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Ph.D.

Name Year Degree Awarded Placement
Bhaki Mamtora, Asias 2019 Tenure-track Assistant Professor, Religious Studies, College of Wooster
Rodney Sebastian, Nature 2019 Assistant Professor, Religious Studies Department, Manhattan College
Ken Chitwood, Americas/Global Islam 2019 Fritz Thyssen Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies, Freie Universität Berlin
Yanchao Zhang, Asias 2018 Assistant Professor, Philosophy Department, Xiamen University
Yujing Chen,
Asias
2017 Visiting Assistant Professor, Religious Studies Department, Grinnell College, Iowa
Christopher Fouche,
Nature
2017 ELA Teacher, Orange County Public Schools
Jason Purvis,
Americas
2017 Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Religious Studies, University of Denver
Amy Brown, Nature 2015 Engineering & Technical Services Coordinator/Volunteer Advisor, American Water Works Association
Sarah Werner, Nature 2015
Kendall Marchman, Asia 2015 Tenure-track position, University of Georgia
Phillip Green,     Asia 2014 Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, College of Idaho
Caleb Simmons, Asia 2014 Assistant Professor of Hinduism in South Asian and the Modern World at the University of Arizona
Robin Globus, Nature 2014 Tenure-track position, Religious Studies, Texas A&M University
Bridgette O’Brien, Nature 2013 Upper School History Teacher, Annie Wright School, Tacoma, WA
Gayle Lasater Pagnoni, Americas 2013 Program Director at Rice University’s Boniuk Institute for the Study and Advancement of Religious Tolerance. Learn more at https://boniuk.rice.edu/
Hilit Surowitz, Americas 2012 Instructor at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
Sean O’Neil, Americas 2012 Visiting Assistant Professor of Cultural Studies of Sport in the Department of Kinesiology and Health at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio
Joseph Witt, Nature 2011 Assistant Professor of Religion, Mississippi State University
Gregory McElwain, Nature 2011 Associate Professor of Philosophy of Religion in the Philosophy and Religion Department, College of Idaho. Also a faculty member of the Environmental Studies Program.
Chungwhan Sung, Asia 2011 Instructor at Dongguk University and JungAng Samgha University (From 2011 Fall-Present)
Todd LeVasseur, Nature 2011 Visiting Assistant Prof./appointed Program Director for the Environmental Studies program at CofC for the next 3 years (from 2015)
Eleanor Finnegan, Nature 2011 Assistant Director, Faculty Programming at the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning, Harvard
Rose Caraway, Americas 2011 Assistant Professor of Religious Studies in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Iowa State University.
Leah Sarat, Americas 2010 Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Arizona State University
Lucas Johnston, Nature 2009 Wake Forest University-Associate Professor of Religion-Affiliate Faculty with the Environmental Program., Core Faculty member at the Center for Energy, Environment and Sustainability
Michael Gressett, Asia 2009 Adjunct Professor, Florida Gateway College
Shreena Gandhi, Americas 2009 Assistant Professor, Michigan State University
Gavin Van Horn, Nature 2008 Director of Cultures of Conservation at the Center for Humans and Nature
Samuel Snyder, Nature 2008 Assistant Director, Renewable Resources Coalition, Anchorage, AK

M.A.

Name Year Degree Awarded Placement
Matthew Hartley 2017 Associate Director, Department of Diversity Initiatives, University of North Florida
Aladdin Ri’fat Al, non-thesis, Global Islam 2016 Egypt
Kelsey Stewart, non-thesis, Asia 2015 Japan
Caroline Reed, Americas 2015 Teacher, Gainesville, FL
John Balch, Nature 2015 Boston University, PhD
Matthew Pesek, non thesis, Americas 2014
Alisia Radder, Nature/Asia 2014 Japan
Sarah Moczygemba, Americas 2013 PhD program, Religion and Americas, UF
Keri Johnson, Nature 2013 PhD program in Counselor Education, UF
Victoria Machado, Nature 2013 PhD UF, Religion
Melissa Richards, Nature 2013
Mallory Bolduc-non-thesis, Americas 2013
Ved Patel, Asia 2012 Theology/Oxford
Jennifer Dick, Americas 2010 NGO (non-government organization), Jacksonville, FL
Ann Marie Palmer, Americas 2009 Higher Education Master’s Program in Human Development and Organizational Studies in Education, University of Florida—graduated in 2011
Carly Dwyer, Asia 2009 Graduate student, Syracuse University
Daniel Bernard Zaleha, Nature 2008 Ph.D. program in Sociology, University of California, Santa Cruz
James Wilson, Asia 2008 Ph.D. program in Religion, University of Florida, resigned
Sarah Spaid Ishida, Asia 2008 Administrative Services Coordinator, UF Center for European Studies
Robin Globus, Nature 2008 Ph.D. program in Religion, University of Florida
Seth Bryant, Americas 2008 Ph.D. program, Vanderbilt University
Jennifer Baum 1998 Head of the U.S. Monographs Section, U.S. Library of Congress