Oh, Baby!

Keep updated on the future alumni of the Comparative Religion Department.

So, you want to go to Grad School By Beckie Supiano (BA 2006) Medill School of Journalism

Lyndsey Godwin (BA 2003), is in her second year of a Masters of Divinity program at Vanderbilt Divinity School, where she was awarded a full-tuition academic scholarship.  Her course work is focused on ethics and social movements, and she is pursuing the Carpenter Certificate in Religion, Gender, and Sexuality.  She has been privileged to learn from some amazing professors including Dr. Dale Johnson (Reformation History), Dr. Patout Burns (Patristics), Dr. A.-J. Levine (New Testament), and Drs. Melissa Snarr and Victor Anderson (Ethics).  It has been an excellent environment of support, one that urges her to push herself in a trajectory toward Ph.D work.  The community is also rich in opportunities for non-academic involvement.  She is the chair person for GABLE, the Divinity school's GLBTQ alliance. She is involved in the campaign for a living wage on campus.  She was also the chair for our 'social group,' Al's Pub, which really just meant that she was given Divinity school money to throw parties.  Outside of this, she is busy with her field education internship at Glendale Baptist - an astounding and progressive Baptist Church.  She also works part time at a daycare and at a 24-hour Crisis hotline.

 

Steve McFarland is now Director of Development Communications at Harvard Divinity School, drawing on both of his Miami degrees--comparative religion and mass communication. After graduating from Miami in 2001, Steve earned a Master of Arts in Divinity at the University of Chicago Divinity School, and then moved to Boston in 2004. In addition to his professional endeavors at Harvard, he is currently pursuing a Master's degree in Management. Steve and his wife Katie recently welcomed a brand new baby girl, Hadley Corinne, on July 10, 2006. He sends his best wishes to all of his former classmates and professors at the Old Manse.

 

 

 

James Abernathy, a 2002 alumni of Miami with a B.A. in Philosophy and Comparative Religion, earned his M.A. in Theology from Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California this past March. He is currently teaching at Cincinnati Christian University in Cincinnati, Ohio. James has also become active in his political party at both the state and local levels. To learn more about James, visit his personal Web site at www.JamesThink.com.

New: James has recently updated the Department about his career.  He’s now attending Regent School of Law and has written a book, published by Wipf & Stock Publishers, entitled By Any Other Name: Exposing the Deception, Mythology & Tragedy of Secularism.  Those interested in purchasing James’ book can find information at www.ByAnyOtherNameBook.com.  James also sends out a big “Who Dey, Baby,” to all his fellow Bengals fans!

 

 

 

Michael Nichols, who completed his Master's Program in 2004 with the Comparative Religion Department, received an award in the Spring of 2005 for his thesis, Malleable Mara: The Transformations of a Buddhist Symbol of Evil, from the Midwestern Association of Graduate Schools.