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 |
| Hamdi Selman Çetin | hamdi.cetin [at] mail.mcgill.ca | Turkish Integration in Europa and North America; Diaspora; Multiculturalism; Religion and Identity |
| 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 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 |
| Chulthim Gurung | chulthim.gurung [at] mail.mcgill.ca | Buddhist psychology; Tibetan Buddhism; mind and mental factors |
| Daniel Heide | daniel.heide [at] mail.mcgill.ca | Greek Patristics; Mystical Theology; Neoplatonism; Liturgy |
| 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 |
| John Monaco | john.monaco [at] mail.mcgill.ca | Historical & systematic theology; Theological anthropology; Liturgy; Thomas Aquinas |
| Prudence Sirri Neba | prudence.neba [at] mail.mcgill.ca | African Women; Bible Studies; Judges; Esther |
| 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 |
| Elkanah Shekari | elkanah.shekari [at] mail.mcgill.ca | African Cultural Hermeneutics; Christian Origins; New Testament; Second Temple Judaism; Paul; Philo |
| Adam Smith | adam.smith4 [at] mail.mcgill.ca | Phenomenology; German Idealism; French Spiritualism; Neoplatonism; Medieval Scholasticism; Metaphysics; Afro-pessimism; Political Theology; Michel Henry |
| Lauren Steinman | lauren.steinman [at] mail.mcgill.ca | Extremism; Violence; Politicized Religions; Anti-Semitism; Anti-Zionist Rhetoric/Propaganda; White Supremacy; Neo-Nazism; Religion & the Law; Religion & Public Policy; LGBTQ Rights; Religious Freedom |
| 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; German Mysticism; Neo-Platonism |
| Anna Lee White | annalee.white [at] mail.mcgill.ca | Religions in South Asia; bhakti (devotional) literature; History of religions; Hindi; Sanskrit |
| Hary Widyantoro | hary.widyantoro [at] mail.mcgill.ca | Religion and Law; Gender and Sexuality; Freedom of Religion |
Our MA Students
| Name | Email Address | Research Interests |
|---|---|---|
| Nael Abd El-Rahaman | nael.abdel-rahaman [at] mail.mcgill.ca | Islamic Studies; Philosophy; Islamic Philosophy; Theology |
| Josianne Barrette-Moran | josianne.barrette-moran [at] mail.mcgill.ca | Theology; Bioethics; Narrative Ethics; Spiritual Care; Moral Imagination; Storytelling; Paul Ricoeur; Martha Montello |
| Soham Chintha | sri.chintha [at] mail.mcgill.ca | South Asian Religions; History of Religion; Secularism; Ethnography; Philology |
| Alex Dieplam | alexander.dieplam [at] mail.mcgill.ca | East Asian Buddhism; Central Asian Buddhism; Sanskrit |
| Rachel Kelleher | rachel.kelleher [at] mail.mcgill.ca | Gender and Religion; Medieval Christianity; Women, Religion, and Public Policy; Philosophy and the Critique of Patriarchy |
| James Newman | james.newman2 [at] mail.mcgill.ca | Biblical Studies; Literature of the Ancient Near East; Kingship and State Formation in Ancient Israel; Political Ideologies in the Ancient Near East |
| Ian Plamondon | ian.plamondon [at] mail.mcgill.ca | Mystics; Philosophical Theology; Philosophy of Religion; Psychology of Religion; Religious Ethics; Political Theology; Theological Epistemology; Comparative Studies |
Recent Graduates
| Name | Email Address | Research Interests |
|---|---|---|
| Anne-Marie de Vreede (MA) | anne.devreede [at] mail.mcgill.ca | Philosophy of religion; German Idealism; Johann Gottlieb Fichte; Baruch de Spinoza; Christian Neo-Platonism |
| Jingjing Li (PhD) | jingjing.li2 [at] mail.mcgill.ca | Yogacara Buddhism; Chinese Philosophy; Modern Phenomenology; German Idealism |
| Paolo Livieri (PhD) | paolo.livieri [at] mail.mcgill.ca | Philosophy of Religion; German Idealism; Theoretical Philosophy; G.W.F. Hegel; F.H. Jacobi; I. Kant; Plato |