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
- Current Placement: Associate Professor of Christian History, Theology, and Worldview
College of Theology & Grand Canyon Theological Seminary
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