Theses Sponsored

2022 “Reclaiming Her Body: An Analysis of Hasidic Education on Modesty Regulations
and a Woman’s Ability to Conform Autonomously,” Megan Ballard (co-sponsored
with Aron Edidin).

2022 “Lillith: Mother of Demons or Feminist Ideal?,” Sarah Cooper.

2021 “Is the Gospel of Mark Apocalyptic?: An Exploration of Mark’s End-Time Rhetoric,”
Lucas Goeders.

2020 “It's the Same Way You Showed Me: How Frank Ocean Deals With the

Industry,” Andre Ayers (co-sponsored with Queen Zabriskie).

2019 “‘Lessons from Liberation Theology’: A letter to El Buen Vivir,” Paola Baez-Perez.

2019 “Stripped of Meaning: Revisiting Susanna’s Eroticization,” Chloe Baron.

2019 “‘All the Jews of the World’: An Examination of the Relationship between Passover Liturgy
and Disability Theology,” Ezra Katz.

2019 “‘This is Who We Are, This is Who I am’: Exploring Queerness in Cartoons through
Steven Universe,” Roxie Kennedy.

2019 “Beyond ‘Vessels to be Filled’: Improving Children’s Inclusion in Worship Spaces,” Katie Thurson.

2018 “The Blade of Witchcraft: The Construction of Evil as the Flawed Occam’s Razor of
Feminine Spirituality in the Middle Ages,” Conner Cherniak.

2018 “Authority, Gender, and Sacred Space: The Musical Reform-ation brought about by Women
Cantors,” Sophia Doescher.

2017 “The Touch of Translation: An Application of Digital Tools to the Study of Biblical Translation
from 1511 to the Present,” Kat Malone.

2017 “The Remaining Hours: A Contemporary Midrash, and its Analysis,” Logan Schulman (co-
sponsored with Nova Myhill).

2017 “Housing an Unspeakable Memory: Abstracted Manifestations of the Void of Jewish Life
within the Jewish Museum of Berlin,” Allya Yourish.

2016 “Rave, Symbol, Ritual and Cyborg: The Nature of Post-Technological Spiritual Experience,”
Shelby Felder.

2016 “Mysticism in Medici Florence: A Close Look at the Relationship of a Jew a Catholic Medici,”
Jessica Zimmerman (co-sponsored with Carrie Beneš).

2015 “The Eyes that Burn but do not See: A Psychoanalytic Approach to Hekhalot Rabbati Using
Dream Analysis,” Joshua Finkelstein.

2015 “Dancing Out of Bounds: The Disruptive Image of the Tavern Dancer in the Babylonian Talmud,”
Katherine Mullin.

2015 “From Religious Life to the Death of Politics: The Biopolitical Theology of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef,”
Connor Wells.

2014 “Violent Conversions on Minorca: Examining Severus’ Epistula,” Sophia Blair.

2013 “Feminist Methodologies and Qumran Ideologies: Rhetorical Criticism of 1QS, The Community
Rule Scroll,” Lacy Mroz.

2013 “Ascending the Heavens on Conjured Dragons: Differentiating Between Magic and Religion
in Chinese Daoist Practice,” Estefan Rodriguez.

2012 “What about the Agape?: Understanding the Communal Love-Feast of Early Christianity,”
Delaney Anderson.

2012 “Learning to Live and to Lead: How Post-Secondary Religious Education Helps Women to
Shape Modern Orthodox Judaism in Israel,” Rachel Atwood.

2012 “El-Oh-El: Laughing Out Loud in the Book of Job,” Brian Johnson.

2011 "Pachomius and the Nag Hammadi Codices," Charles Carter.

2011 "A Re-Evaluation of Early Christian Pilgrimage: The Letters of Gregory of Nyssa, Jerome,
and Egeria," Emma Cawlfield.

2011 "Luke: The Canonical Remnant of a Marcionite Orthodoxy," Troy Konicki.

2011 "In Defense of Jewish Manhood: Monotheism, Circumcision, and Gender in Freud's
Construction of Jewish Identity," Jeremy Zorn.

2010 "Journeys to the Promised Land: An Analysis of Three Feminist Haggadahs," Jaclyn
Schwanemann.

2010 "'To the Synagogue': Constructions of Place in Ancient Judaism," Austin Taylor.

2010 "No (Wo)man is an Island: Protecting Children, a Cause For Concern," Jessica Yocum.

2009 "'Lie with me!': Unbounded Female Sexuality in Early Biblical Interpretation," Samantha
Samson.

2008 "Love in the Time of GMOs: Feminist Theologies and the Ethics of Transgenic Organisms,"
Brooke Denmark.

2008 "New Prophecy, New Orthodoxy: The Evolution of Early Christian Authority in Second
Century Asia Minor," Samyntha Kay Francis.

2008 "Ritualization in the Sevillian Holy Week: Theory on its Practice and the Practice of Theory,"
Mikhail Petersen.

2006 "Archibald MacLeish's J.B.: The Experimental Theistic Thesis," Patrick Young.

2005 "Female Authority in Paul's Letter to Rome: Placing Junia and Phoebe in Context," Peter
Fernandez.

2005 "Basic Ecclesial Communities in Mexico: Beyond Liberation Theology," Josef Mitkevicius.

2005 "Gender Perspectives in a Female Authored Buddhist Autohagiography," Meghan Jo
Rimelspach.

2004 "Eve-olution: Reimagining the Mother of Knowledge," Jaclyn Bergamino, (co-sponsor Miriam
Wallace).