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
  • 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