RLST News and Events

Professor Samuel Boyd was selected as a member of the Faculty Leadership Institute Fellowship for the AY 2022-2023. The fellowship gathers faculty members from a variety of departments to discuss issues of administration at various levels within the university. Fellows hear about the leadership stories and histories of other mid-to-advanced...

Prof. Catlos’s book Kingdoms of Faith: A New History of Islamic Spain (Basic Books: 2018) has just been signed by Kronik publishing in Istanbul, which will produce a Turkish translation in 2024. The book has already been translated into Spanish, Polish, German, Korean and Complex Chinese and is forthcoming in...

Dr. Loriliai Biernacki gave a paper for the Keynote Interdisciplinary Panel for the International Society for Contemplative Studies held February 1-5. Her paper “First-Person Ontologies” addressed using models of ontological subjectivity as a way of parsing out a contemporary neuroscience model of consciousness and the brain. Following this, she also...

As part of their work on the DEI submcommittee of the Arts and Sciences Faculty Senate Aun Hasan Ali, assistant professor of religious studies, and Stephanie Su, assistant professor of art history, have been awarded a $33,500 grant from the Dean's Innovation Fund. The grant establishes a partnership between CU...

Professor Catlos was interviewed on the New Books Network, regarding his new text book and source anthology, The Sea in the Middle: The Mediterranean World, 650-1650 and Texts from the Middle: Documents from the Mediterranean World, 650-1650 on the New Books Network. Listen here: https://newbooksnetwork.com/the-sea-in-the-middle

Sacred Responses to Climate Change: Seeking Common Ground Friday, September 23, 1:00-5:00 pm Abrams Lounge C4C This inter-faith panel discussion focuses on sacred responses to environmental crisis. Panelists will discuss how religious ethics are shaping environmental ethics from a Christian, Buddhist, Hindu, Muslim, and Indigenous perspective. Panelists include: Loriliai Biernacki,...

The CU Mediterranean Studies Group presents a public lecture: “The Demonization of Malcolm X, the Sanitization of Dr. Martin Luther King” Dr. Nebil Husayn, Religious Studies, University of Miami Thursday, September 15, 2022 6:00–7:30, HUMN 250 This lecture challenges the ways in which two icons of the 1960s, Dr. King...

Prof. Catlos announces the publication of two books: The Sea in the Middle: The Mediterranean World, 650–1650 and Texts from the Middle: Documents from the Mediterranean World, 650–1650 co-written and co-edited, respectively with Thomas Burman (Notre Dame) and Mark Meyerson (Toronto), both published by the University of California Press. The...

Professor Deborah Whitehead was distinguished with an Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award for her above-and-beyond commitment to helping religious studies students succeed. The awards, chosen by the Graduate School each year, specifically recognize outstanding service and leadership toward graduate students. Dean Scott Adler wrote in the award letter: “The attached nomination...

Holly Gayley, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, received a 2021 Kayden Translation Award for her book, Inseparable Across Lifetimes: The Lives and Love Letters of the Tibetan Visionaries Namtrul Rinpoche and Khandro Tare Lhamo . An inspiring and intimate tale set against the turmoil of recent Tibetan history, Inseparable across...