2023

• Olivia Bustion: Autonomy and the Bonds of Love
• Derek Buyan: We Believe these Truths: American Democracy’s Humanistic Political Ethic of Belief
• Allison Kanner-Botan: Maddening Love: Islamic Thought and the Politics of Desire in the Legend of Layla and Majnun 
• Nadia Khan: American Muslim Tarbiya: Parents, Experts, ʿUlamāʾ, and Debates about Mothering
• Mendel Kranz: The Postcolonial Jewish Question: Jewish and Arab Entanglements in Postwar France
• Christina Llanes: The Darkness in Christ's Eyes: The Incarnational Theology of Divine Union in Angela of Foligno's Memorial
• Elsa Marty: Contesting Context: Adivasi Theology and the Indeterminacy of Context
• Kyohei Mikawa: The Cunning of Buddhahood: An Omnitelic Reconception of
  Teleology in Tiantai Buddhist Thought
• Dhruv Nagar: Thinking Spi | Ritually: Grammar, Action & Embodiment In and
  Before Advaita
• Diane Picio: A Series of Family Resemblances: Interrogating Hollywood's Trope of the US-American Family
• Foster Pinkney: Rending the Veil: Blackness as Dignity Constructed through the Works of Frederick Douglass and W. E. B. Du Bois.
• Justin Smolin: The Mirror of Realities: The Translation of Religious Difference in Early Modern South Asia
• Bruce Winkelman: Genealogies of Japanese Buddhism: The Institutional Politics of Founder Centrism in Early Medieval Japan

2022

• Ahmed Arafat: The Surah as Argumentation: The Early Study of the Surah Structure in the Exegesis of Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī (d. 606/1210)
• Joel Brown: Preparing the Way: African American Club Women and Social Christianity in Turn-of-the-Century Chicago
• Nicholas Buck: Alienation and Political Belonging in Rousseau, Hegel, Du Bois, and King
• Samuel Catlin: The Rest is Literature: Midrash and the Institution of "Theory" in America
• Jetsun Deleplanque: Visions of Theocracy: The Rise of Ecclesiastical Power in Tibet and the Founding of the Bhutanese State.
• Nathan Hardy: Signs of Life: Late Ancient Christianity, Narrative, and the Paradox of Living Images
• Joseph Haydt: Revelation and Thought: A Study in the Age of Goethe
• Lee (Doug) Hoffer: Covenants Human and Divine: Paul's argumentum a minore ad maius in Gal 3:15-17 and Its Relevance to Gal 3-4.
• Adam Miller: To Feel Like We Feel: Reading the Precious Banner Sūtra as Affective Regime
• Anil Mundra: No Identity without Diversity:  Haribhadrasūri’s Anekāntavāda as a Jain Response to Doctrinal Difference
• Hyein Park: Comparative Mystical Theology of Love and Emptiness: Nondual Union in Buddhists and Beguines
• John Marc Sianghio: Can Might Make Rights? Dialogical Ethics and Cultural Value Formation in Armed Humanitarian Intervention
• Paride Stortini: Reimagining India between Science and Religion. Indology and Modernity in Japanese Buddhism

2021

• Sun Bok Bae: Ethics and Morality in the Priestly Law Narrative
• Seema Chauhan: (Mis)Understanding Hinduism: Representations of Hinduism in Jaina Purāṇas
• Matthew Creighton: The Hidden Father and the Problem of Generations in Luther, Freud, and Kafka
• Emily Crews: Conceiving the Self: The Female Reproductive Body and the Birth of the Religious Person in Nigerian Pentecostalism in Chicago
• Peter Faggen: Contested Authority of a Tibetan Goddess: Narrating the Tragic and Non-traditional Life Story of the Lay Mother Reincarnate Kelzang Drölma
• Cody Jones: The Hegemony of Hyperstition: Notes on Creation and Horror
• Maureen Kelly: Confessions, Confessions: Reading Augustine and Rousseau after Foucault
• Daniel Kim: Modern Medicine and the Hermeneutical Self: Meaning, Ethics, and Identity
• Sojung Kim: A Spirituality of Becoming: Exploring Christian Vernacular Mysticism Via Feminist Theological Anthropology and Everyday Language Use
• Andrew Kunze: Transnational Svāminārāyaṇ Hinduism: Mass Mediation and the Rise of BAPS
• Mark Lambert: The Sacramental Sickness: The Symptomatic Correlation Between Leprosy and the Eucharist in Historical Theology
• Dov Lerner: Dark Matter: Malbim’s Exegetical Pedagogy
• Nabanjan Maitra: The Rebirth of Homo Vedicus: Monastic Governmentality in Medieval India
• Yiftach Ofek: The New Jew of Zionist Historiography: The Social Vision and Historical Imagination of Yitzhak Baer, Gershom Scholem, and Yehezkel Kauffman
• Andrew Packman: Theology and the Atmospherics of Race: Schleiermacher, Affectivity, and the Tenacity of Racism
• Elizabeth Sartell: Mystical Philosophy: Ibn al-ʿArabī’s Lettrist Cosmogony
• Yonatan Shemesh: Averroes as Intertext: Moses Narboni's Commentary on Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed
• Christine Trotter: Hellenistic Jews and Consolatory Rhetoric: Four Case Studies from 2 Maccabees to the Letter to the Hebrews
• Hector Varela Rios: To “Take Care” and  “Venerate”: Morenita, Excessive Personhood, and Devotedness in a Puerto Rican Family
• Ori Werdiger: A Radical Epistemology of Judaism: Knowledge and History in the Postwar Thought of Jacob Gordin (1896-1947) and Léon Askenazi (1922-1996)

2020

• Bevin Blaber: Under the Influence of Writing: Maurice Blanchot's Interwar Journalism
• Gregory Chatterley: Salt and Light: Free Churches, Suburban Evangelicals and the Transformation of White Supremacy in the United States
• Francesca Chubb-Confer: Islamic Modernity, Lyric Ambiguity: Muhammad Iqbal and the Ghazal
• Marshall Cunningham: (Re)-Constructing Judeaness: Homeland, Diaspora, and the Construction of Judean Identity in the 6th and 5th Centuries BCE
• Thomas Scott Ferguson: The Needs of Reason: Kant, Metaphysics and the Proofs for the Existence of God
• Michele Ferris: The Religious Bildungsurgertum in the Queen City: Race and Cultural Politics in Cincinnati's Denomnational Newspapers, 1830-1862
• Kelli Gardner: The Figure and Figuration of Woman in the Hebrew Bible
• Robert Greenlee III: World's Collide: The Competing Legal Cosmologies of Tokugawa Japan
• David Gregg: Artificial Gods: Whiteheadian Aesthetics and the Art of Theater
• Eun Young Hwang: Therapeutic Vision, Discipline and Religious Virtue in Ordinary Life: A Comparative Ethical Analysis of Augustine and Zhiyi
• David Latimore: Liberating the Neoliberal Black Church: A Theological Response to the Ideological Influence of Neoliberalism on the Black Church
• Elena Lloyd-Sidle: Theologies of Connectivity: Exploring the Nexus of Spirit and Context
• Joyce Shin: Faith in an Age of Cultural Pluralism: An Aesthetic Approach to Transformation
• Matthew Vanderpoel: Contingency, Theology, and Poetry at the Collège de Navarre in the Age of Gerson
• Alexander Wolfson: Force and Stabilization: Transness in 20th Century Critical Thought
• Daniel Wyche: The Politics of Self-Overcoming: Spiritual Exercises and Political Liberation from Michael Foucault to Martin Luther King Jr.
• Richard Zaleski: Between the Literal and the Allegorical: Biblical Paraphrase and Mediation of Scripture in Philo of Alexandria's and Gregory of Nyssa's Lives of Moses

2019

• David Barr: Christian Realist Environmental Ethics
• Ezra Blaustein: “Cataloging Revelation: Echoes of Islamic Legal Theory in Maimonides’ Sefer ha-Mitsvot” 
• John Whitney Buchman: The Price of Solidarity: Adam Smith, Thomas Aquinas, and the Ethics of Exchange  
• James Robert Covington: The Poetics of Translation in Greek Genesis and the Virtuous Plot 
• Darryl Scott Dale-Ferguson: Capable Agents and Just Institutions: A Reconstruction of Paul Ricoeur's "Ethical Aim" Using Anthony Giddens' Theory of Structuration
• Jessie DeGrado: Authoring Empire: Intellectual Engagement with the Neo-Assyrian Empire in the Bible
• Cameron Ferguson: The Binding of Past to Present: A New Perspective on the Use of Paul in the Gospel of Mark 
• William Ezekiel Goggin: Hegel's Sacrificial Imagination
• Timothy Gutmann: Conscripting Traditions: Islam, Confucianism, Modernity 
• Michelle Harrington: Laying Down One’s Life: Autonomy in the Time of Medicalized Death 
• Lisa Landoe Hedrick: Theology after the Problem of Intentionality: A Whiteheadian Corrective for Analytic Philosophy of Language 
• Aaron Thomas Hollander: The Multimediation of Holiness: Hagiography as Resistance in Greek Orthodox Theological Culture 
• Alexander Ong Hsu: Practices of Scriptural Economy: Compiling and Copying a Seventh-Century Chinese Buddhist Anthology 
• Russell Paul Johnson: Communication Ethics in Social Conflict: Nonviolent and Christian Perspectives
• Michael Thomas Le Chevallier: The Stain of Association and the Burden of Membership: Institutional Ethics in Paul Ricoeur and Catholic Social Thought
• Robert John Porwoll: Parisian Pedagogies: The Educational Debate between Peter Abelard, Hugh of Saint-Victor, Peter Lombard, and John of Salisbury 
• Hannah Amaris Roh: Specters of Western Metaphysics: Christianity and Colonial Modernity in Early Modern Korea, 1876-1945 
• Susan Christopher Shields: Beyond Words: Reading the Bible in Antebellum Contexts 
• Sam Berrin Shonkoff: Sacramental Existence: Embodiment in Martin Buber’s Philosophical and Hasidic Writings 
• David Kerman Tomlinson: Buddahood and Philosophy of Mind: Rat na karashanti, Gyana shri mitra, and the Debate over Mental Content (Akara)

Past Dissertations

• Shatha Almutawa: Imaginative cultures and historic transformations: Narrative in “Rasā'il Ikhwān Al-Safā'”  (2013)
• Elizabeth Ann Hayes Alvarez: The Valiant Woman: The Virgin Mary as Imagined by American Catholics and Protestants, 1854–1904 (2011)
• Jessica Hope Andruss: Exegesis, homily, and historical reflection in the Arabic commentary on lamentations by Salmon ben Yerūhīm, tenth-century Karaite of Jerusalem (2015)
• Anthony Banout: The Traditionalist Evasion of Religious Freedom: Islamic Modernist Responses to Failures in Anglo-American Ethical Theory (2012)
• Nora Jacobsen Ben Hammed: “Knowledge and Felicity of the Soul in Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī” (2018)
• Joseph Daniels Blosser: Ethics before God and markets: A theory of moral action in conversation with Adam Smith and Ernst Troeltsch (2011) 
• Samuel Brody:“This Pathless Hour: Messianism, Anarchism, Zionism, and Martin Buber’s Political Theology Reconsidered” (2013)
• Halim Calis: “Akbari Hermeneutics: Shams al-Din al-Fanari and His Qur’an Commentary” (2018)
• Maura Campanelli: Pastor, preacher, judge: The papacy under debate in three sixteenth-century writings (2010)
• Lucas Carmichael: The "Daode Jing" as American Scripture: Text, Tradition, and Translation 
• Jason Grant Cather: The Ontological Argument, its Criticisms and Consequences (2017)
• Paul H. B. Chang: "The Spiritual Human is Discerned by No One": An Intellectual Biography of Watchman Nee (2017)
• Darnell Maurice Charles: Heresy, treason, and royal prerogative: Henry VIII and the plenitude of power (2013) 
• Rana Choi: Erich Auerbach and his interlocutors: A comparison of literary critical methodologies (2013) 
• Brian Hagen Collins: Headless mothers, magic cows, and lakes of blood: The Paraśhurāma cycle in the “Mahābhārata” and beyond (2010) 
• Joshua Andrew Connor: Recollecting the Soul: Studies of the Psyche and the I-Thou Relation (2017)
• Manuel A. Cruz: The Ethical Passing of God: Kant and Levinas (2011) 
• Joshua Leonard Daniel: Transforming faith: H. Richard Niebuhr and Paulo Freire on moral education (2013)
• Raphael Alexande Dascalu: Philology, philosophy, and Sufism: Towards an understanding of Tanhum Ha-Yerushalmi's exegesis and thought, with a focus on his commentaries on Jonah, the Song of Songs, and Qohelet (2016)
• Andrew DeCort: Bonhoeffer's beginning: Universal entry, the problem of morality, and the ethics of new beginning (2015)
• Carrie Beth Dohe: The wandering archetype: C. G. Jung's “Wotan” and Germanic-Aryan myth and ideology (2012)
• Erik Dreff: The Intellectual Love of God in Spinoza (2017)
• Matthijs den Dulk: Defining difference: Justin Martyr and the invention of heresy among Jews and Christians (2015)
• Patricia Ann Duncan: Novel hermeneutics: Gospel exegesis in the Pseudo-Clementine "Homilies" 
• Andrew Francis Durdin: Redescribing "Magic": Discourse, Alterity, and Religion in the Roman World (2017)
• Tarick Elgendy: Power, complicity, and resistance: Rereading "the powers" with Karl Barth and Michel Foucault (2014) 
• Debra Joy Erickson: A world for people and people for the world: Using casuistry in environmental decision-making (2010) 
• Vincent Matthew Evener: "Enemies of the cross": Suffering, salvation, and truth in sixteenth-century religious controversy (2014) 
• Stephanie Anne Frank: Secularity in Durkheim's and Mauss' imagings of sociality and sociology (2015) 
• Eszter Katalin Fuzessy: “Dialogues between sages and outsiders to the tradition”: Creation of difference as a literary method of religious polemics in rabbinic literature (2011)  
• David N. Gottlieb: Second Slayings: The Binding of Isaac, Interpretations of Sacrifice, and the Formation of Jewish Memory. (2018)
• Adrian Nicolae Guiu: Reading scripture, unifying creation: Becoming the officina omnium in John Scottus Eriugena's Periphyseon (2014) 
• Sean Michael Hannan: Belatedness: Augustine on transformation in time and history (2016)
• Mathew Cooper Harriss: Race and the religious unconscious: Ralph Ellison's invisible theology
• Pierre-Julien Harter: Buddhas in the making: Path, perfectibility, and gnosis in the Abhisamayālamkāra literature (2015) 
• Justin Wesley Henry: Distant Shores of Dharma: Historical Imagination in Sri Lanka From the Late Medieval Period
• Timothy M. Hiller: Justification and moral value: Martin Luther on good, evil, and the moral self 
• Richard J. Hoskins: Reinhold Niebuhr and international society: The concord of Christian Realism and the English School of International Relations theory
• John William Cheairs Howell: Civil War literature and the prospect of America (2013) 
• Amanda Jean Huffer: Darshan in a hotel ballroom: Amritanandamayi Ma's (Amma's) communities of devotees in the United States (2010) ​
• Sarah Imhoff: Making Jewish gender: Religion, race, sexuality, and American Jews, 1910–1924 (2010) 
• Jeffrey Israel: Jewish humor and the political ethics of de-stigmatization (2011) 
• Norman Scott Johnson: Franciscan passions: Missions to the Muslims, desire for martyrdom and institutional identity in the later Middle Ages (2010) 
• Rory Mosi Johnson: Precious memories: The acculturation of memory in African American religion (2010)
• Ruchama Jerusha Johnston-Bloom: Oriental studies and Jewish questions: German-Jewish encounters with Muhammad, the Qur'an, and Islamic modernities (2014)  
• Pamela James Jones: Submission, suffering, and God: Enslaved Christian women's identity in the American antebellum period, 1830–1865 (2010) 
• Seon Yong Kim: The Pauline gospel protected with a curse: An investigation of the curse motifs in Galatians (2016)
• Evan Francis Kuehn: Troeltsch's eschatological absolute (2016)
• Marc Edward Livecche: With malice toward none: The moral ground for killing in war (2015)
• David Patrick Lyons: Philosophy, Politeness, and Party: David Hume and the Constitution of a Modern Social Order (2017) 
• Katharine Mershon, “Canine Redemption Narratives in the American Imaginary, 1981-2001” (2018)
• Anne Taylor Mocko: Demoting Vishnu: Ritual, politics, and the unmaking of Nepal's monarchy (2012) 
• David Gregory Monaco: “The Sentences of the Syriac Menander”: Introduction, text and translation, and commentary (2011) 
• Jeremy G. Morse:Devotion According to the Rules: Guru-Bhakti in the Texts and Practices of the Datta Sampradāya (2017)
• Chaim Meir Neria:"It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir" (Job 28:16): Rabbi Joseph B. Shem-Tob's commentary on Aristotle's  Nicomachean Ethics sources and analysis (2015)
• Lauren Evans Osborne: From Text to Sound to Perception: Modes and Relationships of Meaning in the Recited Qur’an
• Elizabeth Ann Perez: Narrative, seasoning, song: Praxis, subjectivity, and transformation in an African-American Lucumí community (2010)
• Seth Perry: The endless making of many books: Bibles and religious authority in America, 1780–1850 (2013)
• Matthew R. Petrusek:Catholic social ethics and the (in)vulnerability of human dignity (2013)
• Ayse Polat: Subject to approval: Sanction and censure in Ottoman Istanbul (1889-1923) (2015) 
• Charles Scott Preston: Writing a more "Samskrta" India: Religion, culture, and politics in V. Raghavan's twentieth-century Sanskrit literature (2016)
• Kyle Rader: Learning to love: A constructive theology of ascetic reading from I John to Ernst Troeltsch (2016) 
• Andrew Reinsch: Recogimiento and the memory of God (2017) 
• Bruce Pantaleo Rittenhouse: Shopping for meaningful lives: A Christian existential reinterpretation of the moral motivation of consumerism through the theology of Paul Tillich (2010) 
• Gabriel A. Robinson: Bullfighting and bull taming: Formations of religion and masculinity (2012)
• Heather Miller Rubens, “Also Other: Utilizing Different Minority Narratives in the Making of Anglo-Jewish Identity” (2011)
• Noah Salomon: In the Shadow of Salvation: Sufis, Salafis, and the Project of Late Islamism in Contemporary Sudan (2010)
• Daniel J. Schultz: On the Use and Abuse of Religion: Reading Foucault on History, Truth, and Subjectivity
• Mun’im Sirry: Reformist Muslim Approaches to the Polemics of the Qur’an against Other Religions (2012)
• Joseph Edward Steineger IV:The naturally implanted knowledge of God's existence: Two 13th- century scholastic interpretations of John of Damascus and Anselm of Bec (2014)
• Daniel DeForrest Strand: The gods of the nations: St. Augustine's apocalyptic political theology (2015)
• Myung Sahm Suh: Generational Dynamics and the Consolidation of the Christian Right in Contemporary South Korea (2017) 
• Sandra Jeanne Sullivan-Dunbar :“I was hungry and you gave me food”: Agape, justice and special relations seen through the lens of dependent care (2010)
• Alan Thomas Terlep: Inventing the Rapture: The formation of American dispensationalism, 1850–1875 (2010)
• Alexs Thompson: Re-reading al-Tabarī: Towards a narratological interpretation of the “History” (2014)
• Erika Joy Johnson Tritle: To the Jew first and to the Greek: Alonso de Cartagena's "Defensorium Unitatis Christianae" and the problem of Jewish flesh in fifteenth-century Spain (2015) 
• Michael Richard Turner: Does the laborer deserve to be paid?: The place of desert in a Christian conception of distributive justice
• Dov Weiss: Confrontations with God in late rabbinic literature (2011) 
• Robyn Jane Whitaker: Seeing god: Ekphrasis, vision, and persuasion in the Book of Revelation (2014) 
• Rebecca Wollenberg, “The People of the Book without the Book: Jewish Ambivalence towards the Biblical Text after the Rise of Christianity” (2015)
• Sarah Shaw Yardney: Interpretation in the Septuagint of Samuel (2018)
• Daniel Yingst: Towers in the Mud: Honorius Augustodunensis Through the Lens of Pedagogy (2017)
• Alexandra Kathryn Zirkle: Modeling the temple: The politics of German Jewish biblical hermeneutics (2016)