• Degree: Began Ph.D. program in 2019
• Concentration: Communitites and Identities
• Advisor: Dr. Phil Arnold

Dillon Andrew Sampson is a PhD Candidate/ABD in Religious Studies at Syracuse University.

Dillon received his B.A. in Religious Studies with Research Distinction and Magna Cum Laude honors from The Ohio State University in 2017 and subsequently earned his M.A. in Religious Studies with a Graduate Certificate in Critical Theory from the University of Colorado in 2019.

Specializations: Religion and Modernity; Modern/New Religious Movements; Modern Paganism; Critical Theory and Philosophy; Religion and Culture; Theory and Method in the Study of Religion; Myth and Ritual; Magic and ‘Shamanism’

Dillon’s research and teaching broadly focuses on religion in the modern world, particularly in regard to the question of ‘meaning’ and how life is made meaningful through the inhabitation and embodiment of particular mythic and historical models, or archetypes. His dissertation project is centered on modern pagan religious traditions in Europe and the techniques, practices, and discursive articulations through which archetypal models become actualized.