The Classical Ideas Podcast
1) EP 334: Womanist Theology w/Samantha Carwyn
Samantha Carwyn is a graduate of United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities, where she earned a Master of Divinity with a concentration in Social Transformation and Church Leadership. Her thesis, ...Show More
2) EP 333: Salvadoran-Middle Eastern Resistance and Shafiq Handal w/Dr. Amy Fallas
Dr. Amy Fallas is a PhD in History at UC Santa Barbara. She holds an MA in History from Yale and her research examines religious difference, charitable networks, and historical memory in the Middle Ea...Show More
3) EP 332: Nonbinary Biblical Readings of Mordecai and Beyond w/Dr. Esther Brownsmith
Esther Brownsmith (she/her) is Assistant Professor of Hebrew Bible at the University of Dayton. Her first monograph, Gendered Violence in Biblical Narrative: The Devouring Metaphor (Routledge, 2024), ...Show More
4) EP 331: Radical Antiquity w/Dr. Christopher Zeichmann
Christopher B. Zeichmann (he/they) is a contract lecturer at Toronto Metropolitan University, who specializes in the study of the New Testament. His research focuses on a variety of questions related ...Show More
5) EP 330: Commodification and Tibetan Buddhism w/Dr. Raj Kumar Singh
Raj Kumar Singh is a PhD researcher in Anthropology at the University of Delhi, currently studying the relationship between religion and economy in Mcleodganj, Dharamshala. He has published several ar...Show More
6) EP 329: Brahma Vidya Mandir Ashram w/Dr. Swasti Bhattacharyya
Swasti Bhattacharyya (PhD, RN) Professor Emerita of Philosophy and Religion, has been researching, writing, and teaching in religious studies and applied ethics for over two decades. She examines ethi...Show More
7) EP 328: Christian Disaffiliation and Exiting w/Dr. Tess Starman
Tess Starman (she/they) is a recent PhD graduate in Sociology at Howard University and is an incoming assistant professor at Simpson College. Her research specializes on intersections of race, gender,...Show More
8) EP327: Religious Shame and Dieting w/Dr. Rebecca Wolfe
Rebecca Wolfe is a postdoctoral research fellow at Harvard University. Graduating with a PhD in Sociology from the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) in 2024, Rebecca’s research agenda foc...Show More
9) EP 325: Fertility, Abortion, Reproductive Care, and Islam w/Dr. Celene Ibrahim
Dr. Celene Ibrahim is a multidisciplinary scholar specializing in Qur’anic studies, gender studies and interreligious relations. Her award-winning monograph Women and Gender in the Qur'an (Oxford Univ...Show More
10) EP 325: Intersectional Identities of Christian Women in the United States w/Dr. Amanda Hernandez
Amanda Hernandez is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and affiliate faculty member of the Feminist Studies and Race & Ethnicity Studies programs at Southwestern University. She is a proud graduate o...Show More