Alma Wilson Lectureship
The Alma Wilson Fellowship Teaching Lectureship offers doctoral students and candidates in the Divinity School, with a record of outstanding teaching record, the opportunity to design and teach a course of their own design in the University’s Undergraduate Program in Religious Studies.
- 2025- Pieter Hoekstra, Lauren Beversluis, Michaela Podolny
- 2024- Hannah Ozmun, Zachary Taylor
- 2023- Kristi Del Vecchio, Ranana Dine
- 2022- Derek Buyan, Kirsten Collins, Marielle Harrison, Allison Kanner-Botan.
- 2021- Caroline Anglim, Joel Brown, Menachem Kranz, Sara Jo Swiatek
- 2020- Matthew Creighton, Mark Lambert, Matthew Peterson, Paride Stortini
| Derek Buyan | 2021-2022 | Spring | RLST 25563 | Does American Democracy Need Religion? |
| Allison Kanner-Botan | 2021-2022 | Spring | RLST 28013 | Love, Desire, and Sexuality in Islamic Texts and Contexts |
| Kirsten Collins | 2021-2022 | Winter | RLST 27721 | Race and Religion: Theorizing Blackness and Jewishness |
| Marielle Harrison | 2021-2022 | Autumn | RLST 28991 | The Prophet Q |
| Joel Brown | 2020-2021 | Spring | RLST 27720 | Race and Religion in Chicago |
| Mendel Kranz | 2020-2021 | Spring | RLST 29104 | Antisemitism and Islamophobia, Historically and Today |
| Caroline Anglim | 2020-2021 | Winter | RLST 24160 | Whom Am I To Judge? Relativism and Religious Difference |
| Sara-Jo Swiatek | 2020-2021 | Autumn | RLST 27802 | Technology and The Human |
| Matthew Peterson | 2019-2020 | Spring | RLST 28989 | Virtual Realities and Religious Realities |
| Paride Stortini | 2019-2020 | Spring | RLST 26220 | Buddhism and Modernity: East and West |
| Matthew Creighton | 2019-2020 | Winter | RLST 28211 | Intro to Religion and Literature: Dramatic Encounters |
| Mark Lambert | 2019-2020 | Winter | RLST 26302 | Religion, Medicine, and Ilness |
| Russell Johnson | 2018-2019 | Spring | RLST 28511 | Star Wars and Religion |
| Lisa Landoe Hedrick | 2018-2019 | Spring | RLST 23805 | The Problems with God-Talk |
| Andrew Kunze | 2018-2019 | Winter/Spring | RLST 27420 | American Hinduism |
| Maureen Kelly | 2018-2019 | Winter | RLST 24710 | Geneaology of Confession: Foucault, Christianity, and The History of Truth |
| Marshall Cunningham | 2017-2018 | Spring | RLST 20230 | Jerusalem: The "Holy" City |
| Greg Chatterley | 2016-2017 | Winter | RLST 10100 | Intro to Religious Studies |
| Alexander Hsu | 2015-2016 | Spring | RLST 26200 | Reading Buddhist Scriptures as Literature: The Lotus Sutra |
| Emily Crews | 2015-2016 | Autumn | RLST 28011 | Religions of the African Diaspora |
| Philippa Koch | 2014-2015 | Spring | RLST 21311 | Health and The Body in American Religions |
| Andrew Durdin | 2014-2015 | Winter | RLST 22311 | The Ancient Romans and Their Religion |
| Tarick Elgendy | 2013-2014 | Spring | RLST 24913 | Marginalized Theologies |
| Jessica Andruss | 2013-2014 | Winter | RLST 20910 | Prophets in Jewish and Islamic Traditions |
| Alexander Rocklin | 2012-2013 | Spring | RLST 21403 | Race and Religion in the Americas |
| Joseph Ballan | 2011-2012 | Winter | RLST 23604 | Problems of Evil: Narrative, Theodicy, Anti-Theodicy |
| Megan Doherty | 2010-2011 | Winter | RLST 24303 | Faith, Reason, and The Existence of God |
| Sarah Imhoff | 2009-2010 | Autumn | RLST 21105 | Women in American Jewish History |
| Garry Sparks Jr. | 2008-2009 | Spring | RLST 21402 | Missionaries and Mesoamericans in the 1500s |
| Marsaura Shukla | 2007-2008 | Spring | RLST 24301 | Historical Knowledge and Biblical Faith |
| Adam Darlage | 2006-2007 | Winter | RLST 22601 | The Radical Reformation |
| Lea Schweitz | 2005-2006 | Spring | RLST 24302 | Pragmatism and Religion: Willliam James Today |
| David Simmons | 2004-2005 | Winter | RLST 28601 | Goethe: Faust |