Student/alumni News

Alumna Nevada Drollinger (2015) will start a Ph.D. program in Religious Studies at Arizona State University in the fall, studying Burmese Buddhism with Professor Juliane Schober. Nevada (2nd from right in the photo) had a baby in March and came to Boulder for a reunion with Religious Studies faculty and...

Joshua Wright has accepted a fully-funded offer of admission to the Ph.D. program in the Committee on the Study of Religion at Harvard University. He will continue to research American religious history from the late eighteenth century to the present, focusing on eschatology and the construction of religious authority in...

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...

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...

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...

Eben Yonnetti, MA candidate, received a CAS Summer Language Fellowship Award to study Chinese this summer. Eben will be attending the International Chinese Language Program at National Taiwan University in Taipei, Taiwan. Congratulations Eben!

Religious Studies majors Vincent Pretti and Grace Edwards have each been awarded a Katherine Jacob Lamont Scholarship for AY 2015-2016. Congratulations to both on their stunning achievements!

Recent MA graduate (Summer 2015) Jonathan Peterson has accepted a full-ride to the University of Toronto - Department for the Study of Religion / the Centre for South Asian Studies where he will begin working on his PhD. Congratulations to Jonathan on this remarkable achievement!