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Graduation 2019
Monday, May 13, 2019Congratulations to the recent graduates of the Ph.D.! The Graduate Program in Religion graduated nine Ph.D. students in the period from September 2018 - May 2019. September: Kara Slade (CTS, Advisor- Willie Jennings); Marvin Wickware (CTS, Advisor Willie J. Jennings); David Smith (NT,... Read More »
Mohsen Kadivar Receives NHC Fellowship
Tuesday, April 16, 2019The National Humanities Center has announced Duke's own Mohsen Kadivar one of its 37 Fellows for the academic year 2019–20. These newly appointed Fellows will constitute the forty-second class of resident scholars to be admitted since the Center opened in 1978. Robert D. Newman, president... Read More »
Prof. Marc Z. Brettler Given Papal Audience
Thursday, March 28, 2019Duke's own Prof. Marc Z. Brettler was recently granted a audience with Pope Francis on March 27. He and Duke alumna Amy-Jill Levine co-authored “The Jewish Annotated New Testament”, first published in 2011. As Levine is teaching in Rome at the moment and Brettler was to... Read More »
Prof. Leela Prasad Receives Fulbright
Thursday, March 28, 2019Duke's own Leela Prasad has officially accepted the Fulbright-Nehru Fellowship. Leela will conduct ethnographic research in Maharashtra, India, a state that collaborates with NGOs to run a “Gandhi Study Program” in its prisons. Her goal is to study how ex-prisoners exposed to Gandhi’s... Read More »
Mark Goodacre in "Jesus: His Life"
Tuesday, March 26, 2019Our very own Dr. Mark Goodacre is one of the scholars featured in History Channel's new series "Jesus: His Life!" The series explores the story of Jesus Christ through a unique lens: the people in his life who were closest to him. Each of the eight chapters is told from the perspective of... Read More »
Bowler Blogs about Fat Tuesday
Thursday, March 7, 2019Kate Bowler writes about our finitude in this reflection on Lent.
Prasad's Classroom in Prison
Thursday, March 7, 2019Duke Religious Studies and Graduate Program in Religion faculty member Dr. Leela Prasad's classroom is unlike others at Duke. It's located at Butner Correctional Institute, and includes incarcerated individuals alongside Duke graduate students. Her project "Being Human at the Margin: Gandhian... Read More »
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 »