Ph.D.'s Available for Appointment, 2008-09

 

This page introduces recent graduates and advanced doctoral candidates from the University of Chicago Divinity School available for teaching appointments in the 2008–2009 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"

Biblical Studies

• Annette Bourland Huizenga (abhuizen@uchicago.edu)
  "What's a Woman to Do?: Moral Training for Women in the Pastoral Letters and Texts by Pythagorean Women"
• 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"

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

• Kristin C. Bloomer (kcbloome@hotmail.com)
  "Maataa Mary: Hinduism, Catholicism and Marian Possession in Contemporary Tamil Nadu, South India"
• Anthony Cerulli (acerulli@uchicago.edu)
  "Somatic Lessons: Myth and the Body in Sanskrit Medical Literature"
• Laura Desmond (ldesmond@uchicago.edu)
  “Disciplining Pleasure: The Erotic Science of the Kāmasūtra”
• Noah Salomon (nsalomon@uchicago.edu)
  "Sufism, Religious Revival and the Struggle for Islamic Modernity in Contemporary Sudan"
• Alicia Turner (amturner@uchicago.edu)
  “Buddhism, Colonialism and the Boundaries of Religion: Theravada Buddhism in Burma 1885-1920”

Philosophy of Religion

• Jennifer Schuberth (jenschub@mac.com)
  “Allegories of Annihilation: Porete's Mirror and the Medieval Self”

Religion and Literature

• Jeremy Biles (jbiles@uchicago.edu)
  "Ecce Monstrum: Georges Bataille and the Sacrifice of Form"
• Spencer Dew (spencerdew@gmail.com)
  "Pedagogy and Community: Kathy Acker's 'Talmudic Mode'"

Religious Ethics

• 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"
• Daniel Kynaston (daniel.kynaston@yahoo.com)
  "Theology and the Event: Metaphor, Deconstruction, and the Task of Naming God After Metaphysics"
• Courtney S. Wilder (wilder-klinefelter@att.net)
  “Existentialism and Exegesis: Being and the Bible in Bultmann and Tillich”
• William D. Wood (wdwood@uchicago.edu)
  "Searching for the Secret Instinct: Blaise Pascal and the Philosophical Analysis of Self-Deception"
• William A. Wright (wawrigh@uchicago.edu)
  "Saving Difference: the Dialectical-Differential Structure of Calvin's Soteriology"