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Otten receives named professorship
Willemien Otten is the Dorothy Grant Maclear Professor in the Divinity School and the College....
July 2, 2021
Brie Loskota Named Executive Director of the Martin Marty Center
The Divinity School is pleased to announce the appointment of Brie Loskota as the Executive Director of the Martin Marty Center for the Public Understanding of Religion. Ms. Loskota, who is currently the Executive Director of the Center for Religion ...
June 21, 2021
Dan Arnold Recognized for Excellence in Teaching
Daniel A. Arnold has been recognized with a 2021 Faculty Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching and Mentoring. ...
May 25, 2021
Joseph Edelheit Named 2021 Alumnus of the Year
Upon recommendation from the Divinity School’s Alumni Council, the Board of Trustees of the Baptist Theological Union has named Joseph A. Edelheit, DMin 2001, the Divinity School Alumnus of the Year for 2021. Professor Emeritus of Religious and Je...
March 30, 2021
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
Anthony C. Yu Junior Faculty Fellowship
Erin Galgay Walsh works on ancient and late antique Christianity....
March 23, 2021
Craft of Teaching Program to Expand
The University of Chicago Divinity School is pleased to announce a generous bequest from the estate of the late John C. Colman that will enable a significant expansion of the Craft of Teaching in the Academic Study of Religion program, the School’s p...
March 9, 2021
David Nirenberg appointed Dean
David Nirenberg, who has served as interim dean of the University of Chicago Divinity School since 2018, has been appointed dean, President Robert J. Zimmer and Provost Ka Yee C. Lee announced. The new term begins July 1, 2022. Nirenberg’s interim...
March 8, 2021
James M. Gustafson, 1925-2021
James Moody Gustafson, alumnus and former faculty member of The Divinity School, died on January 15, 2021 at the age of 95. The son of a minister, James Gustafson served in Burma and India in the Army Corps of Engineers before pursuing higher educ...