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Doctoral Students
Mira Balberg
(M.A. Hebrew University), Jewish studies, preceptions of the self and the body in late antiquity (advisor: Fonrobert).
mbalberg@stanford.edu
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Benjamin (Ben) Brose
(M.A., UC-Berkeley) Buddhist studies, medieval Chinese Buddhism, Tiantai Mountains (advisor: Faure).
brose@stanford.edu
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Megan Bryson
(B.A., Oregon) Buddhist studies, Chinese Buddhism, Guanyin (advisor: Faure).
mbryson@stanford.edu
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Georgios Clonos
(M.A., School of Oriental and African Studies, London University), Buddhist studies, Japanese Religions, Shugendô (advisor: Faure). Dissertation Topic: Mount Ômine Shugendô.
cronos@stanford.edu
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Theodore (Tad) Cook
(M.A., Indiana), Buddhist studies, medieval Chinese Buddhism and Taoism (advisor: Faure).
tadcook@stanford.edu
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Brenda Falk
(B.A. Reed College, M.A. University of Colorado at Boulder), Buddhist Studies, Modern Japanese Buddhism, Osore-zan and Tohoku region.
Hobbies: international travel, gourmet cooking
brendaf@stanford.edu
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Sarah Fremerman
(B.A., Yale), ABD; Dissertation topic: Nyoirin Kannon; 2004 2005 Doctoral Fellow, SSFJS
sarah.fremerman@stanford.edu
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Alexander Hampton
(Hon. B.A. Toronto, Literary Studies-Philosophy; MPhil, Oxford, Philosophical Theology) Modern Western Religious Thought (Advisor: Sockness).
Protestant Tradition, Romanticism, Literature and Religion, Fundamentalisms.
Hobby: Mountaineering.
alexhampton@stanford.edu
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Chiew Hui Ho
(MA., NUS, MA, HKU) Buddhist studies, medieval Chinese and Japanese Buddhism, Buddhist Hermeneutics, Miracles Tales (advisor: Faure)
chiewhui@stanford.edu
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Noreen Khawaja
(B.A., Williams College) Heidegger, Kierkegaard, Existentialism and the Philosophy of Religion (advisor: Sheehan); Daoist thought and language
nkhawaja@stanford.edu
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Kenneth Koo
Buddhist Art, (advisor: Bielefeldt).
Interest: Korean Tantric Buddhism
swkoo@stanford.edu
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Akiba Lerner
Jewish studies (advisor: Eisen).
akibal@stanford.edu
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David Levinsky
(M.A., Hebrew Union), Jewish studies, Jewish asceticism in Late Antiquity (advisor: Fonrobert).
davidlev@stanford.edu
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John Mandsager
(M.A. GTU) Jewish Studies; Late Antique religions; rabbinic identities (advisor: Fonrobert)
mandsagr@stanford.edu
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John Pang
(M.S., London School of Economics), Buddhist studies, medieval Chinese Buddhist thought (advisor: Bielefeldt).
jpang@bigfoot.com
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Joshua Peskin
(M.A. Emory University) Modern Jewish Thought, Philosophy of Religion, Ethics (advisor: Eisen)
jpeskin@stanford.edu
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Jason Protass
(B.A. Yale) Buddhism, Chinese Religiosity, Song Dynasty Chan Literature, Sufism in Late Imperial China (advisor: Bielefeldt)
protass@stanford.edu
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Jessica Rosenberg
(B.A. Oberlin), Jewish studies. (advisor: Eisen). Halakhah, Orthodox feminism.
rosenj@stanford.edu
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Robert Smith
(B.A., Georgetown), Jewish studies, ABD (advisor: Eisen).
rtsmith@stanford.edu
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Max Strassfeld
Jewish Studies, Judaism and gender in late Antiquity (advisor Fonrobert)
Hobbies: bookbinding and cooking
maxkblue@stanford.edu
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Dominic Steavu
(M.A., Harvard), Buddhist studies, Early Daoism and Tantric Buddhism (advisor: Bielefeldt).
quatorze@stanford.edu
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Claire Sufrin
(B.A., Yale), Jewish studies, (advisor: Eisen).
cesufrin@stanford.edu
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Xiang Wang
(MA., Yale, MA, HKU), Buddhist Studies, Medieval Chinese Buddhism and Buddhism along the Silk Road (advisor: Faure)
xiangw@stanford.edu
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Dan Washburn
(B.A., Puget Sound), Christianity, Late Antique religions with emphasis on riots and disturbances of the late fourth and early fifth centuries (advisor: Gregg).
Hobbies: fly-fishing and playing basketball.
washburnstanford@yahoo.com
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Candace West
(B.A., Princeton), religious ethics, ABD; ethical thought of Bernard Williams; ethics and literature (advisor: Yearley).
Hobbies: sleeping, singing.
maza@stanford.edu
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Ross Wilken
(B.A., Dartmouth) , American Religion (advisor: Yearley).
rwilken@stanford.edu
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Nicholas Witkowski
(B.A., U Mass Amherst) Chinese and Indian Buddhism, Asceticism
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Peter Woodford
(B.A. University of Pennsylvania) Modern Western Religious Thought (advisor: Sockness)
Interests: German Idealism esp. Hegel & Kant, Religious Ethics, Existentialism, Historicism
peterwd@stanford.edu
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Zhaohua Yang
(M.A., Beijing), Buddhist studies, medieval Chinese Tantric Buddhism (advisor: Faure).
zhyang@stanford.edu
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Masters Students
Rachel Burt (on leave)
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Jenna Roberts (on leave)
(B.A., CSU Chico). Early Christianity. (advisor: Gregg)
Other Interests: web design, Renaissance faire, writing, Harry Potter, and otherwise hiding from reality.
jennasix@stanford.edu
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Ashley Conrad Walter
(A.B./A.B., College Scholar Program/Religious Studies Program, Cornell University; concurrently pursuing joint JD degree at Stanford Law School) Faith-Based Investments, Catholic Studies (Advisor: Sockness).
Hobbies: Spending time with my wonderful wife, working out, soccer.
acwalter@stanford.edu
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Alumni
David Landis Barnhill 1986
Director of Environmental Studies and Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh
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Scott Dennis Peterman 1986
Foreign legal consultant
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Philip John Ivanhoe 1987
Professor at City University of Hong Kong
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Patricia O Killen 1987
Provost, Professor of American Religions, and Director of the Center for Religion, Cultures, and Society in the Western United States at Pacific Lutheran University
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Edward Allen Beach 1988
Associate Professor in the Philosophy and Religious Studies Department at the University of Wisonsin-Eau Claire
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Karen Leslie Carr 1989
Professor of religious studies at Lawrence University
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Thomas Anthony Tweed, 1989
Professor and Chair of the Department of Religious Studies and adjunct professor of American Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Vincent C Gilliam 1990
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Vivian-Lee Nyitray 1990
Associate Professor in the Religious Studies department at the University of California Riverside
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Kent Eugene Richter 1990
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Lu Jun Yin 1992
MBA Stanford 1996
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Mark Ty Unno 1994
Associate Professor in the Religious Studies department at the University of Oregon
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Zachary Joseph Braiterman 1995
Assistant Professor in Religion and Judaic Studies at Syracuse University
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David Lion Gardiner 1995
Assistant Professor in the Religion Department at Colorado College
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Bruce Alan Wallace 1995
President of the Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies
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James Marcus Hyman 1997
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Kenneth Alan Koltun-Fromm 1997
Associate Professor of Religion at Haverford College
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Masahiko Okada 1997
Tenri University
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Jean Clark Roth 1997
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Wendi Leigh Adamek 1998
Assistant Professor in the Religion Department at Barnard College
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Avi K. Bernstein-Nahar 1998
Dean of Educational Planning and Development at the Center for Adult Jewish Learning at Hebrew College
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Egil (Gil) Fronsdal 1998
Director at the Sati Center for Buddhist Studies
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Lawrence William Gross 1998
Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Diversity Fellow at the University of California Santa Barbara
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Edward Gilman Slingerland 1998
Associate Professor of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia; Canada Research Chair in Chinese Thought and Embodied Cognition
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John Edward Taylor 1998
Associate Professor of Law at West Virginia University College of Law
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Mark Allen Berkson 1999
Associate Professor in the Religion Department at Hamline University
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Thomas Abner Lewis 1999
Thomas A. Lewis has left Harvard University to join the faculty of Brown University as Assistant Professor in the Department of Religious Studies.
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David (Max) Leo Moerman 1999
Assistant Professor in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures at Barnard College
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Einat Ramon 1999
Dean of the Schechter Rabbinical Seminary, teaches Modern Jewish Philosophy at the Conservative Yeshiva in Jerusalem
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Stephen A. Wilson 1999
Assistant Professor of Religion and Philosophy at Hood College
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Michael Como 2000
Assistant Professor and Fukami Professor of Shinto Studies at Columbia University
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Christine Elizabeth Ewing 2000
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Caroline Wagner Reichard 2000
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Henry (Hank) Joseph Glassman 2001
Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies at Bryn Mawr Haverford College
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Irene Lin 2001
Associate Director of the Stanford Center for Buddhist Studies
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Gregory Ethan Kaplan 2002
Anna Smith Fine Assistant Professor of Judaic Studies at Rice University
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Pauline Chen Lee 2002
Assistant Professor of Chinese Religion and Culture, Religious Studies at Washington University in St. Louis
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James George Robson 2002
Assistant Professor of Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Michigan
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Mark William Gonnerman 2003
Director of the Aurora Forum at Stanford University
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Julius Nanting Tsai 2003
Assistant Professor of the Department of Religious Studies at San Diego State University
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Gregory John Watkins 2003
Resident Fellow and SLE Lecturer at Stanford University
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Elizabeth Anne Morrison 2004
Assistant Professor at Middlebury College
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Mara Hillary Benjamin 2005
Postdoctoral Associate in Judaic Studies, Lecturer in Religious Studies at Yale University (2005-2007)
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Lisa Ann Grumbach 2005
Instructor at the Institute of Buddhist Studies
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Wilburn Nels Hansen 2006
Last known post: Visiting Assistant Professor, Western Kentucky University
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Jason (J.J.) Josephson 2006
Assistant Professor of Religion, Williams College
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Shari Epstein 2006
Last known post: Assistant Professor at Dharma Realm Buddhist University
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David Quinter 2006
Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Religious Studies at Indiana University Bloomington
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Kathleen Tierney 2007
Religious ethics; religious thought of Iris Muroch; religious ideal of selflessness in light of feminist criticism.
kathleen.tierney@stanford.edu
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Alumni status will be periodically verified and updated. If you have more current information on any of our alum, please contact Sunny Toy at toy@stanford.edu so that we can include this information in our next update. Thank you.
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