Alumni

Alphabetical by last name.

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Kathleen Garces-Foley
  • BA, Philosophy, University of Notre Dame, 1994.
  • MA, Graduate Theological Union, 1997.
  • PhD, Religious Studies, UC Santa Barbara, 2004.
  • Areas of Study at UCSB: Religion in America, Ethnicity, Immigration and Religion, Death and Dying.
  • Title of Master’s Thesis: “Humans in Nature.”
  • Title of Doctoral Dissertation: “Crossing the Ethnic Divide.”
  • Current Employment: Associate Professor, Religious Studies, Marymount University.
Jovi Geraci
  • BA, University of New Mexico, 1998.
  • MTS, Harvard University, 2000.
  • PhD, Religious Studies, UC Santa Barbara, 2012.
  • Areas of Study at UCSB: Religion in American Popular Culture, Religion in Media, Religion in Video Games, Early Christianity/New Testament, Languages.
  • Title of Doctoral Dissertation: “Imagining the End: Apocalyptic Imagery in Visual Media.”
  • Current Employment: Lecturer, Manhattan College
Robert M. Geraci
  • BA, Liberal Arts, University of Texas at Austin, 1999.
  • MA, Religious Studies, UC Santa Barbara, 2003.
  • PhD, Religious Studies, UC Santa Barbara, 2005.
  • Areas of Study at UCSB: History of Religions, Religion and Science, Religion and Art, History of Science.
  • Title of Master’s Thesis: “Signaling Static: Artistic, Religious, and Scientific Truths in a Relational Ontology.”
  • Title of Doctoral Dissertation: “The Cultural History of Religions and the Ethics of Progress: Building the Human in 20th Century Religion, Science, and Art.”
  • Current Employment: Professor of Religious Studies, Manhattan College.
Samaneh Oladi Ghadikolaei
  • BA, English Translation and Literature, Azad University, Iran, 2003.
  • MA, Education, Tehran University, Iran, 2005.
  • MA, Global and International Studies, UC Santa Barbara, 2008.
  • PhD, Religious Studies, UC Santa Barbara, 2015.
  • Areas of Study at UCSB: Islamic Law and Jurisprudence, Religious Movements, Gender and Sexuality.
  • Title of Master’s Thesis: “Women’s Involvement in Civil Society: Religious and Secular Activism in Perspective.”
Rahuldeep Singh Gill
  • BA, Religion, University of Rochester, 2002.
  • MA, Religious Studies, UC Santa Barbara, 2006.
  • PhD, Religious Studies, UC Santa Barbara, 2009.
  • Areas of Study at UCSB: Sikhism.
  • Title of Doctoral Dissertation: “Growing the Banyan Tree: Early Sikh Tradition in the Works of Bhai Gurdas Balla.”
  • Current Employment: Assistant Professor of Religion, California Lutheran University.
Annalise Glauz-Todrank
  • BA, World Religions, Human Rights, and the Arts, Hampshire College, 2000.
  • MA, Religious Studies, UC Santa Barbara, 2005.
  • PhD, Religious Studies, UC Santa Barbara, 2010.
  • Areas of Study at UCSB: Religious Conflict in Israel and in India, Jews in Modern Europe, Religion and Politics, Roles of Race and Gender within and between Religious Communities.
  • Title of Master’s Thesis: “Negotiating Sacred Space in Jerusalem: The Role of Kiddush Ha-shem in the Politics of Mayor Lupolianksy.”
  • Title of Doctoral Dissertation: “Jewish Identity between ‘Religion’ and ‘Race’ in Shaare Tefila Congregation v. Cobb.”
  • Current Employment: Assistant Professor, Department of Religion, Wake Forest University.
Jenna Gray-Hildenbrand
  • BA, Religious Studies and Women’s Studies, Western Michigan University, 2000.
  • MA, Religious Studies, University of Colorado, Boulder, 2004.
  • PhD, Religious Studies, UC Santa Barbara, 2012.
  • Areas of Study at UCSB: Religion, Politics, and the Law; Gender, Race, and Religion in the United States.
  • Title of Doctoral Dissertation: “Negotiating Authority: The Criminalization of Religious Practice in the United States.”
  • Current Employment: Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Middle Tennessee State University.
Robert L. Green
  • BA, Religious Studies, California State University, Bakersfield, 2003.
  • MA, Religious Studies, UCS Santa Barbara, 2006.
  • PhD, Religious Studies, UC Santa Barbara, 2011.
  • Areas of Study at USCB: Latin American History, Indigenous Religious History, African Diaspora.
  • Title of Master’s Thesis: “The Society of Jesus in the Philippines, 1590-1600.”
  • Title of Doctoral Dissertation: “Masters of Idolatry: Catholic Colonialism, Jesuit Conversionary Thought, and Indigenous Religious Traditions in the Spanish Pacific World, 1568-1672.”
  • Current Employment: Bishop James A. Healy Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Religious Studies, College of the Holy Cross.
Lauren Horn Griffin
  • BA, English, University of Oklahoma, 2006.
  • MEd, University of Oklahoma, 2008.
  • MTS, Vanderbilt University, 2010.
  • MA, History, UC Santa Barbara, 2012.
  • Areas of Study at UCSB: History of Christianity, Early Modern Catholicism.
Aaron Gross
  • BA, Philosophy, Grinnell College, 1996.
  • MTS, Harvard Divinity School, 2002.
  • PhD, Religious Studies, UC Santa Barbara, 2010.
  • Areas of Study at UCSB: Cultural and Comparative History of Religions, Jewish Studies, Critical Theory, Animal Studies.
  • Title of Doctoral Dissertation: “The Question of the Animal and Religion: Dietary Practices, Ethics, and Subjectivity in Jewish Traditions.”
  • Current Employment: Assistant Professor of Theology and Religious Studies, University of San Diego.
Ron Grove
  • AB, English & Education, Rutgers University, 1970.
  • EdM, Urban Education & English, Rutgers University, 1971.
  • MA, Religious Studies, UC Santa Barbara, 1980.
  • PhD, Religious Studies, UC Santa Barbara, 1983.
  • MA, TESL, Northern Arizona University, 1990.
  • Subject of Master’s Thesis: Ancient Indic & Ancient Mediterranean Traditions.
  • Title of Doctoral Dissertation: “Canon and Community: Authority in the History of Religions.”
  • Current Employment: ESL Instructor at the University of Wisconsin, La Crosse.
Joel Gruber
PhD Program
  • BA, Religious Studies and Psychology, UC Santa Barbara, 2000.
  • MA, Buddhist Studies, Naropa University, 2007.
  • Areas of Study at UCSB: Tibetan Buddhism, Tantra, Buddhism in America.