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Supervisors accepting new graduate students

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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

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

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Marica Cassis

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)

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Christopher Framarin

Christopher Framarin

Within Hindu textual traditions:

  • Ethics
  • Value theory
  • Soteriology
  • Motivation
  • Renunciation

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Irving Hexham

Irving Hexham

  • National Socialism and Religion
  • New Religious Movements
  • Afrikaner Nationalism and Religion

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Lisa Hughes

Lisa Hughes

  • Roman art and archaeology
  • Roman gardens
  • Representations of gender in antiquity
  • Roman social history
  • 3D modelling

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Carolyn Muessig

Carolyn Muessig

  • Medieval Christianity 
  • Women and the Medieval Church
  • Medieval Sermon Studies and Preaching History
  • Miracles and Sanctity
  • Monastic and Mendicant Spirituality 

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Joy Palacios

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

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Tinu Ruparell

Tinu Ruparell

  • Philosophy of Religion Hermeneutics
  • Pluralism, Interreligious Dialogue, Multiculturalism, Religion in the Public Sphere
  • Religion and Science, Health Humanities
  • Indian and Comparative philosophy

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Rachel Schmidt

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

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Hanne Sigismund Nielsen

Hanne Sigismund Nielsen

  • Roman history
  • Roman social history
  • Latin epigraphy
  • Roman biography
  • Roman women
  • Roman children

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Peter Toohey

Peter Toohey

  • Cultural history of mental illness in Rome
  • Cultural history of disability in Rome
  • Greek and Roman Epic

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