Student Travel Grants
GTU Student Travel Grant: Doctoral students who have papers accepted for the program of the Annual Meeting of the AAR, SBL, or other comparable national meeting or conference may compete in the GTU's Student Travel Grant competition. Winner are given cash awards to support the costs of attending the meeting. The Dean and Core Doctoral Faculty Awards Committee select recipients for this award. Applications are usually due September 15 (or the following Monday, if September 15 falls on a weekend) for the first cycle and February 15 for the second cycle (or the following Monday if February 15 falls on a weekend).
To apply, submit a completed GTU Student Travel Grant Application Form.
There are two award cycles for the GTU Student Travel Grant:
- For meeting and conferences occurring from July 1, 2023 through January 31, 2024 submit your completed application no later than September 15, 2023 at 5 PM.
- For meetings occurring February 1, 2024 - June 30, 2024, the deadline is February 15, 2024, 11:59PM.
These are the criteria for evaluating entries:
- Level of Competitiveness for the program slot: Different program categories of the AAR or SBL, for example, represent different levels of competition. These are ranked from easiest to most competitive along these lines: roundtables, consultations, seminar, group, section. The higher up the "competitiveness scale," the more points awarded to the proposal.
- Clarity and coherence/ scholarly substance: Is the proposal well formed and clear; is it accessible to an audience outside of a very small cadre? Is it scholarly sound? Does it offer a fresh perspective or creative contribution?
- Only students who are currently enrolled in GTU Ph.D. program are eligible. Current graduates, students on leave of absence or having withdrawn are ineligible.
Past Recipients of the GTU Student Travel Grant
AY 22-23
Cycle #1
Hartman, Matthew. "The Rise of Climate Nationalism: Media, Migration, and New Religious Formations on the Right." Presented at the AAR/SBL Annual Meeting in Devner, CO, on Novemver 18-22, 2022.
Hye Hyun, Han. "Somatic Spirituality for those Traumatized by Human Objectification: Utilizing Authentic Movement as a Spiritual Practice." Presented at the AAR/SBL Annual Meeting in Devner, CO, on Novemver 19-22, 2022.
Kosba, Reem. "Orientalist Myths of Ancient Egypt in Egyptian Cinema: A Case of Bride of the Nile." Presented at MESA in Devner, CO, on December 1-4 2022.
Leah, Macinskas-Le. “Woe to you, Pharisees” and the Man of Lies: The Rhetoric of Torah Observance in Sectarian Competition." Presented at Colloquium Biblicum Lovaniense in Leuven, Belgium, on 1-3 August 2022.
Leah, Macinskas-Le. "Washing Cups and Moving Boundary Stones: Torah Observance, Sectarian Teachers, and Salvation." Presented at the AAR/SBL Annual Meeting in Devner, CO, on Novemver 19-22, 2022.
Pothast, Emily. "The Poetics of Apocalyptic Violence." Annual Meeting in Devner, CO, on Novemver 19-22, 2022.
Price, Victoria. "Dharmic Digital Pedagogy: Bringing Yogic Inclusivity to Online Course Design." Presented at Dharma Academy of North America (DANAM) (held in conjunction with the 2022 AAR/SBL Annual Meeting), in Denver, CO on November 18 2022.
AY 21-22
Cycle #1
Garcia, Joshua. "Exodus-Returning-to-Egypt: Filipino American Liberation Theology in Exodus 4." Presented at the 2021 AAR/SBL Annual Meeting in San Antonio, TX, on November 20, 2021.
Hartman, Matthew. "New Ecological Entanglements on the Right: White Christian Nationalism, Alt-Right Ecology, and the Movement from Climate Denialism to Climate Nationalism." Presented at the 2021 AAR/SBL Annual Meeting in San Antonio, TX, on November 20, 2021.
Kang, Hanna. "Asian Latinx: The Other in Our Midst." Presented at the 2021 AAR/SBL Annual Meeting in San Antonio, TX, on November 22, 2021.
Pothast, Emily. "Like a Refiner’s Fire: Apokatastasis and the Metallurgical Metaphor." Presented at the 2021 AAR/SBL Annual Meeting in San Antonio, TX, on November 22, 2021.
Pothast, Emily. "Imaging the Beast and the Whore: The Politics of Apocalypse in the Early German Woodcut." Presented at the 2021 AAR/SBL Annual Meeting in San Antonio, TX, on November 22, 2021.
Sorita, Carmelo. "The Myth of Promised Land and the Pilipino/a and Filipino/a/x American Dream/Diaspora: A Postcolonial Biblical-Theological Critique of Immigration as Exile/Liberation." Presented at the 2021 AAR/SBL Annual Meeting in San Antonio, TX, on November 20, 2021.
Stevens, Pamela. "Religion in the Artistic Eye of the Collector: the Sacred World Art Collection at the Graduate Theological Union." Presented at the 2021 AAR/SBL Annual Meeting in San Antonio, TX, on November 20, 2021.
AY 19-20
Cycle #2
Aguila, Renato Paolo. "Ecology and Communion: A Renewed Understanding of the Eucharist." Presented at the annual meeting of the Western Region of the American Academy of Religion in Claremont, CA, on March 13, 2020.
Chan, Marinda, Keng-Fan. "Living Ritual and Devotion: An Interethnic Studies of Women's Home Altars in Macau." Presented at the 8th Annual Engaging Particularities Graduate Conference in Boston, MA, on April 5, 2020.
Hartman, Matthew. "Moderating Panel: "Sacred Passages and Human-Nature Rituals of Belonging." Presented at the annual meeting of the Western Region of the American Academy of Religion in Claremont, CA, on March 14, 2020.
Huffmaster, Clifton. "The Importance of the Unknowability of God’s Essence in Gregory of Nyssa’s Contra Eunomium." Presented at the North American Patristics Society (NAPS) Annual Meeting in Chicago, IL, on May 21, 2020.
Johnson, Sheryl. "Donating as a Rite of Passage: Economics and Church Membership." Presented at the annual meeting of the Western Region of the American Academy of Religion in Claremont, CA, on March 15, 2020.
Johnson, Sheryl. "Teaching Feminist Theology Inter-Religiously." Presented at Teaching Ecumenism in the Context of World Christianity - World Council of Churches in Bossey Center, Switzerland, on June 10, 2020.
Macinskas-Le, Leah. "Tractate Avot: Dating and Speculation on a Possible Purpose." Presented at the SBL Pacific Coast Regional Meeting in Fullerton, CA, on March 15, 2020.
Mbui, Gideon. "No Mere ‘Cut’: Towards a More Redemptive Assessment of the Rite of Male/Female Circumcision Among the Tiania/Ameru People of Upper-Eastern Kenya." Presented at the annual meeting of the Western Region of the American Academy of Religion in Claremont, CA, on March 13, 2020.
McMahon, Leonard. "Faith, Freedom, and the Future: The Ethics of the Gig Economy." Presented at the International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences (IISES), 6th Arts and Humanities Conference; IISES 9th Teaching and Education Conference in Rome, Italy, on June 1, 2020.
Stigile-Wright, Bran. "Rejecting the Good or Responding to God(s)? Narrativizing Transness in American Heathenry and Evangelicalism." Presented at the annual meeting of the Western Region of the American Academy of Religion in Claremont, CA, on March 13, 2020.
Torgerson, Laura Jean. "Interpretation Embodied: Reciting, Living, and Dancing the Bible." Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Pentecostal Studies in Costa Mesa, CA, on March 19, 2020.
Tunzi, Porsia. "Catholic Marriage Preparation: When Inclusivity and Justice Are Considered." Presented at the annual meeting of the Western Region of the American Academy of Religion in Claremont, CA, on March 13, 2020.
Cycle #1
Chan, Keng Fan. "Interfaith Dialogue through Pilgrimage: A Case Study of the Agency of the Divine Feminine in Macau." Presented at the annual meeting of the Western Region of the American Academy of Religion in San Diego, CA, on November 23, 2019.
Chan, Keng Fan. "Spiritual Oasis: Home Altar as a Liminal Space For Filipino migrant Workers in Macau." Presented at the 9th Biennial Conference of the Ecclesia of Women in Asiaon, Selangor, Malaysia, on January 15, 2020.
Dunn, Laura. "Reenchanting the Body: Asceticism of Transnational Ashtanga Yoga." Presented at the annual meeting of the Western Region of the American Academy of Religion in San Diego, CA, on November 23, 2019.
Hildebrand, Leigh Ann. "Tip Your Bootblack!: Remuneration, Ritual, and Community Reception." Presented at the annual meeting of the Western Region of the American Academy of Religion in San Diego, CA, on November 23, 2019.
Johnson, Sheryl. "Feminist” Fundraising?: Women’s Economic Practices and Christian Stewardship." Presented at the annual meeting of the Western Region of the American Academy of Religion in San Diego, CA, on November 23, 2019.
Johnson, Sheryl. "From White Guilt to Intentional Action: Deconstructing Roadblocks to White Allyship." Presented at the Society of Christian Ethics in Washington, D.C., on January 9, 2020.
Kallely, Beena Poulose. "A Restorative Justice Response to the Catholic Sexual Abuse Crisis in India." Presented at the annual meeting of the Western Region of the American Academy of Religion in San Diego, CA, on November 23, 2019.
Kim, Sungrae. "Interreligious Dialogue Toward Interreligious Peacebuilding: A Way Toward Decolonization of Interreligious Studies." Presented at the annual meeting of the Western Region of the American Academy of Religion in San Diego, CA, on November 23, 2019.
Lee, Hyung-Joo. "Big Bang Cosmology in Dialogue with Creation Ex Nihilo through the Hidden God Notion." Presented at the 7th International Symposium, "Creatio ex nihilo: New Perspectives from Physics, Theology and Philosophy" at Catholic University, Seoul, South Korea, on September 27, 2019.
McMahon, Leonard. "Who Do You Say I Am? Identity, Democracy, and Crisis in the 21st century." Presented at the Center for Studies in New Religions (CESNUR), University of Torino, Italy, on September 6, 2019.
Moceri, Daniel. "Canon Fodder: Oppressive Systems, Institutional Lip Service, and The Psychological Toll of Scholarship from the Margins." Presented at the annual meeting of the Western Region of the American Academy of Religion in San Diego, CA, on November 23, 2019.
Rodrigues, Pravina. "The Semiotics of Sefirot and Śrīcakra: A Reflection on Sacred Geometry." Presented at the 17th Dharma Academy of North America (DANAM) Conference, in conjunction with the annual meeting of the Western Region of the American Academy of Religion in San Diego, CA, on November 22, 2019.
Sealine, Carrie. "Not a Woman, Not a Man: Reading the Queer Tense Multiplicities of Aleister Crowle." Presented at the Edges of Freemasonry II conference held at the University of Tampere in Finland, on August 30, 2019.
Torgerson, Laura Jean. "Defending the Reina Valera (By Misquoting It): Pentecostal Textual Practice and Ideology in Conflict." Presented at the.Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting in San Diego, CA, on November 24, 2019.
Yunak, Olga. "The Unfinished Style of Frescos as Theology of Participation: the Case of the Transfiguration Church on Illina Street in Novgorod, Russia (1378)." Presented at the 45th Byzantine Studies Conference in Madison, Wisconsin on October 16, 2019.
AY 18-19
Cycle #2
Calobrisi, Thomas. "The Preaching of a Dissident Philosopher: The Buddha in the 'Ethnical Scriptures' of The Dial." Presented at the annual meeting of the Western Region of the American Academy of Religion in Tempe, AZ on March 2-3rd, 2019.
Dhala, Mahjabeen. "Fatima, Resisting Prejudice, Breaking Norms: Understanding Muslim Women's Agency Through Religiosity." Presented at the annual meeting of the Western Region of the American Academy of Religion in Tempe, AZ on March 2-3rd, 2019.
Faustino, Hannah. "Power Dynamics in the Digital Sphere: Internet Capitalism's Impact on the Lifeworld." Presented at the Twenty-First Biennial Conference of the Society for Philosophy and Technology on May 20-22nd, 2019 at Texas A&M Univserity in College Station, TX.
Hartman, Matthew. "Discovering Identity and the Environment: Theology, Race, and the Doctrine of Discovery." Presented at the annual meeting of the Western Region of the American Academy of Religion in Tempe, AZ on March 2-3rd, 2019.
Hartman, Matthew. "The Historical Relations of Our Ecological Crisis: Theology, Colonialism, and Capitalism's Logic." Presented at the International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture in Cork, Ireland, on June 13-16th, 2019.
Lee, Andrew. "Conformity and Resistance: Crafting the Sanctity of Christina of Markyate." Presented at the annual meeting of the Western Region of the American Academy of Religion in Tempe, AZ on March 2-3rd, 2019.
McMahon, Leonard. "Michel Foucault and the Practice of Truth-Telling." Presented at the Spritiuality in Society Professions conference at the Waterford Institute of Technology in Waterford, Ireland, on May 16-18th, 2019.
McMahon, Leonard. "John Woolman and the Practice of Truth." Presented at the American Academy of Religion National Meeting in Denver, CO on November 18th, 2018.
Mellis, Kevin. "Queering the Priesthood: Mother Maeve and the Universalist Orthodox Church." Presented at the UC Riverside Queer and Transgender Studies in Religion conference held at UC Riverside in Riverside, CA on February 22-24th, 2019.
Sealine, Carrie. "Genealogy of a Neo-Pagan Ritual: The Lesser Ritual of the Pentegram as a Site of Jewish / Christian Esoteric Intersectionality." Presented at the Approaching Esotericism & Mysticism: Cultural Influence conference held in Turku, Finland on June 5-7th, 2019.
Yoon, I Sil. "Theologically-Informed Restorative Justice: Resistance and Transformative Power for Human Rights Protections of Trafficked Stateless Women." Presented at the annual meeting of the Western Region of the American Academy of Religion in Tempe, AZ on March 2-3rd, 2019.
Cycle #1
Blankenship, Paul H. "Wounds of Love: Christian Spirituality, Suffering, and Homelessness." Presented at the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion on October 26-28th, 2018 in Las Vegas, NV, and at the American Academy of Religion National Meeting on November 18th, 2018 in Denver, CO.
Dunn, Laura. "Yogini-s in the Flesh: Power, Praxis, and the Embodied Divine Feminine." Presented at the American Academy of Religion National Meeting on November 18th, 2018 in Denver, CO.
Kosba, May. "The Race Question: Egyptian Anti-Colonialist Nationalism on the Periphery of the African Diaspora." Presented at the meeting of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) on November 15-18th, 2018 in San Antonio, TX.
Lauterboom, Mariska. "Decolonizing Interreligious Education as Resistance Against White Normativity." Presented at the meeting of the Religious Education Association on November 2-4th, 2018 in Virginia, USA.
Lauterboom, Mariska. "Dialogical Imagination between the Bible and the People in Postcolonial Indonesia." Presented at the American Academy of Religion / Society for Biblical Literature National Meeting on November 18th, 2018 in Denver, CO.
Lee, Andrew. "Can Mysticism Be Taught Online?" Presented at the American Academy of Religion National Meeting on November 18th, 2018 in Denver, CO.
Lewis, Aline Gram. "The Power of the Symbol in Julian of Norwich's Parable of the Lord and the Servant." Presented at the American Academy of Religion / Society for Biblical Literature National Meeting on November 18th, 2018 in Denver, CO.
Park, Shinyoung. "Freedom in Beauty: Hans Urs von Balthasar's Aesthetic Inquiry into Freedom and Response to Karl Barth's Theology of Freedom." Presented at the American Academy of Religion National Meeting on November 18th, 2018 in Denver, CO.
Torgerson, Laura Jean. "Living Interpretation, Living Faith: How Apostolic Pentecostals in Managua Use the Bible." Presented at the Society for Biblical Literature National Meeting on November 20th, 2018.
AY 17-18
Cycle #2
Dunn, Laura. "Yogini-s in the Flesh: Power, Praxis, and the Embodied Divine Feminine." Presented at the Religion and Ritual: Poetics and Performnace of the Ineffable Conference at the University of Hawaii at Mãnoa, Honolulu, HI on April 4 -6th, 2018
LeFranc, Kate. "Paul's Flesh: A Disabled Reading of Flesh/Spirit Dualism." Presented at the Princeton Theological Seminary Graduate Student Conference in Princeton, NJ, on February 9 - 10th, 2018.
Lee, Andrew. "Can This Text Still Speak? Reading Julian of Norwich's Prayer for Illness as (Fully Part of) a Classic Text of Embodied Mysticism." Presented at the Medieval Mystical Theology in Dialogue with Contemporary Thought Conference at Katholieke Universiteit, Belgium on May 30th - June 2nd, 2018.
Macinskas-Le, Leah. "Saved through Halakhah: Q4MMT Sees Atonement in Torah Observance, Not the Temple." Presented at the St. Andrew's Symposium for Biblical and Early Christian Studies: Atonement: Sin, Sacrifice, and Salvation in Jewish and Christian Antiquity at St. Andrew's, United Kingdom, June 4 - 6th, 2018.
Torgerson, Laura Jean. "Good News from the Poor: Reading the Bible with Pentecostals in a Managua Barrio." Presented at the Society for Penecostal Studies Conference in Cleveland, TN on March 8 - 10th, 2018.
Cycle # 1
Checketts, Levi. "Uploaded Anthropologies: Moral Theory and STS in the Transhumanism Debate." Presented at the Society for the Social Study of Science in Boston, MA on September 1st, 2017.
Hudgins III, George "Trip" V. "Eccesiology and Musicking the Digital Commons: An Exploration of the Liturgists and Their Fans." Presented at the Christian Cogregational Music Conference in Oxfordshire, UK on July 19th, 2017.
Junker, Yohana. "Unsettling the Gaze: Land Art in the American Southwest, 1960-1970." Presented at the Osnabrück Summer Institute on the Cultural Study of the Law in Osnabrück, Germany on Augus 12, 2017.
Kuo, Henry S. "Peregrinating Between Two Cities: Revisting the 'Peregrinus'" and "A New Confessional Catholicity: Reformed Eccesiology and the Catholicity." Presented at the National Meeting of the American Academy of Religion and the Society of Biblical Literature in Boston, MA on November 19 & 20, 2017.
LeFranc, Kate. "The Feeling of Whiteness: Privilege and the Illusion of Invulnerability." Presented at the National Meeting of the American Academy of Religion and the Society of Biblical Literature in Boston, MA on November 20, 2017.
Moceri, Daniel. "A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats: Judith Herman, Complex Trauma, and a Legacy of Healing." Presented at the National Meeting of the American Academy of Religion and the Society of Biblical Literature in Boston, MA on November 20, 2017.
Owens-Jofré, Jennifer. "Las Caminatas Por La Paz as Epistemological Practice: How Popular Catholicism Makes Meaning of Suffering." Presented at the National Meeting of the American Academy of Religion and the Society of Biblical Literature in Boston, MA on November 21, 2017.
Park, Hyun Ho Peter. GTU SBL Liaison.
Quarels, Stephan. "An Erotic Method to Madness." Presented at the "Ways of Knowing" Conference at Harvard Divinity School in Cambridge, MA on October 28, 2017.
Reynoso, Rondall. "An Argument for Visual Theology." Presented at 12th Annual Verge Conference at Trinity Western University in Langely, British Columbia on September 28, 2017.
Torgerson, Laura Jean. "'The Bible Says…': Invoking Biblical Text in a Penecostal Bible Study." Presented at the National Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, November 18, 2017.
Um, Min. "Nothing Can Be Done Except the Will of God: The Question of the Divine Will and Human Freedom in Barth." Presented at the Karl Barth Graduate Student Symposium in Princeton, NJ.
Warfield, Joshua. "Resistance & the Freedom to Live Authentically: Queering Martin Luther's View of Vocation." Presented at the National Meeting of the American Academy of Religion and the Society of Biblical Literature in Boston, MA on November 20, 2017.
Yip, Lai Shan. "A Queer China in the Eyes of Matteo Ricci and its Relation to the Christian-Confucian Synthesis." Presented at the National Meeting of the American Academy of Religion and the Society of Biblical Literature in Boston, MA on November 19, 2017.
AY 16-17
Cycle #2
Adesanya, Ineda P. "Seeking Home: A Spiritual Response to the Resurgence of Overt Racism in America." Presented at the American Academy of Religion Western Region Annual Meeting in Los Angeles, CA on March 19, 2017.
Choate, Richard Austin. "Audite Ad Imaginem: What the Origins of Language Can Tells us About Human Uniqueness and Our Relationship with God." Presented at the Origins Conference of the Society of Catholic Scientists in Chicago, IL on April 21, 2017.
Motupali, Chaitanya. "Restorative Justice and Intergenerational Justice." Presented at the Environmental Justice in the Anthropocene (ISEE - International Society for Environmental Ehtics Symposium) in Fort Collins, CO, April 24-25, 2017.
Park, Hyun Ho Peter. "Subverting the Symbolic World: A Socio-Political Reading of 1 Cor. 7:17-24." Presented at the 2017 Society of Biblical Literature Pacific Coast Meeting in Fullerton, CA, March 12-13, 2017.
Quarles, Stephan. "Is Derrida a Mystic" or "Praying Within Grammatology." Presented at the 1967+50: The Age of Grammatology Conference in Sussex Brighton, UK on June 23, 2017.
Sienkiewicz, Jim (James). "Traditional Belief & Ethnicity in the Oil Politics of the Niger Delta." Presented at the "Religion and Conflict" 16th Annual Florida State University Department of Religion Graduate Student Symposium in Tallahassee, FL, February 17-19, 2017.
Yunak, Olga. "The Mother of God of the Blind Spot: Renaming a Fresco by Theophanes the Greek." Presented at the Medieval Assoication of the Pacific Meeting in Eugene, OR, March 16-18, 2017.
Cycle #1
Eskew, Michaela. "Dalit Christianity: A Depiction of Jesus in Kalamkari Art." Presented at the National Meeting of the American Academy of Religion and the Society of Biblical Literature in San Antonio, TX, November 19-22, 2016.
Hildebrand, Leigh Ann. "Jews (and Jewitches) Touching Trees: Hybrid Jewish/Pagan Identity, Ritual Practice, and Belief." Presented at the National Meeting of the American Academy of Religion and the Society of Biblical Literature in San Antonio, TX, November 19-22, 2016.
Kuo, Henry S. "Reformed Confessions and Cosmic Catholicity." Presented at the National Meeting of the American Academy of Religion and the Society of Biblical Literature in San Antonio, TX, November 19-22, 2016.
Moceri, Daniel. "Beyond PTSD: Treating the Mysterious Wounds of War." Presented at the National Meeting of the American Academy of Religion and the Society of Biblical Literature in San Antonio, TX, November 19-22, 2016.
Peach, Robert. " 'We Against the World': White Engagement of 'Thug Life' as 'Thug Luv'. " Presented at the National Meeting of the American Academy of Religion and the Society of Biblical Literature in San Antonio, TX, November 19-22, 2016.
Yoon, I Sil. "Towards Reconciliation: The Need for North Korean Refufees and the South Korean Church to Understand Systemic Distortions that Shap Prejudice Against Each Other," and "The Value of Habermas' Discourse Ethics for an Inclusive Perspective Toward Belonging and Protection of the Stateless' Human Rights." Presented at the National Meeting of the American Academy of Religion and the Society of Biblical Literature in San Antonio, TX, November 19-22, 2016.
AY 15-16
Cycle # 2
Guerra, Lauren Frances. "Reimagining the Imago Dei: The Insights of Chicana Feminist Author Sandra Cisneros." Presented at the Academy of Catholic Hispanic Theologicans in the U.S. in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on May 8th, 2016.
Javed, Reem. "Role Models: Navigating the Terrain of Social Justice-Making." Presented at the American Academy of Religion Western Region Annual Meeting in Tuscon, AZ, April 1-3, 2016.
Jung, Daekung. "The Origins of Life and Divine Action in and Through Quantum Mechanics." Presented at the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts & Letters Conference in University Center, MI on March 4th, 2016; "Reframing the Theological Rationale for Social Justice." Presented at The Asian Conference on Ethics, Religions and Philosophy in Kobe, Japan, March 31 - April 2, 2016.
Kaminski, Amanda. "Can Stories Save Us?: Dangerous Memory in the Christian Witness of Three Nineteenth Century Evangelical Women in America." Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Missiology in St. Paul, MN, June 17-19, 2016.
Kuo, Henry S. "Virtue, Law, and the Ethics of Economic Rescue Legislation: Distributive Justice, Civil Law, and the TARP" and "The Business of Double Effect: the Ethics of Utilizing Bankruptcy Protection Laws as Managament Strategy." Presented at 5th Annual IAFOR Conference on Ethics, Religion and Philosophy in Kobe, Japan, March 31 - April 2, 2016.
Michon. Nathan. "Heart Training: Enhancing the Toolbox of Contemplative Practices." Presented at Association of Professional Chaplains Annual Conference in Lake Buena Vista, FL, June 23-26, 2016.
Najarro, Mauricio. "Translation as Self-Craft: On the Practice of Translating Hymns of Creation during a Time of Ecological Devastation." Presented at the 2016 Nida School of Translation Studies in Misano Adriatico, Italy, May 30 - June 10, 2016.
Owens-Jorfé, Jennifer. "'I Just Shouldn't Be Here': Implications of Catholic Deconversion Narratives for Catechesis." Presented at the National Conference for Catechetical Leadership in Jackson, FL, May 22-28, 2016.
Park, Hyun Ho Peter. "Joab, King David's Doppelganger: A Character Study of Joab in Samuel 18:1-19:8a." Presented at the 2016 Society of Biblical Literature Pacific Coast Meeting in Claremont, CA, May 13 -15, 2016.
Tanis, Justin. "Respeto a Los Derechos Humanas: Themes of Social Justice and Inclusion in the Art of Nahum Zenil." Presented at the American Academy of Religion Western Region Annual Meeting in Tuscon, AZ, April 1-3, 2016.
Cycle #1
Anderson, Beth R. "Christian Spirituality Education Re-Imagined: Piloting a Highlander-Inspired Course." Presented at the Colloquy at Religious Education Association Annual Meeting in Atlanta, GA, November 6-8, 2015.
Richetta, Amen. "A Womanist Interpretation of the Lukan Parable of the Grear Supper (Luke 14:15-24) Using the Amended Parable Theory of Octavia E. Butler." Presented at the National Meeting of the American Academy of Religion and the Society of Biblical Literature in Atlanta, GA, November 21-24, 2015.
Kim, Sin Jook. "Performing Gender and the Death Drive: A Lacanian Interpretation of Gender Practice." Presented at the National Meeting of the American Academy of Religion and the Society of Biblical Literature in Atlanta, GA, November 21-24, 2015.
Kuo, Henry S. "The Dangerous Memory of 1965: Immigration Legislation as Asian American Ecclesiological Challenge," and "The Dangerous Memory of Accra: Hope for a United Reformed Response to the Ecclesiological Crisis." Presented at the National Meeting of the American Academy of Religion and the Society of Biblical Literature in Atlanta, GA, November 21-24, 2015.
London, Daniel. Respondent to "No Thing Outside: Affirming an Interconnected Reality to Reverse Patterns of Violence within a Whiteheadian-Girardian Paradigm" and Respondent to "An Unfathomable God: Mimesis, Apocalypse, and the Process Theology of Catherine Keller" at the National Meeting of the American Academy of Religion and the Society of Biblical Literature in Atlanta, GA, November 21-24, 2015.
Moceri, Daniel. "We Overcome the Wound Together: A Trans-Disciplinary Systemic Approach to Healing Moral Inquiry." Presented at the National Meeting of the American Academy of Religion and the Society of Biblical Literature in Atlanta, GA, November 21-24, 2015.
Najarro, Mauricio. "Hematological Linguistic and Itinerant Practice: Spirituality and Tradition in Teresa of Avila" and "Codependence and Familiar Idolatry: Liberation, Critique, and the Demands of Compassion in Catholic Discourse." Presented at the National Meeting of the American Academy of Religion and the Society of Biblical Literature in Atlanta, GA, November 21-24, 2015.
AY 14-15
Cycle #2
Boyer, Ronald. "The Mythic Orphan: Archetypal Origins of the Hero in Mythology, Literature, and Film." Presented at the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association in New Orleans, LA, April 1-4, 2015.
Checketts, Levi. "Vacek and Marion: Toward a Phenomenology of Erotic Love of God." Presented at the Center for Advanced Research in European Philosophy Conference in London, ON, March 27-29, 2015.
Guerra, Lauren. "Black Madonnas: Mary as Mediatrix and the Role of Inculturation." Presented at the Las Hermanas: The Struggle is One Conference in San Antonio, TX, March 19-21, 2015.
Hildebrand, Leigh Ann. "'Introduced by Luria': Sfat and Jewish/Pagan Ritual Syncretism." Presented at the Israeli Conference for the Study of Contemporary Religion and Spirituality in Tel Aviv, Israel, May 3-4, 2015.
Kim, Sungrae. "Interreligious Dialogue and Interreligious Peacebuilding." Presented at the Engaging Particularities XII Conference in Chestnut Hill, MA, March 26-27, 2015.
Kuo, Henry S. "The Dangerous Memory of the Crucified People: The Church as Liminal and Critical Space." Presented at 9th Ecclesiastical Investigations International Conference in Washington, DC, May 21-24, 2015.
Leininger, Austin. "The Sacramentality of Sex: Benefits of a Sacramental Approach to Sexual Ethics." Presented at the American Academy of Religion Rocky Mountains-Great Plains Regional Meeting in Omaha, NE, March 20-21, 2015.
Lin, Su-chi. "Art and Social Transformation: Making God Visible in Asian Context."Presented at the American Academy of Religion Upper-Midwest Regional Meeting in St. Paul, MN, April 17-18, 2015.
London, Daniel. "Called Out of the Wilderness of Rivalry into the Garden of Vulnerability: The 'Uncovering' of Nathaniel in John I: 45-51." Presented at the College Theology Society Conference in Portland, OR, May 28-31, 2015.
Min, Ki Wook. "A Critique of Ted Peter's Trinitarian Approach to Contemporary Science." Presented at the International Science and Religion Symposium in Seoul, Republic of Korea, April 28-30, 2015.
Moles, Katia. "Forming Citizen by Teaching Religious Literacy in Sexuality Education." Presented at the International Conference on Spirituality in Society and Religion in Society in Berkeley, CA, April 16-17, 2015.
Najarro, Mauricio. "Seeing the Impersonal Leaves of a Sky-Rooted Tree: Tracing Hinduism in the Thought of Simone Weil." Presented at the American Weil Society Conference in Cambridge, MA, April 24-25, 2015.
Robinson, Daniel. "Berdyaev's Solution: Redeeming Persons in Historical Love." Presented at Ontology and History Conference at the European Cultural Center of Delphi, Greece, May 29-31, 2015.
Vuksanovic, Ivan. "Theosis and the Holy Spirit: Doctrine of Theosis as One of the Arguments for the Spirit's Divinity in Early Christian Pneumatologies." Presented at the Pappas Patristic Institute Conference in Brookline, MA, March 5-7, 2015.
Wheeler, Rachel. "Holy Feigning in the Sayings of the Desert Fathers." Presented at the Society for the Study of Christian Spirituality in Johannesburg, South Africa, May 21-24, 2015.
Cycle #1
Arce, Wendy. "Curanderas, Hechiceras, and Paranormal Activities: A Comparison of the Cultural and Religious Potrayals of Latio/as in Bless Me Ultima and Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones" and "Fierceness and Four-Inch Heels: Exploring the Experiences of Young, Women of Color Professors in the Undergraduate College Classroom." Presented at the National Meeting of the American Academy of Religion and the Society of Biblical Literature in San Diego, CA, November 22-25, 2014.
Doebler, Peter. "Seeing Things You Cannot See: (Dis)-Solving the Sublime in Interreligious Aesthetics through the Paintings of Hiroshi Senju." Presented at the National Meeting of the American Academy of Religion and the Society of Biblical Literature in San Diego, CA, November 22-25, 2014.
Gross, Sean. "Let Your Conscience Be Your Guide: A Catholic Approach to Practical Theological Methodology." Presented at the National Meeting of the American Academy of Religion and the Society of Biblical Literature in San Diego, CA, November 22-25, 2014.
Hildebrand, Leigh Ann. "High Shine, Heart, and Soul/Sole Care: Bootbacking, Families of Choice, and Women's Leather Community" and "Born This Way? Keshet, AhavaRaba, Gefilte Fish and Jewish Conversion." Presented at the National Meeting of the American Academy of Religion and the Society of Biblical Literature in San Diego, CA, November 22-25, 2014.
Kim, Eunjoo. "A Reinterpretation of North Korean Refugee Women's Spaces in a Perspective of Postcolonial Feminist Theology." Presented at the National Meeting of the American Academy of Religion and the Society of Biblical Literature in San Diego, CA, November 22-25, 2014.
Kuo, Henry S. "An Asian American Theological Awakening: Mondialization and the Church." Presented at the National Meeting of the American Academy of Religion and the Society of Biblical Literature in San Diego, CA, November 22-25, 2014.
Mueller, Michelle. "Embracing the Ordeal Path: Sacred BDSM among Contemporary Pagans." Presented at the National Meeting of the American Academy of Religion and the Society of Biblical Literature in San Diego, CA, November 22-25, 2014.
Prud'homme, Sheri. "Naturalizing Whiteness: Thomas Starr King's Theology of Nature and the Project of Nation Building." Presented at the National Meeting of the American Academy of Religion and the Society of Biblical Literature in San Diego, CA, November 22-25, 2014.