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- Professor Brian Catlos Wins 2016 Innovative Seed Grant for Mediterranean StudiesMediterranean Studies is an emerging interdisciplinary field that draws on methodologies and perspectives taken from across the humanities, social sciences and the arts
- Professor Brian Catlos' Book Earns Honorable Mention at PROSE AwardsThe 2015 American Publishers Awards for Professional and Scholarly Excellence gave an Honorable Mention in the category of European and World History to Brian Catlos’s
- Kathryn Huether Awarded Kathryn Davis Fellowship for PeaceKathryn Huether, M.A. Candidate in the Department of Religious Studies, has been awarded a Kathryn Davis Fellowship for Peace from Middlebury College in Middlebury, VT. The language
- Professor Sam Boyd Wins Society of Biblical Literature AwardProfessor Boyd has been awarded the prestigious Regional Scholar Award by the Society of Biblical Literature for 2016. The award recognizes promising scholars in the field
- Professor Eli Sacks Hosted the Embodied Judaism Event in NovemberIn April 1969, on the first anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., Jewish and African-American activists came together in Washington, D.C. to share a
- The Tibet Himalaya Initiative (THI) at ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Æ· celebrated the success of its inaugural semester with a graduate colloquium and reception in the Koenig Alumni Center on November 11, 2015. More than twenty-five graduate students, faculty, and
- From Bobby Fisher & Bob Dylan To Bill Gates: Islam, Medieval Spain, and the Roots of the Modern WestProfessor Brian Catlos, Religious Studies, will be delivering a lecture "From Bobby Fisher & Bob Dylan To Bill Gates: Islam, Medieval Spain, and the Roots of the Modern West"Rock and roll, chess and the digital revolution: what does Islam
- Christian K. Wedemeyer of the University of Chicago Divinity School will be delivering the annual Lester Lecture in Religious Studies on November 2 at 6pm in the British Studies Room on the 5th Floor of Norlin Library. The lecture is titled, "'