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Provost Awards Tenure
Thursday, February 7, 2019The Provost has granted tenure and promotion to Joe Winters! Winters is now a new Associate Professor of Religious Studies! Winters' first book, Hope Draped in Black: Race, Melancholy, and the Agony of Progress(Duke University Press, June 2016) examines how black literature and... Read More »
Bowler Selected as Iconic
Wednesday, February 6, 2019The Chronicle, Duke's student newspaper, has selected Kate Bowler as an iconic figure at Duke this year in its Chron15. Honorees are selected for exemplifying the Duke community at its best. To read more, including what Dean L. Gregory Jones had to say about her, click here.
McGlothlin Wins 2019 Award
Tuesday, January 22, 2019Graduate Program in Religion alumnus Dr. Thomas McGlothlin, whose 2015 dissertation was directed by Dr. J. Warren Smith, was awarded the 2019 Manfred Lautenschlaeger Award for Theological Promise. McGlothlin, who currently teaches at the Christian Academy in Japan, won with his... Read More »
Prasad Wins Dean's Award
Monday, January 14, 2019GPR's Associate Professor Leela Prasad has been awarded the 2019 Dean's Award for Excellence in Mentoring! Along with the recognition, there is a $3,000 prize attached to this award. The recipients will be honored at a ceremony on Wednesday, March 27, at Sarah P. Duke Gardens... Read More »
Dr. Diana Abernethy
Friday, November 16, 2018Diana Abernethy, of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament, successfully defended her dissertation November 13, 2018. Her dissertation was titled "Profiles in Deception: Lying and Falsehood in 1 Samuel." Dr. Stephen B. Chapman directed the dissertation, and Carol L. Meyers, Anathea Portier-Young,... Read More »
Dr. Yael Lazar
Friday, November 16, 2018Yael Lazar successfully defended her doctoral dissertation "Networked Devotion: Hindu Adoption of Digital Media" November 14, 2018. Yael, Oren and children will be moving back to Israel in December. Pictured are Negar Mottahedeh, Laurie Patton (remote), Yael Lazar, Leela Prasad (chair), and... Read More »
Teaching & Learning Holds Session on Scholars@Duke
Thursday, October 25, 2018As part of the Teaching and Learning Luncheon, we were joined by Julia Trimmer and Lamont Cannon from Duke’s Office of the Provost, Finance and Administration to learn about Scholars@Duke which features the research, scholarship and activities of Duke faculty members and academic staff. As a... Read More »
Chris Howell's Class Featured in Chronicle Article
Wednesday, October 24, 2018Chris Howell, PhD student in American Religion, was quoted in an article by The Chronicle for his upcoming class "Harry Potter and Religion." Read more here.
Arguing with Aseneth: Gentile Access to Israel's Living God in Jewish Antiquity
Monday, October 15, 2018Jill Hicks-Keeton, a Duke Graduate Program in Religion alumna, has released her new book, Arguing with Aseneth: Gentile Access to Israel's Living God in Jewish Antiquity. One of the central controversies of the early church was whether or not gentile converts would be required to be circumcised... Read More »
Duke is Well Represented at AAR/SBL
Monday, October 15, 2018A number of GPR students and faculty will be presenting in the AAR/SBL to be held in Denver, Colorado November 17-20. The annual conference of the American Academy of Religion and the Society of Biblical Literature is perhaps the most important conference of the year for those in the field of... Read More »