Senior Theses
- Sofia Hamlin, "Fetishism, Catholicism, and Couture: John Galliano's Designs for the Christian Dior Fall 2000 Haute Couture Show." 2022
- Mona Vilsevik, “Shinto as an Organ of State: An Analysis on the Relationship Between Shintoism, the Japanese Government, and the Larger Geo-Political Stage.” 2021
- Annie Ablon, "Religion at the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Exploring the History of Transparency and Equality Among the Display of Religious Art." 2021
- Shaya d'Ornano, "France’s Discursive Response to its Identity Crisis: The Headscarf and Laïcité as Tools of Exclusion." 2021
- Grace Holleman, "Religiously Cared-for Bodies: Gender and Health in the Young Women's Christian Association, 1890-1910." 2021
- Zakiya Lakha, "Consolidating Power: An Exploration of an Ismaili Imam's Charismatic Authority." 2021
- Pamela Liu, "From Gentle Wives to Female Christ: Womanhood, Protestantism and the Modern Chinese Nation State." 2021
- Athena Abadilla, “Bangsamoro Ka Ba? (Are you Bangsamoro?)): Shifting Roles of Indigenous Filipino Muslim Identities in the U.S.” 2020
- Sarah Broniscer, “Walking in the Valley of the Shadow of Death: Analyzing Postmemory in Jewish Tours of Poland” 2020
- Kara Fleishhacker, “America’s Western and Southern Jerusalems: A Comparative Analysis of Race, Religion, and Culture in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco and Charleston’s Jewish Communities” 2020
- Nina Havivi, “’Our Tiny Bit of “Holy Land”’”: Creating Real and Imagined Pilgrimage in Palestine Park” 2020
- Leora Lupkin, “Soul and Body from Bukhārā to al-Andalus: Examining Philosophical Development Through the Non-Treatise Philosophical Sources of Ibn Sīnā and Avraham Ibn Ezra” 2020
- Allison Stewart, “Men Who Ain’t Supposed to Cry Unless their Team has Won the Superbowl: Reconsidering the Promise Keepers’ Conceptions of Masculinity and Race” 2020
- Laila Touran, “Refining the Domain of Logic, Language, and Ontology: Examining a Wittgensteinian Reading of Je Tsong Khapa and Madhyamika Buddhist Philosophy” 2020
- Judy Zhu, “An Opera for the Community: A Case Study on Zheng Zhizhen’s Opera Of The Goodness” 2020
- Yael Turitz “'Remember Kids, God Made You Special and He Loves You Very Much': Media, Evangelical Theology, and VeggieTales” 2019
Isabel Terracciano “Seances and Scientists: The Legacy of Victorian Gender Roles in Paranormal Reality TV” 2019 - Eliza Moss-Horwitz “‘How Could One Expect Fate to Make a Just Cause Prevail': Religion, Gender, and Resistance in the Memory of Sophie Scholl” 2019
- Alice Noah “‘No Pleasure But Meanness’: Grappling with the Boundaries of Belief in the Work of Flannery O’Connor” 2019
- Jaclyn Richman Cohen "The Choosing People: Rabbinic Response To Eugenics and Genetic Testing" 2018
- Doha Tazi Hemida "Ethics Before Politics: A Study of Mughal Psychagogy" 2018
- Lauren Whittaker "Stifling Gods And Dystopian Edens: Deicide For The Sake of Progress In Science Fiction Television And Films" 2018
- Charli Klowden "Chaos Coloring Conservatism: Nathan Wright Jr. And The Religious Politics of Blackness" 2018
- Ella Kahan "Mamlekhet Kohanot: The Kohenet Hebrew Priestess Institute & The Textual Crafting of a Collective " 2018
- Virginia Exley "Displaying Religion: Buddhism and Museums in North America and the Runin Museum of Art" 2018
- Chloe Caldwell Picchio "When the Aloha Spirit is not Enough: ‘Aina and the Differing Approaches to Religion in the Hawaiian Sovereignty Movement" 2017
- Danielle Weiner "Psychedelic Trance and Millenials: A Theory of Religious Disaffiliation" 2017
- Abigail Barth "Minkisi in the Museum: Challenging the ‘Primitive’ through Religion and Art of the Kongo in the Metropolitan Museum of Art" 2017
- Sade Cooper "Canonization in Context: The Motivations Behind the Closing of the Jewish Biblical Canon" 2017
- Meital Sapir "Until Today I Remember Those Songs”: History, Memory, and Personal Narratives of Yemenite Jews in Israel" 2017
- Ilana Lehmann "'Kissed by the Gods': Spiritual Experiences from Temporal Lobe Epilepsy and How we can Understand them" 2017
- Talia Storey Cuddeback "Does Being Spanish Mean Being Christian: Religious Neutrality and the Spanish Education System" 2017
- Jennifer Brenda Strauss "Freedom, New Abolitionism, and Fixing A Fractured World: Evangelical Christian and Jewish Activists In The Fight Against Sex Trafficking" 2016
- Megan E. Stater "Turning Towards A Life Of Spirit: The Disruption of Economic Logic In the Vitae of Christina of Markyate and Wulfric of Haselbury, Anchorites" 2016
- Rosabella Aslin Virginia Brown "Representations of An Unknown God: The Production of Meaning Through Abstract Art In The Rothko Chapel" 2016
- Meghan Hartman "Non-Identity Politics: The Lyric Poetry of Miraji, Or How To Dissolve A Self" 2016
- Rabecca Lyn Guthrie "Dismantling Horror: A New Approach In Analyzing Ritual, Fear, And Social Reconstruction In The Horror Genre" 2016
- Kate Greene "In Search of Shangri-La: The Sacred and the Secular in the Tibetan Tourism Industry" 2015
- Sujata Darshan Bajracharya "Goddess Rights: The Challenges of Human Rights, Secularism, and Liberal Modernity for the Kumari Tradition of the Kathmandu Valley" 2015
- Jennifer Koshner "Palestine’s Sacred Struggle: The Evolution of the International Tourist Guides to the Harlem Al-Sharif" 2015
- Sarah Persons Vallancourt "The Problem with College Students: Liberalism, Global Awareness, and Student Missionaries" 2015
- Elizabeth Cameron Wade "Beyond Agency and Resistance: Gender and Marriage in the FLDs" 2015
- Zoe Woodbury High "Seeking the Enchanted: Sufism and Yoga in Laukik Premākhyān" 2015
- Manon Cooper "God and Grandma’s Casserole: The Emerging Church’s Reinvention of Christian Food Rituals" 2014
- Margaret Gibbon "Laïcité on the Public Plate: Discourse and Disconnect in the French Ritual Slaughter Debate" 2014
- Michal Esther Dicker "Modern Women in Premodern Chains: The Agunah Crisis Contextualized" 2014
- Madeline Gertie Richer "A-B-C’s, 1-2-3’s, and Religious Beliefs: Teaching Religious Tolerance/Pluralism in the American K-12 Curriculum" 2014
- Cassandra Hartnett "Keeping their Parts: The Archetype of the Virgin Martyr in Performance" 2014
- Gabrielle Olivia Siegel "The Whole Catholic Thing: Religion and Irish Identity in Father Ted" 2014
- Dana Gordin "'Have You Ever Heard of Exorcism?': The Exorcist as a Catholic Response to Social and Religious Anxieties in America in the Nineteen Sixties and Seventies" 2014
- Allee Samantha Karmazyn "The Women’s Islamic Initiative of Spirituality and Equality (Wise): An Exploration of Islamic Feminism" 2014 Allison Lee Poirier "Gentiles in our Day: Influences on the Innovations of Rabbi Menachem Ha-Meiri" 2013
- Allison S. Dilyard "The Mysticism of Radical Politics: Reading Simone Weil’s The Need for Roots as a Spiritual Handbook for Postwar France" 2013
- Alexis Erdheim "Five Rings, Many Faiths, One Flag: Mormonism, Civil Religion, and the 2002 Salt Lake Olympics" 2013
- Olivia Grosvenor "A New Tradition: The Reconciliation of the Societal, Spiritual, and Spiritual Dissonance to Make Way for the Acceptance of Same-Sex Marriage within the Episcopal Church" 2013
- Maria Khan "The Ahmadiyya in Pakistan: The Journey from a Muslim Minority to a non-Muslim Minority" 2013
- Alison Rosenfeld "The Clergy Consultation Services on Abortion: An Examination of a Politicized Religious Group and its Connections to the Rhetorical Platform of Opposing Organizations" 2013
- Talia Harcsztark "Politicizing the Talmud: On Law, Narrative, and Gender in Talmudic Literature" 2013
- Campbell Matthews "Teachers, Students, Believers: The Role of Personal Revelation in the Growth of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints" 2012
- Anna Harrington "The Young Men’s Christian Association: A Class Unto Itself" 2012
- Carly Ann Silver "Cultural Hybridization in Roman Britain: The Case of the Curse Tablets" 2012
- Hilary Soloff "Christian Zionism and Israel: How Christian United for Israel Seeks to Shape United States Foreign Policy in a Pro-Israel Direction" 2012
- Emily Baustien "The Efficacy of Buddhist Prison Ministries" 2012
- Julianna Storch "You Cannot Have Your State and Lead It Too: Tension in American Jews’ Relationship with Israel During The Ne’eman Commission" 2012
- Julia Deborah Ribner "Dispensationalism and The Six Day War: The Reunification of Jerusalem in Post-Six Day War Dispensationalist Theology and Politics" 2012
- Noël Bohl-Fabian "Spiritual Ascent and Cultural Dissent: The Visual Prophecies of José Argüelles and Countercultural Foundations of the 2012 Phenomenon" 2012
- Alexandra Werner Winslow "2005 Émuetes In The French Banlieues: French Like The Rest" 2012
- Julianna Storch "You Cannot Have Your State and Lead it Too: Tension in American Jew’s Relationship with Israel During the Ne’eman Commission" 2012
- Emily Baustien "The Efficacy of Buddhist Prison Ministries" 2012
- Alexandra Werner Winslow "2005 Emuetes in the French Banlieues: French Like the Rest" 2012
- Campbell Matthews "Teachers, Students, Believers: The Role of PErsonal Revelation in the Growth of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints" 2012
- Justine Ellis "Constructing a protestant Nation: Religion, Politics, and the Public School Curriculum inn Texas" 2011
- Samantha Paige Hicks "Goan Cultural Memory: A Study of Goan Catholic Ritual and Practice" 2011
- Sarah Elizabeth Sullivan "Contemporary Jewish Positions on Abortion: The Relationship Between Text, Methodology, and Denominations" 2011
- Mira Alexander "The Mystical Exercise: Religious Experience and the Chandos Letter" 2011
- Shivani Narain Saxena "Converging Mahmood and Berlin: An Effort to Hijack Feminist Language" 2011
- Leslie Ribovich "Universalizing Moral Values in Thomas Lickona’s Educating for Character and Sam Harris’s The Moral Landscape" 2011
- Valerie Rose Berrin "A Prescription for Faith" 2011
- Ilana Fiona Krakowski "Making the Invisible, Visible: The Reemergence of the Shekhinah for a Contemporary Jewish Theology" 2011
- Rosa Lederer-Sabel "Building the ‘Lourdes of America’: Myth, Magic, and Modern Conveniences in New Mexico" 2011
- Mary Baodu "Marian Apparitions in Kibeho: Supernatural Phenomena, Roman Catholicism, and The Rwandan Genocide" 2010
- Ilana R. Borzak "Betwixt and Between: Modern Orthodoxy and its Approach in Modernity" 2010
- Sarah Sherer-Kohlburn "Feminist Politics and Religious Organizations: Developing Identity Within The National Council of Jewish Women" 2010
- Lindsey Lovvorn-Zimmerman "And Let Them Make Me A Sanctuary: Motivations of Sanctuary Congregations in the U.S. Sanctuary Movement" 2010
- Shira Wisotsky "Unchaining the “Chained Woman”: Civil law in the United States, Jewish Legal Considerations, and a Possible Solution" 2009
- Julia I. Bloch "The Temple: A New Testament Psalter? The Poetry of George Herbert in the Aftermath of the English Reformation" 2009
- Jessica Miller "Unlocking the Vault in the Treasury: The Prophet Daniel in Muslim Folklore" 2009
- Russ Weiss "'The Name of the Father is the Son': Name Theology and Depictions of Jesus in the Gospel of Truth" 2009
- Rachel M. Levine "Lost and Finding: The Bene Menashe’s Search for Identity" 2008
- Kaitlin Beach "Gurdwara Architecture & the Sikh Identity" 2008
- Bridget Rose Splain "The Faith of the Argentine People: An Investigation of the Catholic Church and State" 2008
- Ariel Gussie Schwartz "Unveiling the Individual: A Theoretical and Exegetical Analysis of Esther" 2008
- Alannah J. Arguelles 'Urban Revolution: Analyses of Sacred Space in New York City" 2008
- Samantha González-Block "Abstaining from Abortion Reform: The Religious and Political Reasons Why Abortion Remains Outlawed in Chile" 2008
- Lisa Yoskowitz "A Marriage of Necessity: The Always Complex, Often Contradictory and Potentially Catastrophic Judeo-Evangelical Alliance" 2007
- Miriam Lipsky "And You Shall Teach Your Sons? The Development of the Bais Yaakov School System for Women" 2007
- Abigail Grace O’Leary "A Rocky Revival: Faith, Victory, and Defeat in the Major Leagues" 2007
- Ariela Marcus-Sells "The Book Inscribed: Orality and Divine Creation in La Vie et Enseignement de Tierno Bokar" 2007
- Chelsea L. Ricker "Ducking the Birds and the Bees: The Religious Right and Abstinence-Only-Until-Marriage Education in the Public Schools" 2006
- Jessie Marie Thisell "Mormon/Evangelical Dialogue: A New Chapter in a Historically Hostile Relationship" 2006
- Sarah Montana Hart "Net-War or Net-Work? How Al-Qaeda Plays with Identity and Difference Global Network Culture" 2006
- Jessica M Brown "Common Struggles for Dignity: Maori Socio-Cultural Development Movements in Aotearoa, New Zealand’s Political Space" 2006
- Elizabeth Overton "Human Rights and Islam: A Broken Debate and A Possible Solution" 2006
- Megan Greenwell "A New Evangelical Story: The Debate Over Megachurches Within Evangelicalism" 2006
- Katharine Gerbner "Origins of Abolitionism in America: The Germantown Quaker Protest of 1688" 2008
- S.J. Frazin "The Polemical Nature of Mythology in the Ancient Judeo-Christian World" 2006
- Daniella Lichtman "Constructing Identity in the Shadows of the Holocaust: Narrations from Minsk’s Survivors" 2005
- Nicole Marie Safranek "The United Church of Christ and The God Is Still Speaking Campaign" 2005
- Avigail Appelbaum "Zionism: An Ordinary Nationalism" 2005
- Aria Bronstein-Moffly "The Islamic Revivalist Movement in Algeria: Moderate Character and LIberalizing Effects" 2005
- Anjali Atul Mehta "Grasping Spiritual Reverence through Erotica" 2005
- Anita Høyvik "Jesus walks with who? Spirituality and Christian faith in Kanye West’s 'Jesus Walks'” 2004
- Christine Tisano "Zen and The Birds of Conversation: Thomas Merton and His Legacy in The Buddhist-Catholic Monastic Dialogue" 2004
- Vered Simha Meir "Historicizing the Equality Bluff: Religion, Government, Gender Ideologies and personal Status Laws in the Modern State of Israel" 2004
- Jamie Berk "Pathologizing Possession: Issues of Inquiry and Representation in Studies of Possessed Women" 2004
- Dana Politis "Pulling The Plug: Roman Catholic and Greek Orthodox Teachings On the Withdrawal of Life Support" 2004
- Emily Kates "Active Memory: Remembering the Holocaust on Yom HaShoah" 2004
- Lauren Taus "Abetting Apocalypse 'Islamic Terrorism' and the Violence of Media Bias" 2004
- Jill Pasquuarella “'Praise the Living Jesus!' Empowerment and Politics in The Redeemed Christian Church of God" 2004
- Alicia Leibowitz "Ignoring The Truth: The Denial of Domestic Violence in the Jewish Community" 2004
- Rachel ZivicTeaching “World Religions” in Religious Schools" 2003
- Heather Ohaneson "Toward a Logic of Friendship: Aristotelian and Biblical Perspectives" 2003
- Jadh Jane Kerr "Strict is My Diet: A Short History of Food in the Christian Church and its Relation to Contemporary Eating Disorders" 2003
- Amanda Wolf "Judaism and Amalekite Genocide: A Failed Attempt at Finding A Compelling Justification for God’s Harsh Commandment" 2003
- Esther Kostant “'Civilizing' Sephardic Jews: The Ashkenazic Reign Over Jewish Education in the Modern Era" 2003
- Rovika Rajkishun "Towards Guyanese Immigrant Religious and Cultural Equality in the Hindu Community of Queens, New York: A View on Swami Vidyananda’s America Sevashram Reformation and Reorganization Movement" 2003
- Brooke Dodson-Lavelle "Madness, Materialism, and Modernization: Perspectives on Mental Illness in the Tibetan Diaspora" 2003
- Rovika Rajkishun "Towards Guyanese Immigrant Religious and Cultural Equality in the Hindu Community of Queens, New York: A View on Swami Vidy Ananda’s America Sevashram Reformation and Reorganization Movement" 2003
- Heather Ohaneson "Toward a Logic of Friendship: Aristotelian and Biblical Perspectives" 2003
- Elana Santo "Household of Man, Household of God: A Comparative Study of Household Codes in Early Christianity and Tannaitic Judaism" 2002
- Aleza Alexandra Andron "The Role Played by the Shechinah in Zoharic Literature" 2002
- April Dunetz "Mormon Missionaries Stake Their Brooklyn Claim: Examining the Effects of Brooklyn, New York Upon the Experiences and Identities of Missionaries Working in the Midst of Unfamiliar Territory" 2002
- Aneeta Saxena "Wallowing in the Bliss of Kali: An Analysis of the Religious Language and Goals Within Kali Sakta Padavali" 2002
- Rena Fruchter "Straddling the Fence: Examining the Conflict between Personal Autonomy and Halakhic Obedience" 2002
- Jennifer Libi Most “'And I too, Became Like a Young Man': The Reconfiguration of Masculinity in the Early Christianity Through the Body of the Eunuch" 2002
- Anne Hendler "The Role of the Feminine in the Apocryphon of John: Gnostic Exegesis of Genesis" 2002
- Shanya Donnadelle "The Legacy of an African PAst: The Influence of Traditional African Religions on Contemporary African-American Religious Practices" 2002
- Lisa Reimer "Where is the Seed of Our Sacrament? Marriage in the Early Church: Tracing the Legacy of 1 Corinthians 7" 2002
- Holly Henderson "Sexing Foucault" 2002
- Sunnie Kim "The Function of Language in Paul's Epistles: How did Paul’s use of language of the family develop group solidarity within the Pauline Christian community?" 2002
- Amy Esther Geldzahler "Who Are We? Jewish Identity and Conversion" 2002
- Darcy Hirsh "Towards Spiritual Equality: An Examination of Gnosticism through a Comparison of the Gospel of Thomas and the Hypostasis of the Archons" 2001
- Molly Miranda "Rosh Hodesh and its Relationship to Moon Worship in the Ancient Near East" 2001
- Rachel Kahn-Troster "The Evolving and the Timeless: Questioning Boundaries in the Debate Over the Ordination of the Women as Rabbis in the Conservative Movement" 2001
- Karen (Chani) Bloom "Mobilizing Theology in Law: An Exploration of Contemporary Changes to the Jewish Amidah Prayer" 2000
- Judith Roth "The Development of the Messianic Idea in the Writings of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the SEventh Lubavitcher Rebbe" 2000
- Jessica Rezak "The Woman of Worth in Proverbs and Midrash: an Inquiry into the Female Figure" 2000
- Susan Helft "The Rabbis and the Sun God: Zodiac Mosaics in Ancient Synagogues and Rabbinic Theology" 2000
- Talia Shalev "Suffering in the Holocaust: Unique Responses to an Age-Old Problem" 2000
- Lauren Packard "A Feminist Re-Constructive Analysis of Tara in Tibetan Tangka Painting: The Action Component" 2000
- Emily Kurzweil "Constructing and Deconstructing Modern Scholarship fo the Feminine in Kabbalah" 2000
- Ilana Chaya Garber "Can One Be an Observant Jew and a Practicing Buddhist? "1999
- Amy Rebecca Gansell "The Naditu Women of Ancient Sippar: Behind the Cloister Walls" 1998
- Amy Zwas "The Angel of Death Through Yiddish Folktales" 1998
- Erin Lee Markley "Rapture Productions" 1998
- Lori Meeks "Eshinni’s Letters: Reconstructing a Lost Voice" 1998
- Adeena Erica Shames "Shout On Children: Communitas and Collective Memory in the Religious Music of the African-American Slaves and the American Civil Rights Movement" 1998
- Gavrielle Blank "Mystical Ascension, Transformative Ritual, and Gender in the Gospel of Thomas1998
- Margaret SpearThe Saturday Lives of Radclyffe Hall" 1998
- Collier Nogues "Trail of Arrests, H.I.V Fears, and a Woman’s Tale of Love: The Rhetoric of Representation in Print Media Coverage of the Nushawn Williams Case" 1998
- Lisa Wormwood "Finding the Grace in Graceland: Healing and Community through Elvis" 1997
- Sandra Chefitz "Becoming Angels: An Analysis of Heavenly Beings throughout the Hebrew Bible, Culminating with the Qumran Manuscript Shirot Olat HaShabbat" 1997
- Leah Ackner "Justin Martyr: Questions of Influence, Community, and Trinity in the Second Century" 1996
- Ira Beltran "An Emptiness with the Shape of God, Pentecostalism in Mexico" 1996
- Daniella Schipper "Comparison between Burial Practices and Religious Thought about the Afterlife in Israel from the Patriarchal Times to Talmudic Times" 1994
- Alissa Rachelle NourseWomanist Theology: A Dialogue for the Future1993
- Rachel Robinson "Colonial America: Sovereignty ot Servitude; A Look into the Puritan’s and African-American Slaves’ Use of Exodus" 1993
- Amy Chambers "An Examination of Luke’s Historicity and the We-passages" 1992
- Susan Seo "A Road Map for the Persecuted" 1992
- Diane Kushnir "Miracle Worker and Rabbinic Authority: The Case of Honi the Circle Drawer" 1992
- Jennifer Turvey "An Investigation of Gnostic Exegesis and Gnostic Mythology In Context" 1991
- Melissa Segal "An Exegesis of the Book of Ruth" 1991
- Alison Lovell "The Hero’s Journey: The Buddha and His Emulations In Biographical Literature" 1991
- Stephanie McAllister "Kali: The Ferocious Mother Her Mythology, Worship, and Cultural Context" 1989
- Amy Danielle Bardack "Lover, Goddess, Sage, or Wife: The Figure of Lady Wisdom in Proverbs 1-9" 1989
- Nicole Michele Attaway "Images of the Voodoo Woman in American Literature" 1988
- Melanie Hahn "Lightning in the Heavens: The Development of Jewish Feminist Ritual" 1987
- Karen Sax "Maya in the Myths of Krishna of the Bhagavata Purana" 1987
- D. Alexandra Dyer" An Examination of Gnostic Interaction with the Gospel of John" 1983
- Talia Rubin "The Akedah: Interpretations in Moments of Crisis"
- Hope West "The Alpana Diagram: Art for the Goddess"
- J. Michael Colvin "Laudabiliter: An Application of the Pre-Thomistic Concept of Heresy and the Legislated End of Insular Celtic Christianity"
- Eleanor Gayle "He of the Righteous Memory: Narratives of the Late Lubavitcher Rebbe and Identity Building in Chabad"
- Jennifer Cheryl Weiner "Theoretical Ritual and The Changing Roles of Women in The Jewish Marriage Ceremony"
- Ali Fein "The Significance of Hannah in Traditional Judaism: A Study in Comparative Texts and Midrash"