Employment
Candidates Available for Appointment
This page introduces recent graduates and advanced doctoral candidates from the University of Chicago Divinity School available for teaching appointments in the 2009–2010 academic year.
Doctoral students at the Divinity School concentrate their work in one of the School's ten areas of study. Their programs include completion of general requirements in the methodologies of the modern study of religion, fulfillment of the requirements of their area of study, and significant coursework in other areas. Many work in other departments of the University as well. Students conclude their coursework by writing qualifying examinations selected from at least two areas of study in the Divinity School. Ph.D. candidacy is conferred upon approval by the School's Committee on Degrees of a dissertation proposal and a committee of the faculty to direct the dissertation.
We welcome your inquiries about any of these candidates. Please feel free to call on us if we may be of assistance.
Richard A. Rosengarten, Dean
(Phone: 773-702-8221 | E-mail: raroseng@uchicago.edu)
Teresa Hord Owens, Dean of Students
(Phone: 773-702-8217 | E-mail: tdowens@uchicago.edu)
Anthropology and Sociology of Religion
- Rory M. Johnson (rjohnson@uchicago.edu)
"The Persistent Conversation: Religion, Communication and Identity in African American Musical Practice" - Kristen J. Tobey (kristentobey@gmail.com)
"Performing Marginality: Identity and Efficacy in the Plowshares Nuclear Disarmament Movement"
Biblical Studies
- Elizabeth Hopp-Peters (eahopppe@uchicago.edu)
"Breaking Pots, Making Metaphors: Prophetic Action Narratives
in the Book of Jeremiah" - Sharon L. Mattila (slmattila@hotmail.com)
“Jesus and the ‘Middle Peasants’: Challenging a Model of His Socioeconomic Context” - Edward Silver (esilver@uchicago.edu)
"The Prophet and the Lying Pen: Jeremiah's Poetic Challenge to the Deuteronomic School"
History of Christianity
- Elizabeth Hayes Alvarez (e-alvarez@uchicago.edu)
"The Valiant Woman: The Virgin Mary as Imagined by American Catholics and Protestants, 1854-1904" - Adam W. Darlage (adarlage@uchicago.edu)
"Priests Under Pressure in Southern Moravia: History and Identity in Roman Catholic Polemics (1575-1615)"
History of Judaism
- Eszter Katalin Füzessy (eszterke@uchicago.edu)
“'Dialogues between Sages and Outsiders to the Tradition': Creation of Difference as a Literary Method of Religious Polemics in Rabbinic Literature" - Hillel Gray (gray@uchicago.edu)
"Rethinking Rabbinic Law in a Policy Context: R. Moses Feinstein on Cigarette Smoking and Dying"
History of Religions
- Brian Hagen Collins (collinsb@uchicago.edu)
"Headless Mothers, Magic Cows, and Lakes of Blood: The Paraśurāma Cycle in the Mahābhārata and Beyond" - Carrie B. Dohe (cbdohe@uchicago.edu)
"The Wandering Archetype: C. G. Jung’s ‘Wotan’ and Germanic- Aryan Spirituality ca. 1871-1945" - Amanda J. Huffer (ahuffer@uchicago.edu)
"Darshan in a Hotel Ballroom: Amritanandamayi Ma’s (Amma’s) communities of devotees in the United States" - Elizabeth Ann Pérez (eaperez@uchicago.edu)
“Returning to the Drum: Conversion and Healing in an African-American Santería Community” - Susan Zakin (zakin@uchicago.edu)
"The Gift of Death: Acts of Imagination in the Ritual of gCod"
Religion and Literature
- Spencer Dew (spencerdew@gmail.com)
"Pedagogy and Community: Kathy Acker's 'Talmudic Mode'" - M. Cooper Harriss (charriss@uchicago.edu)
"Race and the Religious Unconscious: Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Theology" - Edward Charles Upton (ecupton@uchicago.edu)
"India and Identity in T.S. Eliot's Poetics of the Self"
Religious Ethics
- Barbra Barnett (bbarnett@uchicago.edu)
"Religious Arguments in the Public Square: An Examination of Religious Freedom in Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy" - Debra J. Erickson (dje@uchicago.edu)
"A World for People and People for the World: A Casuistic Approach to Environmental Decision-Making" - Jeffrey I. Israel (jiisrael@uchicago.edu)
"Jewish Humor and Political Civility: On Moral Play with Tradition, Self, and Others" - Peder Jothen (pjjothen@uchicago.edu)
"Moral Moments: Towards a Christian Aesthetic of Music" - Bruce P. Rittenhouse (ber@uchicago.edu)
“Shopping for Meaningful Lives: A Christian Existential Reinterpretation of the Moral Motivation of Consumerism Through the Theology of Paul Tillich” - Matthew Rose (mrose@uchicago.edu)
"The Humanism of Karl Barth: An Essay on Human Action"
Theology
- Aimee Burant Chor (aaburant@uchicago.edu)
"'Devotion to the Real': National Identity and the Theology of Ernst Troeltsch" - Matthew Drever (mddrever@uchicago.edu)
"Augustine’s Anthropology in Christological Perspective: A Soteriological Hermeneutics of the Word" - Courtney E. Fitzsimmons (courtne1@uchicago.edu)
"The Question of Loving God: Images of Love in Iris Murdoch and Franz Rosenzweig" - Daniel Kynaston (daniel.kynaston@yahoo.com)
"Theology and the Event: Metaphor, Deconstruction, and the Task of Naming God After Metaphysics" - Sally Stamper (sjstampe@uchicago.edu)
"Horror and Its Aftermaths: A Fresh Perspective on Theological Appropriations of Psychology" - William A. Wright (wawrigh@uchicago.edu)
"Saving Difference: the Dialectical-Differential Structure of Calvin's Soteriology"
