The Shatzmiller Graduate Fellows honor Emeritus Smart Professor Joseph Shatzmiller, who taught at Duke University from 1994 to 2010. Among his many publications, he is best known for Shylock Reconsidered: Jews, Moneylending, and Medieval Society and Jews, Medicine, and Medieval Society. Fellowships offer advanced graduate students the opportunity to engage with prominent national and international scholars in Jewish Studies visiting the seminar and to connect with the Jewish Studies faculty active in the seminar. Fellows receive a research stipend and a seminar session devoted to their work.
2025-26 Shatzmiller Fellows
Ian Hunter Dyke is a Master of Divinity student at Duke University Divinity School, focusing his studies on the history and interpretation of the Hebrew Bible. His academic work explores faith’s role in shaping people’s ethics and perceptions on human dignity and suffering. He is pursuing clerical ordination and will soon swear into as a Chaplain Candidate in U.S. Armed Services. Professionally, Ian serves on the Advocacy and Government Relations Team at World Vision, a leading Christian humanitarian organization with relief and development programs in more than 100 countries.
Ryan Replogle is a PhD student in Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research interests include Hebrew Bible and Second Temple Judaism within their broader Near Eastern and Hellenistic contexts, as well as their history of interpretation. He is currently in the throes of writing his dissertation, which is an analysis of divine knowledge through the lens of embodiment in the Hebrew Bible and Second Temple literature.
Julia Wedgle (she/her) is a 3rd year PhD Student in Religious Studies at UNC Chapel Hill. Her interests center on activism as a form of lived religion particularly amongst leftist American Jews, starting from the Kosher Meat Boycott in 1902, and the Jewish labor movement in the early 1900s through to contemporary Jewish anti-Zionism. She is a proud Yiddishist and has been studying Yiddish for the past 4 years. Julia holds a BA in Peace and Justice Studies from Tufts University, and an MTS in Religion, Ethics, and Politics from Harvard Divinity School. In her free time she enjoys listening to audiobooks, doing crafts, and watching sports, and you can always find her with a Polar Seltzer in her hands.