The School of Religious Studies supports a wide range of vibrant student research projects by graduate and undergraduate students. School of Religious Studies students are active in presenting the results of their thesis and course research at national and international conferences, as well as publishing in peer-reviewed journals. They are active as student members of the leading learned societies in the field. On several occasions, the School has also hosted the Eastern International Regional meetings of the American Academy of Religion at which many graduate students present their work.
Our PhD Students
| Name | Email Address | Research Interests |
|---|---|---|
| Fawaz Abdul Salam | fawaz.abdulsalam [at] mail.mcgill.ca | Islam-Urban Spaces/Institutions-Ottoman/Modern Turkish History |
| David Anthony Basham | david.basham [at] mail.mcgill.ca | New Testament; Christian Origins; Second Temple Judaism |
| Jason Blakeburn | jason.blakeburn [at] mail.mcgill.ca | Philosophy of religion; Continental philosophy of religion; Meontology; German Idealism; Death of God Thought; History and methods of Religious Studies; Heidegger; Schelling; Tragedy |
| Andrew Brockman | andrew.brockman [at] mail.mcgill.ca | Hebrew Bible; Pentatuechal Narrative; Deuteronomistic History; Source Criticism. |
| Peter Bullerwell | peter.bullerwell [at] mail.mcgill.ca | Christian Platonism; Sacramental Theology; Richard Hooker |
| Sujata Chaudhary | sujata.chaudhary [at] mail.mcgill.ca | Secularism in India; Colonial Period; Law and Religion; Caste; North India |
| Gregory Doyle | gregory.doyle [at] mail.mcgill.ca | Historical theology (1st-6th CE); Gregory of Nyssa |
| Christian Finnigan | christian.finnigan [at] mail.mcgill.ca | History of Political Thought; Reformation Studies; Intellectual History; Early Modern Europe; Political Theology; Ecclesiastical History; British History; Medieval Studies; Legal History; Jurisprudence; Law and Religion |
| Daniel Theodore Fishley | daniel.fishley [at] mail.mcgill.ca | Modern Christian Theology, Contemporary Continental Philosophy, Secular Studies, Philosophy of History |
| Andrew Fulford | andrew.fulford [at] mail.mcgill.ca | English Reformation; Richard Hooker; Reformation; John Calvin; Protestant scholasticism |
| Daniel Giorgio | daniel.giorgio [at] mail.mcgill.ca | Apostle Paul and Pauline literature; Epistle to the Hebrews; New Testament and Christian Origins |
| Matheus Grillo | matheus.decarvalho [at] mail.mcgill.ca | Second Temple Judaism; Angels; Ritual; Hebrew Bible |
| Daniel Heide | daniel.heide [at] mail.mcgill.ca | Greek Patristics; Neoplatonism; Asceticism; Mystical Theology; Origen; Dionysius; Maximus Confessor |
| Chung Chih Hong | chungchih.hong [at] mail.mcgill.ca | Christianity and Indigenous societies, indigenous women in Taiwan |
| Ryan Jones | ryan.jones3 [at] mail.mcgill.ca | Buddhist Studies; Tibetan Buddhism; Historiography; Biography |
| Malith Jongkuch Kur | malith.kur [at] mail.mcgill.ca | Role of religion in peacebuilding; Reconciliation; Post-conflict reconstruction |
| Jean Maurais | jean.maurais [at] mail.mcgill.ca | Septuagint; Hellenistic Judaism; Deuteronomy and Deuteronomistic History; Translation theory; Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible |
| Marie-Ève Melanson | marie-eve.melanson [at] mail.mcgill.ca |
Religion and Law; Political Philosophy; Freedom of Religion; Pluralism; Secularism; Minority Rights; Canadian Studies |
| Adrien Moevus | adrien.moevus [at] mail.mcgill.ca | Indian Buddhism; Tibetan Buddhism; Sanskrit; Classical Tibetan; Mahāmudrā |
| Matthew Nini | matthew.nini [at] mail.mcgill.ca | Philosophy of religion ; German Idealism ; Hermeneutics ; Neo-Platonism |
| Naznin Patel | naznin.patel [at] mail.mcgill.ca | Renaissance Italian Thought; Marsilio Ficino; Islamic Philosophy; Reception History; Translation Movements |
| Helena Reddington | helena.reddington [at] mail.mcgill.ca | South Indian Performing Arts; Malayalam Language and Literature; Religious and Social History of Kerala; Secularism in India |
| Shaun Retallick | shaun.retallick [at] mail.mcgill.ca | Church history; Historical theology; Ecclesiology; Political theology; Nominalism/realism |
| Lucie Robathan | lucie.robathan [at] mail.mcgill.ca | Ethics; Gender and Feminist theory; Post-structuralism; New Phenomenology |
| Amanda Rosini | amanda.rosini [at] mail.mcgill.ca | Biblical Law; Literature of the Ancient Near East; Ancient Near Eastern Scribalism; National Identity Formation; Gender Studies |
| Ryan Scruggs | ryan.scruggs [at] mail.mcgill.ca | Historical and Systematic Theology; Irenaeus; Thomas Merton |
| Tsoncho Tsonchev | tsoncho.tsonchev [at] mail.mcgill.ca | Political Theology; Christian Ethics; Russian Religious and Political Thought; Intellectual History; Political Ideologies and Regimes |
| Kevin Walker | kevin.walker [at] mail.mcgill.ca | Patristics; Mysticism; Neo-Platonism |
| Anna Lee White | annalee.white [at] mail.mcgill.ca | Religions in South Asia; bhakti (devotional) literature; History of religions; Hindi; Sanskrit |
Our MA Students
| Name | Email Address | Research Interests |
|---|---|---|
| Nael Abd El-Rahaman | nael.abdel-rahaman [at] mail.mcgill.ca | Religious Studies, Islamic Studies, Philosophy, Islamic Philosophy, Theology |
| Soham Chintha | sri.chintha [at] mcgill.ca | South Asian Religions; History of Religion; Secularism; Ethnography; Philology |
Recent Graduates
| Name | Email Address | Research Interests |
|---|---|---|
| Anne-Marie de Vreede | anne.devreede [at] mail.mcgill.ca | Philosophy of religion; German Idealism; Johann Gottlieb Fichte; Baruch de Spinoza; Christian Neo-Platonism |
| Jingjing Li | jingjing.li2 [at] mail.mcgill.ca | Yogacara Buddhism; Chinese Philosophy; Modern Phenomenology; German Idealism |