Religious Studies closed for Winter Recess
December 12, 2018
Archive Year
December
November
Post Conference: "Sovereignty & Strangeness" Review
November 12, 2018
Congratulations to Professor Balberg, Professor Dingeldein, Professor Ingram, Professor Jacoby, Professor Robert Orsi, and staff member Rossitza Guenkova named for the 2018-2019 ASG Honor Roll!
November 7, 2018
"Teaching Religion as Anti-Racism Education" by Professor Sarah Jacoby
November 5, 2018
October
The Department of Religious Studies expresses solidarity for the victims and survivors of the Congregation Tree of Life shooting in Squirrel Hill, Pennsylvania.
October 29, 2018
Hatred of people of a different religion has an unfortunately long history. At this terrible time, our department stands ready to serve as a resource for those who would like help thinking about this aspect of religious difference and history.
Congratulations, Dr. William Caldwell!
October 26, 2018
William Caldwell successfully defended his dissertation, The Fugitive Islamicate: African Muslims and Black Radicalism across the Atlantic (1492-1925).
Alumna Hannah Scheidt has been accepted into the "American Examples" (AE) young scholars working group program at the University of Alabama
October 18, 2018
September
Professor Barry Wimpfheimer offers a 'biography' of the Talmud
September 11, 2018 – from Chicago Tribune
August
Congratulations to Dr. Myev Rees (Ph.D. '18), who successfully defended her dissertation entitled “Martyr Mothers, Angel Babies: Conservative Christian Pronatalism in the Media Age."
August 6, 2018
June
Congratulations to Dr. Sarah Wolf (Ph.D. '18), who has successfully defended her dissertation entitled “The Rabbinic Legal Imagination: Narrativity and Scholasticism in the Babylonian Talmud.”
June 28, 2018
Congratulations to Dr. Hannah Tebbetts (Ph.D. '18), who successfully defended her dissertation entitled “Practicing Atheism: Culture, Media, and Ritual in the Contemporary Atheist Network.”
June 27, 2018
Religious Studies Professor Barry Wimpfheimer interviewed about his new book, The Talmud: A Biography" on the New Books Network podcast
June 12, 2018
Aaron Moldenhauer, a doctoral candidate in Religious Studies, has accepted a position as Assistant Professor of Theology at Concordia University in Wisconsin!
June 11, 2018
Congratulations to Aaron Moldenhauer, who has accepted a position at Concordia University Wisconsin. Kudos to him and his advisor, Christine Helmer. Best of luck in Wisconsin, Aaron!
Professor Brannon Ingram receives Weinberg College Distinguished Teaching Award
June 6, 2018
April
Religious Studies Major, Matthew Griffin, has been selected to present his research at the Undergraduate Research and Arts Exposition (EXPO 2018!) on May 30th.
April 27, 2018
Congratulations Matt!
Congratulations to Adina Goldman, Religious Studies Major, who has been awarded an Ertegun scholarship at University of Oxford to pursue a master in Medieval Studies!
April 26, 2018
Congratulations to Jeff Wheatley, who has been elected as a Franke Graduate Fellow for 2018-19.
April 25, 2018
Alumna Maeve Callan, Ph.D., is the author of the most widely-read recent article in The Irish Times: "How England Sought to Turn Colonizing Ireland Into a Crusade"
April 24, 2018
Congratulations to James Hill! He has been selected as a Social Science Research Council Dissertation Proposal Development Program Participant for 2018-2019.
April 24, 2018
See more about the program here: SSRC Dissertation Proposal Development Program
"The Talmud, Personified": In his new ‘biography,’ professor Barry Scott Wimpfheimer argues that the Talmud is more important now than it has ever been
April 12, 2018
Congratulations to Marlon Millner on his Latest OpEd Piece
April 11, 2018
Congratulations to Marlon Millner, a doctoral candidate in Religious Studies, who had an OpEd piece published in the daily newspaper in Memphis, TN about a large Pentecostal Christian denomination and its connection to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Myev Rees, a doctoral candidate in Religious Studies, has accepted a position as a visiting assistant professor at Skidmore College!
April 9, 2018
Congratulations to Myev Rees, who has accepted a visiting assistant professor position for this fall at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York. Best of Luck to Myev!
Professor Orsi's book chosen one of 25 best on New York City history
April 3, 2018
March
Matt Smith, a doctoral student in Religious Studies, has published a new article called, "Settler Colonialism and U.S. Home Missions" in the Oxford Encyclopedia of religion.
March 6, 2018
February
Professor Barry Wimpfheimer's new book, The Talmud: A Biography, has been published by Princeton University Press.
February 21, 2018
Religious Studies alumna, Justine Howe, has published her new book on Suburban Islam
February 21, 2018
Sarah Wolf, a doctoral candidate in Religious Studies, has accepted a position as Assistant Professor of Rabbinic Literature at The Jewish Theological Seminary of America (JTS)
February 14, 2018
Congratulations to Sarah Wolf, who has accepted a position as Assistant Professor of Rabbinic Literature at The Jewish Theological Seminary of America (JTS) in New York beginning Fall 2018.
Professor Sarah Dees was named a 2018 Young Scholar in American Religion by the Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture at Indiana University.
February 14, 2018 – from the Center for the Study of Religion & American Culture