{"id":40028,"date":"2016-04-18T14:48:39","date_gmt":"2016-04-18T14:48:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cas.umw.edu\/cpin\/?p=40028"},"modified":"2016-04-18T14:48:39","modified_gmt":"2016-04-18T14:48:39","slug":"religion-alum-defends-ph-d-thesis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cas.umw.edu\/cpin\/2016\/04\/18\/religion-alum-defends-ph-d-thesis\/","title":{"rendered":"Religion alum defends Ph.D. Thesis!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>CPR alum and religion major Jef Pierce successfully defended his PhD dissertation at UVA today. Here is some info from his page on the UVA dept website:<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Jef&#8217;s Ph.D. dissertation, entitled \u201cExaltation of the Goddess: Narrative Expressions of the Feminine Divine in the\u00a0<em>Dev\u012bpur\u0101\u1e47a<\/em>,\u201d focuses on a subgroup of medieval devotional texts in which the Goddess is for the first time acknowledged as supreme within the Sanskrit Brahmanical milieu. 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