Between 1992 and 2023, the Department of Religion awarded 155 Ph.D.’s and 142 of these degree recipients sought tenure track appointments.  Fifty percent of those graduates seeking jobs secured tenure track (TT) positions in the year their Ph.D. was completed.  The remaining candidates secured postdoctoral fellowships or non-tenure track jobs or entered other fields of employment, sometimes for reasons of personal or professional choice.  Ultimately, 73% of the 142 graduates secured tenure track positions. 

2023

Religions of Mediterranean Antiquity.  “The Transmission of the Mishnah and the Spread of Rabbinic Judaism, 200 CE - 1200 CE.” Assistant Professor, Jewish Theological Seminary, NY (TT)

Religion in the Americas. "Splitting Sides: On Humor in Twenty-First Century American Evangelical Media.” Lecturer, Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies, Princeton University.

Religion in the Americas. “Unpublishing Religion: How Anglo-Protestant Printing Constrained Public Speech in Early America” Henderson-Harris Fellow, University of Vermont.

Religion, Ethics, and Politics. “Matrices: Pregnancy, Piety, And The Social Constitution Of Human Agency.” Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Philosophy, University of South Carolina.

Religion, Ethics, and Politics. “Given and not Made: Thinking Jewish with Hannah Arendt.” Postdoctoral Research Associate, Danforth Center on Religion & Politics, Washington University, St. Louis. 

Religion in the Americas. “Born Again Queer: Evangelical Gay Activism and the Construction of Antigay Christianity, 1968-1988.” Faculty Fellow, New York University.

2022

Asian Religions. “Buddhist Talismans and Manuscript Culture in Medieval China, CA. 500–1000.” Assistant Professor, Faculty Fellow of Global China Studies, NYU Shanghai (TT)

Religion in America. “Just and Grave Causes: Decline as Religious Change in Catholic Philadelphia”. Lecturer, Department of Religion, Princeton University

Religions of Mediterranean Antiquity. “Discursive Constructions: Space and Time in Northern Italy in the Late Fourth Century.” Visiting Assistant Professor, Religious Studies Department, NYU

Religion in America. “Religion at TIME Inc.: From the Beginning of TIME to the end of LIFE.” Assistant Professor, Department of Religious Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (TT)

2021

Islam.  “Muhammad Iqbal and the Meanings of South Asian Islamic Modernism.”  Lecturer, Department of Religion, Princeton University.

Religion, Ethics, and Politics.  “Amazing Grief:  African American Mourning and Contemporary Black Activism.”   Society of Fellows, Columbia University.

Religion, Ethics, and Politics.  “Slaves of God.”  Three year postdoctoral position, Klarman Fellow, Cornell University.

Religion in America.  “Gods of the Flesh: Religion, Sexuality, and Circum-Caribbean Migration in Black New Orleans, 1900-1940.”  Tenure track, Assistant Professor of African American Studies and Religious Studies, Northwestern University.

Islam. “Revolutionary Religion: Youth and Islam in Post-2011 Egypt.” Postgraduate Research Associate, Princeton University. Mitchell Center Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of
Pennsylvania (Andrea Mitchell Center for the Study of Democracy).

Religions of Mediterranean Antiquity. “The Nature of the Beast: The Animal Apocalypse(s) of Enoch.” Postgraduate Research Associate, Princeton University. Phillips Academy Andover, Instructor in Philosophy and Religious Studies.

Religion, Ethics, and Politics. “The Politics of Fiṭra: Approaching Moral Concepts in the Contemporary Study of Islamic Ethics.” Tenure track, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Rhodes College.

2020

Religion, Ethics, and Politics. “Isaiah Berlin and Leo Strauss: The Jewish Question and the Limits of Politics.” Director of the Center for Democracy and Jewish Life at Hebrew Union
College.

Religion in America.  “Spiritual Rehabilitation: Religion and Cognitive Disability in Postwar America.”   Postdoctoral Research Associate, John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics, Washington University in St. Louis. Tenure track, Assistant Professor (Religion & Health), Georgia State University.

Asian Religions.  “Theorizing Social Consciousness: Lü Cheng (1896–1989) and the Rise of a New Buddhist Idealism in Modern China.”  Tenure track, Assistant Professor of Religion, University of Southern California Dornsife.

Religions of Mediterranean Antiquity.  “Christianizing Knowledge: A New Order of Books in the Theodosian Age.”  Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities in a Digital World program and the School of Religion at the University of Southern California.

Religions of Mediterranean Antiquity.   “Teachers, Prophets and Exegetes: Jewish and Early Christian Intellectual History, 200 BCE – 200 CE.”  CEO, Bnai Zion Foundation. Did not seek a tenure track position.

Religions of Mediterranean Antiquity.  “Exorcists: The Origins, Roles, and Lives of Late Antique Exorcism Specialists.” Postgraduate Research Associate, Princeton University.

2019

Religion, Ethics, and Politics.  The Philosopher as Witness: Hermann Cohen’s Philosophers and the Trials of Wissenschaft des Judentums”  Post-Doctoral Associate, Program of Judaic Studies, Yale University.

Islam.  Islamic Modernism in Colonial Punjab: The Anjuman-i Himayat-i Islam, 1884-1923.  Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, the Leibniz Zentrum Moderner Orient in Berlin.

Religion in the Americas.   “American Icarus:  Imagining Millennial Benevolence, 1814-1851.” Visiting Lecturer, Swarthmore College.

Islam.  “Omani Ibadism: transitions in modernity, encounters with Salafism.”   Postgraduate Research Associate, Princeton University.

2018

Asian Religions.  “Shaping the Formless: Debates over Buddhist Images in Medieval China, ca. 300-700.”  Sheng Yen Postdoctoral Fellow in Chinese Buddhism, Columbia University. University of California, Berkeley, Postdoctoral Researcher/Lecturer.

Asian Religions.  “Soul Searching: Spiritual Care in the Japanese Hospice.”  Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Postdoctoral Fellowship.  Tenure track, Assistant Professor, Kwansei Gakuin University.

Religion, Ethics, and Politics.   “Refuge and Deliverance: Religion and Politics in Modern Jamaica.”  Lecturer, Princeton Writing Program, Princeton University. Tenure track, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Rhodes College.

Religion in the Americas.  “On Earth as it is in Heaven: Spiritual Racialization and the Atlantic World Economy of Salvation in the Colonial Americas.”   Postdoctoral Fellowship of African American Religion and Culture with Georgetown University & the Smithsonian Institution. ; Tenure track, Assistant Professor of Religion, University of Southern California.

Religion in the Americas.   “Lifeblood of the Parish: Men and Catholic Practice in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.   Tenure track, Assistant Professor, Kalamazoo College.

Religion in the Americas.   “A Loftier Race: American Liberal Protestants and Eugenics, 1877-1929.”   Research Fellow, ACPE, Decatur, GA;  Guest Professor of Religion, Sarah Lawrence College.

Religions of Mediterranean Antiquity.   “The Life of Psalms in Late Antiquity.”   Tenure track, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion.

2017

Religion in the Americas. “The Production of Judeo-Christianity in New York City Public Schools: Religion, Race, and Moral Education, 1950-1969.” Postdoctoral Lecturer, Princeton Writing Program, Princeton University; Tenure track, Assistant Professor of Religion, Transylvania University.

Religion in the Americas.  How Firm a Foundation: “The Methodist Building” and Constructions of Public Protestantism, 1916-1936.  Did not seek a tenure track position.

Asian Religions.  “Indigenization of Tibetan Buddhism in Twentieth-Century China.”  Tenure track, Assistant Professor, Emory University.

Religion, Ethics, and Politics.  “Thoreau’s Political Asceticism: from Abolitionism to Environmental Justice.”   Visiting Instructor, Brown University.  Research Fellow, Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry, Australian Catholic University.

Religion, Ethics, and Politics.   “Encounter and Embodiment:  Martin Buber’s Philosophical Anthropology Reconsidered.”   Seeking a tenure-track position or other educational positions.

2016

Religion in the Americas.  “'Is That Religion?' The Jazz Profession and Afro-Protestant Cultural Representation." George E. Doty, Jr. & Lee Spelman Doty Presidential Associate Professor, Department of Africana Studies, University of Pennsylvania

Religion, Ethics, and Politics.  “The Immortal Commonwealth: Covenant, Law, and the Common Good in Early Modern Protestant Thought.”  Tenure track, Assistant Professor of Theology/Director of Andreas Center, Dordt College.

Asian Religions.  “Buddhist Monastic Education: Seminaries, Academia, and the State in Contemporary China.”   Sheng Yen Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Religion, Florida State University. University of Hong Kong, Department of Cultural and Religious Studies of Chinese, two-year position.

Religions of Mediterranean Antiquity. “In Heaven as It Is on Earth: The Social and Ethical Dimensions of Higher and Lower Levels of Salvation.” Lecturer, Department of Religion, Princeton University.

2015

Islam. “Contested Boundaries: The Reception of Shi’ite Narrators in the Sunni Hadith radition.” Tenure track, Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Asian Religions. “Renewing the World: The Rise of Yonaoshi Gods in Japan.” Tenure track, Assistant Professor, University of Arizona.

Religion, Ethics, and Politics. “Fruits of Love: Self and Social Criticism in James Baldwin and Howard Thurman.” Lecturer, Department of Religion, Princeton University. Post-doctoral Associate, Yale Divinity School. Tenure-track, Assistant Professor of Ethics and Philosophy, Yale Divinity School.

Islam. “Looking for Leadership: Discovering American Islam in the Muslim Chaplaincy.” Tenure track, Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities and Religious Studies, California State University, Sacramento.

2014

Religions of Mediterranean Antiquity. “Israel Among the Angels: A Study of Angels in Jewish Texts from the Fourth to Eighth Century CE.” Tenure track, Assistant Professor of Classical Judaism, Jackson School of International Studies; Stroum Center for Jewish Studies, University of Washington.

Religion in the Americas. “That’s What Makes Me a Jew and Him a Baptist”: Jews, Southern Baptists, and the American Public Square in the Era of Reagan. Special Collections Assistant IV, Princeton University, Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library. Did not seek a tenure track position.

Islam. “Restructuring Islamic Law: The Opinions of the `Ulam?’ Towards Codification of Personal Status Law in Egypt.” Employed by the Coexist Foundation in Washington, DC. Did not seek a tenure track position.

Asian Religions. “Waiting For Darkness: Judgment, Salvation, and Apocalyptic Eschatology in Medieval China.” Tenure track, Assistant Professor, Religious Studies Department, Gonzaga University. Tenure track, Assistant Professor, Department of Religion, Boston University.

Religion in the Americas. “Objects of Affection: The Material Religion of American Jewish Nostalgia.” Three year position, Visiting Assistant Professor, Virginia Tech. Tenure track, Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies, Department of Jewish Studies, San Francisco State University.

Asian Religions. “Japan’s Preoccupation with Religious Freedom.” Two year Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Tenure track, Assistant Professor, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Pennsylvania.

Religion, Ethics and Politics. “Agon & Reconciliation: Ethical Conflict and Religious Practice in Hegel’s Account of Spirit.” Lecturer, The New School for Social Research, Eugene Lang College. Tenure track, Assistant Professor, Haverford College.

Religions of Mediterranean Antiquity. “Treasure Hidden in a Field: Early Christian Exegesis of the Gospel of Matthew.” Research Associate, Religious Studies Department, Colby College; Assistant Research Professor of New Testament and Assistant Editor of New Testament Abstracts, Boston College School of Theology and Ministry.

Religions of Mediterranean Antiquity. “The Meaning and End of Heresy in Rabbinic Literature.” Lecturer, Department of Near Eastern Studies, Cornell University.

Religion, Ethics and Politics.  “Justifying Democracy Beyond Nietzsche’s Critique.”  Two year Postdoctoral Fellowship, Carleton College. Visiting Assistant Professor, African/African American Studies and Religion, Carlton College.  Lecturer, Department of Religion, Princeton University.  Tenure-track, Assistant Professor, Philosophy of Religion, Ethics, and Theology, Claremont Graduate University.

Religion, Ethics and Politics. “The Ethics of Solidarity: Republican, Marxist, and Anarchist Interpretations.” Non-profit. Did not go on market.

2013

Islam. “In the Shade of the Sahih: Politics, Culture and Innovation in an Islamic Commentary Tradition.” Joint Appointment in Islamic Studies at Washington and Lee University’s Religion and History Departments, Tenure track,  Tenure track, Assistant Professor, Department  of History, George Washington University.

Religions of Mediterranean Antiquity. “Law and Society in the Dead Sea Scrolls.” Lawrence Fellow of Judaic Studies, Lawrence University.

Religions of Mediterranean Antiquity. “Conceptions of Time and Rhythms of Daily Life in Rabbinic Literature, 200-600 C.E.” Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Jewish Theological Seminary; Postdoctoral Starr Fellowship in Judaica at Harvard University; Tenure track, Fordham University.

Religion, Ethics and Politics. “Discerning the Good in the Letters and Sermons of Augustine.” Director of the William Penn Honors Program and Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at George Fox University, tenure track.

Religions of Mediterranean Antiquity. “Guilt by Association: The Emergence, Use, and Legacy of the Early Christian Heresy Catalogue.” W.C. Nease Fellow in Biblical Greek in the Institute for the Study of Antiquity and Christian Origins, and Lecturer in the Department of Religious Studies, University of Texas at Austin. Tenure track, Assistant Professor, Biblical Greek and Christian Origins, Department of Religious Studies and Fellow of the Nease Endowment in the Institute for the Study of Antiquity and Christian Origins, University of Texas at Austin.

Religion in the Americas. “A Sort of Homecoming: The Gaithers and Southern Gospel Into the Twenty-First Century.” Lecturer, Department of Religion, Princeton University. Two year position, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Religion and Philosophy, Presbyterian College. Visiting Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, New York University. Faculty Fellow, Religious Studies Program, Colby College.

2012

Religion, Ethics and Politics. Enacting a “Living Script”: Moses Mendelssohn on History, Practice, and Religion. Tenure track, University of Colorado Boulder.

Asian Religions. “Rewriting Nara Buddhism: Sutra Transcription in Early Japan.” Three year position, Mellon Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Vanderbilt University. Tenure track, Assistant Professor, Religious Studies Department, Vanderbilt University. Tenure track, Assistant Professor, Department of Religion, Princeton University.

Religion in the Americas. “A Communion of Shadows: Vernacular Photography and the Material Archives of Nineteenth-Century American Religion.” One year appointment, Visiting Assistant in Religion, Florida State University. Associate Director, Danforth Center on Religion and Politics. Postdoctoral Research Associate, John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics, Washington University in St. Louis. Visiting Assistant Professor, St. Louis University; Tenure track, Assistant Professor of Theological Studies, St. Louis University.

Asian Religions. “Pilgrimage to the Sacred Traces of Koyasan: Place and Devotion in Late Heian Japan.” Seeking academic position or postdoctoral fellowship.

2011

Islam. “Coercion in Classical Islamic Law and Theology.” Tenure track, Bard College. Tenure track, University of California, Davis.

Religion, Ethics and Politics. “Thomas Aquinas and the Virtue of the Outsider.” Tenure track, Loyola University Maryland.

Islam. “Approaches to Islam in the Thought of Elmal?l? Muhammed Hamdi Yaz?r (1878-1942).” Tenure track, Ohio Wesleyan University.

Religion, Ethics and Politics. “Angelic Troublemakers: Religion and Anarchism in Henry David Thoreau, Dorothy Day, and Bayard Rustin.” Tenure track, Carleton College. Currently, tenure track, Haverford College.

Religion in America. “After the Wrath of God: Aids, Sexuality, and American Religion.” Assistant Professor, Faculty Fellow at New York University. Tenure track, Assistant Professor, Department of Religion, Boston University.

Religions of Late Antiquity. The Gospel of Judas: Text, Translation, and Historical Interpretation of “The Betrayer’s Gospel.” Lecturer, Department of Religion, Princeton University. Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Faculty of Theology, University of Oslo.

2010

Religion in America. “Cosmopolitan Communions: Practices of Religious Liberalism in America, 1875-1930.” Adjunct Instructor in the Humanities, Brevard College.

Religion, Ethics and Politics. “God’s Beloved: Election and Tradition in the Theology of Michael Wyschogrod.” Rabbinate-Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun. Teaching at Yeshiva University, Tenure track.

2009

Religions of Late Antiquity. “The Scribes and Reading of Nag Hammadi Codex II: Book Production and Monastic Paideia in Fourth-Century Egypt.” Polonsky Postdoctoral Fellowship, Van Leer Institute, Jerusalem. Ruhr-Universität Bochum, CERES – Center for Religious Studies, Käte Hamburger Kolleg postdoctoral researcher.

Asian Religions. “Sōka Gakkai in Japan.” Tenure track, Wofford College. North Carolina State University, tenured.

Religions of Late Antiquity. “Tradition and the Formation of the Talmud.” Tenure track, University of California at Davis. Currently, tenure track, Assistant Professor of Religion and the Program in Judaic Studies, Department of Religion, Princeton University.

Religion, Ethics and Politics. “Remembering the Dismembered: The Work of Mourning and Hope in Adorno and Morrison.” Tenure track, University of North Carolina-Charlotte.

Religion, Ethics and Politics. “At the Common Altar: Political Messianism, Practical Ethics, and Post-War Jewish Thought.” One year appointment, Temple University, Jewish Studies Program. Visiting Assistant Professor, Temple University.  Swarthmore College, Visiting Assistant Professor.  Chair in Jewish Studies, Religion Department, Earlham College.

Religions of Late Antiquity. “Giving to the Poor in Early Rabbinic Judaism.” Brown University, Mellon/American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Recent Doctoral Recipients Fellowship. Tenure track, Assistant Professor and The Diamond Chair in Jewish Law and Ethics, Dept. of Classical, Near Eastern, and Religious Studies, University of British Columbia.

Religion in America. “Equal Privilege of Service: Women, Missions, and Suffrage in America, 1870-1934.” Seeking tenure track position. Private Sector.

Religions of Late Antiquity. “Another Race? Ethnicity, Universalism, and the Emergence of Christianity.” National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, Albright Institute for Archaeological Research, Jerusalem. Tenure track, Ursinus College. Chancellor Fellow, School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh.

2008

Religion, Ethics and Politics. “Experience and Power: The Theory and Ethics of Religious Experience.” Lecturer, Department of Religion, Princeton University. Tenure track, Brown University.

Religion in America. “Habits in the Classroom: A Court Case Regarding Catholic Sisters in New Mexico.” Tenure track, Villanova University.

Religion in America. “Seven Days of Penitentiary Life: An Ethnographic Study of the Chapel at Pennsylvania’s Graterford Prison.” Postdoctoral Fellowship, Columbia Society of Fellows. Tenure track, University of Rochester.

Asian Religions. “Conceiving the Indian Buddhist Patriarchs in China.” One year replacement position, St. Lawrence University, Department of Religious Studies. Tenure track, Bucknell University.

Asian Religions. “Bodies and Self-Inflicted Violence in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century China.” Tenure track, Florida State University.

Religion in America. “The Phoebe Phenomenon: The Protestant Deaconess Movement in the United States, 1880-1930.” Princeton University, Center for the Study of Religion, Associate Director.

2007

Religion, Ethics and Politics. “Ethics of the Obvious.” Rikers Island Prison Complex, New York City, Educational Instructor. Adjunct Professor, Columbia University.

East Asian Religions. “The Arhat Cult in China from the 7th thru 13th Centuries: Narrative, Art, Space and Ritual.” Tenure track, Hampshire College.

East Asian Religions. “Japanese Buddhism in an Age of Empire: Mission and Reform in Colonial Korea, 1877-1931.” Tenure track, University of Michigan.

East Asian Religions. “In the Halo of Golden Light: Imperial Authority and Buddhist Ritual in Heian Japan (795-1185).” Tenure track, Carleton College.

Religion in America. “Homosexuality, Gay Communities and American Churches: A History of A Changing Religious Ethic, 1946-1977.” One year replacement position, Vassar College. Visiting Assistant Professor of Religion, Humanities Division, New College of Florida. Visiting Assistant Professor, Religion and Gender and Queer Studies, University of Puget Sound.

Religions of Late Antiquity. “The Reinvention of Judean Collective Identity in a Hellenistic World Contending with Rome.” Tenure track, Miami of Ohio. Tenure track, Assistant Professor, History Department, Oregon State University.

Religions of Late Antiquity. “Late Antiquity Upside-Down: Rabbinic Parodies of Jewish and Christian Literature.” Tenure track, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, California. Currently, Associate Professor in Jewish Studies, Department of Theology and Religious Studies, University of Nottingham.

Religion, Ethics and Politics. “The Phenomenology of Evil: Excessivity, Intention, and Malignancy in Human Action.” Self-Employed.

Religion, Ethics and Politics. “Religion, Democracy, and the Art of Life: Spiritual Practices in the Context of Emerson and Ellison.” Tenure track, Pomona College.

2006

East Asian Religions. “Death by Association: Temples, Burial, and the Transformation of Contemporary Japanese Buddhism.” Tenure track, McMaster University – Tenured.

Religion, Ethics and Politics. “Public Law and Ethical Formation: Intimations of Legal Perfectionism in Aquinas and Augustine.” Tenure track, University of Iowa.

Religion in America. “Elwood Worcester and the Emmanuel Therapy: Scientific Psychology, Modern Christianity, and the Problem of Religious Healing.” Tenure track, College of Charleston.

2005

East Asian Religions. “Voice, Dust, Shadow, Stone: The Makings of Spells in Medieval Chinese Buddhism.” Tenure track, Western Michigan University. Tenure track, University of Chicago – Tenured.

Islam. “Exemplars of Excess: Devotional Piety in Medieval Islam, 1200-1450 CE.” Tenure track, University of Southern California.

East Asian Religions. “Spiritual Seekers in a Fluid Landscape: A Chinese Buddhist Network in the Wanli-period (1573-1620).” Tenure track, Seton Hall University.

East Asian Religions. “The Revival of Buddhist Monasticism in Medieval China.” University of the West. Currently, tenure track, Arizona State University.

2004

Religions of Late Antiquity. “From Martyr to Mystic: The Story of the Ten Martyrs, Hekhalot Rabbati, and the Making of ‘Merkavah Mysticism’.” Tenure track, University of Minnesota. Currently, Associate Professor, Department of History, University of California, Los Angeles.

Religions of Late Antiquity. “Devotional Study: The School of Nisibis and the Development of ‘Scholastic’ Culture in Late Antique Mesopotamia.” Adjunct Professor, Program in Religious Studies, New York University. Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Classics Director, Religious Studies Program, New York University, tenured.

Religions of Late Antiquity. “Christian Therapeia and Politeia: The Apologetics of Theodoret of Cyrrhus Against the Greeks.” Lecturer in Religion and Hellenic Studies, Princeton University.

Islam. “The Spirit of Islamic Law and Modern Religious Reform: maq??id al-shar?’a In Muhammad ‘Abduh and Rash?d Rid?’s Legal Thought.” Tenure track, Montclair State University.

Islam. “Cooperation and Contestation in Medieval Baghdad (656/1258-786/1384): Relationships between Shi’i and Sunni Scholars in the Madinat al-Salam.” Tenure track, North Carolina State University. Currently, tenure track, Swarthmore College.

2003

East Asian Religions. “Nuns, Court Ladies, and Female Bodhisattvas: The Women of Japan’s Medieval Ritsu-School Nuns’ Revival Movement.” Tenure track, University of Puget Sound. Currently, tenure track, University of Southern California.

2002

Religions of Late Antiquity. “What the Fallen Angels Taught: The Reception-History of the Book of the Watchers in Judaism and Christianity.” Tenure track, McMaster University. Tenure track, University of Pennsylvania. Currently, tenure track, New York University.

Religions of the Americas. “Savage Debauchery or Sacred Communion? Religion and the Primitive in the Pueblo Dance Controversy.” Postdoctoral Fellowship, Southern Methodist University. Tenure track, Arizona State University. Currently, tenure track, Yale Divinity School.

Religions of the Americas. “Fleshly Manifestations: Charles Fox Parham’s Quest for the Sanctified Body.” Tenure track, University of Pennsylvania.

Religions of Late Antiquity. “Jerome’s Biblical Criticism and the Making of Christian Scholarship.” Postdoctoral Fellowship with the Michigan Society of Fellows and Assistant Professor, Near Eastern Studies, University of Michigan. Tenure track, University of Montana. Assistant Professor, History Department, San Francisco State University.

2001

Religions of the Americas. “Religion on Display: Tourists, Sacred Place, and Identity at the San Antonio Missions.” Tenure track, Rhodes College.

East Asian Religions. “Living Temple Buddhism in Contemporary Japan: The Tendai Sect Today.” Tenure track, Western Michigan University, Department of Comparative Religion.

Religions of Late Antiquity. “Mapping the Apocalypse of Paul: Geography, Genre and History.” Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Redlands. Associate Dean, Residential and Pre-Major Advising, Undergraduate Advising and Research, Stanford University.

Religion, Ethics and Politics. “Before Eden: Religion and The Evolved Mind.” Tenure track, Victoria University of Wellington.

2000

Religions of the Americas. “Inheriting the Land: Defining Place in Southern California From the Mexican American War to the Plan Espiritual de Aztlan.” Postdoctoral Fellowship, California Tech. Tenure track, University of Southern California.

Religion and Philosophy. “Loyal Agents and Lost Causes: The Ethical and Religious Significance of Josiah Royce’s Philosophy of Loyalty.” One year replacement position, New College. Tenure track, Monmouth College.

Religion and Philosophy. “Nietzsche, Nihilism, and Christian Theodicy.” Tenure track, Rogers State University.

1999

Religions of Late Antiquity. “Illness and Healing in Early Eastern Christianity.” Tenure track, University of Rochester. Senior Lecturer in Religion and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Religion and Classics, University of Rochester.

Religion and Philosophy. “Prophetic Articulations: James Baldwin and the Racial Formation of the United States.” Tenure track, University of Vermont. Currently, Private Sector.

East Asian Religions. “A Life Ignored: Jokei (1155-1213) and “Old” Kamakura Buddhism Reexamined.” Tenure track, Wake Forest University.

1998

Religion, Ethics and Politics. “John Ruskin and the Ethics of Consumption.” Nontenure track, Villanova. Tenure track, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis.

Religions of the Americas. “In Discordance with the Scriptures: Bible Translation Controversies and Modern American Protestantism.” Assistant Editor of The Works of Jonathan Edwards, Yale University. Tenure track, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis.

Religion, Ethics and Politics. “The Rites of Identity: The Religious Naturalism and Cultural Criticism of Kenneth Burke and Ralph Ellison.” One year replacement position, New School. Tenure track, Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

Religions of Late Antiquity. “Parables of the War: Reading the Apocalypse within Judaism and during the Judaean War.” Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Toronto. Tenure track, Assistant Professor, Religious Studies, University of Toronto.

Religions of Late Antiquity. “Under a Pitiless Sky: Conversion, Cosmology and the Rhetoric of Enslavement to Fate in Second-Century Christian Sources.” Nontenure track, Skidmore College. Tenure track, York University, Ontario, Canada. Visiting Associate Professor, Religious Studies, Brown University.

1997

Religions of the Americas. “Aleister Crowley Rising: Constructions of the Occult in England and the United States, 1875-1947.” Postdoctoral Fellowship, Center for the Study of Religion, Princeton University. Lecturer in the Department of Journalism at Emerson College in Boston.

Religions of Late Antiquity. “The Jewish Manumission Inscriptions of the Bosporan Kingdom.” Tenure track, Oberlin College. Adjunct Faculty, Department of Religion, Rutgers University-New Brunswick.

Religions of Late Antiquity. “Impact of Monarchy: Literary Responses to Political Changes.” Private Sector.

Religion, Ethics and Politics. “The Language of Nation: Exodus Politics and the National Negro Convention Movement, 1830-1843.” Tenure track, Bowdoin College. Currently Professor, Department of Religion and Center for African American Studies, Princeton University.

1996

East Asian Religions. “Buddha Relics and Power in Medieval Japan.” Tenure track, University of Tennessee. Currently Associate Professor, East Asian Languages & Cultures Department, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Religions of the Americas. “Boozers, Brass Bands, and Hallelujah Lassies: The Salvation Army and American Commercial Culture, 1880-1918.” Postdoctoral Fellowship, Center for the Study of Religion, Princeton University. Currently Knight Chair in Media and Religion at the University of Southern California-Annenberg, School for Communication, with tenure.

Religion and Philosophy. “Idolatry and Representation.” Tenure track, Department of Religion, Syracuse University. Currently Professor, Department of Religion, Princeton University.

1995

Religions of Late Antiquity. “A Discourse of Domination: A Socio-Rhetorical Study of the Meaning of “Ioudaios” in the Fourth Gospel.” Tenure track, Assistant Professor, Drew University. Currently a writer.

Religions of the Americas. “Science and the Saints: American Catholics and Health Care, 1880-1930.” Tenure track, Assistant Professor, Duke University.

Religions of the Americas. “Disastrous Disturbances: Buchmanism and Student Religious Life at Princeton, 1919-1935.” No placement. University of Chicago Divinity School, three-year appointment.

1994

Religions of Late Antiquity. “Joseph and Aseneth and the Jewish Temple in Heliopolis.” Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Michigan. Currently on the faculty at Hebrew University, tenured.

Religions of the Americas. “Religion and Education: St. John’s University as an Evangelizing Agency.” Tenure track, Assistant Professor, Fudon University. Currently Associate Professor, Center for American Studies, Fudon University.

Religions of the Americas. “Conjuring: Analysis of African-American Folk Beliefs and Practices.” Tenure track, Assistant Professor, Swarthmore. Currently Associate Professor of Religion, Swarthmore.

Religion, Ethics and Politics. “The Ethics of Leibniz’ Theodicy.” Tenure track, Department of Religion, Princeton University. Currently Assistant Professor, Eugene Lang College, New School University.

Religion, Ethics and Politics. “Fatal Divisions: Hume on Religion, Sympathy and the Peace of Society.” Tenure track, Assistant Professor, New College. Currently Associate Professor, University of Notre Dame, Department of Theology, with tenure.

Religions of the Americas. “Theophilus Gould Steward, 1843-1924: Striving for an African- American Theology and Civil Society in the Nadir Period.” Tenure track, Assistant Professor, Oberlin. Currently Associate Professor, Oberlin, with tenure.

Religions of Late Antiquity. “The Gods Have Come Down: Images of Historical Lycaonia and the Literary construction of Acts 14.” No placement. Currently Associate Director and Technology Coordinator, Five College Center for the Study of World Languages, University of Massachusetts.

Religion, Ethics and Politics. “Religious Traditions and Secular Criticism: Edward Said as Cultural Critic.” Tenure track, Assistant Professor, Duke University. Professor and Head, Religious Studies, University of North Carolina-Greensboro, with tenure. Margaret W. Harmon Professor, Religious Studies, Macalester College.

1993

Religions of Late Antiquity. “Concord and Martyrdom: Gender, Community, and the Uses of Christian Perfection in Late Antiquity.” Tenure track, Assistant Professor, University of Manchester.

Religion, Ethics and Politics. “Uses of Heros: Celebration and Criticism in the Interpretation of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr.” Tenure track, Assistant Professor, American Civilizations and Afro-American Studies, Brown University. Currently full professor, Georgetown University.

Religion, Ethics and Politics. “Contingency, Chance and Virtue in Aquinas.” Tenure track, Assistant Professor of Religion, University of Tulsa. Currently Associate Professor, University of Tulsa, with tenure.

Religions of the Americas. “Wrestling the Octopus: William James and the Limits of Professional Authority.” Visiting Research Fellow, Department of Religion, Princeton University. Currently at the Educational Testing Service (ETS).

1992

East Asian Religions. “Popular Buddhist Culture in the Edo Period: A Case Study of Sensoji.” Tenure track, Okinaka Fellowship, Tokyo University. Currently on the faculty at the University of British Columbia.

Religions of the Americas. “Church Covenanting in Seventeenth-Century New England.” Tenure track, Assistant Professor of History, Centenary College.