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Graduate Students

Below are the department's current graduate students along with their areas of concentration.

Name & Email
Area of Study
Grant Adamson
gwa1@rice.edu
  Bible and Beyond
Israel W. Ahimbisibwe
ahimbsra@rice.edu

Hebrew Bible/Old Testament, Contemporary African Biblical Hermeneutic

Dissertation topic: Sinai And Its Transformative Nature:  The Interpretation of 2 Kings 14:5-6 in the Context of Rwanda Genocide

Ata Anzali
ata@rice.edu

Comparative Mysticism, Philosophy of Mysticism
Dustin Atlas
Dustin.N.Atlas@rice.edu

Religious Philosophy, Judaism, Affect, Repetition
Nicholas Boeving
nboeving@rice.edu

Scientific Language and Theory as Mystical Discourse
Benjamin Brochstein
Benjamin@Brochstein.com

Reiki, Metaphysics, and Health
Daniel Brubaker
brubaker@rice.edu

Islam
Fatma Betul Cavdar
fbcavdar@rice.edu

Early Islamic Literature, Asceticism, History of Religions

Dissertation topic: Ibn Arabi's Legacy in the Ottoman Empire

Matthew Dillon
mjdillon@rice.edu

Gnosticism, Esotericism, Mysticism
Christopher Driscoll
chrisdriscoll@rice.edu
  African American Religion
Paul Easterling
pahklne@rice.edu
  African American Religion

Dissertation topic: The Moorish Science Temple of America:  The Foundation of African American Islam

Nessette Falu
nafalu@rice.edu
  African American Religion
Enoch Gbadegesin
egbadegesin@rice.edu

African Religions
Ann Gleig
agleig@rice.edu

New Age & New Religious Movements, Psychology of Religion

Dissertation topic: Enlightenment after the Enlightenment:  American Transformations of Asian Contemplative Traditions

Kirstin Golberg

kirstin.golberg@rice.edu

  Islam
Margarita Guillory
mls2@rice.edu
  African American Religion
Michael Heyes
Michael.E.Heyes@rice.edu

Gnosticism, Esotericism, and Mysticism
Darrius Hills
darrius.d.hills@rice.edu
  African American Religion
Andrea R. Jain
arjain@rice.edu

Hinduism, Psychology of Religion

Dissertation topic:  Health, Well-Being, and the Ascetic Ideal:  The Jain Terapanth and the Somaticization of the Subtle Body

Jason Jeffries
Joj1@rice.edu

African American Religion
Heba Khan
hkhan@rice.edu

Islam

Dissertation Topic:   Shadow Symbolism in Early Ismaili Esoteric Literature:  A Study of the "Kitab al-Haft wa al-Azillat"

Daewoong Kim
dk1@rice.edu

Hebrew Bible/Old Testament; Medical Ethics

Dissertation topic:  Biblical Interpretation in the Book of Daniel

Terri Laws
Terri.Laws@rice.edu

African American Religions, Black and Womanist Theology, Religion and Health
Daniel M. Levine
dmlevine@rice.edu

History of Religions, Religious Constructions of the Earth, Sexual Magic

Dissertation Topic:  Earth Matters

H. Jenny Lin
linhj@rice.edu

Chinese Religions, Gender Theory

Dissertation topic: Progressive and Religious:  How Nuns in Taiwan are Transforming Buddhism

Aundrea Matthews
aundrea.l.matthews@rice.edu

Religion & Theology of the African Diaspora
Brian J. Nichols
bjn@rice.edu

Buddhism, History of Religions

Dissertation topic:  Dharma World of the Lotus-Blooming Mulberry:  Quanzhou Kaiyuan Monastery, An Archeology of Survival

Chad J. Pevateaux
cjp@rice.edu

Mysticism, Philosophy of Religion
Aaron Pixley
aaron.pixley@yahoo.com

Buddhism, Philosophy of Religion
Hae Young Seong
lohela@rice.edu

New Age & New Religious Movements, Psychology of Religion
Margarita Simon
simon_9940@yahoo.com

African American Religion & Psychology of Religion
Franklin Trammell
trammell.h.franklin@rice.edu

Bible and Beyond
Claire Villarreal
clairev@rice.edu

Buddhism and Early Christianity, Comparative Mysticism
Rachel C. Schneider Vlachos
Rachel.S.Vlachos@rice.edu

African Religions
Elizabeth Wallett
wallett@rice.edu
  Buddhism 
Chinghui Ying (JianYing FaShi)
jianying@rice.edu

Buddhism, Psychology of Religion

Dissertation topic:  Towards a Nondual Onto-Epistemology:  A Study of the Early Histories and Ideas of Chinese Chan and Tibetan Dzogchen and Their Implications for Religious Studies