PhD Candidate Paul McBain will defend his dissertation, "A Drunken Bee: Sunthorn Phu and the Buddhist Landscapes of Early Bangkok." An abstract of the dissertation is below; please…
PhD candidate Jillian Stinchcomb will defend her doctoral dissertation, "Remembering the Queen of Sheba in the First Millennium," on Monday, August 17th, at 10:00 a.m.
Productions of Prosperity, Gender, and the Supernatural in Nigerian Cinema
Jul 16, 2020
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PhD Candidate Chijioke Azuawusiefe will defend his dissertation, "Nollywood and Popular Religion: Productions of Prosperity, Gender, and the Supernatural in Nigerian Cinema…
The classic secularization narrative of the mid-20th century envisioned a progressive decline of religion as part of the advance of modernity. Charles Taylor has referred to this as the “subtraction story,” in which…
Constructing Authority and (Re)Writing History in the Nation's Capital
Jill Hicks-Keeton (University of Oklahoma)
Feb 20, 2020
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Jill Hicks-Keeton (Phd, Duke University) is the author of Arguing with Aseneth: Gentile Access to Israel's Living God in Jewish Antiquity (Oxford University Press, 2018) and numerous academic articles. She…