News
The Religious Studies Department offers its warmest congratulations to the following:
Alissa Macmillan, a current graduate student in Religion and Critical Thought, has been awarded a post-doctoral fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse, France.
Recent PhD graduate, Debra Scoggins Ballentine, has been offered and accepted a tenure-track position at Rutgers University. Debra starts her new position as of July 1!
Our soon to be 2nd year PhD student in Religion and Critical Thought, Megan McBride, has been selected to participate in the Hertog Global Strategy Intitiative's seminar on the "The History and Future of Religious Violence and Apocalyptic Movements" this summer, at Columbia University.
Andrea Allgood Smith has been awarded theJoh Cargill MacMillan Fellowship through the Cogut Center for the 2012-13 academic year.
We are thrilled to share that the following news from our undergraduate concentrators:
Michael Zack Mezera will be an undergraduate fellow at the Congut Center for the Humanities for 2012-13.
And both Matthew Peterson and Joshuan Schenkkan have been awarded UTRA fellowships to work with Professors Thomas Lewis and Stephen Bush (respectively), this summer!
And from the faculty:
Prof. Ross Kraemer will be a faculty fellow at the Congut Center in Spring 2013.
The Department of Religious Studies is pleased to announce the
2011-12 Bishop McVickar Prize Winner!
Adelaide A. Mandeville
"The Language of War:
Rhetorical Representations of Reality in President George W. Bush's War on Terror"
Honorable Mentions include:
Stephen K. Carmody
"Image, Likeness, and Shadow:
Signification in On the Origin of the World and the Gospel of Philip"
Eric M. Gruebel
"Christians Among Many:
Religious Diversity in Sasanian Persia"
Octavia C. Wallace
"Redefining History through Her-story:
A Study of African-American Women's Leadership from the Nineteenth to Twenty-first Centuries"