Student/alumni News

Religous Studies/History MA graduate Aaron Stamper has been accepted to the PhD program in the History Department at Princeton University in which he will continue his studies in Early Modern Mediterranean and Iberian Peninsula Studies with a focus on Muslim, Jewish, and Christian relations. Aaron credits his advisor, Professor Brian...

On February 18th, Aaron Proffitt, Religious Studies MA graduate 2008, successfully defended his dissertation at the University of Michigan for a Ph.D. in Buddhist Studies. Shortly thereafter, he traveled to Albany, NY to interview for a position as Assistant Professor of Japanese Religion at SUNY Albany. We're pleased to announce...

Eben Yonnetti, MA candidate, received the CU Beverly Sears Graduate Student Research Grant to help fund his research "Translation as Interpretation: Challenging the Invisibility of Translators in Tibetan Buddhist Practice Texts." Congratulations Eben!

On Friday, October 24th, 2014, both Jonathan Dickstein and Jonathan Peterson are presenting their papers, titled: ' Richard Garbe, German Indology, and the Messiness of (A)Theistic Sāṃkhya' and ' Preliminary Gestures toward a Comparative Study of the Jñāna-Jñātṛ Relationship: Śaṅkarācārya and Abhinavagupta’ respectively, at the Ways of Knowing graduate conference...

Cristina Sajovich was awarded a FLAS Fellowship for the 2014-2015 academic year. Tyler Lehrer was awarded a FLAS Fellowship for Summer 2014. He will be studying Sinhala at SASLI in Wisconsin this summer.

Religious Studies Graduate Students Hossein Hasheminiasari and Jonathon Dickstein have been awarded a Katherine Jacob Lamont Scholarship for $550 toward tuition for the 2014-2015 academic year.

On Friday, May 9th, 2014, the Department of Religious Studies held its Spring Recognition Ceremony. We would like to thank all of those involved in this event, and would also like to congratulate the Class of 2014 in all of their achievements during their tenure at CU-Boulder. A special congratulations...

The Department of Religious Studies is proud to announce that Caleb Shields will graduate with departmental honors (cum laude) this December. Caleb's B.A. thesis project is entitled, " Analyzing the Place and Role of Deference in the Academic Study of Religion: Theorizing Critical Alternatives to Deference Towards Religion ." Congratulations, Caleb!

Ms. Curtis who is graduating this spring with a minor in the Department of Religious Studies, has been awarded the 2013 Jen Hlavacek Award on Religion and Society from the Department of Sociology at the University of Colorado. Ms. Curtis will be a master’s student in the Department of Religious...

The Department is proud to announce that Seth Schermerhorn (CU MA 2008; PhD [ABD] ASU) has accepted a tenure track job in indigenous traditions in the Department of Religion at Hamilton College.