Contact Information
Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics Building (LCLB) Room 3022
Office Hours
Fall 2025: Monday, 12:30-1:30 PM
M.A. Student
Research Interests
- Early Christian literature and reception
- Ancient Christian liturgy, cosmology, and dogmatics
- Christian/Jewish pseudepigrapha and legend
- Alexandrian Christianity
- “Gnosticism”
- Eastern Orthodox theology
Education
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- (2025): M.S. - Geology
Calvin University
- (2022): B.S. - Geology (Cum Laude, With Distinction)
- Certificate: Geographic Information Science
- (2022): B.A. - Philosophy (Cum Laude, With Distinction)
- Minor: Archaeology
Recent Publications
Van Kanegan, Neil. 2022. “A Defense of Sally Haslanger’s Sociopolitical Account of Race” Compos Mentis: Undergraduate Journal of Cognition and Neuroethics, 10 (1).
Tjoelker, Adam R., Neil Van Kanegan, C. Renee Sparks, and Simon Detmer. 2022. “Bathymetry Based Modeling of Subaxial Magma Flows Under the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, 0 to 30° N” The Compass: Earth Science Journal of Sigma Gamma Epsilon, 92 (1).