RLST News and Events

For his doctoral degree at UC-Santa Barbara, Jonathan departs thematically from his Master's work on the topic of God in the Classical Yoga tradition. His current research traces the history of nonviolence in South Asia, specifically concerning the human use and consumption of nonhuman animals. His interdisciplinary research is based...

The Department of Religious Studies held its Spring Recognition Ceremony on May 6th. Congratulations to all of the Religious Studies Graduates! Master of Arts: Jonathan Dickstein Kathryn Huether Tyler Lehrer Elizabeth Lewis Sonam Nyenda Joshua Wright Bachelor of the Arts: Alison Binch Morgan Bond Carly Cain Andrew Cramer III Bryan...

Religious Studies MA student and spring 2016 graduate, Kathryn Huether, has been awarded a full scholarship and acceptance to the PhD program in Historical Musicology at the University of Minnesota School of Music. Kathryn will be studying under Dr. Karen Painter and will be focusing on music of World War...

Professor Brian Catlos Wins 2016 Innovative Seed Grant for Mediterranean Studies Mediterranean Studies is an emerging interdisciplinary field that draws on methodologies and perspectives taken from across the humanities, social sciences and the arts, and a research-driven response to the Eurocentric tendencies that continue to warp scholarship regarding the emergence...

Tyler A. Lehrer, MA candidate, won the Ray Hauser Award from the University of Colorado Graduate School to travel to Sri Lanka to conduct MA thesis research. This award is given in recognition of Ray Hauser, the first Chair of the Graduate School Advisory Council, to fund graduate student research...

Professor Brian Catlos' Book Earns Honorable Mention at PROSE Awards The 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 Infidel Kings and Unholy Warriors: Power, Faith and Violence in the Age of Crusade and...

Kathryn Huether Awarded Kathryn Davis Fellowship for Peace Kathryn 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 fellowship provides full room, board, and tuition to attend one of Middlebury College’s Language Schools...

Professor Sam Boyd Wins Society of Biblical Literature Award Professor 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 of Biblical Studies. The award is given based on two rounds of competition. The first...

Professor Eli Sacks Hosted the Embodied Judaism Event in November In 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 meal in solidarity, an event which came to be known as the Freedom...