The Divinity School is pleased to share that Rachel Abdoler, a PhD candidate in the History of Christianity, has been awarded a Fulbright-Hays fellowship.

Rachel has been awarded a Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad (DDRA) fellowship to support her research, “Between Defense and Devotion: Butrus al-Sadamanti's Tafsir on the Passion of Christ in its Thirteenth Century Copto-Islamic Milieu.” The award will underwrite six months of work in the collections of the Vatican library in Rome and a library in Cairo, Egypt, on Christian texts written in Arabic. 

This announcement is also featured on the Disciples Divinity House of the University of Chicago Website. Read the full announcement here.