Katharine Batlan
Graduate student
Interests: Religion in the Americas; U.S. Religious History; Religion and Law
Brice Bongiovanni
Graduate student
Education: M.A., University of Georgia
Interests: African Diaspora Religions in the United States | Religious Minorities in the Americas | Immigrant Religion | Religion in Popular Media | Magic and Religion
Benjamin Cox
Graduate student
Interests: Japanese Religion | Folk/Popular Religion of East Asia | Children and Religion | Animism | Ritual and Magic | Cognitive Science of Religion | Comparative Irreligion
Caroline Crews
Graduate student
Interests: Early Christianity | Apocryphal Texts | Philology | "Orthodoxy" and "Heresy" | Identity Theory | Papyrology | Coptic Studies | Greco-Roman Religions
Ryan Fitzgerald
Graduate student
Interests: New Testament | Early Christianity | Greco-Roman Culture | Animal Sacrifice | Gender, Sexuality, & Race/Ethnicity in Antiquity | Identity Theory
Jaimie Gunderson
Graduate student
Education: M.A., The University of Kansas
Interests: Religion in the Ancient Mediterranean and Late Antiquity
Adeline Harrington
Graduate student
Education: MTS, Harvard Divinity School
Interests: Early Christianity | Greco-Roman Religions | Papyrology | Apocryphal Texts | Religious Materiality | Mediterranean Archaeology | Coptic Studies | Syriac Studies | Greco-Roman Egypt | Textual Criticism | Orthodoxy and Heresy
James Henriques
Graduate student
Interests: Magic and divination | Roman Archaeology | Etruscan Religion | The Roman Near East | Mystery Cults and Syncretism | Comparative Mythology | Pagan Holy Men | Esotericism | Early Christianity and "Gnosticism."
Brad King
Graduate student
Interests: Early and Late Antique Christianity, Women in Christianity, Apocryphal and Non-Canonical Texts
Alexander Kreger
Graduate student
Education: M.M. Ethnomusicology, University of Texas at Austin
Interests: Alevism, Turkey, Anthropology of Religion, Linguistic Anthropology, Secularism, Music, Expressive Culture
Nathan Leach
Graduate student
Education: PhD Religious Studies, University of Texas Austin
Interests: Second Temple Judaism, Early Christianity, Early Christian Service in the Roman Military, Apocalyptic Literature
Michel S. Lee
Graduate student
Education: M.A., Stanford University
Interests: Religion in the United States; history of the Sabbath; history of higher education; sacred time; religion in the American West
Josefrayn Sanchez-Perry
Graduate student
Education: M.A., The University of Texas at Austin
Interests: Religion in the Americas; Late Post-Classic & Colonial Mesoamerica; Theories of Religious Transmission; Indigenous Studies; Nahuatl & K'iche' Origin Stories
Daniel Smith
Graduate student
Education: MAR (Biblical Studies), Yale Divinity School
Interests: Ancient Christianity, Second Temple Judaism, Apocalyptic Literature, Papyrology, Dead Sea Scrolls, Imperial Cults, Jewish and Christian perspectives toward Rome, Post-Colonial Studies, Disability Studies.
Joshua Urich
Graduate student
Education: PhD, University of Texas at Austin
Interests: Religion in the Americas; the history of atheism in America; vernacular religion; religion and race; religion and violence
