Past Postdoctoral Fellows

2020–21 postdoctoral fellows

  • Eric Jarrard
    Research Project: Sea & Sinai: The Exodus and Law in Time and Memory
  • Venerable Yon Seng Yeath
    Research Project: Walking with a Saint: An Introduction to Maha Ghosananda

2019–20 postdoctoral fellow

  • David Cowan
    • Faculty Sponsor: Dean David Hempton
    • Research Project: Figures of Speculation: Metaphor and Morality in Financial Capitalism

2018–19 postdoctoral fellows

  • Mohammed A. Abderrazzaq
    • Faculty Sponsor: Baber Johansen
    • Research Project: The Higher Objectives of Islamic Law: The Development of Maqāṣid Thought from al-Shāṭibī to Ibn ʿĀshūr and the Contemporary Maqāṣid Movement
  • Joan I. Listernick
    • Faculty Sponsor: Leila Ahmed
    • Research Project: Sabbah’s Legacy: the Evolution of the Image of Woman in the Muslim Unconscious
  • Elena V. Shabliy
    • Faculty Sponsor: Stephanie Paulsell
    • Research Project: Rainer Maria Rilke’s “Das Marien-Leben”
  • Pamela Ayo Yetunde
    • Faculty Sponsor: Cheryl Giles
    • Research Project: For the Least of These: Chaplain Educators Cultivating Compassion for Transgender Hospital Patients

2017–18 postdoctoral fellows

  • Federicka D'Alessandra
    • Harvard Law School
    • Research Project: Sustainable peace building
  • Kamil M. Halambiec
    • Yale University
    • Research Project: A Comparative Analysis of Jonathan Edwards' and Charles Finney's Views on the Theology and Methodology of Religious Revivals
  • Katja Krause
    • Durham University
    • Research Project: Experience in Thirteenth-Century Natural Science and Medicine: Peter of Spain, Albert the Great, Arnald of Villanova
  • Yunus Kumek
    • University of Buffalo, SUNY
    • Research Project: Perils of Translation: Text and Behavior “A Common Word Among Us” in the Quran [3:64] and God from the Bird’s Eye: The Mystical Understanding of Birds Among Muslim Practices and Scholarship
  • Omer Michaelis
    • Tel Aviv University
    • Research Project: The Birth of the Author in Medieval Judaism (10th–12th centuries)
  • Giovanna Parmigiana
    • University of Toronto
    • Research Project: (Neo)Taratismo, Neo-Pagan Spirituality, and “Well Being”: Making Sense(s) of one’s “Presence” in History
  • Stefano Salemi
    • University of Oxford; Visiting Research Fellow
    • Research Project: I have made you a sign (Ezek. 12:6)”: Christological Interpretation of Ezekiel Symbolic Actions
  • Anne Stetson
    • FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard University,
    • Research Project: Religions and the practice of peace and human rights
  • Venerable Yon Seng Yeath
    • Research Project: Maha Ghosananda’s The Hidden Arahanta

2016–17 postdoctoral fellows

  • Scott Ables
    • DPhil, Oxford University
    • Research project: Historical-theological research on the polemical works of John of Damascus
  • Ermine Algaier
    • PhD, Temple University
    • Research Project: William James “Crank Literature” Collection

2015–16 postdoctoral fellows

  • Nelu Burcea
    • PhD, Bucharest University of Economic Studies
    • Research Project: Improving the Strategic Role of Mass Media in Promoting Religious Freedom in Post Communist Romania
  • Guilia C. Kessous
    • PhD, Boston University
    • Research Project: Translation of Elie Wiesel’s Theatre: Staging The Ineffable

2014–15 postdoctoral fellows

  • Roger Begrich
    • PhD, Johns Hopkins University
    • Research Project: A State of Intoxication: The Moral Governance of Indigeneity and Alcohol in Jharkhand, India" and “Pharmaceutical Relations: Ethnography of Aging, Polypharmacy, and Care in India
  • Mustapha Kara-Ali
    • PhD, International Islamic University Malaysia
    • Research Project: Science and Theology in Islamic Civilization: Kalām, Divine Voluntarism and the Constructivist Quest for Knowledge
  • Guilia C. Kessous
    • PhD, Boston University
    • Research Project: Translation of Elie Wiesel’s Theatre: Staging The Ineffable
  • Marian Simion
    • PhD, Northeastern University
    • Research Project: G.R.A.S.P.: Global Religion Advancing Successful Policymaking

2013–14 postdoctoral fellows

  • Annalisa Butticci (University of Utrecht)
    • PhD, Catholic University of Milan (Italy)
    • Research Project: West African Pentecostal Churches in Southern Europe: Spiritual Power, Engendered Spaces, and Aesthetic Practices
  • John Oakes
    • PhD, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby (Canada)
    • Research Project: Conservative Revolutionaries: The Religious and Political Thought of Jonathan Mayhew and Charles Chauncy
  • Marian Simion
    • PhD, Northeastern University
    • Research Project: G.R.A.S.P.: Global Religion Advancing Successful Policymaking