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 |
| 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 |
| Wheatley, Jeffrey | jtw12@my.fsu.edu | Religion in the Early U.S. Republic; American Catholicism; Religious Toleration, Apologetics, and Activism; Urban Religion; Local and Atlantic Religious Networks | 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 |
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 |
| danielcdillard @gmail.com |
Research Areas: Environmental Religion; American Transcendentalism; Religion and Literature; Islam | N/A | |
Ensminger, Shawntel |
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 |
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 |
| Gray, Lauren CV |
lauren@thinkgray.net | Early Modern Atlantic World; Gender, Bodies, and Sexuality; Religion and Medicine | N/A |
| Grossman, Rachel | reg10@my.fsu.edu | American Judaism; Religion, Politics, and Law; Colonial and Antebellum American History; Atlantic World; Spatial Theory | 120C DOD |
| Hicks, Jacob | jeh12d@my.fsu.edu | Colonial American History; Religion and Politics; History of Christianity; Islam in America | 112 DOD |
| 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 |
| Reed, Monica CV |
mcreed@fsu.edu | African American Religions; Race and Religion; Slavery in Colonial New England; History of Science and Religion |
112 DOD |
| 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 |
| 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 |
History and Ethnography of Religions
MA Student
| Name |
Email |
Research Areas |
Office |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beaver, Kim | ksb10g@my.fsu.edu | Early and Medieval Islam; Medieval Christianity; Comparative religious doctrines and traditions; doctrinal evolution in Islam | 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 |
| Reed, Ian | ibr12@my.fsu.edu | Hindu Philosophy and Theology, Hindu Influences on Western Literature, Religion and Law, Comparative Religion, Sufism | 120C DOD |
| Williams, Joseph | jcw12f@my.fsu.edu | 120C DOD | |
| Zeller, James | jtz12@my.fsu.edu | Religions of China and Japan; Chinese; Japanese; the Historical Development of Buddhist Traditions; Chinese and Japanese Character Development; Existentialism; World Religions; the History of Religions | 120C DOD |
Ph.D Student
| Name |
Email |
Research Areas |
Office |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Riggan, James | jcr12f@my.fsu.edu | Modern Islamic Thought, Islamic Sectarianism, Religion and Politics, Religion and Conflict | 107 DOD |
Religion, Ethics, and Philosophy
MA Student
| Name |
Email |
Research Areas |
Office |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coleman, Jared | jwc12c@my.fsu.edu | Comparative Religious Ethics; Religion and Politics; The Problem of Evil; Political Theory; Human Rights | 425 DIF |
| Hand, Keith | kh12u@my.fsu.edu | Religion and Human Rights, Philosophy of Evil, Comparative Religious Ethics, Religion and Philosophy of Race, Christian Ethics, Religion and Gender/Sexuality, Pragmatic Theology | 425 DIF |
| Zorn, Jeremy | jdz12@my.fsu.edu | Religion and Existentialism, Modern Jewish Identity, Theories of Psychotherapy, Human-Animal Relations, and Mindfulness in Theory and Practice | 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 |
| Cosgrove, Lauren | |||
| Cox, Emily | elw09c@fsu.edu | Religion and Gender, Bioethics, Comparative Ethics, Catholic Moral Theology | 116 DOD |
| Donovan, Ryan | rmd12e@my.fsu.edu | Religion and political theory; pragmatism, hermeneutics and critical theory; comparative ethics | 206 DOD |
| 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 |
| Moret, Ross | rdm12b@my.fsu.edu | Christian Tradition, Islamic Tradition, Comparative Religious Ethics, Theory and Method in the Study of Religion, Political Theory, Pragmatism, Kierkegaard | |
| 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 |
Religions of Western Antiquity
MA Student
| Name |
Email |
Research Areas |
Office |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baldrick-Morrone, Tara | Tb04c@my.fsu.edu | Jewish-Christian relations in antiquity; conceptions of the body and sexuality in early Christianity; ancient medicine; rhetoric of disease | 112 DOD |
Ph.D Student
| Name |
Email |
Research Areas |
Office |
|---|---|---|---|
| Binyam, Yonatan | yb12d@my.fsu.edu | Early Christianity; Jewish-Christian Relations in Antiquity; The Separation Between Judaism and Christianity; The Construction of the Jewish Identity in Ancient Christian Polemics; Ethiopic Studies; The History of Christianity | 112 DOD |
| 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 |
| Roark, Kyle | kar12f@my.fsu.edu | Enoch, Apocalyptic Literature, Dead Sea Scrolls, Wisdom & Literature in the Helenistic Age | 112 DOD |
| Scott, Elizabeth | emscott2@fsu.edu | Intertextual studies; Rhetorical criticism; all things apocalyptic; historical Jesus; sociological approaches | 112 DOD |
| Short, Harold | |||
| Skelton, David | das12c@my.fsu.edu | Identity Formation in Second Temple Judaism; Prayer and Liturgy as Identity Formation; Parody in Second Temple Texts; Re-told Bible; The Development and Reinterpretation of Tradition; Rhetorical and Literary Criticism; Textual Criticism; OT Theology and Its Relationship to Classical Theology and Philosophy; Syro-Palestinian Archaeology; Culture and Religion of the ANE; Stone-Campbell Movement | 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 |