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Doctoral Programs Host Dr. Matt Ashley for Kickoff Event
Thursday, September 14, 2017Dr. Stephen Chapman and Dr. Ross Wagner hosted a kickoff event Wednesday, September 13 for their two-year, $30,000 Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning grant. The grant is designed to promote pedagogical formation, and involves doctoral students and faculty in religion and theology.... Read More »
Is America Losing Its Religion of Football?
Monday, September 11, 2017By Martin E. Marty, Sightings The Monday Sightings is back, after a hiatus occasioned not by any lack of topics or scenes on which to focus but by the academic calendar at the University of Chicago, from which post we do our scanning, skimming, and probing. Surveying the places where “... Read More »
Islamic Society Of Tampa Bay Opened As An Evacuation Shelter
Sunday, September 10, 2017NPR, All Things Considered MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: We've been checking in on people taking shelter from Hurricane Irma. So we're turning now to Ahmed Youssef. He's a volunteer at the Islamic Society of Tampa Bay. And he's with us now from the mosque's hurricane shelter, which opened earlier this... Read More »
Apocalyptic Thoughts Amid Nature’s Chaos? You Could Be Forgiven
Friday, September 8, 2017By Henry Fountain, New York Times CLEWISTON, Fla. — Vicious hurricanes all in a row, one having swamped Houston and another about to buzz through Florida after ripping up the Caribbean. Wildfires bursting out all over the West after a season of scorching hot temperatures and years of dryness... Read More »
Welcoming New Students
Monday, August 28, 2017Sunday night, August 27, the Graduate Program in Religion welcomed new and returning PhD students by hosting a dinner for students, faculty and their families. It was held at The Boiler Room at American Tobacco Campus, and 86 people were in attendance. Greetings were brought by... Read More »
Sixth-year Tuition Scholarships Announced by Dean McClain
Monday, August 21, 2017From: Dean Paula D. McClain <gradschool-dean@duke.edu> Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2017 10:31 PM Subject: Sixth-year tuition scholarships for Ph.D. students Dear students, I hope you had an enjoyable and productive summer. As the new academic year rapidly... Read More »
GPR Welcomes 8 Students This Fall
Thursday, August 10, 2017The Graduate Program in Religion welcomes eight new students this fall. The incoming students represent six different tracks, or fields of study. Adam Hudnut-Beumler joins American Religion, Sunjin Im - Asian Religions, Nathan Hershberger - Christian Theological Studies, Cody David... Read More »
Duke Doctoral Programs in Religion and Theology Awarded Wabash Grant
Thursday, August 10, 2017Duke’s doctoral programs in religion and theology have received a two-year $30,000 grant from the Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning to promote pedagogical formation. The Ph.D. program, known as the Graduate Program in Religion (jointly administered by the Department of Religious Studies and... Read More »
PhD Candidate Erin Walsh's Course in Top 5%
Tuesday, August 8, 2017Erin Walsh, candidate for the PhD in the Graduate Program in Religion, has been recognized for having course evaluations in the top 5% across Trinity College. Dr. Mark Goodacre (Religious Studies, GPR) and Dr. David Need (Religious Studies) were also in the category of the top... Read More »
GPR Students Study in Greece
Thursday, August 3, 2017Two of our PhD students, Brad Boswell and Nick Wagner, attended intensive language study in Greece during the months of June and July. The program attended was the Gennadius Library Medieval Greek Summer Session. The session included studying Byzantine texts, paleography, and much more... Read More »