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Professor Catlos received a Boulder Faculty Assembly (BFA) Excellence Award on April 4 for Excellence in Leadership and Service. The BFA Awards recognize faculty members for outstanding work and concerted effort in advancing the
Professor Brian Catlos' Mediterranean Studies Group was recently highlighted in the Colorado Arts and Sciences Magazine. Religious Studies graduate students Dillon Webster and Jeffrey Baron were also featured in the article for their work with
The journal Professor David Shneer co-edits, East European Jewish Affairs, recently launched a special edition on the theme “Contemporary Russian Jewish American Culture.” (2016, no. 3). To celebrate the occasion,
Prof. Brian Catlos has been invited to give the 5th annual Boyce Gray Lecture at Northwestern University on 26 April. Sponsored by the History Department and the Chabraja Center for Historical Studies, the lecture series honors the
Caitlyn Brandt, MA candidate, received the CU Beverly Sears Graduate Student Research Grant to help fund her research at the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation last fall. Congratulations Caitlyn!
The Colorado Arts and Sciences Magazine's latest issue highlights Professor Elias Sacks and his recently published book “Moses Mendelssohn’s Living Script: Philosophy, Practice, History, Judaism” (Indiana University Press). Read the
Watch Professor Greg Johnson testify in a trial in Hawaii on Thursday February 16 at noon here. It video will also be archived for viewing after Thursday
As members of the faculty of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Colorado, we express our outrage at the executive order issued by President Trump denying entry into the United States for the next 90 days to citizens of seven
Professor Greg Johnson was recently quoted in an article in the Washington Post on the Dakota Access Pipeline.Greg Johnson, a Hawaiian religion expert and an associate professor of Religious Studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder, said the
Professor Holly Gayley just published her first book, Love Letters from Golok: A Tantric Couple in Modern Tibet, with Columbia University Press. It came out in time for the American Academy of Relgion conference in San Antonio, November 19-22, 2016.