Several Religious Studies Core Faculty Members and Faculty Affiliates presented research in November 2024 at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion. Read on for some highlights:
- K.D. Thompson, RS Core Faculty, presented their project “Muslim Women on the Air and in the Workplace: Insights from Ethnographic Work at a Tanzanian Radio Station.”
- Susan Ridgely, RS Core Faculty, participated in a special session on “Rethinking Religious Studies Programs,” where she highlighted the Religious Studies Program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s ongoing innovations to better meet student needs that have resulted in increasing enrollments and majors as well as new faculty.
- Jamal Jones, RS Affiliate, participated in a panel on “Critical/Intersectional Hindu Studies: where do we go from here?”
- Adam Stern, RS Affiliate, delivered a paper in a session themed on “Toward a Critique of Historicism” and presided over the session “The Theopolitics of Martyrdom”
- Miki Chase, RS Affiliate, presented the paper “Rethinking Theorization(s) of Jain Ritual from the Domestic Dying Space.
- Gudrun Buhnemann, RS Affiliate participated in a panel on Tantric Studies.