Professor Sarah Taylor was published in the Hill in their "Changing America: Shared Destiny, Shared Responsibility" series.
December 19, 2019
2019 News
December
Religious Studies will be closed for Winter Recess, December 24th through January 2nd, 2020. Happy Holidays !
December 12, 2019
From Tuesday, December 24th, 2019 until Thursday, January 2nd, 2020, our campus and our offices will be closed. For support on the application and admission system (CollegeNet), please send your inquiries to help@applyweb.com.
November
Join us to hear Religious Studies major student Chris LaMountain who will be singing at Evensong and Eternity concert.
November 14, 2019
August
Alumnus Joel Harrison (Ph.D. '19) has accepted a position as an Associate Professor of Religion at the Northern Virginia Community College, Manassas Campus.
August 17, 2019
Congratulations Joel!
Congratulations to Aaron Moldnehauer, who has successfully defended his dissertation "Luther's Doctrine of Christ: Language, Metaphysics, Logic".
August 15, 2019
Alumna Stephanie Brehm (Ph.D. '17) new book, "America’s Most Famous Catholic (According to Himself): Stephen Colbert and American Religion in the Twenty-First Century" comes out September 3rd, 2019.
August 14, 2019
June
Contemplative Pedagogy and the Religious Studies Classroom: Editor's Introduction, by Professor Sarah Jacoby
June 18, 2019
Congratulations to alumna Justine Howe (Ph.D. '13) who has been promoted to Associate Professor at the Department of Religious Studies at Case Western Reserve University, OH.
June 14, 2019
Congratulations to Nisheeta Jagtiani, who has received a GRG from the Graduate School to work on her research!
June 12, 2019
May
Congratulations to alumnus Michael Nichols (Ph.D. '10) who accepted a position as the Associate Director and dean of Saint Joseph's College of Marian University in Indianapolis, IN.
May 31, 2019
Alumna Myev Rees (Ph.D. '18) has accepted a tenure track job at Cypress College in California.
May 31, 2019
Congratulations to undergrad Chris LaMountain, who won the Circumnavigators Travel-Study Grant for 2019! This $9,500 grant will fund his project, called "A Global Song: Investigating the Global Diversity of Baha’i Temple Music."
May 31, 2019
Religious Studies alumnus, Ryan DuVal '02, featured at Northwestern Magazine, famed for painting a version of the Sistine Chapel on his dorm room ceiling, left muralism to share Buddhist teachings.
May 29, 2019
Alumna Hannah Tebbetts (Ph.D. '18) has accepted a position as "Lecturer in Religious Studies" at Lake Forest College for the 2019-20 school year. She will be teaching two courses: "Religion and Capitalism" and "Religion and Politics."
May 22, 2019
Professor Richard Kieckhefer interviewed for Time Magazine article, "Whatever happened to the Mountain? What the Real History of Necromancy Tells Us About that Game of Thrones Fight"
May 22, 2019
Read the article here
Professor Robert Orsi's book, "The Madonna of 15th Street: Faith and Community in Italian Harlem, 1890-1950," was ranked no. 9 on Book Scrolling's list of The Best Books about the History of New York
May 15, 2019
Congratulations to Benjamin Riccardi, who has successfully defended his dissertation "The Weekday Amidah as a Performative Anti-Theodicy."
May 8, 2019
Congratulations to Courtney Rabada, who has accepted a Graduate Assistantship position in the Gender & Sexuality Studies Program for the 2019-20 school year!
May 3, 2019
She will be teaching a course in the Fall titled, “Powerful & Dangerous: The Life, Times and Theory on Audre Lorde.”
Congratulations to Stephanie Brenzel, who has successfully defended her dissertation "As Strong as Death: Franz Rosenzweig’s Philosophy of Love in 'The Star of Redemption'"
May 3, 2019
April
Ecopiety and Other Adventures: A graduate-faculty colloquium with Professor Sarah Taylor
April 25, 2019
Join the Religious Studies Department for a discussion of Professor Taylor's latest book, "Ecopiety: Green Media and the Dilemma of Environmental Virtue."
Tuesday, May 28th, 2019 | Kresge 1515
Congratulations to Matthew Smith, who has won the 2019-2020 Louisville Institution Dissertation Fellowship!
April 25, 2019
Congratulations to Stephanie Brenzel, who has accepted a position as the Igor Kaplan Post-Doctoral Fellow in Christian-Jewish Relations at the Toronto School of Theology in Toronto, Canada.
April 12, 2019
Congratulations to Joel Harrison (Ph.D. '19), who has successfully defended his dissertation Between Normativity and History: Ernst Troeltsch's Mystic Type and the Creative Possibility of Values.
April 12, 2019
Open Faculty Position: Visiting Assistant Professor of American Religions
April 10, 2019
Congratulations to Miranda Smith who has been elected as a Fulbright scholar for 2019-20.
April 3, 2019
Miranda's research project will focus on how Tibetan laywomen use evocative literary forms to discuss religion and evoke religious affect. Through research in Qinghai, China from 2019-2020, she will also examine how Tibetan poet Wo Jik Jil, and the Tibetan women poets in the region, elicit religious emotion through creative adaptation of a variety of poetic and song traditions.
March
The Department of Religious Studies would like to express its grief over the shootings in Christchurch, New Zealand, and solidarity with the victims and survivors. We stand with the Muslim community in this time of sorrow.
March 15, 2019
This attack was the outcome of a deeply racist hatred of Muslims that has proliferated on the Internet. Educating people about Islam, and all religions, is one of the ways we can counter the attacker's ideology. Our department is ready to serve as an educational resource for the Northwestern community and beyond.
Professor Christine Helmer releases new book, "How Luther Became the Reformer"
March 6, 2019
Ethics Forward | Maternal Experience And Religious Ethics (among the panelists are Professor Cristina Traina and Alumna Michal Raucher, Ph.D.
March 5, 2019
Congratulations to Professor Sarah Dees who has accepted a new position as Assistant Professor of American Religions in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Iowa State University.
March 5, 2019
February
Professor Robert Orsi to give the keynote address, “The Sexual Abuse Crisis Between the Local and the Global, ” at the Global History and Catholicism conference, sponsored by the Cushwa Center at Notre Dame, on April 6, 2019.
February 25, 2019
Alumna Katherine Dugan, Ph.D., just published "Millennial Missionaries" with Oxford University Press.
February 4, 2019
January
Professor Barry Wimpfheimer's book "The Talmud: A Biography" wins the National Jewish Book Award for Best Work in Education and Jewish Identity
January 9, 2019
New Talmud ‘biography’ seeks to bring the foundational text to life
January 8, 2019