YDS Graduate Fellows

The Elm Institute is delighted to be a Yale Divinity School Internship Placement Site for MAR students. For more information about the YDS Graduate Internship, please contact the site coordinator, Patrick Hough.

Raleigh Adams

Summer 2025 Graduate Fellow

MAR Candidate 2026, Yale Divinity School

Raleigh Adams is a 2024 graduate of the Clemson University Honors College, where she earned degrees in Political Science and Philosophy with a concentration in political and legal theory. She is currently pursuing a Master of Arts in Religion (Ethics) at Yale Divinity School. Throughout her academic career, Raleigh has gained experience working with nonprofits such as the James Wilson Institute and think tanks including the Hudson Institute. A native South Carolinian, she is passionate about exploring questions of virtue ethics and politics, with a particular focus on the cultivation of statesmanship and religious actors within democracies.

Christopher Coome, PhD, MAR ‘25

Summer 2024 Graduate Fellow

MAR Candidate 2025, Yale Divinity School

Dr. Christopher Coome is a Canadian scholar specializing in British history, the long 19th century, and the mysterious borderlands between religious and para-religious thought. He has taught courses on Atlantic history, classical and Christian mysticism, and assisted with courses on everything from Roman history to contemporary Europe. Previous to his academic career he worked in business and politics, but a life of the mind proved ultimately irresistible. When not engaged in his studies, he is likely on a long walk debating history and metaphysics with his friends.

Dr. Coome is now a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Civil Discourse Project at Duke University.

Sharla Moody ‘22 MAR ‘25

Summer 2024 Graduate Fellow 

MAR Candidate 2025, Yale Divinity School

Sharla Moody is a 2022 graduate of Yale College, where she majored in English. Previously she was Director of Operations at the Morningside Institute at Columbia University. A native of Appalachia Ohio and West Virginia, she is interested in aesthetics, poetry, genre, and writing as a way of understanding Imago Dei. Sharla is entering her second year of the MAR program at Yale Divinity School, where she is a Fellow at the Institute of Sacred Music (Religion and Literature).