Meet My Graduate Students
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Current Advisees
| Student | Thesis Title | Degree | Role | Completed |
| Sara Didi Hassane | The Making of Revolutionary Martyrs: Martyrdom during the Syrian Civil War Between 2011-2024 | M.A. | Supervisor | In Progress |
| Abbas Zahabi | Islamic-Christian Dialogue in the 10th Century AH | 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 |
| Dakota Mathieu-Perrin | Western versus Eastern European Responses to the Second Plague Pandemic | 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 |
| Idoia Arana-Beobide | The question of Basque Indigeneity | Ph.D. | 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 |
Alumni Advisees - PhD
| Student | Thesis Title | Degree | Role | Completed |
| Sharon Angnakak | Uqattiartuq: Inuit and Qallunaat interpretations of religion and law in early 20th century Canada | Ph.D. | Supervisor | 2024 |
| 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. | Supervisor | 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 |
Alumni Advisees - MA
| Student | Thesis Title | Degree | Role | Completed |
| Ayesha Akbari | Myths, Mayhem, and Mischief: Inside the World of the Trickster | M.A. | Supervisor | 2025 |
| 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 |

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