Current Students
Amanda Baugh is a doctoral student in American Religion. She is interested in religious environmentalism and gender, and she uses ethnographic and historical methods.
Shuman Chen is a doctoral student in the "Buddhism in Its Asian Context" track. She is interested in Chinese Buddhism, specifically in Tiantai philosophy.
Heawon Choi
Vanessa Crosby is a doctoral student in the Medieval Christianity track. Her second department is Art History, and her primary research interests are medieval sacred architecture and devotional art, particularly in Spain and the Mediterranean region.
Kristin Doll is a doctoral student in Religion, with a concentration in Medieval Christianity. She is currently doing research for a dissertation on church fires and reconstruction in twelfth- and thirteenth-century France. Her other research interests include church architecture, high medieval Marian devotion, and pilgrimage.
Joshua Feigelson studies the relationship of religion and American higher education. He is also the Campus Rabbi of Northwestern University Hillel. He lives in Evanston with his wife and two young sons.
Hayley Glaholt is from Toronto, Ontario, and completed a Master's degree at Tufts University in Animals and Public Policy. She studies religion, ethics, and public life at Northwestern, focusing specifically on animal and environmental ethics. She is the Co-Chair of the Religion, Ecology, and Culture Section of the Midwest American Academy of Religion, and will be teaching an upcoming course on "Religion and Animals" through Northwestern's Department of Religion.
Alyssa Henning
Tina Howe is a doctoral student in the Religion, Ethics, and Public Life track with broad interests in contemporary Islam and North Africa. Her research focuses on Islamic education, nationalism, political Islam, and gender. She is also a member of the African Studies seminar, an interdisciplinary group of graduate students working on Africa.
Katelyn Mesler is a doctoral candidate in medieval studies, with particular interests in Jewish-Christian relations, magic and witchcraft, medicine, prayer, angelology, and heresy. She has published on the history of prophetic thought, and she is currently writing her dissertation on the shared magical culture of Christians and Jews in Spain, Provence, and Italy.
Joseph D. Moser Jr. (Jody) completed a Master's degree from Harvard with a focus in ethics before coming to Northwestern in 2006. A doctoral student in the Religion, Ethics and Public Life track, he studies religion, genocide, alterity, and the unforgivable. His research focuses upon the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas and the 1994 Rwandan Genocide in an effort to bring certain resouces of contemporary French penomenology to discussions and processes of justice and reconciliation in the wake of violence.
Michael Nichols entered the program in 2005, working jointly in Religion and Anthropology. Religions of South Asia is his focus, particularly intertextuality of narratives between Post-Asokan Indian Buddhism and Brahmanical/Classical Hindu traditions. A large degree of his research deals with symbols of evil and monstrosity. He works with George Bond (Religion) and Robert Launay (Anthropology).
Victoria N.J. Prussing is a doctoral candidate in Medieval Christianity. Her dissertation will draw from religious texts and archival documents to explore the experience of illness in late medieval German convents (c. 1250-1500).
Michal Raucher is a doctoral student in the Religion Ethics and Public Life track. Her secondary department is Anthropology. Michal is interested in Judaism, bioethics, gender, reproduction, and Israel.
Matthew Rogers
Tobin Shearer completed his degree in History and Religion in June 2008. His research interests include religious communities as sites of civil rights movement activity, children's influence on religious notions of innocence, and the African-American church. He is an Assistant Professor of African-American History at the University of Montana and the coordinator of the African-American Studies Program there.
Abdoulaye Sounaye is a doctoral student in the Religion, Ethics and Public Life track. His secondary department is Anthropology. He is working on Islam in the public sphere in contemporary Niger.
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