2025

Hasan Doagoo (Ph.D. 2025), “Legal Interpretivism and Shia Law: A Moral Framework for Reform” (Supervisor: Dr. Liyakat Takim).

Rachel Matheson (Ph.D. 2025), “The Madness of Love: Simone Weil’s Kenotic Theology of Decreation” (Supervisor: Dr. Travis Kroeker).

            2024

Marcus Evans (Ph.D. 2024), “Transcendence in the World of the Wu-Tang Clan” (Supervisor: Dr. Mark Rowe).

Marc Lagace (Ph.D. 2024), “Harui Kuishina! Devotional Yoga in the People’s Republic of China” (Supervisor: Dr. Mark Rowe).

Lan Li (Ph.D. 2024), “Stone Inscriptions and Chinese Buddhist Practices in the Tang Dynasty (618-907 CE)” (Supervisor: Dr. James Benn). Dr. Li is a lecturer at the University of Toronto.

Fady Mekhael (Ph.D. 2024), “Ascended Jesus and Cultic Atonement: Reading Luke-Acts within Second Temple Judaism” (Supervisor: Dr. Matthew Thiessen). Dr. Mekhael is International Projects Officer at the Canadian Bible Society.

            2023

Paul Arnold (Ph.D. 2023), “Reframing Ritual Gestures in Dialogue: Gesture Studies and Sacramental Rituals” (Supervisor: Dr. Travis Kroeker). Dr. Arnold is a Research Officer, Rotman Institute of Philosophy, University of Western Ontario.

Katherine Fitzgerald (Ph.D. 2023), “Women in Greco-Roman Jewish Novels (300 BCE-100CE)” (Supervisor: Dr. Hanna Tervanotko). Dr. Fitzgerald is Bonner Leader Program Coordinator, Nazareth University.

            2022

Gerjan Altenburg (Ph.D. 2022), “Rules of Customary Behaviour in the Mūlasarvāstivāda-vinaya” (Supervisor: Dr. Shayne Clarke). Dr. Altenburg is an assistant professor of Religious Studies at St. Francis Xavier University.

Michael Gabizon (Ph.D. 2022), “Mixed Offspring in the Hebrew Bible and Second Temple Period” (Supervisor: Dr. Daniel Machiela).

Merrill Greene (Ph.D. 2022), “Sectually Transmitted Demons: Categorizing the Apotropaic Dead Sea Scrolls” (Supervisor: Dr. Daniel Machiela).

Vinay Khetia (Ph.D. 2022), “A Study of Shi’i Liturgy” (Supervisor: Dr. Liyakat Takim).

Andrew Knight-Messenger (Ph.D. 2022), “The Place of the Court Tales in Early Jewish Literature: Form, Development, and Function” (Supervisor: Dr. Daniel Machiela).

Rahim Samnani (Ph.D. 2022), “The Honest Merchant: Rethinking History, Criteria, and Memory in the Study of the Historical Muhamad” (Supervisor: Dr. Liyakat Takim).

Martin Sanfridson (Ph.D. 2022), “Paul and Sacrifice in Corinth: Rethinking Paul’s Views on Gentile Cult in 1 Corinthians 8 and 10” (Supervisor: Dr. Matthew Thiessen).

            2021

Jeremy Cohen (Ph.D. 2021), “There is Mind all Over the Body: Immortalist and Transhumanist Futures” (Supervisor: Dr. Ellen Badone). Dr. Cohen is now a teaching professor in Religious Studies at McMaster University.

Mark Novak (Ph.D. 2021), “Saving Flesh, Redeeming Body: Phenomenologies of Incarnation and Resurrection in Michel Henry and Emmanuel Falque” (Supervisor: Dr. Travis Kroeker). Dr. Novak is an Instructor in Liberal Arts, Mount Royal University.

Maxwell Kennel (Ph.D. 2021), “Ontologies of Violence” (Supervisor: Dr. Travis Kroeker). Dr. Kennel is Director of Pandora Press and a pastor at Hamilton Mennonite Church.

            2020

Ruifeng Chen (Ph.D. 2020), “Informed Textual Practices?: A Study of Dunhuang Manuscripts of Chinese Buddhist Apocryphal Scriptures with Colophons” (Supervisor: Dr. James Benn). Dr. Chen is an assistant professor at Zhejiang University.

Robert Jones (Ph.D. 2020), “Priesthood, Cult, and Temple in the Aramaic Scrolls from Qumran” (Supervisor: Dr. Daniel Machiela). Dr. Jones is Assistant Director of Jewish Studies and Assistant Research Professor of Jewish Studies and Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies.

Zac Klassen (Ph.D. 2020), “Theologies of Israel and Judaism After Karl Barth” (Supervisor: Dr. Peter Widdicombe). Dr. Klassen is a pastor at Bloomingdale Mennonite Church.

Alex Suderman (Ph.D. 2020), “The Sacrament of Desire: The Poetics of Fyodor Dostoevsky and Friedrich Nietzsche in Critical Dialogue with Henri de Lubac” (Supervisor: Dr. Travis Kroeker). Dr. Suderman is a pastor at PräsentKirche, Dortmund.

            2019

Miriam DeCock (Ph.D. 2019), “Alexandrian and Antiochene Exegesis and the Gospel of John” (Supervisor: Dr. Peter Widdicombe). Dr. DeCock is an Assistant Professor in Biblical Studies at Dublin City University.

Christopher Jensen (Ph.D. 2019), “Dreaming Betwixt and Between: Oneiric Narratives in Huijiao and Daoxuan’s Biographies of Eminent Monks” (Supervisor: Dr. James Benn). Dr. Jensen is an associate professor of East Asian Religions at Carleton University.

Michael Johnson (Ph.D. 2019), “An Assessment of the Genres of Psalms in 1QHodayot^a” (Supervisor: Dr. Eileen Schuller). Dr. Johnson is a Marie Curie Postdoctoral fellow at the University of Agder.

John VanMaaren (Ph.D. 2019), “The Gospel of Mark within Judaism: Reading the Second Gospel in Its Ethnic Landscape” (Supervisors: Drs. Anders Runesson and Matthew Thiessen). Dr. VanMaaren is ESPRIT Postdoctoral Scholar on the Faculty of Protestant Theology at the University of Vienna.

            2018

Adel Hashemi (Ph.D. 2018), “The Concept of Martyrdom in Twelver Shī‘īsm: Ideas and Development” (Supervisor: Dr. Liyakat Takim).

Rebecca Vendetti (Ph.D. 2018), “The Doctrine of the Atonement in the Writings of C. S. Lewis” (Supervisor: Dr. Peter Widdicombe).

            2017

Jonathan Milevsky (Ph.D. 2017), “The Seven Laws of Noah or Novak: An Analysis of David Novak’s Accounts of Natural Law” (Supervisor: Dr. Zdravko Planinc).

Taymaz Tabrizi (Ph.D. 2017), “Marriage as a Technology of the Self: Sex, Gender and Juristic Inversion in the Soteriology of Imāmī Law” (Supervisor: Dr. Liyakat Takim).

            2016

Christopher Handy (Ph.D. 2016), “Indian Buddhist Etiquette and the Emergence of Ascetic Civility” (Supervisor: Dr. Shayne Clarke). Dr. Handy is a Software Engineer at Leiden University.

Jordan Ryan (Ph.D. 2016), “The Kingdom of God and the Assembly of the People: The Role of the Synagogue in the Aims of Jesus” (Supervisor: Dr. Anders Runesson). Dr. Ryan is Associate Professor of New Testament at Wheaton College.

Matthew Walsh (Ph.D. 2016), “Angels Associated with Israel in the Dead Sea Scrolls: A Study of Angelology and Community Identity at Qumran” (Supervisor: Dr. Eileen Schuller). Dr. Walsh is Full Professor of Biblical Studies at Acadia Divinity College.

            2015

Michael Agnew (Ph.D. 2015), “Where Heaven Touched Earth: Encountering Place and Person at Lourdes” (Supervisor: Dr. Ellen Badone). Dr. Agnew is a Manager of Research Services and Initiatives, Faculty of Public and Global Affairs, Carleton University.

Stephanie Balkwill (Ph.D. 2015), “Empresses, Bhikṣuṇīs, and Women of Pure Faith: Buddhism and the Politics of Patronage in the Northern Wei” (Supervisor: Dr. James Benn). Dr. Balkwill is an associate professor at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Christopher Koop (Ph.D. 2015), “The Politics of Christian Forgiveness: An Augustinian Assessment of Hannah Arendt” (Supervisor: Dr. P. Travis Kroeker).

Andrew Krause (Ph.D. 2015), “Rhetoric, Spatiality, and the First-Century Synagogue: The Description and. Narrative Use of Jewish Institutions in the Works of Flavius Josephus” (Supervisor: Dr. Anders Runesson). Dr. Krause is Assistant Dean and Associate Faculty at St. Stephen’s College at the University of Alberta.

Adrian Tseng (Ph.D. 2015), “A Comparison of the Concepts of Buddha-Nature and Dao-Nature of Medieval China” (Supervisor: Dr. James Benn). Dr. Tseng is an assistant professor at Foguang University.

Gregory Wiebe (Ph.D. 2015), “The Politics of Possession: Augustine’s Demonology in The City of God” (Supervisor: Dr. P. Travis Kroeker). Dr. Wiebe is the Executive Coordinator to the VP Academic, Canadian Mennonite University.

            2014

Ralph Korner (Ph.D. 2014), “Before ‘Church’: Political, Ethno-Religious, and Theological Implications of the Collective Designation of Pauline Christ-Followers as Ekklēsiai” (Supervisor: Dr. Anders Runesson). Dr. Korner is Academic Dean and an associate professor of Biblical Studies at Taylor Seminary.

Eric Montgomery (Ph.D. 2014), “A Stream from Eden: The Nature and Development of a Revelatory Tradition in the Dead Sea Scrolls” (Supervisor: Dr. Eileen Schuller). Dr. Montgomery is Professor of New Testament at Hindustan Bible Institute and College in Chennai, India.

            2013

Nicholas Meyer (Ph.D. 2013), “Adam’s Dust and Adam’s Glory: Anthropogony and Theology in the Hodayot and the Letters of Paul” (Supervisors: Dr. Eileen Schuller and Dr. Stephen Westerholm). Dr. Meyer is a sessional instructor at McMaster University, Huron University College, and St. Peter’s Seminary.

Andrew Perrin (Ph.D. 2013), “Dream-Visions in the Aramaic Dead Sea Scrolls: Shared Compositional Patterns and Concerns” (Supervisor: Dr. Daniel Machiela). Dr. Perrin is a Professor in the Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences, Athabasca University.

Grant Poettcker (Ph.D. 2013), “Redeeming Wrath and Apocalyptic Violence: Girard and von Balthasar in Response to Nietzsche’s Critique of Atonement Theology” (Supervisor: Dr. P. Travis Kroeker). Dr. Poettcker is an associate professor of Philosophy at Briercrest College.

Joseph Wiebe (Ph.D. 2013), “Wendell Berry’s Imagination in Place: Affection, Community, and Literature” (Supervisor: Dr. P. Travis Kroeker). Dr. Wiebe is an associate professor of Religion & Ecology and Director of the Chester Ronning Centre at the University of Alberta.

            2012

Jonathan Bernier (Ph.D. 2012), “‘Lest the Nation be Destroyed’: The Historical Jesus and the Johannine Aposynagōgos Passages” (Supervisor: Dr. Anders Runesson). Dr. Bernier is an assistant professor at Regis College.

Erich Engler (Ph.D. 2012), “Reward and Punishment in Pseudo-Philo’s Liber Antiquitatum Biblicarum” (Supervisor: Dr. Eileen Schuller). He is now an associate librarian at Redeemer University.

Daniel Opperwall (Ph.D. 2012), “‘Cutting a Path through This Life to Persuade All Others’: The Holy Spirit in the Life and Writings of Gregory of Nazianzus” (Supervisor: Dr. Peter Widdicombe).

Émilie Roy (Ph.D. 2012), “Educating Pious Citizens: Local Politics, International Funding, and Democracy in Bamako’s Islamic Schools” (Supervisor: Dr. Celia Rothenberg). Dr. Roy is Chief Education, UNICEF in South Sudan.

            2011

Darren Dahl (Ph.D. 2011), “The Question of God- Phenomenology Hermeneutics and Revelation in Jean-Luc Marion and Paul Ricouer” (Supervisor: Dr. P. Travis Kroeker). Dr. Dahl is President & Associate Professor of Theology, Newman Theological College.

Glen Graham (Ph.D. 2011), “Kierkegaard and the Longing for God” (Supervisor: Dr. P. Travis Kroeker). Dr. Graham is an assistant professor of Humanities at Burman University.

Hisako Omori (Ph.D. 2011), “Transforming Selves: Identity, History, and Autonomy among Roman Catholics in Tokyo” (Supervisor: Dr. Ellen Badone). Dr. Omori is Associate Professor and Dean of Academic Development, Institute for Promotion of Applied International Liberal Arts Education, Akita International University, Japan.

Sherry Smith (Ph.D. 2011), “Encountering Anne: Journeys to Sainte Anne de Beaupré” (Supervisor: Dr. Ellen Badone). Dr. Smith is Part-time Faculty in the Department of Thanatology, King’s University College at Western University.

            2010

Camilla Mryglod (Ph.D. 2010), “The sacred flesh: On Camus’s philosophy of the body” (Supervisor: Dr. Zdravko Planinc).

Jeremy Penner (Ph.D. 2010), “Times for Daily Prayer in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Early Judaism” (Supervisor: Dr. Eileen Schuller). Dr. Penner is Senior Curator, African and Near Eastern Manuscripts at The University of Manchester.

Alisha Pomazon (Ph.D. 2010), “Neighbors and Strangers: Hermann Cohen and Protestant Biblical Criticism” (Supervisor: Dr. Dana Hollander). Dr. Pomazon is an assistant professor of Religion and Culture at St. Thomas More College at the University of Saskatchewan.

Dustin Resch (Ph.D. 2010), “A Sigh of Mystery: Karl Barth’s Theology of the Virgin Birth” (Supervisor: Dr. Peter Widdicombe).

Nanette Spina (Ph.D. 2010), “The Adhi Parasakthi Temple Society of Canada: A Sri Lankan Tamil Hindu Community in Toronto” (Supervisor: Dr. Paul Younger). Dr. Spina is an assistant professor of Religion at the University of Georgia.

Lily Vuong (Ph.D. 2010), “Assessing the Virgin: Gender and Purity in the Protevangelium of James” (Supervisor: Dr. Annette Yoshiko Reed). Dr. Vuong is Associate Professor Religious Studies at the University of Oregon.

Amanda Witmer (Ph.D. 2010), “Jesus, A Jewish Galilean Exorcist: A Socio-Political and Anthropological Investigation” (Supervisor: Dr. Anders Runesson).

            2009

Kevin Bond (Ph.D. 2009), “Forcing the Immovable One to the Ground: Revisioning a Major Deity in Early Modern Japan” (Supervisor: Dr. James Benn). Dr. Bond is associate professor of Religious Studies at the University of Regina.

Carlos Colorado (Ph.D, 2009), “Transcendence, Kenosis and Enfleshment: Charles Taylor’s Religious Thought” (Supervisor: Dr. P. Travis Kroeker). Dr. Colorado is professor and chair of Religion and Culture at the University of Winnipeg.

Kathy Jackson (Ph.D. 2009), “‘Death Becomes Them’: A Funeral Home Ethnography” (Supervisor: Dr. Ellen Badone).

Justin Klassen (Ph.D. 2009), “Faith’s Sublime Traversal: Rhetorical and Dialectical Approaches to Preserving Christianity as Existential Movement” (Supervisor: Dr. P. Travis Kroeker). Dr. Klassen is professor of Theology at Bellarmine University.

David Lorne (Ph.D. 2009), “The Structural Politics of Totem and Taboo” (Supervisor: Dr. Zdravko Planinc).

Ronald Srigley (Ph.D. 2009), “Albert Camus’ Critique of Modernity” (Supervisor: Dr. Zdravko Planinc). Dr. Srigley is a sessional instructor at Laurentian University.

Susan Wendel (Ph.D. 2009), “To Hear and Perceive: Scriptural Interpretation and Community Self-Definition in Luke-Acts and the Writings of Justin Martyr” (Supervisor: Dr. Stephen Westerholm). Dr. Wendel is Provost of Trinity Western University.

            2008

Christopher Austin (Ph.D. 2008), “Vedic Myth and Ritual in the Mahabharata: A critical study of the Mahaprasthanika and Svargarohana Parvans” (Supervisor: Dr. Arti Dhand). Dr. Austin is an associate professor of Religious Studies at Dalhousie University.

Wayne Baxter (Ph.D. 2008), “Matthew’s Shepherd Motif And Its Socio-Religious Implications” (Supervisor: Dr. Anders Runesson). Dr. Baxter is Professor of New Testament and Greek at Heritage College and Seminary.

Gregory Hillis (Ph.D. 2008), “‘The Natural Likeness of the Son’: Cyril of Alexandria’s Pneumatology” (Supervisor: Dr. Peter Widdicombe). He was the executive director of the Aquinas Center of Theology at Emory University at the time of his death in 2024.

Andrew Muncaster (Ph.D. 2008), “The Influence of Jacques Ellul, Martin Heidegger and Simone Weil on George Grant’s Changing Understanding of Technology” (Supervisor: Dr. Zdravko Planinc). Dr. Muncaster is a sessional instructor in Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Guelph.

Jennifer Selby (Ph.D. 2008), “The Shifting Boundaries of Gender Politics and Laicite: An Ethnography of First-generation Muslim Maghrebian Women in a Parisian banlieue” (Supervisor: Dr. Ellen Badone). Dr. Selby is Professor of Religious Studies at Memorial University.

Gerhard Visscher (Ph.D. 2008), “Abraham, Faith, and Works: the Role of Romans 4 in the Discussion concerning the New Perspective on Paul” (Supervisor: Dr. Stephen Westerholm). Dr. Visscher is recently retired from serving as Academic Dean and professor of New Testament at Canadian Reformed Theological Seminary.

            2007

Paul Doerksen (Ph.D. 2007), “Beyond Suspicion: Post-Christendom Protestant Political Theology in the Thought of John Howard Yoder and Oliver O’Donovan” (Supervisor: Dr. P. Travis Kroeker). Dr. Doerksen is Professor of Theology and Anabaptist Studies at Canadian Mennonite University.

Benjamin Fleming (Ph.D. 2007), “The Cult of the Jyotirlingas and the History of Shaivite Worship” (Supervisor: Dr. Phyllis Granoff). Dr. Fleming is Cataloger of Indic Manuscripts at the Kislak Center for Special Collections at the University of Pennsylvania. 

Pauline Hogan (Ph.D. 2007), “‘No Longer Male and Female’: Interpreting Galatians 3:28 in Early Christianity” (Supervisors: Dr. Peter Widdicombe and Dr. Annette Yoshiko Reed).

Leonard Stan (Ph.D. 2007), “The Concept of Alterity in Soren Kierkegaard’s Authorship” (Supervisor: Dr. P. Travis Kroeker). Dr. Stan is a professor in the School of Liberal Studies at Conestoga College.

Ruebens Turci (Ph.D. 2007), “Sraddha in the Bhagavad Gita” (Supervisor: Dr. Paul Younger). Dr. Turci is Associate Researcher at PEIND – Indian Studies Program of the State University of Rio de Janeiro.

            2006

Paul Gallagher (Ph.D. 2006), “Citizens of Heaven, Residents of the Earth: The Politics of the Sermon on the Mount” (Supervisor: Dr. P. Travis Kroeker). Dr. Gallagher is Senior Lecturer in Humanities at Yale-NUS College in Singapore.

Jeffrey McPherson (Ph.D. 2006), “Jonathan Edwards and Alfred North Whitehead: The Possibility of a Constructive Dialogue in Metaphysics” (Supervisor: Dr. John Robertson). Dr. McPherson is an associate professor of Christian Theology at Roberts Wesleyan College.

Kenneth Penner (Ph.D. 2006), “Verb Form Semantics in Qumran Sectarian Texts: Hebrew Tense, Aspect, and Modality between the Bible and the Mishnah” (Supervisor: Dr. Eileen Schuller). Dr. Penner is Professor of Religious Studies at St. Francis Xavier University.

            2005

Nathan Colborne (Ph.D. 2005), “Desire, Discipline and the Political Body in Michel Foucault and St. Augustine” (Supervisor: Dr. P. Travis Kroeker). Dr. Colborne is Dean and associate professor of Arts and Sciences at Nipissing University.

Patricia Dold (Ph.D. 2005), “The Religious Vision of the Sakta Mahabhagavata Purana” (Supervisor: Dr. Paul Younger). Dr. Dold is an associate professor of Religious Studies at Memorial University.

Scott Dunham (Ph.D. 2005), “The Trinity and Creation: Augustine and Boff on Monarchy, Governance and Dominion” (Supervisor: Dr. Peter Widdicombe).

David Farr (Ph.D. 2005), “A Critical Examination of A.N. Whitehead’s Metaphysics in Light of the Later Martin Heidegger’s Critique of Onto-Theology” (Supervisor: Dr. John Robertson).

Danya Furda (Ph.D. 2005), “Karma and Grace in the Legend of Angulimala” (Supervisor: Dr. Graeme MacQueen). Dr. Furda is an adjunct faculty member at Columbus State Community College.

Tim Lilburn (Ph.D. 2005), “Eros in Plato and Early Christian Platonists: A Philosophical Poetic” (Supervisor: Dr. Zdravko Planinc). Dr. Lilburn is a Canadian poet and essayist. He has won a Governor General’s Award for his poetry and is a Fellow of the Royal Society. He is a professor in the Writing Program at the University of Victoria.

David Miller (Ph.D. 2005), “Luke’s Conception of Prophets Considered in the Context of Second Temple Literature” (Supervisor: Dr. Stephen Westerholm). Dr. Miller is an associate professor of New Testament and Early Judaism at Briercrest College.

Ian Scott (Ph.D. 2005), “Living the Story: Implicit Epistemology in Paul’s Letter” (Supervisor: Dr. Stephen Westerholm). Dr. Scott is Software Developer for the Humanities Commons at Michigan State University.

Lavanya Vemsani (Ph.D. 2005), “Balarāma: Change and Continuity in an Early Hindu Cult” (Supervisor: Dr. Phyllis Granoff). Dr. Vemsani is a professor of Religious Studies at Shawnee State University.

            2004

Cecilia Wassen (Ph.D. 2004), “Women in the Damascus Document” (Supervisor: Dr. Eileen Schuller). Dr. Wassen is Professor in the Department of Theology at Uppsala University.

Bernard Wills (Ph.D. 2004), “The Conversion of Skepticism in Augustine’s Against the Academics” (Supervisor: Dr. P. Travis Kroeker). Dr. Wills is an associate professor of Humanities at Memorial University.

            2003

Paul Corey (Ph.D. 2003), “Evil in Modern Theatre: Eschatology, Expediency, and the Tragic Vision” (Supervisor: Dr. Zdravko Planinc). Dr. Corey is program coordinator for Liberal Studies at Humber College.

Richard Mann (Ph.D. 2003), “The Early Cult of Skanda in North India: From Demon to Divine Son” (Supervisor: Dr. Phyllis Granoff). Dr. Mann is an associate professor of Religion at Carleton University.

Mary Angela Robinson (Ph.D. 2003), “Ta’n teli-ktlamsītasimk (Ways of believing): Mi’kmaw religion in Eskasoni, Nova Scotia” (Supervisor: Dr. Ellen Badone). Dr. Robinson is Associate Professor and Program Chair, Anthropology and Social/Cultural Studies, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Grenfell Campus.

            2002

Lorenzo DiTommaso (Ph.D. 2002), “The Qumran New Jerusalem Text: Contents and Contexts” (Supervisor: Dr. Eileen Schuller). Dr. DiTommaso is Professor of Religion and Cultures at Concordia University.

Jonathan Geen (Ph.D. 2002), “The Marriage of Draupadi in the Hindu and Jaina Mahabharata” (Supervisor: Dr. Phyllis Granoff). Dr. Geen is an associate professor of Religious Studies at King’s University College at Western University.

Olutola Kehinde Peters (Ph.D. 2002), “The Mandate of the Church in the Apocalypse of John” (Supervisor: Dr. Stephen Westerholm). Dr. Peters is Professor Emeritus at Emmanuel Bible College.

Richard Shields (Ph.D. 2002), “Ethics and Ambiguity: A Critical Study of Charles E. Curran’s Ecumenical Ethics of Dialogue” (Supervisor: Dr. P. Travis Kroeker). Dr. Shields is an adjunct faculty member at St. Michael’s College, Toronto School of Theology.

Johnson Samuel Subramanian (Ph.D. 2002), “The Prophetic Reading of the Psalms in the Synoptic Gospels, in the Context of Second Temple Judaism” (Supervisor: Dr. Stephen Westerholm). Dr. Subramanian is a retired minister in the United Methodist Church.

Joseph Velaidum (Ph.D. 2002), “Axis Mundi: The Spiritual Journey of Consciousness in the Thought of Northrop Frye” (Supervisor: Dr. P. Travis Kroeker). Dr. Velaidum is an associate professor of Religious Studies at the University of Prince Edward Island.

            2001

Susan Srigley (Ph.D. 2001), “Prophetic Vision and Moral Imagination in Flannery O’Connor’s Fiction” (Supervisor: Dr. P. Travis Kroeker). Dr. Srigley is a professor of Religions and Cultures at Nipissing University.

Jane Webster (Ph.D. 2001), “Ingesting Jesus: Eating and drinking in the Gospel of John” (Supervisor: Dr. Adele Reinhartz). Dr. Webster is Professor Emerita of Religion and Philosophy at Barton College.

            2000

Gerald Day (Ph.D. 2000), “Eric Voegelin and Friedrich Schelling on Reason and Revelatory Myth” (Supervisor: Dr. Zdravko Planinc).

Paula Holmes-Rodman (Ph.D. 2000), “Symbol Tales: Paths towards the Creation of a Saint” (Supervisor: Dr. Ellen Badone). Dr. Holmes-Rodman is a researcher, narrative medicine specialist, advocate at All.Can Canada (cancer care advocacy), Dalhousie University, Queen’s University.

Jack Laughlin (Ph.D. 2000), “Ārādhakamūrti/Adhiṣṭhāyakamūrti: Popular piety, politics, and the Medieval Jain Temple Portrait” (Supervisor: Dr. Phyllis Granoff). Dr. Laughlin is Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies at the University of Sudbury.

Faydra Shapiro (Ph.D. 2000), “Building and Being Built: Constructing Jewish Identities on an Israel Experience Program” (Supervisor: Dr. Ellen Badone). Dr. Shapiro is the Founding director of the Israel Center for Jewish-Christian Relations, Senior Fellow at The Philos Project, and member of the Center for the Study of Religion at Tel Hai College in Israel.

            1999

Wayne Brouwer (Ph.D. 1999), “The literary development of John 13–17: A chiastic reading” (Supervisor: Dr. Adele Reinhartz). Dr. Brouwer is Professor of Religion at Hope College.

Oona Eisenstadt (Ph.D. 1999), “Levinas’ Prophetic Ethics: His Use of the Sources of Judaism” (Supervisor: Dr. P. Travis Kroeker). Dr. Eisenstadt is the Fred Krinsky Professor of Jewish Studies and Professor of Religious Studies at Pomona College.

            1998

Paul Bramadat (Ph.D. 1998), “The Church on the World’s Turf: An Evangelical Christian Group at a Secular University” (Supervisor: Dr. Ellen Badone). Dr. Bramadat is Professor and Director Emeritus (2008-2025) of the Centre for Studies in Religion and Society, University of Victoria.

Peter Frick (Ph.D. 1998), “The Concept of Divine Providence in the Thought of Philo of Alexandria” (Dr. Alan Mendelson and Dr. Peter Widdicombe). Dr. Frick is retired from serving as Academic Dean and professor at St. Paul’s University College at the University of Waterloo.

            1997

Jinhua Chen (Ph.D. 1997), “The Formation of Early Esoteric Buddhism in Japan: A Study of Three Japanese. Esoteric Apocrypha” (Supervisor: Dr. Koichi Shinohara). Dr. Chen is Professor of East Asian Buddhism at the University of British Columbia.

Peter Harvey Denton (Ph.D. 1997), “The ‘Old Savage’ and the Scientific Outlook: Religion, Science and Social Ethics in the Writings of Bertrand Russell, 1919-1938” (Supervisor: Dr. Louis Greenspan). Dr. Denton is a part-time associate professor of History at the Royal Military College of Canada.

Anne Marie Martin (Ph.D. 1997), “Visions of Justice, the Question of Immortality: A Study of the Nature of Oppression and Liberation in the Work of Rosemary Radford Ruether and Marjorie Hewitt Suchocki (Supervisor: Dr. John Robertson).

Darcee Lee McLaren (Ph.D. 1997), “Living the Middle Ground: Four Native Presbyterian Missionaries, 1866-1912” (Supervisor: Dr. Ellen Badone).

Yuan Ren (Ph.D. 1997), “Maṇicūḍāvadāna: The Annotated Translations and A Study of the Religious Significance of Two Versions of the Sanskrit Buddhist Story” (Supervisor: Dr. Phyllis Granoff). Dr. Ren is an associate professor of Religious Studies at the University of Regina.