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Student News: Fulbright-Hays Fellowship
Rachel Abdoler, a PhD candidate in the History of Christianity, has been awarded a Fulbright-Hays fellowship....
November 25, 2024
Sheila E. Jelen writes an Article for Falsettos
Sheila E. Jelen, Professor of Religion, Literature and Visual Culture and History of Judaism at the University of Chicago Divinity School, wrote an article for the current Court Theater production, Falsettos....
November 25, 2024
Paul Mendes-Flohr (1941-2024)
Dear Divinity School community,I write with the sad news that our beloved colleague and dear friend Paul Mendes-Flohr, Dorothy Grant Maclear Professor Emeritus of Modern Jewish History and Thought in the Divinity School and College, passed away Octob...
November 4, 2024
Matthew Harris has been named a Young Scholar in American Religion by the Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture
Matthew M. Harris, Assistant Professor of Religions in the America, has been named a Young Scholar in American Religion by the Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture at Indiana University Indianapolis. To view the full announcement, pl...
October 23, 2024
A Conference in Honor of Richard B. Miller
Professor Richard Miller’s scholarship has spanned a wide range of topics and themes, from the ethics of war and peace earlier in his career to his more recent reflection on the ends toward which the academic study of religion is ordered. Throughout ...
October 21, 2024
Hans Joas to Deliver the 2024 Nuveen Lecture
The Divinity School is pleased to announce that Hans Joas, Ernst Troeltsch Professor for the Sociology of Religion at Humboldt University, Berlin, will deliver the 2024 John S. Nuveen Lecture. The lecture will be held on Friday, October 25, 2024, at ...
October 18, 2024
Conference on Pre-Roman Iberia
Negotiating Identities, Constructing Territories: Pre-Roman Iberia, 900 – 200 BCE...
October 15, 2024
Wendy Doniger Releases Her Latest Book
Wendy Doniger, Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor Emerita of the History of Religions, has recently published The Dharma of Unfaithful Wives and Faithful Jackals (Speaking Tiger, 2024)....
September 29, 2024
New Hebrew Festschrift in honor of Paul Mendes-Flohr
Is There Still a Place for Tiqqun Olam? A Book in honor of Paul Mendes-Flohr (Carmel, 2024)...
September 29, 2024