PhD Placement

The department makes every effort to maintain an accurate and up-to-date list of former PhD students. If you are a former student who has landed a job in high education or changed positions, please send us a note so we can update our placement information. Please send all messages to Dr. Matthew Goff, Director of Graduate Studies.

2023

Thomas GREENE
  • Track: Religion, Ethics, and Philosophy 
  • Initial Placement: Assistant Professor of Instruction, Texas State University

2022

TUCKER AdKINS
  • Track: American Religious History
  • Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, Milligan University

2020

TARA BALDRICK-MORRONE
  • Track: Religions of Western Antiquity
  • Initial Placement: Lecturer, Department of Religion, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
ANDREW GARDNER
  • Track: American Religious History
  • Initial Placement: Visiting Associate Faculty of American Religious History and Louisville Institute Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Hartford Institute for Religion Research
NATHAN MOATS
  • Track: Religion, Ethics, and Philosophy
  • Initial Placement: Religion Instructor, Hillsborough Community College
Daniel Wells
  • Track: American Religious History
  • Initial Placement: Senior Researcher, Duke Divinity School

2018

CARSON BAY
  • Track: Religions of Western Antiquity
  • Initial Placement: Post-doctoral Researcher, Institute for Judaic Studies, University of Bern, Switzerland
Amanda Furiasse
  • Track: Religions of Western Antiquity
Megan Leverage
  • Track: American Religious History
  • Initial Placement: Lecturer, Northern Arizona University
JACOB LOLLAR
  • Track: Religions of Western Antiquity
  • Initial Placement: Postdoctoral Fellowship, Graduate School of Theology, Abilene Christian University
Joshua Lupo
  • Track: Religion, Ethics, and Philosophy
  • Initial Placement: Content Editor and Writer, Contending Modernities, Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame
Charles McCrary
  • Track: American Religious History
  • Initial Placement: Postdoctoral Fellowship, John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics, Washington University
Ross Moret
  • Track: Religion, Ethics, and Philosophy
  • Initial Placement: Teaching Professor, Florida State University Honors Program
Kyle Roark
  • Track: Religions of Western Antiquity
  • Initial Placement: Academic Advisor, College of Communication & Information, Florida State University
Daniel Roeber
  • Track: American Religious History
Meredith Ross
  • Track: American Religious History

2017

Yonatan Binyam
  • Track: Religions of Western Antiquity
  • Initial Placement: Teaching Associate, Coastal Carolina University
Adam Brasich
  • Track: American Religious History
  • Current Placement: Pastor, Resurrection Lutheran Church in Winter Haven, Florida, and Our Savior Lutheran Church, Lakeland, Florida
John L. Crow
  • Track: American Religious History
  • Initial Placement: Instructional Development Faculty, Florida State University Office of Distance Learning
Jacob Hicks
  • Track: American Religious History
  • Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, Grand Canyon University
Sam Houston
  • Track: Religion, Ethics, and Philosophy
  • Initial Placement: Brown Visiting Teacher-Scholar Fellow, Stetson University
Adam Park
  • Track: American Religious History
  • Initial Placement: Luce Foundation Research Fellow for the project Lived Religion in the Digital Age
  • Current Placement: Lecturer, American Studies, St. Louis University
Harold L. Short
  • Track: Religions of Western Antiquity
David Skelton
  • Track: Religions of Western Antiquity
  • Initial Placement: Visiting Assistant Professor, Pepperdine University
  • Current Placement: Assistant Director of Fellowships, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg

2016

Michael Graziano
  • Track: American Religious History
  • Initial Placement: Instructor, University of Northern Iowa
Tammy Heise
  • Track: American Religious History
  • Initial Placement: Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Wyoming
Thomas J. Whitley
  • Track: Religions of Western Antiquity
  • Initial Placement: Assistant Director, Florida State University Office of Graduate Fellowships & Awards
  • Current Position: Aide, Leon County Board of Commissioners District 3

2015

Seth Bledsoe
  • Track: Religions of Western Antiquity
  • Initial Placement: Visiting Assistant Professor, Wake Forest University
  • Current Position: Assistant Professor, Radboud University
Christopher Blythe
  • Track: American Religious History
  • Initial Placement: Historian, Joseph Smith Papers, Salt Lake City, Utah
  • Current Position: Assistant Professor of Folklore and Literature, English Department, Brigham Young University
Daniel Dillard
  • Track: American Religious History
  • Initial Placement: Associate Dean, South Seattle College
  • Current Position: Associate Dean, Office for Undergraduate Education, Emory University
Lauren Gray
  • Track: American Religious History
  • Initial Placement: Project Manager, Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, Atlanta, Georgia 
Shaun Horton
  • Track: American Religious History
  • Initial Placement: Senior managing editor, American Literature, Duke University Press
Brad Stoddard
  • Track: American Religious History
  • Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, McDaniel College
Kate Temoney
  • Track: Religion, Ethics, and Philosophy
  • Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, Montclair State University

2014

    Emily Suzanne Clark
    • Track: American Religious History
    • Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, Gonzaga University
    Kirk Essary
    • Track: History and Ethnography of Religions
    • Initial Placement: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, University of Western Australia
    • Current Position: Lecturer, History, University of Western Australia
    Jonathan Olson
    • Track: American Religious History
    • Initial Placement: Instructor, Berkeley Preparatory School, Tampa, Florida
    Adam Ware
    • Track: American Religious History
    • Initial Placement: Director of Research, Joseph L. Brechner Research Library
    • Current Position: Director, Bandy Heritage Center, Dalton State College

    2013

    Dianna Bell
    • Track: History and Ethnography of Religions
    • Initial Placement: Mellon Assistant Professor, Vanderbilt University
    • Current Position: Research Fellow, Department of Religious Studies, University of Cape Town, South Africa
    Laura E. Brock
    • Track: Religion, Ethics, and Philosophy
    • Initial Placement: Director of External Relations, Florida State University College of Medicine
    Cara Burnidge
    • Track: American Religious History
    • Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, University of Northern Iowa
    Dustin Feddon
    • Track: Religion, Ethics, and Philosophy
    • Initial Placement: Pastor, St. Theresa Catholic Church, Chipley, Florida
    Rosemary Kellison
    • Track: Religion, Ethics, and Philosophy
    • Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, University of West Georgia
    • Current Position: Associate Professor, University of West Georgia
    David May
    • Track: Religion, Ethics, and Philosophy
    Eric R. Naizer
    • Track: Religions of Western Antiquity
    Andrew Polk
    • Track: American Religious History
    • Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, Middle Tennessee State University
    Molly Reed
    • Track: American Religious History
    • Initial Placement: Lecturer, Louisiana State University
    • Current Position: Curriculum Designer, IXL Learning

    2012

    Robert A. BRITT-MILLS
    • Track: American Religious History
    James Broucek
    • Track: Religion, Ethics, and Philosophy
    • Initial Placement: Assistant Professor at Iowa State University
    • Current Position: Lecturer, American University, Beirut
    Shannon Dunn
    • Track: Religion, Ethics, and Philosophy
    • Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, Gonzaga University
    • Current Position: Associate Professor, Gonzaga University
    Shem Miller
    • Track: Religions of Western Antiquity
    • Initial Placement: Instructional Assistant Professor, University of Mississippi

    2011

    Kelly Baker
    • Track: American Religious History
    • Initial Placement: Lecturer, University of Tennessee
    • Current Position: Editor, Women in Higher Education
    Matthew Hagele
    • Track: Religion, Ethics, and Philosophy
    • Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, Kirkwood Community College, Iowa
    Katie Hladky
    • Track: American Religious History
    • Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, College of Charleston
    Barton Price
    • Track: American Religious History
    • Initial Placement: Lecturer, Grand Valley State College
    • Current Position: Center for Academic Success and Achievement, Purdue University, Fort Wayne
    Brooke Sherrard
    • Track: American Religious History
    • Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, William Penn University
    Timothy F. Simpson
    • Track: Religions of Western Antiquity
    • Initial Placement: Pastor, Lake Shore Presbyterian Church, Jacksonville, Florida
    Nahed Artoul Zehr
    • Track: Religion, Ethics, and Philosophy
    • Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, Western Kentucky University
    • Current Position: Executive Director, Faith & Culture Center, Nashville, Tennessee

    2010

      Michael Gueno
      • Track: American Religious History
      • Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin, Whitewater

        2009

        Elizabeth Barre
        • Track: Religion, Ethics, and Philosophy
        • Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, Marymount Manhattan College
        • Current Position: Executive Director, Teaching and Learning Collaborative, Wake Forest University
        Todd M. Brenneman
        • Track: American Religious History
        • Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, Faulkner University
        • Current Position: Associate Professor of Christian History, Faulkner University
        Sonya S. Cronin
        • Track: Religions of Western Antiquity
        • Initial Placement: Instructor, Florida State University
        Christy Flanagan
        • Track: Religion, Ethics, and Philosophy
        • Initial Placement: Lecturer, University of Central Florida
        Janet Rumfelt
        • Track: Religion, Ethics, and Philosophy
        • Initial Placement: Affiliate Faculty, Liberal Arts Department, Regis College
        • Current Position: Associate Professor, Liberal Arts Department, Regis College

        2008

        Tom Neal
        • Track: American Religious History
        • Initial Placement: Professor, Notre Dame Seminary
        • Current Position: Director of MA Programs and Institute for Lay Ecclesial Ministry, Notre Dame Seminary
        Michael Pasquier
        • Track: American Religious History
        • Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, Louisiana State University
        • Current Position: Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Jaak Seynaeve Professor of Christian Studies, Louisiana State University
        Jordan Smith
        • Track: Religions of Western Antiquity
        • Initial Placement: Lecturer, Biblical Studies, University of Iowa
        Joseph Williams
        • Track: American Religious History
        • Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, Rutgers University
        • Current Position: Associate Professor, Rutgers University

        2007

        Scott Cason
        • Track: Religions of Western Antiquity
        • Current Position: Professor, Florida State College, Jacksonville
        Dawn Hutchinson
        • Track: American Religious History
        • Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, Christopher Newport University
        • Current Position: Senior Lecturer, Christopher Newport University
        Arthur Remillard
        • Track: American Religious History
        • Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, St. Francis College
        • Current Position: Associate Professor, St. Francis College
        Thich Minh Quang
        • Track: History and Ethnography of Religions (Asia)
        • Current Position: Palm Beach Mahabodhi Compassionate Charity
        Kevin Vaccarella
        • Track: Religions of Western Antiquity
        • Current Position: Associate Professor of Religion, John Tyler Community College, Virginia
        Howell Williams
        • Track: American Religious History
        • Initial Placement: Instructor, Western Kentucky University
        • Current Position: Senior Vice President, Keypath Education Australia

        2006

        Jessica de Vega
        • Track: Religions of Western Antiquity
        • Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, Morningside College
        • Current Position: Program Director, Claremont Colleges Center for Teaching and Learning

        2004

        Chris Newcomb
        • Track: American Religious History
        • Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, Bethune-Cookman College
        • Current Position: Associate Professor, Bethune-Cookman College

        2003

        Patricia Lyndale
        • Track: Religion, Ethics, and Philosophy
        • Initial Placement: Ethics Program, Lehigh Valley Hospital Network/Lafayette College
        • Current Position: Chaplain, University of Michigan Health System
        William Lyons
        • Track: Religions of Western Antiquity
        • Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, Regent University
        • Current Position: Associate Professor, Oral Roberts University

        2001

        Bryce Ronald Gilmer
        • Track: American Religious History
        • Current Position: Pastor, St James Presbyterian Church, Marietta, Georgia
        Joyce Nki
        • Track: Religions of Western Antiquity
        • Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, Bethune-Cookman College
        • Current Position: Associate Professor, Bethune-Cookman College

        2000

        Harry S. Coverston
        • Track: American Religious History
        • Current Position: Assistant Lecturer, University of Central Florida

        1996

        Justin Watson
        • Track: American Religious History
        • Initial Placement: Visiting Assistant Professor, Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvannia