MA Graduates 1995 - 2009

Grad Students 2009 -10

Kyle Bond
Academic interests: East-West Comparative Religion and Comparative Philosophy; Mahayana Buddhism; Ancient Judaism; Early Christianity; Ancient Philosophy; Phenomenology and HermeneuticsMitu Pandya

David K. Coblentz
Languages: Greek, Coptic

Millicent H Haase

Bradley F King

Nathan J Lilje
 
Joseph Marino
Academic interests: religion in the Himalayas; American Buddhism and Buddhism's influence on Neopaganism and New Religious Movements in

Katherine J Meyerdirk

Douglas F Ober
Academic interests: Buddhist politics in South Asia; religions and cultures of the Himalaya; Muslim-Buddhist relations in Kashmir.
Languages: Hindi, Tibetan,

Martin Ricardo

Charles L Richter
Russian Old Belief, Russian Orthodoxy, Slavic Religion and Culture, Religious Rhetoric in the Public Square

Erin K Scholtens

Maggie A Stephenson

Miloud Amine Tais
Academic interests: Islam and modernity; reform in Judaism, Christianity and Islam; formative periods of the major Western religious traditions, religion and politics

Briana Thirloway
Academic interests: religion and politics, Europe and Latin America

Stephen R Thompson

Polly Yorioka
Academic interests: Early Christianity, Greco-Roman Religion, Manichaeism

Jill A Weinstein

MA Graduates

ALMQUIST, Karen Su 95 Admitted to Columbia for PhD

BABBITT, Michael B Sp 97 Librarian in Portland (as of Dec-2001)

BLAIR, Heather Sp 00 Heather Blair specializes in the religious culture of early medieval Japan. Before receiving her PhD from Harvard, she completed graduate work in Buddhist and religious studies at Columbia and the University of Washington. She is particularly interested in the creation and maintenance of sacred places and lay religious practices. At present, she is working on "Peak of Gold," a book manuscript that focuses on devotion and politics at a sacred mountain called Kinpusen in the 11th and 12th centuries.

BURGESS, David Sp 90 Admitted to UW PhD in Comparative Literature

BUSCH, Laura Admitted to UW PhD Program in Communications

CRAWFORD, Juliet Graduated Sp 01 Admitted to University of Virginia’s PhD program with a concentration in historical theology, patristics.

DAVIS, Eric Graduated Sp 00 Admitted to PhD program Chicago, History of. Religion.

DEWITT, Lindsey Graduated Sp 2008 PhD candidate in the Buddhist Studies program in UCLA’s Asian Languages & Culture Dept.

DRAWZ, Brandon Graduated Sp 01 Most recently, he is the swim coach at Mt. Hood Community College, Gresham, OR.

HUFF, Robert Graduated Su 93 Admitted to the. PhD program at U Chicago

KIRBY, Zamyat Graduated Sp 98 Admitted to the Ph. D. program North Carolina. Chapel Hill

KNASTER, Jessica Graduated Sp 00 Admitted to the PhD program UVirgina

KOCAR, Alex Graduated Sp 2009 Accepted to Princeton University's Religion Department's Religions in Antiquity sub-division. Awarded a full stipend for the study of the Ancient World and the Stanley J. Seeger fellowship for five years of study.

KOTEK, Christine Graduated Su 96 In the 2009–10 biennium, she serves as the House Majority Whip, Oregon House of Representatives. Prior: Policy Director of Children First for Oregon, and Public Policy Advocate for Oregon Food Bank. Co-chaired the Human Services Coalition of Oregon during the 2002 budget crisis and currently serves as the co-chair of the Governor’s Medicaid Advisory Committee.

LARSON, ADAM Graduated 09 Living in Toronto and teaching English as a second language, but has now moved to Kuwait. He has been Admitted to the PhD program in Education at University College London which he will pursue from Qatar, studying the effect of that state's massive overhaul of its educational system.

LOPEZ, Kacie - Graduated 09

PEMBERTON, Kelly Graduated Sp 94 PhD Columbia. Assistant Professor of Religion and Women's Studies, George Washington University. Areas of interest: Islam, Hinduism, Sufish,& Gender.

PRESTON, Ryan Graduated:Su 95 PhD in Religion from Harvard. The last six years, he has taught for study-abroad programs at Arcadia University, Lake Forest College, and St. Olaf College.

PREVOST, Sasha Graduated Sp 09 2009: Admitted to Harvard’s M.Div with full scholarship in Hebrew Bible.

RENNAKER, Jacob Graduated Sp 09 2009 Admitted to Claremont Grad University’s School of Religion. Hebrew Bible is focus of PhD

SCHERBENSKE, Eric Graduated Sp 01 Admitted to PhD program UNC Chapel Hill

SILBERLING, Kathryn Graduated Sp 92 Transferred. to PhD program at. Claremont.

THOMAS, Michael Graduated W 97 Admitted to PhD UVirgina; Accepted position in Theology and Classics at Concordia University, Portland, where he is now teaching.

UDD, Darrell Graduated Su 95 Admitted to PhD program at Claremont

WALL, Catherine Graduated Sp 92 Admitted to PhD Program at Emory in Medical Ethics

WOOD, Frances Graduated Sp 96 Admitted to PhD Program at Emory

ZAKIN, Susan Graduated Sp 99 Admitted to PhD program UChicago