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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
- 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
- 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
Within Hindu textual traditions:
- Ethics
- Value theory
- Soteriology
- Motivation
- Renunciation
Irving Hexham
- National Socialism and Religion
- New Religious Movements
- Afrikaner Nationalism and Religion
Lisa Hughes
- Roman art and archaeology
- Roman gardens
- Representations of gender in antiquity
- Roman social history
- 3D modelling
Carolyn Muessig
- Medieval Christianity
- Women and the Medieval Church
- Medieval Sermon Studies and Preaching History
- Miracles and Sanctity
- Monastic and Mendicant Spirituality
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
- Philosophy of Religion Hermeneutics
- Pluralism, Interreligious Dialogue, Multiculturalism, Religion in the Public Sphere
- Religion and Science, Health Humanities
- Indian and Comparative philosophy
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
- Roman history
- Roman social history
- Latin epigraphy
- Roman biography
- Roman women
- Roman children
Peter Toohey
- Cultural history of mental illness in Rome
- Cultural history of disability in Rome
- Greek and Roman Epic