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

Benjamin (Ben) Brose
(M.A., UC-Berkeley) Buddhist studies, medieval Chinese Buddhism, Tiantai Mountains (advisor: Faure).
brose@stanford.edu

Megan Bryson
(B.A., Oregon) Buddhist studies, Chinese Buddhism, Guanyin (advisor: Faure).
mbryson@stanford.edu

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

Theodore (Tad) Cook
(M.A., Indiana), Buddhist studies, medieval Chinese Buddhism and Taoism (advisor: Faure).
tadcook@stanford.edu

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

Sarah Fremerman
(B.A., Yale), ABD; Dissertation topic: Nyoirin Kannon; 2004 2005 Doctoral Fellow, SSFJS
sarah.fremerman@stanford.edu

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

Chiew Hui Ho
(MA., NUS, MA, HKU) Buddhist studies, medieval Chinese and Japanese Buddhism, Buddhist Hermeneutics, Miracles Tales (advisor: Faure)
chiewhui@stanford.edu

Noreen Khawaja
(B.A., Williams College) Heidegger, Kierkegaard, Existentialism and the Philosophy of Religion (advisor: Sheehan); Daoist thought and language
nkhawaja@stanford.edu

Kenneth Koo
Buddhist Art, (advisor: Bielefeldt).
Interest: Korean Tantric Buddhism
swkoo@stanford.edu

Akiba Lerner
Jewish studies (advisor: Eisen).
akibal@stanford.edu

David Levinsky
(M.A., Hebrew Union), Jewish studies, Jewish asceticism in Late Antiquity (advisor: Fonrobert).
davidlev@stanford.edu

John Mandsager
(M.A. GTU) Jewish Studies; Late Antique religions; rabbinic identities (advisor: Fonrobert)
mandsagr@stanford.edu

John Pang
(M.S., London School of Economics), Buddhist studies, medieval Chinese Buddhist thought (advisor: Bielefeldt).
jpang@bigfoot.com

Joshua Peskin
(M.A. Emory University) Modern Jewish Thought, Philosophy of Religion, Ethics (advisor: Eisen)
jpeskin@stanford.edu

Jason Protass
(B.A. Yale) Buddhism, Chinese Religiosity, Song Dynasty Chan Literature, Sufism in Late Imperial China (advisor: Bielefeldt)
protass@stanford.edu

Jessica Rosenberg
(B.A. Oberlin), Jewish studies. (advisor: Eisen). Halakhah, Orthodox feminism.
rosenj@stanford.edu

Robert Smith
(B.A., Georgetown), Jewish studies, ABD (advisor: Eisen).
rtsmith@stanford.edu

Max Strassfeld
Jewish Studies, Judaism and gender in late Antiquity (advisor Fonrobert)
Hobbies: bookbinding and cooking
maxkblue@stanford.edu

Dominic Steavu
(M.A., Harvard), Buddhist studies, Early Daoism and Tantric Buddhism (advisor: Bielefeldt).
quatorze@stanford.edu

Claire Sufrin
(B.A., Yale), Jewish studies, (advisor: Eisen).
cesufrin@stanford.edu

Xiang Wang
(MA., Yale, MA, HKU), Buddhist Studies, Medieval Chinese Buddhism and Buddhism along the Silk Road (advisor: Faure)
xiangw@stanford.edu

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

Candace West
(B.A., Princeton), religious ethics, ABD; ethical thought of Bernard Williams; ethics and literature (advisor: Yearley).
Hobbies: sleeping, singing.
maza@stanford.edu

Ross Wilken
(B.A., Dartmouth) , American Religion (advisor: Yearley).
rwilken@stanford.edu

Nicholas Witkowski
(B.A., U Mass Amherst) Chinese and Indian Buddhism, Asceticism

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

Zhaohua Yang
(M.A., Beijing), Buddhist studies, medieval Chinese Tantric Buddhism (advisor: Faure).
zhyang@stanford.edu


Masters Students

Rachel Burt    (on leave)


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

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


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

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

Lu Jun Yin 1992
MBA Stanford 1996

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

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

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

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

Caroline Wagner Reichard 2000

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

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

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

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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