Student/alumni News

Maureen Kelly will present a paper at the “Conference on Religion and Law in American History” at Florida State University. The conference will be held March 22-24, 2013 with keynote speaker Winnifred Fallers Sullivan. She will present her paper: “ O'Lone v. Estate of Shabazz : On the American Justice...

Congratulations to four Masters students in Religious Studies who received the FLAS (Foreign Language and Area Studies) Fellowships this year! FLAS awards for summer language study were awarded to: Andreas VanDenend for Arabic language study in Fez, Morocco at the Arabic Language Institute Eric Haynie for Tibetan language study in...

Once again, this year, our Masters students will make a strong showing at the Regional Regional AAR. The Regional AAR (Great Plains Region) will take place on March 18-19 at Iliff School of Theology in Denver. The following Masters students in Religious Studies will present papers: Angela Maly , “Politics...

Religious Studies M.A. students have started a "Technologies of the Self in Islam" Reading Group to study Professor Ebrahim Moosa’s monograph, Ghazali and the Poetics of Imagination. The aim for this reading group is to gain insight into the processes and technologies through which the constitution of Muslim selfhood has...

Religious Studies alumnus Timur Yuskaev (M.A. 1998) has been appointed to a tenure track position at Hartford Seminary as Assistant Professor of Contemporary Islam and Director of the Islamic Chaplaincy Program. A native of St. Petersburg, Russia and of Tatar Muslim descent, Timur recently completed his doctoral studies at UNC...

Welcome new Masters students! You might be interested in reading some advice on adjusting to life in graduate school, offered by Brian Croxall of the Chronicles of Higher Education: http://chronicle.com/blogPost/An-Open-Letter-to-New-Graduate/26326/

Caryn Aviv, Posen Senior Lecturer in Secular Jewish Society and Civilization nominated Carly Coons for the Van Ek Award because of her strong academic strength, outstanding Jewish communal leadership and service, both on the CU campus, and the broader Colorado Jewish Community. Undergraduate student Ms. Coons has a minor in...

John Thibdeau presented "Plasticity in the Contemporary Islamic Subject" at the "The Future of Continental Philosophy of Religion," a conference hosted by Syracuse University on April 7-9, 2011. The conference is part of a series of conferences on Postmodernism, Culture, and Religion hosted by Syracuse. John Thibdeau's engagement with the...

Angela Maly presented a paper at the first inaugural Conference on Islam in America sponsored by The Institute for Social and Policy Understanding at DePaul University in Chicago on September 23, 2011. Her paper is entitled "Politics of Space: An Examination of the Polemics Surrounding the Park51 Mosque through its...

MA student Eric Haynie presented a paper entitled "Sacrificing to Immanence: Body and the Question of Violence in the gCod Tradition" at the annual meeting of the American Philosophical Association in Washington D.C. in late December.