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The following supervisors are accepting new graduate students in the listed research areas. We encourage prospective graduate students to contact faculty members to discuss research projects.
![Wendi Adamek](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2019-10/wendiadamek.jpg?itok=OK421Jw3)
Wendi Adamek
- Chinese Buddhism, especially Yogācāra and Buddhist Art and Archeology
- Practicescapes theory (relationships between environments and human practices)
- Buddhism and therapeutic modes
- Contemplative Studies
![Marica Cassis](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2020-05/Cassis_0.jpg?itok=vXM9HeZQ)
Marica Cassis
- Byzantine archaeology and social history
- Late Antique archaeology and social history in the Near East
- Syriac archaeology and history
- Gender theory in archaeology (related to the above fields)
![Christopher Framarin](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2019-10/christopherframarin.jpg?itok=36DsF2iC)
Christopher Framarin
Within Hindu textual traditions:
- Ethics
- Value theory
- Soteriology
- Motivation
- Renunciation
![Irving Hexham](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2020-05/Hexham_0.jpg?itok=Ay1HLO6l)
Irving Hexham
- National Socialism and Religion
- New Religious Movements
- Afrikaner Nationalism and Religion
![Lisa Hughes](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2020-05/Hughes_0.jpg?itok=h9JCcLjz)
Lisa Hughes
- Roman art and archaeology
- Roman gardens
- Representations of gender in antiquity
- Roman social history
- 3D modelling
![Carolyn Muessig](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2020-08/Carolyn%20Muessig_0.jpg?itok=WpHjbsmo)
Carolyn Muessig
- Medieval Christianity
- Women and the Medieval Church
- Medieval Sermon Studies and Preaching History
- Miracles and Sanctity
- Monastic and Mendicant Spirituality
![Joy Palacios](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2019-10/PalaciosPro02.jpg?itok=lpjUqoSz)
Joy Palacios
- Religious practice, culture, and literature of the French Counter-Reformation
- Priestly training and seminaries in early modern France
- Church and theater (spectacle, representational practices, antitheatricality, religious drama) in early modern France
![Tinu Ruparell](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2020-05/Ruparell_0.jpg?itok=hittK0U-)
Tinu Ruparell
- Philosophy of Religion Hermeneutics
- Pluralism, Interreligious Dialogue, Multiculturalism, Religion in the Public Sphere
- Religion and Science, Health Humanities
- Indian and Comparative philosophy
![Rachel Schmidt](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2019-10/rachelschmidt.jpg?itok=SM4po1Ir)
Rachel Schmidt
- Humanism and literature in early-modern Spain and Latin America
- Religion in medieval and early-modern Spain and colonial-era Latin America
- Visual culture in medieval and early-modern Spain and colonial Latin America
- Christian pilgrimage, especially the Camino de Santiago
![Hanne Sigismund Nielsen](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2019-10/hannesigismundnielsen.jpg?itok=zAR7KjVC)
Hanne Sigismund Nielsen
- Roman history
- Roman social history
- Latin epigraphy
- Roman biography
- Roman women
- Roman children
![Peter Toohey](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2019-10/Peter%20Toohey_0.jpg?itok=AH7o_mMz)
Peter Toohey
- Cultural history of mental illness in Rome
- Cultural history of disability in Rome
- Greek and Roman Epic