1500”
Nelson Tebbe, Psychology and Sociology of Religion
Dissertation: “New African Liberalism: Religion, Culture, and
the South African Constitution”
Blake Wentworth, History of Religions
Dissertation: “A Topology of Devotion: Gender and Power in the
Tamil Ulàs”
Roger Willer, Theology, The Divinity School
Dissertation: “Theological Anthropology and Emergence: Recovering
Conscience Beyond Dualism or Reductionism”
2003–2004
Laurie A. Brink, O.P., Biblical Studies
Dissertation: “The Role of the Roman Military in the Spread of
Early Christianity”
David Zachariah Flanagin, History of Christianity
Dissertation: "Gathering around the Word: The Biblical Roots
of Conciliarism in Jean Gerson"
Sarah Hammerschlag, Philosophy of Religion
Dissertation: “The Trope of the Jew out of the Sources of German
Idealism”
Ellen Haskell, History of Judaism
Dissertation: “Metaphor and Symbolic Representation: The Image
of God as Suckling Mother in Thirteenth-Century Kabbalah”
Patrick A. Hatcher, History of Religions
Dissertation: “Conversion and Community: The Turkic Peoples of
Central Asia in Islamic Discourses of Religious Expansion During the Samanid
Period (875–1005 CE)”
Kevin Jung, Religious Ethics
Dissertation: “Problem of Value: A Comparative Study of Emmanuel
Levinas and H. Richard Niebuhr”
Sharon Lea Mattila, Biblical Studies
Dissertation: "The Socioeconomic Context of the Historical
Jesus: An Interdisciplinary Analysis"
Melanie O’Hara, Religious Ethics
Dissertation: “The Theological Ethics of Neighbor-Love: A Constructive
Engagement with Hans Urs Von Balrhasar”
Karen Park-Koenig, History of Christianity
Dissertation: "'This Girl Hath a Spirit Averse from Calvin':
The Lady Falkland Her Life in Religious and Historical Context"
William Eric Vandever, History of Religions
Dissertation: “Democracy and Religion in Ancient Athens”
William D. Wood, Theology
Dissertation: "Searching for the Secret Instinct: Blaise
Pascal and the Philosophical Analysis of Self-Deception"
William Wright, Theology
Dissertation: "Saving Difference: The Dialectical-Differential
Structure of Calvin's Soteriology"
2002–2003
Jeremy Biles, Religion and Literature
Dissertation: “Ecce Monstrum: Georges Bataille and the Sacrifice
of Form”
Thomas R. Blanton, Biblical Studies
Dissertation: “Constructing a New Covenant: Discursive Strategies
in the Damascus Document and Second Corinthians.”
Thomas Borchert, History of Religions
Dissertation: “Educating Monks: Buddhism, Politics, and Freedom
of Religion on China's Southwest Border”
Amy C. Graves, Romance Languages, Humanities Division
Dissertation: “Simon Goulart (1543–1628): historiographe et proto-journaliste”
Mieke Holkeboer, Theology
Dissertation: “Rethinking the Universal in Universal Human Rights:
A Hermeneutical Approach”
Brandon Johnson, History, Social Sciences Division
Dissertation: “Spirits on the Stage: Public Mediums, Spiritualist
Theater, and American Culture, 1848–1893”
Ernst Karel, Human Development, Social Sciences Division
Dissertation: “Kerala Sound Electricals: Amplified Sound and
Cultural Meaning in South India.”
Erik Owens, Religious Ethics
Dissertation: “Religion, Democracy, and Civic Education in American
Public Schools”
Caroline C. Tolton, History of Christianity
Dissertation: “From Memory to Topology: The Architecture of Persuasion
in the Sermons of Peter Chrysologus”
Kevin J. Wanner, History of Religions
Dissertation: “The Distinguished Norseman: Snorri Sturluson,
the Edda, and the Conversion of Capital in Medieval Scandinavia”
The Chicago Forum On Scholarship In Theology And Religion
Kenneth S. Bigger, Religious Ethics
Dissertation: “Disobedience and Democracy: Habermas, Citizenship,
and Extralegal Political Action”
David Clairmont, Religious Ethics
Dissertation: “Reason, Ritual and Rupture: A Study of Method
in Comparative Religious Ethics with Exemplars from the Roman Catholic
and Theravada Buddhist Traditions”
Cass Fisher, Philosophy of Religion
Dissertation: “Claiming God: Theological Predication and its
Limits in the Mekhilta, the Zohar, and The Star of Redemption”
Jonathan Gold, Philosophy of Religion
Dissertation: “Intellectual Gatekeeper: Sakya Pandita Envisions
the Ideal Scholar”
Kristen Kearns, Theology
Dissertation: “Love from Above: Analogy and Sexual Difference
in the Theology of Hans Urs von Balthasar.”
Michael Kessler, Religious Ethics
Dissertation: “The Emergence of Legal Positivism in Protestant
Political Theology: Just Law Wrought From Human Hands?”
Kaitlin Magoon, Theology
Dissertation: Talking Nonsense about God: Wittgenstein’s Philosophy
of Language and Contemporary Negative Theology”
2001–2002
Francisco Benzoni, Religious Ethics
Dissertation: “Ecological Ethics and the Human Soul: Saint Thomas
Aquinas and the Relation between Human Beings and Material Creation”
Hillel Braude, Committee on the History of Culture
Dissertation: “A Phenomenological and Historical Analysis of
Western Concepts of Human Circulation and the Pulse”
Jason Carbine, History of Religions
Dissertation: "Sons of the Buddha"
Jonathan Ebel, History of Christianity
Dissertation: "Our Sons Have Shown Us God: Faith, Suffering,
and the American Experience of the First World War"
Jonathan Gold, Philosophy of Religions
Dissertation: “Intellectual Gatekeeper: Sakya Pandita Envisions
the Ideal Scholar”
M. Christian Green, Religious Ethics
Dissertation: "Toward a Feminist Hermeneutic of Fatherhood:
Behind the Image of the Family in the Family Law Casebook"
Deborah Green, History of Judaism
Dissertation: "Soothing Odors: A Study of the Transformation
of Scent in Ancient Israelite and Ancient Jewish Literature”
Ashley Passmore, Department of Germanic Studies
Dissertation: "Blut unserer Väter: The Effects of Evolutionary
Theory on Jewish Culture in Austria from the Nachmärz to the First World
War"
The Chicago Forum On Scholarship In Theology And Religion
Jeremy Biles, Religion and Literature
Dissertation: “Ecce Monstrum: Georges Bataille and the Sacrifice
of Form”
Matthew Boulton, Theology
Dissertation: "The End of Liturgy: Martin Luther, Karl Barth,
and a Theology of Invocation"
William Kiblinger, Philosophy of Religions
Dissertation: “Hegelian Complexity: Understanding the Organism”
Richard Nance, Philosophy of Religions
Dissertation: “Accounting for ‘Philosophy:’ A Comparative Study
of Indian Commentarial Practice, 700-1000”
Jonathan Rothchild, Theology
Dissertation: “Fragmentation and Reintegration: Moral Transformation
and Love in Iris Murdoch and Paul Tillich”
Kathleen Self, History of Religions
Dissertation: "Telling the Story: National Myth, Scholarship
and the Conversion of Iceland"
Jerome Gregg Taylor, Theology
Dissertation: “The Theological Defense of Slavery in the Antebellum
South”
2000–2001
Jeremy Bendik-Keymer, Department of Philosophy
Dissertation: “Abusive Loves and the Moral Reason in Love”
Kelly L. Brotzman, Religious Ethics
Dissertation: “Experience and Theological Ethics: A Schleiermacherian
Investigation and Proposal”
David B. Cook, Department of Near Eastern Languages
and Civilizations
Dissertation: “The Beginnings of Islam in Syria during the Umayyad
Period”
Jerome E. Copulsky, Theology
Dissertation: “Between Exile and Redemption: On the Theological-Political
Predicament of Modern Judaism”
William P. Kiblinger, Philosophy of Religions
Dissertation: “Hegelian Complexity: Understanding the Organism”
Jerome Gregg Taylor, Theology
Dissertation: “The Theological Defense of Slavery in the Antebellum
South”
Katherine E. Ulrich, History of Religions
Dissertation: “Divided Bodies: Corporeal, Theological, Textual,
and Social Fragmentation in South Asian Religions”
Dongfeng Xu, Department of Comparative Literature
Dissertation: “The Culture and Rhetoric of Friendship: When the
Occident Meets the Orient”
Robert A. Yelle, History of Religions
Dissertation: “Explaining Mantras: Rhetoric, the Dream of a Natural
Language, and the Efficacy of Ritual”
The Chicago Forum On Scholarship In Theology And Religion
Sharon L. Albert, Religion and Literature
Dissertation: “Translating Stories, Transforming Cultures; Translated
Prose Narratives in the Jewish Communities of Medieval Provence and Spain”
Daniel A. Arnold, Philosophy of Religions
Dissertation: “Mimamsakas and Madhyamikas against the Buddhist
Epistemologists: a Comparative Study of Two Indian critiques o Foundationalism”
Matthew C. Baldwin, Biblical Studies
Dissertation: “Reading Peter, Reading Christ: The Acts of Peter,
the Actus Vercellenses, and the Canonical Gospels in early Christian Discourse”
Kristin E. Boyce, Religion and Literature
Dissertation: “Assuming Our Worlds: Finitude in the Writing of
Henry James and Stanley Cavell”
Perry T. Hamalis, Religious Ethics
Dissertation: “The Politics of Personhood”
Loren D. Lybarger, Psychology/Sociology of Religion
Dissertation: “Religion, Generations, and Collective Memory among
Muslim and Christian Palestinians in Post-Intifada Bethlehem”
Paul R. Powers, History of Religions
Dissertation: “Intentionality in Classical Islamic Law”
Brenda J. Shaver, Biblical Studies
Dissertation: “Elijah: The Growth of a Tradition”
1999–2000
Robert Alvis, History of Christianity
Dissertation: “Religion and the Rise of Nationalism in East-Central
Europe: A Case Study of Poznan 1793-1843”
Kelly Chong, Department of Sociology
Dissertation: “Agony in Prosperity: Evangelicalism, Women, and
the Politics of Gender in South Korea”
William Dotson, Department of English Language and Literature
Dissertation: “Sacred Conspiracies: Spiritualist and Occult Politics
in Britain, 1843–1916”
Ron Mourad, Philosophy of Religions
Dissertation: “The Knowledge of Necessity: Transcendental Arguments
and Theological Method”
Marcos Natali, Department of Comparative Literature
Dissertation: “The Politics of Nostalgia: An Essay on Ways of
Relating to the Past”
Clare Rothschild, Biblical Studies
Dissertation: “Luke-Acts and the Rhetoric of History”
Christian Sheppard, Religion and Literature
Dissertation: “All So Luscious: Mystical Walt Whitman”
Richard Weiss, History of Religions
Dissertation: “The Construction of a Holy Science: Siddha Medicine
and Tradition in South India”
Brett Wilmot, Religious Ethics
Dissertation: “Religious Belief and Democratic Discourse: Reevaluating
the Role of Epistemology in a Normative Theory of Democracy”
The Chicago Forum On Scholarship In Theology And Religion (Lilly)
Rosemary Polanin Carbine, Theology
Dissertation: “Becoming Persons of Accountability: A Feminist
Theological Anthropology for Theological Education”
Gregory Grieve, History of Religions
Dissertation: “Everyday Religion: Modernity, Tradition, and Samsaric
Practice in the Newar City of Bhaktapur, Nepal”
Karina Hogan, Biblical Studies
Dissertation: “Theologies in Conflict in 4 Ezra”
Paul Kollman
Dissertation: “Making Catholics: Slave Evangelization and the
Origins of the Catholic Church in Nineteenth-Century East Africa”
Hilda P. Koster, Theology
Dissertation: “For the Future of the Earth: Salvation and Creation
in Ecological Theologies”
Jonathan Moore, History of Christianity
Dissertation: “Fighting the ‘Octogovernment’: The Rutherford
Institute and Christian Legal Advocacy in Twentieth-Century America”
Robin O’Sullivan, History of Christianity
Dissertation: “Model, Mirror and Memorial: Imitation of the Passion
and the Annihilation of the Imagination in Angela
Jamie Schillinger, Religious Ethics
Dissertation: “Triangulating faith, virtue and reason: An Edwardsean
account (Jonathan Edwards)”
1998–1999
The Chicago Forum On Scholarship In Theology And Religion (Lilly)
Patricia Beckman
Amy Carr, Theology
Dissertation: “Questioning Idols: Divine Countenance in Trauma
and Conversion” (a study of Martin Luther and Simone Weil on senses of
God during affliction)
Kathleen Flake
Dissertation: “Mr. Smoot Goes to Washington: The Politics of
Religious Identity 1900-2000”
Connie Furey, History of Christianity
Dissertation: “In the School of God: Religious Epistemology and
Intellectual Identity in Pre-Tridentine Italy”
Scott Romans
Dissertation: “The Function and Significance of Original Revelation
in Schleiermacher’s Dogmatics”
Rebecca Schorsch, History of Judaism
Dissertation: “"The Making of a Legend: Louis Ginzberg’s
Legends of the Jews"
James Thompson, Religious Ethics
Dissertation: “Moral Vision in a Disenchanted Age: Karl Barth,
Kames Gustafson, and the Question of God and Morality”
1997–1998
Amy Carr, Theology
Dissertation: “Questioning Idols: Divine Countenance in Trauma
and Conversion” (a study of Martin Luther and Simone Weil on senses of
God during affliction)
Pi-Yen Chen, Department of Music
Dissertation: "Morning and Evening Service: The Practice
of Ritual, Music, and Doctrine in Chinese Buddhist Monastic Community"
Radcliffe Edmonds, Department of Classical Languages
and Literatures
Dissertation: “A Path Neither Simple Nor Single: The Use of Myth
in Plato, Aristophanes, and the 'Orphic' Gold Tablets”
Julie Gifford, Department of Social Thought
Dissertation: “Picturing the Path: The Visual Rhetoric of Barabudur
(Indonesia)”
Amy Harvey
Jeffery D. Long
Dissertation: “Plurality and Relativity: Whitehead, Janism, and
the Reconstruction of Religious Pluralism”
Jonathan Moore, History of Christianity
Dissertation: “Fighting the ‘Octogovernment’: The Rutherford
Institute and Christian Legal Advocacy in Twentieth-Century America”
Gordon Rudy, History of Christianity
Dissertation: “Mystical Language of Sensation in the Later Middle
Ages”
Darlene Weaver
Dissertation: “Being and Becoming before God: A Theological Ethical
Account of Right Self Love”
1996–1997
Dan Buchanan, History of Christianity
Dissertation: “Identifying the Image of God: A Theology of Nonviolent
Power in the Antebellum United States”
Connie Furey, History of Christianity
Dissertation: “In the School of God: Religious Epistemology and
Intellectual Identity in Pre-Tridentine Italy”
Hugh Urban, History of Religions
Dissertation: “The ‘Poor Company’: Secrecy and Symbolic Power
in the Kartabhaja Sect of Colonial Bengal”
Ruth Chojnacki, Committee on the History of Culture
Dissertation: “Indigenous Apostles: Maya Catholic Catechists
Working the Word in Highland Chiapas, Mexico”
Eric W. Kraemer, Department of Anthropology
Claire Wolfteich, Practical Theology
Dissertation: “Towards an Integrative Lay Spirituality: Living,
Faith, Family, and Work”
Dereck Daschke, Psychology and Sociology of Religion
Dissertation: “Loss, Fantasy, and Recovery in Ancient Judaism:
Ezekiel, 4 Ezra, and the Baruch Apocalypses as Texts of Mourning”
Chuck Mathewes, Theology
Dissertation: “The Challenge of Tragedy for the Human Good: The
Augustinian Proposals of Reinhold Niebuhr and Hannah Arendt”
Rebecca Schorsch, History of Judaism
Dissertation: “"The Making of a Legend: Louis Ginzberg’s
Legends of the Jews"
1995–1996
Shannon Burkes, Biblical Studies
Dissertation: “A Comparative Analysis of the Problem of Death
in Qoheleth and Late Period Egyptian Biographies”
Jeffrey Carter, History of Religions
Dissertation: “The Celestial Church of Christ Syncretism, Ritual
Practice, and the Invention of Tradition in a New Religious Movement”
Kevin Hughes, History of Christianity
Dissertation: “The Apostle and the Adversary: Paul and Antichrist
in the Early Medieval exegesis of 2 Thessalonians”
Derek Jefferys, Religious Ethics
Dissertation: “Political Disorder and Divine Power: John Calvin
and the Theistic Ground of Political Realism”
Joy McDougall, Theology
Dissertation: “The Pilgrimage of Love: The Trinitarian Theology
of Jurgen Moltmann”
Joseph Pettit, Religious Ethics
Dissertation: “Pragmatism and Theism: A Question of Ethics”
Shantanu Phukan, Department of South Asian Languages
and Civilizations
Dissertation: “Through a Persian Prism: Hindi and Padmavat in
the Mughal Imagination”
Paul Ranzini, Department of Music
Rebecca Raphael, Religion and Literature
Dissertation: “Divine Word, Divine Song: Inspiration and authority
in Hesiod and First Isaiah”
Allen Singleton, Philosophy of Religion
Dissertation: “Metaphysics and Practice in the ‘Xiang er’ Commentary
to the ‘Lao zi’”
1994–1995
Elizabeth Dale, Department of History
Dissertation: “Snares of Conscience: The Trial of Anne Hutchinson,
November 1637”
Paul DeHart, Theology
Dissertation: “Faith, Thought and Wissenschaft: Eberhard Jungel
on the Structure of Theology”
Mary Doak, Theology
Dissertation: “Story, History and Public Theology”
Jane Geaney, Philosophy of Religions
Dissertation: “Classical Chinese Philosophy (500-221 BCE)
Kathryn Kueny, History of Religions
Dissertation: “Qur’anic Vignettes of the Vine: Symbolic Discourse
and the Signs for Those Who Know”
Joanne Maguire, History of Christianity
Dissertation: “Secrets from the Court of the King: Nobility and
Annihilation in Marguerite Porete’s Mirror of Simple Souls”
Woodman Taylor, Department of Art
Dissertation: “The Aesthetics of Visuality in the Vallabha Sampradaya”
Marion Holmes Katz, Department of Near Eastern Languages
and Civilizations
Dissertation: “The Qur’anic Law of Ritual Purity”
Carol Thysell, Religion and Literature
Dissertation: “The Pleasure of Discernment: Marguerite de Navarre’s
Heptameron as a Literary/Theological Response to Calvin’s Treatise Against
the Spiritual Libertines”
1993–1994
Aditya Behl, History of Religions
Dissertation: “Allegory and the Promise of Silence: Reading the
Madhumalati”
Thomas Carlson, Theology
Dissertation: “Apophaticism and the Unconditional: Marion and
Derrida on the Theology and Philosophy of the Gift”
Julia Crutchfield, History of Christianity
Dissertation: “The Doctrine of God in Milton’s De Doctrina Christiana”
Jacob Kinnard, History of Religions
Dissertation: “Towards a Dialectic of Practice: The Visual Discourse
on the Presence of the Buddah”
Lois Malcom, Theology
Dissertation: “Analogies of Grace and the Mystery of God in Eberhard
Juengel and Karl Rahner”
Michael McGrade, Department of Music
Dissertation: “Urbs Aquensis, Urbs Regalis: Context and Content
of a Liturgical Sequence at Aachen Twelfth Century”
Andrew Orta, Department of Anthropology
Dissertation: “The Politics of Personhood: the Fabrication of
Difference and the Negotiation of Identity on the Aymara-Christian Frontier”
Clifford Peterson, Department of Anthropology
Dissertation: “The Visionary Art of May Stone Ford: A Semiotic
Ethnography of the Poetics of a Religious Imagination of Midwestern America”
Joel Sweek, Biblical Studies
Dissertation: “Dreams of Cult and Power: Oneiromantic in the
Divinatory Economy of the Ancient Near East”
Jeanne Wirpsa, Religious Ethics
Dissertation: “On the Meaning of Being Human: The Homelessness
of Women from a Christian Feminist Ethical Perspective”
1992–1993
J. Matthew Ashley, Theology
Dissertation: “The Defense of the Subject: Johannes Baptist Metz
and the Problem of Anthropology”
John Dally, Religion and Literature
Dissertation: “The Eternally Begotten Son: Language, Desire,
and Resurrection in the Gospel of John and Proust’s Recherche”
Laura Grillo, History of Religions
Dissertation: “Divination in the Religious Systems of here West
African Societies”
James Hanges, Bible
Dissertation: “Paul, Founder of Churches: A Study in Light of
the Evidence for the Role of ‘Founder Figures’ in the Hellenistic-Roman
Period”
Kevin Schilbrack, Religious Ethics
Dissertation: “The Metaphysical Interpretation of Religions”
1991–1992
Brian Britt, Religion and Literature
Dissertation: “The Hebrew Bible as Sacred Text in Deuteronomy
31-34 and in the Philosophy of Walter Benjamin”
Peter D’Agostino, History of Christianity
Dissertation: “Missionaries in Babylon: The Adaptation of Italian
Priests to Chicago’s Church, 1870-1940”
Rebekah Miles-Delony, Religious Ethics
Dissertation: “Ethics and Transcendence: Rosemary Ruether, Sharon
Welch, and Reinhold Niebhur”
Mary Stimming
Dissertation: “New Nazareths in Us: Towards a Sacramental Work
Interpretation of Lutheran, Reformed, and Roman Catholic Doctrines of
the Means of Grace”
Jon Walters
Dissertation: “Rethinking Buddhist Missions”
1990–1991
Francisca Cho Bantly, History of Religions
Dissertation: “The Dream of the Nine Clouds: A Buddhist Contribution
to the Philosophy of Religions”
Ian Evison, Practical Theology
Dissertation: “Pragmatism and Idealism in the Professions: The
Case of Richard Clarke Cabot, 1869-1939”
William Parsons, Religion and the Human Sciences
Dissertation: “Psychoanalysis and Mysticism: The Freud-Rolland
Correspondence”
Stephanie Paulsell, Religion and Literature
Dissertation: “Scriptio divina: writing and the experience of
God in the Works of Marguertie d’Oingt”
Barbara Pitkin, Theology
Dissertation: “What Pure Eyes Could See: Faith, Creation, and
History in John Calvin’s Theology”
Seung Ai Yang
Dissertation: “The Original Intention of the Longer Version of
the Temptation Story of Jesus (Matt 4:11; Luke 4:1-13) as a Jewish Story
of God’s Testing of the Righteous Man Jesus”
1989–1990
Tim Bryson, History of Religions
Dissertation: “The Hermeneutics of Religious Syncretism: Swami
Vivekanada’s Practical Vedanta”
Steven Cooley, History of Christianity
Dissertation: “The Possibilities of Grace: Poetic Discourses
and Reflection in Methodist/Holiness Revivalism”
Amy Hollywood, Theology
Dissertation: “The Soul as Virgin Wife: Meister Eckhart and the
Beguine Mystics Mechthild of Magdeburg and Marguerite Porete”
Kevin Madigan, History of Christianity
Dissertation: “Peter Olivi’s Lectura super Mathaeum in Medieval
Exegetical context”
Brent Sockness, Theology
Dissertation: “The Shape of Theological Ethics: A Comparative
Study of Wilhelm Herman and Ernst Troeltsch”
Todd Whitmore, Ethics and Society
Dissertation: “Responsiveness to World and God: Elements of a
Christian Ethic”
1988–1989
Paul Capetz, Theology
Dissertation: “The Dogmatic Function of the Concept of Religion
in Schleiermacher’s Glaubenslehre”
Catherine Covington-East
Charles Elder, Religion and Psychological Studies
Dissertation: “Psychoanalysis, Grammar, and the Limits of Critique:
A Wittgensteinian Reading of Freud”
Steven W. Holloway, Bible (Old Testament)
Dissertation: “The Case for Assyrian Religious Influence in Israel
and Judah: Inference and Evidence”
Mark W. MacWilliams, History of Religions
Dissertation: “Kannon Temple Myths (Engi): Sacred Histories and
Folk Buddhism in Japan”
Jeff Alan Trumbower, Bible
Dissertation: “The Fixed Origins of Human Beings in the Gospel
of John”
1987–1988
Ellen Babinsky,
Dissertation: “A Beguine in the Court of the King: The Relation
of Love and Knowledge in 'The Mirror of Simple Souls' by Marguerite Porete”
Robert F. Campany, History of Religions
Dissertation: “Chinese Accounts of the Strange: A Study in the
History of Religions”
Dawn A. DeVries, Theology
Dissertation: “Christus Praesens: Word and History in the Preaching
of John Calvin and Friedrich Schleiermacher”
John Hendricks, Ethics and Society
Dissertation: “Hume’s Critique of Religion and Its Implications
for Contemporary Religious Thought”
Gordon Marino
Dissertation: “Kierkegaard's Anthropology”
Jon Pahl, History of Christianity
Dissertation: “Free Will and the American Character, 1725–1800”
Jeff B. Pool, Theology
Dissertation: “God’s Wounds: The Structure and Dynamism of the
Christian Symbol of Divine Suffering”
1986–1987
William Buckley, Ethics and Society
Dissertation: “Attesting Agency and Transcendental Subjectivity:
An Ethical Analysis of the Theological Anthropologies of Karl Barth and
Karl Rahner”
Leo Lefebure, Theology
Dissertation: “Toward a Contemporary Wisdom Christology: A Study
of Karl Rahner and Norman Pittenger”
Peter Mehl, Religion and Psychological Studies
Dissertation: “Soren Kierkegaard, William James and the Contemporary
Search for an Ideal of Humanness: Toward a Comprehensive Perspective on
Personhood”
Kay Read, History of Religions
Dissertation: “Binding Reeds and Burning Hearts: Mexica-Tenochca
Concepts of Time and Sacrifice”
1985–1986
Charles Allen
Dissertation: “The Recovery of Phronesis: Its Implications for
the Role of Practical Reason in Theology”
Karen Guberman
Dissertation: “Perfecting the Body: Towards a Kabbalistic Anthropology”
Christine Hinze
Dissertation: “Thinking About Power in Social Ethics and Social
Theory”
Mark Wallace, Theology
Dissertation: “The World of the Text: Theological Hermeneutics
in the Thought of Karl Barth and Paul Ricoeur”
1984–1985
Charles Hallisey
Dissertation: “Devotion in the Buddhist Literature of Medieval
Sri Lanka”
William Schweiker, Ethics and Society
Dissertation: “The Play of Texts—The Way of Discipleship”
Douglas Sell
Dissertation: “The Theft of Context: A Hermeneutics of the Priest”
Jane Strohl, History of Christianity
Dissertation: “Theological Perspectives on Death: The Medieval
Ars Moriendi, Luther’s ‘Ein Sermon von der Bereitung zum Sterben,’ and
Schleiermacher’s Address at his Son’s Funeral”
Randall Zachman, Theology
Dissertation: “The Testimony of the Word and Spirit and the Testimony
of conscience in the Theology of Luther and Calvin”
Eric Ziolkowski, Religion and Literature
Dissertation: “The Religious Transformation of Don Quixote”
1983–1984
David Carpenter, History of Religions/Theology
Dissertation: “The Light of the Word: A Comparative Study of
Hindu and Christian Theories of Revelation”
Leland Estes
Dissertation: “The Role of Medical Theory in the Rise and the
Fall of the European Witch Hunt Talk”
William Trent Foley, History of Christianity
Dissertation: “St. Wilfred of York as Pius Pater: A Study of
Late Roman Piety in Early Christian England”
David Haberman, History of Religions
Dissertation: “Raganuga Bhakti Sadhan” Acting as a Way of Salvation”
Susan Henking, Religion and Psychological Studies
Dissertation: “Protestant Religious Experience and the Rise of
American Sociology: The Evidence of Autobiography”
1982–1983
Daniel Bornstein
Dissertation: “The Bianchi: A Popular Religious Movement of the
Early Italian Renaissance”
Joseph Colombo
Dissertation: “Towards a Theology of History: An Essay on the
Critical Sociology of the Frankfurt School and the Theologies of Johann
Metz and Wolfhart Pannenberg”
William Madges
Dissertation: “The Core of Christian Faith: David Friedrich Strauss
and his Catholic Critics”
Stephen Post
Dissertation: “On the Relation of Self-Love to Love of God”
Brian Smith
Dissertation: “Perfection in Rituals”
Ann Taves
Dissertation: “The Rise of Devotionalism”
1981–1982
Arnold Aronoff, History of Religions
Dissertation: “Contrasting Modes of Textual Classification: The
Jataka Commentary and Its Relationship to the Pali Canon”
Steven Bailey, History of Christianity
Dissertation: “American Congregationalism and the United church
of Christ”
John Barbour, Religion and Literature
Dissertation: “A Comparison of Two Essays on the Theme of Public
Virtue; Stanley Hauerwas’ A Community of Character and Alastair MacIntyre’s
After Virtue”
Gary Comstock, Religion and Literature
Dissertation: “The Text in the Reader: The Functions of Four
Narratives in the Reader’s Christian Moral Life”
Justin Miller, Religion and Psychological Studies
Dissertation: “An Interpretation of Freud’s Jewishness: The Influence
of the German-Jewish Problem of Identity on Psychoanalysis in Its Origin
and Theory”
Lawrence E. Sullivan, History of Religions
Dissertation: “On the Influence of Mircea Eliade on Philosophy
and Theology”
Mark Taylor, Theology
Dissertation: “Religious Dimension and Cultural Anthropology”
1980–1981
Steven Bailey, History of Christianity
Dissertation: “The Changing Role of Conversion in New England
between 1630 and the Great Awakening”
John Barbour, Religion and Literature
Dissertation: “Narrative Tragedy as Critique of Virtue: The Princess
Cassamassima, Notromo, and All the King’s Men”
Catherine M. Bell, History of Religions
Dissertation: “Medieval Taoist Ritual Mastery: A Study in Practice,
Text, and Rite”
K. Brynolf Lyon, Religion and Psychological Studies
Dissertation: “Practical Theology and Human Fulfillment: The
Religio-Ethical Structure of Old Age”
Lawrence E. Sullivan, History of Religions
Dissertation: “History of Cosmologies and Healing in South American
Indian Religions”
Mark Taylor, Theology
Dissertation: “On a Religious Dimension to Levi-Strauss’ Anthropology”
Senior Research Fellows
2007-2008
Mary Gerhart, Professor Emerita of Religious Studies at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, working on a book with the working title, The Divine Conjectures: Toward a Loving Universe, based on what is known of the workings of conjecture and hypothesis in science and religion.
2006-2007
J. Ron Engel, Professor Emeritus, Meadville-Lombard Theological School, researching the Earth Covenant, including University of Chicago connections.
2005–2006
Andrea Althoff, researching Catholic Charismatic Renewal and the Protestant Pentecostal Movement among new immigrants in Chicago.
Celia Brickman, Center for Religion and Psychotherapy of Chicago. Researching modern and contemporary western constructions of religion from the perspectives of psychoanalysis, postcolonial theory, and (gender and) critical race theory.
Joseph Prabhu, Department of Philosophy, California State University, Los Angeles. Researching for book "Hegel, India, and the Dark Face of Modernity."
Winnifred Sullivan, researching "Comparing Religions, Legally"—how different legal systems talk about religion comparatively.
2004–2005
Angela Kallhoff, Assistant Professor, Department of
Philosophy, University of Münster, Germany
Research: Working on a normative theory that provides answers to the question
of why public goods should exist, using various theories of justice and
democracy.
Hugh Nicholson, Assistant Professor of Religion, Coe
College, Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Research: Formulating a model of comparative theology that dissociates
a valid concern with self-definition from an unexamined oppositional attitude
towards other religious traditions.
2003–2004
Mary M. Keys, Assistant Professor, Department of Political
Science, University of Notre Dame
Research: Completing book, Virtue, Law, and the Common Good: The Relevance
of Thomas Aquinas, and beginning major research project on "Humility
and Modernity"
Michael Lieb, Research Professor of Humanities and Professor
of English, Department of English, University of Illinois at Chicago
Research: Researching for book on Milton’s concept of God set against
ongoing debates about the place of heresy and orthodoxy in the Miltonic
canon
2002–2003
Dennis Beach, OSB, Associate Professor of Philosophy,
College of Saint Benedict/ Saint John’s University, Collegeville, Minnesota
Research: Researching the Mexican/Argentinean philosopher and church historian
Enrique Dussel's work on philosophy of liberation and its relation to
Emmanuel Levinas' ethics of the other person
Norbert Hintersteiner, Scientific Collaborator and Lecturer,
Institute of Dogmatic Theology, University of Vienna
Research: Researching for book, Translating God(s): Models and Methods
in Comparative Theology
M. Cathleen Kaveny, John P. Murphy Foundation Professor
of Law and Theology, Notre Dame Law School
Research: Researching for book on complicity with wrongdoing, drawing
on sources from a number of disciplines, including theology, law, philosophy,
and literature, to explore when, how, and to what degree agents are morally
responsible for contributing to or benefiting from the wrongdoing of others
2001–2002
Wilhelm Grab, Professor of Practical Theology and Director
of the Institute of Sociology and Religion, Humboldt University, Berlin
(winter quarter)
Research: “Motifs of the Biographical Interpretation of Meaning and the
Contours of Contemporary Media Religion in Feature Films and Television”
Amy Hollywood, Associate Professor of Christian Thought,
Dartmouth College
Research: Working on two new projects, one dealing with mysticism, memory,
and trauma in the late Middle Ages; the other with the relationship between
bodily practices, visionary and ecstatic experience, and belief within
medieval Christianity
Andrew Murphy, Lecturer in the Social Sciences Collegiate
Division, University of Chicago
Research: Working on a book about narratives of decay and decline in contemporary
American discourse
Sarah Pessin, Postdoctoral Fellow, American Academy
for Jewish Research; Instructor in the History of Judaism, the Divinity
School
Research: Working on a book that explores the unique Neoplatonic relationship
between philosophy and poetry in the work of the eleventh-century Jewish
philosopher Solomon Ibn Gabirol
William Placher, LaFollette Distinguished Professor
in the Humanities of Philosophy and Religion, Wabash College
Research: Completing the editing of a collaborative systematic theology
text entitled Essentials of Christian Theology; also working on a project
of theology for lectionary preachers
Brendan Purcell, Senior Lecturer in Philosophical Anthropology,
University College Dublin (autumn quarter)
Research: Working on two new books: a philosophical critique of the debate
on the Darwinian theory of evolution, and a philosophical context for
the question of human origins
2000–2001
Andrew Murphy, Independent Scholar
Research: Working on a book about narratives of decay and decline in contemporary
American discourse.
Sarah Pessin, Postdoctoral Fellow, American Academy
for Jewish Research; Instructor in the History of Judaism, the Divinity
School.
Research: Working on a book, Unity and Desire: The Philosophy and Poetry
of Solomon Ibn Gabirol, that explores the unique Neoplatonic relationship
between philosophy and poetry in the work of the eleventh-century Jewish
philosopher Solomon Ibn Gabirol. Also teaching two graduate seminars on
Jewish Medieval Philosophy in the Divinity School.
James Sheehan, Social Worker and Family Psychotherapist,
Dublin, Ireland
Research: Conducting research on the figure of the human subject that
emerges from Paul Ricoeur’s intertextual approach to biblical imagination,
and the relationship this figure has with those that arise from Ricoeur’s
work on Freud and his study of narrative in its relation to time/ the
interdisciplinary character of this research concerns the extent to which
a reading of these figures in relation to one another can refigure a view
of the subject in psychotherapy.
1999–2000
Larry Greenfield
Hans Kippenberg
Bruce Lawrence
Leo Lefebure
Teruo Utsinomiya
1998–1999
Anne Blackburn, Department of Religious Studies, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina
Leo Lefebure, Dean of Ecclesiastical faculty of Theology and Professor of Systematic theology, University of Saint Mary of the Lake, Mundelein Seminary, Illinois
Esther Menn, Department of Religious Studies, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
1997–1998
Maria Antonaccio
Kelton Cobb
Donald F. Duclow
Penny Gold
Laura Grillo
Franz Gruber
Sara Johnston
June Nash
Irene Schneider
1996–1997
Carol Anderson
Nadine (Dena) Frantz
Cecilia Lynch
Stephanie Paulsell
Eung Chun Park
Chris Peri (Christ Raj Perianayagam)
Heinze Schmidt
1995–1996
Michael Mach
George Pfleiderer
Turid Seim
Masakazu Tanatsugu
1994–1995
Daniel Bornstein, guest participant
Michel Gardaz
William P. George
Ithamar Gruenwald
Marcia Hermansen
Reinhard Hütter
Philip Mellor
Mary D. Pellauer
Regina Schwartz
Sukhbir Singh
Masakazu Tanatsugu
Zhigang Cui
1993–1994
Said Arjomand, State University of New York, Stony Brook,
NY
Research: “Authority and Public Law in Sunni and Shi’ite Islam” and “The
Higher Criticism of the Koran and Prophetic Hadith”
Zhigang Cui, Institute of World Religions, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
Günter Frank, University of Erfurt, Germany
Research: “Catholicism and Socialism: The Ideological Confrontation in
the SED-State”
Wesley Isenberg, Concordia University, River Forest,
Illinois
Research: “The Structure of Mark”
Margaret Mitchell, McCormick Theological Seminary, Chicago,
Illinois
Research: “’The Archetypal Image’: John Chrysostom’s Portraits of Paul”
Willemien Otten, Loyola University, Chicago, Illinois
Research: “Theology and Poetry in Alan of Lille’s Plaint of Nature”
Winnifred Sullivan, History of Religions
Dieter Zeller, Johannes Guttenberg-Universitat, Mainz,
Germany
Research: “Life and Death of the Soul: Use and Origin of the Metaphor
in Philo of Alexandria”
Bernd Kollman, Georg-August-Universitet Gottingen, Germany
Research: “Jesus the Magician?”
1992–1993
Bernd Kollman
Sigrid Brandt
Eduardo Rodrigues da Cruz
Jörg Dierken
Hent de Vries
Odette Mainville
1991–1992
Goran Larsson
Yoko Okuda Miyamoto
Charles Kannengiesser
Lee Yearley
1990–1991
Daniel Brumberg
Thomas A. Byrnes
Paul J. Griffiths
Janet Larson
Glen Lewandowski
James Stegenga
Shirley Thorpe
Dario Zadra
1989–1990
William Baird
Frank Clooney
Hans D. van Hoogstraten
Joshua Mitchell
Sueo Oshima
J. Wesley Robbins
1988–1989
James Buchanan
Matei Calinescu
Gail Eifrig
Terence Fretheim
Warren Vinz
1987–1988
Frederick S. Carney
Paul Lachance
Leo G. Perdue
Michael Perko
Susan Ross
Brian K. Smith
Christoph Strohm
Carl Volz
Malcolm Woodfield
1986–1987
Clifford Christians
John Cumpsty
John A. Gallagher
Pierre Gisel
David Hellholm
Marcia Rickard
Dale Schlitt
1985–1986
Roland DeLattre, Program in American Studies, University
of Minnesota – Twin Cities
Research: “Supply-Side Spirituality: A Case-Study in the Cultural Interpretation
of Religious Ethics” and “The Culture of Procurement: Reflections on Addiction
and the Dynamics of American Culture”
Judith Berling, Department of Religious Studies, Indiana
University
Research: “Rethinking the Reinterpretations of Traditions: Religious Change
in Southeast China during the Sung”
Susan Shapiro, Department of Religion, Syracuse University
Research: “Recovering the Sacred” and “Failing Speech”
Terry Godlove, unaffiliated at the time
Research: “Theism and the Structure of Moral Action in Kant”
Roger Hatch, Department of Religion, Central Michigan
University
Research: Jesse Jackson and Civil Religion”
Charl le Roux, Department of Science of Religion, University
of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa
Research: “Indian Culture in South Africa”
Barbara Les, Professor of Sociology of Religion, Jagellian
Institute, Krakow, Poland
Research: Religion and Patriotism: Comparison on Poland, France, Great
Britain, and the United States”
Trutz Rendtorff, Institut für Systematische Theologie,
University of Munich
Research: “Beyond Modernity”
Robert Segal, Department of Religion, Louisiana state
University
Research: Research on theories of myth in Jung and Freud; did not make
a seminar presentation.
1984–1985
Carl Braaten, Professor of Systematic Theology, Lutheran
School of Theology at Chicago
Research: “The Problem of the Absoluteness of Christianity: An Apologetic
Reflection”
David Burrell, Department of Philosophy, University
of Notre Dame
Research: “Reason and Prophecy or Revelation; Comparative Notes on Islamic
and Christian Sources”
John Coleman, Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley
Research: “The Ethics of Sainthood”
Charles Courtney, Department of Philosophy and Religion,
Drew University
Research: Toward a Theory of Religion: Lindbeck’s Cultural-Linguistic
Proposal”
William Dean, Department of Religion, Gustavus Adolphus
College
Research: The New Historicism and Its Theological Uses”
Jean Duhaime, Faculty of Theology, University of Montreal
Research: “Dualistic Interpretations in the Scrolls from Qumran”
Robert Fuller, Department of Religious Studies, Bradley
University
Research: “The Psyche as Symbol: Popular Psychology and Unchurched American
Religious Thought”
Penny Gill, Department of Politics, Mount Holyoke College
Research: “Bride and Mouthpiece: Bridget of Sweden”
Barbara Les, Professor of Sociology of Religion, Jagellian
Institute, Krakow, Poland
Research: Religion and National Identity: The American Civil Religion
Reconsidered”
Lee Snook, Department of Systematic Theology, Luther
Northwestern Theological Seminary
Research: The Anonymous Christ: Jesus as Savior in Modern Theology”
David Truemper, Department of Theology, Valparaiso University
Research: Towards a Theological Profile of Lutheranism”
Michael Welker, Eberhard-Karls-Universität, Evangelisch-Theologisches
Seminar, University of Tübingen
Research: “Security of Expectations: Reformulating the Theology of Law
and Gospel”
1983–1984
Stanley N. Rosenbaum, Department of Religion, Dickinson
College
Research: A paper on Amos, proposing that Amos came from the Northern
Kingdom and was the last Northern, not the first Southern, prophet, and
the consequent linguistic ramifications of this for Scripture
Douglas Sturm, Department of Religion, Bucknell University
Research: “Natural Law” (a proposed article for the Encyclopedia of Religion
(New York: Macmillan and the Free Press, forthcoming)
Hirmoasa Mase, Department of Philosophy, Keio University,
Japan
Research: “Man’s Relation to Nature: Toward an Ecological Ethic”
Douglas Ottati, Union Theological Seminary, Richmond,
Virginia
Research: The Neo-Orthodox Vision in Christian Theology”
William Warthling, Department of Philosophy, Niagara
Community College, Sanborn, New York
Research: Post-Modern Science and Theology”
Robert Falkowitz, Department of Near Eastern Studies,
Cornell University
Research: “Historical Perspectives and Condensation of Signification in
the Representation of the Sacred in Ancient Mesopotamia”
Viggo Mortensen, Institute of Ethics and Philosophy,
University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark
Research: “Myth, Religion, and Experience on the Agenda of Theology”
John Nilson, Department of Theology, Loyola University
of Chicago
Research: “What Might We Still Learn from Walter Rauschenbusch?”
Warren Copeland, Department of Religion, Wittenberg University
Research: Research and writing on economics and ethics; did not make a
seminar presentation
David Carrasco, Department of Religious Studies, University
of Colorado at Boulder
Research: Honorary Fellow and Visiting Scholar at the University of Chicago,
doing research on Aztec and Mayan practices of human sacrifice within
the context of the “theatre state” concept of Clifford Geertz; did not
make a seminar presentation
1982–1983
Lauree Hersch Meyer, Biblical Studies, Bethany Theological
Seminary
Research: “Meaning Making: The Social Structure of Perception and Identity”
Elizabeth McMillan, Dean, Carlow College
Research: “The Body as a Work of Art: Merleau-Ponty’s Meditation on Cezanne”
Mavourneen Joy, Department of Religion, Gettysburg College
Research: “The Greek Heritage and the Contemporary Situation”
Eva Hooker, Associate Dean of Faculty, St. Mary’s College
Research: “‘Myself—The Term Between—‘: Forms of Silence and Self-Knowledge”
Donald Miller, Christian Education and Ethics, Bethany
Theological Seminary
Research: “The Faith Community as a Teacher: A Textbook in Religious Education”
1981–1982
Joseph Byrnes, Department of Religious Studies, Oklahoma
State University
Research: Paper on conflict and fulfillment theories in the psychosocial
measurement of religious data
Gregory Singleton, Department of History, Northeastern
Illinois University
Research: Paper on Church as a sociological phenomenon in America
Raymond Weiss, Department of Philosophy, University
of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Research: Paper on philosophic ethics and religious morality in the works
of Maimonides
Harlan Beckley, Department of Religion, Washington and
Lee University
Research: “A Christian Affirmation of Rawls’ Ideal of Justice as Fairness”
David Sudermann, Department of Modern and Classical
Languages, Pacific Lutheran University
Research: “The Context of Pre-Courtly Epic”
Wesley W. Isenberg, Department of Theology, Concordia
College
Research: “Four Initiation Pericopes in Acts”
Mark Krupnick, Department of English and Comparative
Literature, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Research: “Saul Bellow and the Intellectuals”
Chicago Forum on Pedagogy and the Study of Religion Fellows
2006–07
Emmanuelle Burton
Megan Doherty
Alain Epp Weaver
Hillel Gray
Adrian Guiu
Joel Harter
Cabell King
Anne Mocko
Michael Sohn
Alexander van der Haven
2004–2005
Tom Blanton, Biblical Studies
Brian Collins, History of Religions
Jeff Israel, Religious Ethics
Elizabeth Musselman, Theology
Elizabeth Pérez, History of Religions
Seth Perry, History of Christianity
Steven Sacks, History of Judaism
Joyce Shin, Religious Ethics
Courtney Wilder, Theology
2003–2004
Jonathan Ebel, History of Christianity
Peder Jothen, Religious Ethics
Cabell King, Theology
Kaitlin Magoon, Theology
Scott Richard, History of Religions
Benjamin Sax, History of Judaism
Lea Schweitz, Philosophy of Religion
Marsaura Shukla, Theology
David Simmons, Religion and Literature
Alicia Turner, History of Religions
2002–2003
Nancy Arnison, Theology
Elizabeth Bucar, Religious Ethics
David Clairmont, Religious Ethics
Robert C. Fisher, Philosophy of Religion
Deborah Green, History of Judaism
Karin Meyers, Philosophy of Religion
Shubha Pathak, History of Religions
Charlotte Radler, History of Christianity
Susan Zakin, History of Religions
2001–2002
Daniel Arnold, Philosophy of Religion
Jerome Copulsky, Theology
Michael Epperson, Philosophy of Religion
Hilda Koster, Theology
Michael Hogue, Religion and Literature
Jonathan Rothchild, Theology
Graeme Sharrock, Religion and Literature
Caroline Tolton, History of Christianity
Andrea White, Theology
Bill Wood, Theology
Alma Wilson Teaching Fellows
2007-2008
Marsaura Shukla, Theology
Course: ""Historical Knowledge and Biblical Faith"
Noah Salomon
Course: "Religious Debate and Controversy in Contemporary Islamic
Societies" (deferred until Autumn 2008)
2005–2006
Lea Schweitz, Philosophy of Religion
Course: "Pragmatism and Religion: William James’s The Varieties of
Religious Experience Today"
2004–2005
David Simmons, Religion and Literature
Course: “Goethe’s Faust”
2003–2004
Thomas Borchert, History of Religions
Course: “Buddhism in China”
2002–2003
Kristen Kearns, Theology
Course: “Beauty and Representation in the Christian Tradition”
2001–2002
Dan Arnold, Philosophy of Religion
Course: “Buddhist Thought in India and Tibet”
Jerald Brauer Seminar Participants
2005–2006
Antonia Daymond
Paul R. Ford
Cooper Harriss
Megan Hughes
Sarah Imhoff
Tabitha Knerr
Melinda Magleby
Katya Maslakowski
Sarah Schuurman
Kristen Tobey
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