Graduate Student Fellows
The following Graduate Student Fellows have been selected for 2012-2013:
Religion and Culture
Alexander Bevilacqua, History, “ Islamic Culture in Enlightenment Europe”
Christine Bourgeois, French and Italian, “ Saintly Asceticism and the Literary Machine: The Many Lives of Saint Anthony the Great”
Rozaliya Garipova, Near Eastern Studies, “ The transformation of religious authority and Islamic law in the Volga-Ural Muslim community of the Russian Empire in the 19th early 20th centuries.”
Jun Hu, Art and Archaeology, “ Embracing the Circle: Domical Buildings in East Asian Architecture ca. 200-750”
David Jorgensen, Religion, “Treasure Hidden in a Field: Valentinian Exegesis of the Gospel of Matthew”
Ross Lerner, English, “ Framing Fanaticism: Religion, Violence, and the Literature of Self-Annihilation across the Reformation”
Christopher Mayo, East Asian Studies, “ Un-Christianity and the Otomo Clan in Sixteenth-Century Japan"
Religion and Public Life
Megan Brankley, History, “ Academic Islam: The Western University, Islamic Modernism, and Developmentalism”
Alfredo Garcia, Sociology, “D oes the Extended Contact Effect Apply to Institutions? An Experimental Design Examining Muslims and Mosques in the United States.”
Erin Johnston, Sociology, “ Becoming a Practitioner: Embodied Experience in the Learning of Spiritual Practices”
George Laufenberg, Anthropology, “ The Varieties of Clinical Experience: An Anthropological Study of Metaphysics and the Making of Community Among US Mental Health Care Practitioners.”
Kati Li, Sociology, “ Inhabiting both Religious and Secular Worlds: Christian Counselors Negotiate Professionalism and Medicalization.”
Matty Lichtenstein, Sociology, "Emerging Adults and the Religious Encounter: Marginality, Community, and the Individual Quest in a New York Synagogue"
Allison Schnable, Sociology, “ Volun-trepreneurs: The Growth of American Grassroots Development Organizations”
Steven Snell, Political Science, “ Unpacking the Black Box of Religious Mobilization”
Irene (Beth) Stroud, Religion, “ Liberal Protestantism and Eugenics in the United States, 1883-1933”
