Graduate Students

American Religious History
History and Ethnography of Religions
Religion, Ethics, and Philosophy
Religions of Western Antiquity

American Religious History

MA Student

Name	Email	Research Areas	Office
Brasich, Adam	asb11d@my.fsu.edu	Mormonism; Neo-orthodoxy; Calvinism and Lutheranism in 19th century America; Theory and Method in the Study of Religion; Confessionalism; Colonial and Antebellum American history; "New Calvinism"; Restorationism; Religion in the U.S. South.	101 DOD
Graziano, Michael	mag06h@my.fsu.edu	Religion in the Early Republic and Antebellum period; American Civil Religion; Religion and the American Military; Theory and Method in the Study of Religion	101 DOD
Grossman, Rachel	reg10@my.fsu.edu	American Judaism; Religion, Politics, and Law; Colonial and Antebellum American History; Atlantic World; Spatial Theory	120C DOD
Johnson, Zachary	zacjohnson252 @gmail.com	Buddhism in the United States; religion and immigration; religious, national, and gender identities in Buddhist communities	425 DIF
McCrary, Charlie	charlesamccrary @gmail.com	Methodists, Circuit Riders, Revolutionary Era, Emerging Church, Space and Movement, Memory	206 DOD
Tarnowski, Randy	rmt11@my.fsu.edu	Religion and American Politics; Immigration, Assimilation and Identity Formation; Religious Nationalism; American Print Culture	101 DOD

Ph.D Student

Name	Email	Research Areas	Office
Blythe, Christopher CV	cjb10e@fsu.edu	Nineteenth-century American Religion, Religion and Politics, Supernatural Folklore, New Religious Movements, Mormonism.	101 DOD
Burnidge, Cara CV	clb07s@my.fsu.edu	Religion and Politics in 19th and 20th century America, Liberal Protestantism and Civic Reform, Islam and Modernity, Religious Nationalism	206 DOD
Clark, Emily Suzanne CV	esc09@my.fsu.edu	Race and and Religion in the American South; African American Religions; Religion and Everyday Life; New Orleans; Native American Religious History	323 DIF
Crow, John CV	jlcrow@fsu.edu	The Body and Embodiment; Emergent 19th and Early 20th Century American Religions Including Theosophy, Spiritualism, New Thought; Western Esotericism; Interaction Between Science and Religion; Buddhism in the West.	206 DOD
Dillard, Daniel CV	dcd08@fsu.edu	U.S. Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries; Religious Liberals and Spiritual Seekers; Religion and Literature; Religion, Nature, and Technology; Islam	N/A
Ensminger, Shawntel CV	shawntel@gmail.com	Material Religion; Print Culture; Intolerance; Catholicism in America; Sociology of Religion; Marketing and Religion	101 DOD
Fleer, Joshua CV	jfleer@fsu.edu	Sports and religion in American history; Stone–Campbell Movement; Native American religions; Embodiment and American religious history; House of David and Mary’s City of David	323 DIF
Gibboney, Danny	dpg11@my.fsu.edu	American Religious History; 20th century U.S. Catholicism; Historiography and Cultural Theory	101 DOD
Gray, Lauren CV	lauren@thinkgray.net	Early Modern Atlantic World; Gender, Bodies, and Sexuality; Religion and Medicine	N/A
Heise, Tammy CV	theise@fsu.edu	Restorationism in North America, particularly the intersection of evangelical Protestant, Mormon and Native American religions in the West; narrative and ritual in the emergence of the Pentecostal movement and formation of the Assemblies of God; and Islam in America	206 DOD
Horton, Shaun CV	sdh05f@fsu.edu	Religion and Media in the U.S.; Religion and Entertainment; Historiography of Religion and Science; American Evangelicalism; Humor	206 DOD
Olson, Jonathan CV	jolson@fsu.edu	Religion in the American West, Religion and Colonialism,Religion and Violence, Native American Traditions, Modern Islamic Thought	101 DOD
Park, Miles Adam	Map09k@my.fsu.edu	Christianity and Mixed Martial Arts; Christian Sex Toys and Lingerie; Religion and Popular Culture; Religion and the Body; History of Medicine; Material Culture; Ethnography	329 DIF
Polk, Andrew CV	arp09e@fsu.edu	U.S. Religion and Politics; Twentieth-Century America; Modern Islamic Thought; the Relationship between Religion and War in American History	N/A
Reed, Monica CV	mcreed@fsu.edu	African American Religions; Race and Religion; Slavery in Colonial New England; History of Science and Religion	112 DOD
Ware, Adam	amware@fsu.edu	Religion and Popular Media, esp. Popular Music and Film; Emotion, Memory, and Performance; Religion and the Body; Secularization; Fracture and Hybridity in Post-Protestant America	425 DIF
Stoddard, Brad	bs10g@fsu.edu	American Religious History, Esoteric and Marginal Religious Movements, Religion and Modernity, Theory and Method in the Study of Religion	329 DIF

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History and Ethnography of Religions

MA Student

Name	Email	Research Areas	Office
Chung, Lori	lc10e@fsu.edu	Chinese Buddhism in the late Ming Dynasty; Doctrinal Developments in Chinese Buddhism; Chan/Zen	107 DOD
Edoho-Eket, Nkoyo	nre10@fsu.edu	Indian Art and the Museum, Hindu Diaspora, Hinduism in America, Women and Gender	107 DOD
Fritch, Cory	ccf10@fsu.edu	Medieval Islamic Philosophy and Theology; Philosophy of Religion; Epistemology, Ontology, and Logic in Classical/Medieval Philosophy; Ash'arism; Al-Ghazali; Ibn al-Arabi	323 DIF
Gordon, Brent	bgordon@fsu.edu	Ancient Hindu texts (esp. the Vedas), Sanskrit, Comparative religion, mythology, and demonology. Demonology in early Judaism. Classical languages (i.e. Latin, Greek, and Hebrew)	112 DOD
Ley, Patrick	pml09@fsu.edu	Chinese Religion, with a primary focus in historical textual studies. He is particularly interested in ritual, gender roles, and how these interact	107 DOD
Tuzzeo, Daniel	drt07@fsu.edu	Contemporary Chinese Buddhism; new Buddhist movements/organizations; historical and modern expressions and developments of Buddhism in Chinese culture; Chan/Zen	107 DOD
Wiggins, Rebecca	rew10e@fsu.edu		120C DOD

Ph.D Student

Name	Email	Research Areas	Office
Bell, Dianna	dkb08@fsu.edu	West Africa	N/A
Essary, Kirk	kae08@fsu.edu	Greek philosophy in Patristic and Medieval Christianity; Foolishness/Folly as a Virtue in the History of Christian Thought; History of Biblical Interpretation	419 DIF
Gardner, Chad	cgardner@fsu.edu	The evolution of Christian epistemology as science encroached on its explanatory turf, the theory of the study of religion	014 DIF
Jerkins, Jae	JJerkins@fsu.edu	Atlantic History; Christianity and Islam in Early Modern Europe; Religion and Colonialism; Environmental Ethics; Critical and Cultural Theory	112 DOD

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Religion, Ethics, and Philosophy

MA Student

Name	Email	Research Areas	Office
Cosgrove, Lauren	lac06c@my.fsu.edu	Feminist Theology, Philosophy, and Ethics. Human Rights issues concerning Gender, Violence, and Political Theory	425/427 DIF
Curtis, Gregory	gcurtis@fsu.edu	Modern Jewish Thought and Culture; German Idealism; Jewish Ethics; Continental Philosophy	116 DOD
Ellis, Aaron	ame11m@my.fsu.edu	Performativity - especially related to productions of art, culture, gender, religion, interpersonal relationships and existential orientations. Also interested in philosophy, aesthetics, liberation theology, globalization and re-imagination	116 DOD
Menne, Sharayn	stm10@fsu.edu	Just War Theory; Human Rights; Humanitarian Intervention; Ethics of Torture	112 DOD
Northrup, Jesse	jan11c@my.fsu.edu	Bioethics; Comparative Religious Ethics; Human Rights and Public Health; Religion and Modernity	425 DIF

Ph.D Student

Name	Email	Research Areas	Office
Carrico, Tommy	tjc11M@my.fsu.edu	Comparative Religious Ethics, Islamic Tradition, Christian Tradition, Islamic Revivalism, Black Liberation Theology, Religion and Violence	116 DOD
Cox, Emily	elw09c@fsu.edu	Religion and Gender, Bioethics, Comparative Ethics, Catholic Moral Theology	116 DOD
Dunn, Shannon CV	sfd06@fsu.edu	Religious Ethics, American Pragmatism, Feminist Theory, Islamic and Christian Traditions.	417 DIF
Gottlieb, Jeffrey	jdg08j@fsu.edu	Human Rights; Comparative Religious Ethics; Islamic Ethics; Genocide; Torture.	329 DIF
Harry, Richard	reh07e@my.fsu.edu	Religion & Modernity; Philosophy of Religion; Pragmatism; Moral/Ethical Theory; Theory & Method in the Study of Religion; Hermeneutics and Critical Theory; Philosophy of History	116 DOD
Houston, Sam	jsam.glass @gmail.com	Comparative Religious Ethics; Modern Islamic Political Thought; Pragmatism and Religion; Theories of Citizenship	206 DOD
Kellison, Rosemary CV	rkellison@fsu.edu	Theory and Method in the Study of Religion, Comparative Ethics, Islamic Ethics, Political Theory, Ethics of War	421 DIF
Lupo, Joshua	jsl11f@my.fsu.edu	Christian ethics, continental philosophy, and political theory	425 DIF
Marks, Tamara	tm05e@fsu.edu	Kierkegaard ; Religious and Philosophical Ethics; Notions of the "Afterlife" and Moral Reasoning; Theoretical Approaches to the Study of Religion	N/A
May, Keith	dkm04c@fsu.edu	Human Rights; Comparative Ethics; Religion and Politics; Just War Theory; Catholic Moral Theology; Moral Evil	112 DOD
Temoney, Kate	ket05c@fsu.edu	Human Rights; Genocide; The Problem of Evil; Just War Theory; Buddhist Ethics; Comparative Ethics	120C DOD
Whylly, Sarah	sfisk@fsu.edu	Epistemology, Pragmatism, Continental Philosophy, Critical Theory, Comparative Philosophy, Indian and Japanese Buddhist Philosophy, Advaita Vedanta, History and Philosophy of Science and Religion	N/A

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Religions of Western Antiquity

MA Student

Name	Email	Research Areas	Office
Baldrick-Morrone, Tara	tbaldrickmorrone @fsu.edu	Jewish-Christian relations in antiquity; conceptions of the body and sexuality in early Christianity; ancient medicine; rhetoric of disease.	112 DOD
Cushing, Adam	arc06e@fsu.edu	Identity formation in Second Temple Judaism and Early Christianity; Method and Theory in the Study of Religion	112 DOD
Short, Harold	hls09d@fsu.edu	Martyrdom in antiquity; "religion" and the social periphery; women in religious communities; Jewish and Christian relations; traditional Greco-Roman religion and its interactions with Christianity	112 DOD
Wise, Daniel	dsw06d@fsu.edu	Angels, demons, and other intermediary figures in Judaism and Christianity, Eastern Christianity, Christianity as a manifestation of Second Temple Judaism	112 DOD
Woodington, David	jdw11h@my.fsu.edu	Christian origins; religious influence of Greco-Roman religion on early Christianity; Christianity in the Roman Empire; Gnostic and other apocryphal literature; the Johannine literature of the New Testament	112 DOD

Ph.D Student

Name	Email	Research Areas	Office
Bledsoe, Seth CV	sab08j@fsu.edu	Judaism in the Achaemenid and Hellenistic Empires; Wisdom Literature in Israelite and Cognate Traditions; Book of Ahiqar; Ancient Fiction/Narrative in the Mediterranean World; Apocryphal Acts of Peter	112 DOD
Chance, LaBron	lrc07@fsu.edu	Representations of the figure of Jeremiah from post exilic to rabbinic literature; the adaptation of Hebrew Scripture by sectarian and schismatic groups	112 DOD
Collins-Elliott, Jennifer	jac07w@fsu.edu	The "body" in early Christianity; Conversion conflicts between Jews and Christians; Relics; Legislation of religious practice in Late Antiquity; Transmission of theological concepts from Greek into Latin; Christian heresies in the 2nd-6th centuries	112 DOD
Milla, Terry	millat@1dca.org	Second Temple period Judaism with a particular focus on the Dead Sea Scrolls, Jubilees and the Aramaic Levi Document. Current research focuses on the view of the Temple and the Temple cult in extra-biblical literature.	N/A
Miller, Shem	stm07c@fsu.edu	Poetry in the Hebrew Bible and the Dead Sea Scrolls. Wisdom in the Jewish literature of the Second Temple period. Angelic figures in Enoch and Enochic literature. Biblical interpretation in Early Christian literature and Jewish literature of the Second Temple period through late antiquity	112 DOD
Scott, Elizabeth	emscott2@fsu.edu	Intertextual studies; Rhetorical criticism; all things apocalyptic; historical Jesus; sociological approaches	112 DOD
Whitley, Thomas	tjw11c@my.fsu.edu	Early Christian Identity formation; Jewish-Christian relations in antiquity; Heresy/Orthodoxy dichotomy in early Christianity	112 DOD
Womack, Colin	cbw07c@fsu.edu	Western asceticism in Late Antiquity; Disability and Deformity in Early Christianity; The influence of Greek theological controversies in Latin Christianity	N/A

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