#  Past Postdoctoral Fellows 

 



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## 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