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Graduate Hall of Fame Print

Since the program's inauguration in 2003, students and graduates of the M.A. program in religious studies at UNC Charlotte have won admittance to Ph.D. programs at the following institutions:

  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • Rice University
  • McMaster University
  • University of Toronto
  • Jewish Theological Seminary
  • University of Pennsylvania
  • University of Edinburgh

Below is a list of our graduates, their thesis titles, and their current situation:

  • Michael Korvink, Starting From Scratch: A Positional-Statistical Approach to the Indus Script (advisor: John C. Reeves). Employed in the private sector.
  • Franklin H. Trammell, Piping and Wailing: Against the Stratification of Sapiential and Apocalyptic Layers in Q (advisor: James D. Tabor). Doctoral student, Rice University.
  • Paul R. Gilliam, The Gospel of Mark and the Gospel of John: Complementary Christological Compositions (advisor: James D. Tabor). Successfully defended his dissertation entitled "Ignatius of Antioch and the Arian Controversy" in August 2011, thereby fulfilling all the requirements for the Ph.D. from the University of Edinburgh.  Now employed as assistant professor of religion at Chowan University, Murfreesboro, N.C.
  • Leif Tornquist, The Biopoliticization of Protestant Care: A Discursive Analysis of Protestant Ministerial Advocacy of Eugenics in the United States (advisor: Ann Burlein). Doctoral student, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
  • Tammie Wanta, The Other Adam: Biblical Intimations of a Semi-Divine "First Man" (advisor: John C. Reeves). Doctoral student, University of Pennsylvania.
  • Janna Shedd, The Scripture of Salvation and Lingbao Practices of the Body: A Reexamination of Asceticism in the Context of Lingbao Daoism (advisor: David Mozina). Employed as an adjunct instructor, UNC Charlotte Dept. of Religious Studies.
  • Ginger Stickney, "I Here Acknowledge Indebtedness to My Abusers": Subjection, Power, and Stories of the Self (advisor: Sean McCloud).
  • Jeffrey S. Patterson, Solomon's Portico: The Jerusalem Church in the Book of Acts (advisor: James D. Tabor). Pastor, Main Street United Methodist Church, Kernersville, N.C.
  • Chris Winchester, Redating the Gospel of Matthew (advisor: James D. Tabor).  Doctoral student, University of Edinburgh.
  • Anthony J. Bradley, Changes in the Spirit: Examining the Adaptation of Scripture Interpretation in the Church of God, 1971 to 1993 (advisor: Sean McCloud).
  • Brandon Alspaugh, Hebrew as a Privileged Form of Literary Discourse (advisor: John C. Reeves).
  • William A. Branch, The Irrepressible Mr. Holwell: Preeminent Confidence Artist and Britain's First Critical Theorist of the Hindu (Gentoo) Religion (advisor: J. Daniel White).

M.A. graduates who have successfully accomplished our portfolio option:

  • Courtney Burns
  • Anthony Bradshaw
  • Melissa (n. Fleischer) Keener
  • Curry Cromer
  • Robert Minch
  • Jenna Jones
  • Barbara Thiede