Gradate Students

Student	Thesis Title	Degree	Role	Completed
Dakota M-Perrin	Western versus Eastern European Responses to the Second Plague Pandemic	M.A.	Supervisor	In Progress

Ayesha Akbari	Interplay between Christianity and Colonial Influence	M.A.	Supervisor	In Progress

Lucia Eyzaguirre	Indigenous Cosmologies in Today's World	M.A.	Supervisor	In Progress

Michael Aiello	Imagining the End of the World: The Eschatological Language of The King James Bible and its Influences	Ph.D.	Supervisor	In Progress

Sharon Angnakak	Uqattiartuq: Inuit and Qallunaat interpretations of religion and law in early 20th century Canada	Ph.D.	Supervisor	In Progress

Idoia Arana-Beobide	The question of Basque Indigeneity	Ph.D.	Supervisor	In Progress

Tatiana Frederickson	Ethnography of Naming as a Religious Identity in Inuvialuit and Gwich’in Cultures	M.A.	Supervisor	In Progress

Emily Hanlon	Companions on the Way: Sufism in 21st Century Oakland	Ph.D.	Co-Supervisor with Prof. Meena Sharify-Funk of Wilfred Laurier University	In Progress

Student	Thesis Title	Degree	Role	Completed
Heather Penner	Stopping Stigma: Behavioral Conditioning Changes Attitudes toward Disease, Disability, Stigma, Disgust, and Fear Employing Leprosy and HIV/AIDS as Case Studies	Ph.D.	Supervisor	2023

Colin Law	Spirit of an American Cult: American Civil Religion and the Stories and Imagery Used to Shape American Identity	Ph.D.	Ph.D.	2023

Cynthia D. Stirbys	Potentializing Wellness through the Stories of Female Survivors and Descendants of Indian Residential School Survivors: A Grounded Theory Study	Ph.D.	Supervisor	2016

Spencer Bullivant	Believing to Belong: Negotiation and Experience of American Identity at a Non-Religious Summer Camp	Ph.D.	Supervisor	2015

Stephanie Tara Schwartz	Double-Diaspora in the Literature and Film of Arab Jews	Ph.D.	Co-Supervisor	2012

Student	Thesis Title	Degree	Role	Completed
Veronica Harvey	A Saint Manquée: The Gregorian Reforms, Anglo-Norman Hagiography, and the Legend of Lady Godiva	M.A.	Supervisor	2023

Avian Tang	Sainte-Anne, New France, and Pilgrimage: Locating the Colonial Foundation and Entrenchment of Quebec’s Religio-Cultural Identity in Sacred Person and Pilgrimage	M.A.	Supervisor	2015

Darcy Sawilla	Religious Devotions in the Southern Low Countries as an Opposition to Catharism (1150-1300)	M.A.	Supervisor	2014

Colette St-Onge	Symbols of Authenticity: Challenging the Static Imposition of Minority Identities through the Case Study of Inuit Art	M.A.	Supervisor	2011

Taralynn Parr	Forgive Me Ana, for I have Sinned: Pro-Ana as Contemporary Asceticism	M.A.	Supervisor	2010

Meet My Graduate Students