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News | Alumni Features & Spotlight

“A Little Education Goes a Long Way”: Emilie Townes in Conversation

The bluster of early May in Hyde Park didn’t dim the joy Rev. Dr. Emilie Townes, AB’77, AM’79, DMN’82, felt upon returning to Chicago to receive a 2025 University of Chicago Alumni Award for Professional Achievement.“Here, I learned the value of bein...

May 6, 2025
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Paul Pribbenow Named The University of Chicago Divinity School’s 2025 Alum of the Year

The University of Chicago Divinity School is proud to announce that Paul Pribbenow, AM’79, PhD’93, president of Augsburg University, has been named the 2025 Alum of the Year. This honor recognizes Pribbenow’s distinguished career in higher education,...

April 1, 2025
Tahera Qutbuddin

Alumni Features & Spotlight

Tahera Qutbuddin to deliver Nuveen Lecture

Early Islamic Oration: Rhetoric, Religion, and Ritual....

September 12, 2022
Raul Zegarra-Medina

Alumni News | Alumni Features & Spotlight

Zegarra-Medina Awarded

Alumnus awarded 2021 Manfred Lautenschlaeger Award for Theological Promise...

January 11, 2022
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Alumni Features & Spotlight | Alumni News

Electronic resources for alumni

Increased access to electronic resources in the academic study of religion.  ...

January 11, 2022
Mark Lambert

Community | Alumni Features & Spotlight

Spotlight: Mark Lambert

On leprosy's lessons for our COVID-present....

August 12, 2021
Steve Durschlag

Alumni News | Alumni Features & Spotlight

Haggadot Collection Gift

UChicago Library to preserve ‘unique portrait’ of Jewish history in Passover Haggadot collection with gift from Divinity grad student Steven Durschlag, AM'14.  ...

March 26, 2021
Erin Walsh

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Anthony C. Yu Junior Faculty Fellowship

Erin Galgay Walsh works on ancient and late antique Christianity....

March 23, 2021
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