Name: Jason Van Bloom

Recipient Year: 2009

Major: History

Description: Jason Van Boom received his BA in liberal arts in 1994 from Thomas Aquinas College, a “Great Books” school focused on Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas. From 1998-1999 he studied Eastern Orthodox Christian history and theology at St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary. He received an MA in philosophy at Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology in 2002. He is currently in the PhD program in the history of Christianity at Graduate Theological Seminary, and plans to defend his dissertation in May 2010. Jason is a specialist in late medieval and early modern Christian intellectual history, with a focus on gender and witch trial literature. In the course of his studies on Christian intellectual history, He currently teaches a public outreach introductory course on Islam at ICCNC. He plans to do comparative studies of Islamic and Christian theologies of the human person, and write a history of Christianity from an Islamic perspective.

School Name: Graduate Theological Union

Sponsor: Islamic Cultural Center of Northern California (ICCNC) Scholarship

LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonboom/